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There are only two hard problems in computer programming: 1. Naming things 2. Cache invalidation 3. off-by-one errors

> Markdown files are slightly annoying to read/preview Maybe I’ve missed the intentions of markdown, but the ability to easily read the plain text version has always been the kille…

Keep going! The idea has merit. But it is US centric. I tried the example with my local post code and of course it didn’t work as I’m not in the US.

> You can now spin up five agents to implement five different versions of the thing you're building and simply pick the best one. Or you end up with five different mediocre solutio…

The described SDLC is a recipe for rigorously and predictably building the wrong thing. Does anyone actually work like this? Have they ever? At the least it misses all the feedback…

AI is like electricity. It may be the “product” you think you are selling. But it isn’t the product people are buying. People are buying what these things facilitate (lights, tvs, …

Yes! I have a similar reaction. I often think of Jack Vance’s “Eyes of the Overworld”. They hid the reality of a decaying world behind a fabulous facade.

Interesting read. Given what was covered and tradition notwithstanding, I think “Trump Class” (apart from being an oxymoron) is a perfect designation: - oversized - completely lack…

As you are in Australia you might get somewhere if you lodge a complaint with Consumer Affairs https://www.accc.gov.au/ And there are also separate bodies for each state.

It’s because their thoughts are Roman while they are always Russian to Finnish things. Kenya believe it! Anyway, I’m done here. Abyssinia.

Douglas Crockford addressed this many years ago: write your human readable config with comments and run it through a pre-processor to strip them out before handing the config to a …

When I visited Tokyo one of the highlights for me was the sound of Takadanobaba station playing the theme from Astro Boy.

From reading the comments you would think this article was actually about cars.

I love the punchline: the computer eventually worked out that the sofa could never have gotten into that spot in the first place. Adams always brought me joy!

I skimmed the article hoping for a reference to Adams or Dirk Gently.

Australia is about the same except around the ceiling we call it a cornice.

When you realise the song is about vampires there’s no way this ever goes back on any “worst song” list.

This is from the “honest reviews are unethical” whinger.

s/refactor/rewrite/

Finally! So that’s where mine went! … been looking for it for ages!

The Las Vegas sphere is pretty large. I’m not sure how it compares to the dome at Siding Springs but in sure that would be a very large scale model. https://www.visitnsw.com/destin…

I have tinnitus. I had brain surgery to remove an acoustic schwannoma. The doctor said that I would lose all hearing in the ear due to the unavoidable damage to the acoustic nerve.…

I was impressed by SoundHound’s ability to correctly identify even my rather ordinary singing. I’ve assumed Shazam must simply be better. Never had a need to find out. Now I know!

My take: Most people think that a job interview is about a company evaluating a potential hire when it really goes both ways and the company is also being evaluated. To the intervi…

Hofstadter?