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Generating code is not, and never was, a bottleneck to projects. Understanding the problem, designing a solution, organizing resources, testing, and customer buy-in and moving targ…

> Supposedly 70% of software projects failed even before AI. Given the way LLMs are marketed, we should expect a vastly more favorable project success rate, not simply a close pari…

> It's a job, not a relationship. It's best not to confuse the two. A relationship is defined as two parties that interact. It's not friends, it's not romantic, and it's definitely…

> A CEO will set the grand vision, long term goals, and direction for the company I thought determining vision/goals/direction was the responsibility of the board. The Chief Execut…

Nope, it's not. From your own link: > In 1991, scientists at Bell Labs published a paper demonstrating the possibility of using a wavelength of 13.8 nm for the so-called soft X-ray…

Are you sure it's the caffeine and not another substance in coffee?

It's a mixed bag. During pregnancy the mothers immune system is muted, which prevents "rejection" of the fetus. However, in an almost "parting gift" fashion, the departing fetus ac…

As if presidential elections are the only elections, or even the only ones that matter . What the prior commenter meant is that in some jurisdictions it's pointless to vote against…

Two possibilities come to mind: 1. They're not properly licensed for other markets. Something equivalent to selling a radio transmitter in the US that's not registered with the FCC…

The problem with giving people choices is that sometimes they make the wrong choice.

I don't think I'm overstating anything. My wife and I have owned an EV since 2019. We also still have a couple of ICEs for me and my daughter. I'm not going to throw a car away jus…

> In my experience the maintenance costs is usually more tyres, suspension, breaks, and other similar things that would equally need to be maintained on EVs. You'll go through tire…

>> Automotive batteries have been demonstrated as >90% recyclable, far better than most materials we consider "recyclable" today such as plastic > Citation needed It shouldn't be h…

Not every region of the continental US respects DST.

The real magic is not putting all the cells in one place. It's distributing them over the land mass. A single solar power station can be taken out by a cloudy day. A million little…

You might be interested in Qubes OS, which runs every application in a virtual machine. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qubes_OS

> 99.9% of the time, the way to make more money is to make a product that saves or cures more people. If your product saves fewer people, People would by the old thing instead of t…

Marilu Henner is somewhat known as a prodigy. She's a member of Mensa, things like that. The clip shown in the video was chosen poorly because it doesn't really convey her abilitie…

Doubtful. Almost any other wallet seems possible, but Satoshi's wallet isn't one that you would randomly have copied moments before making a million dollar transaction.

Clearly they mixed up cause and effect. "A gentleman's hands are never dirty" should have meant that he keeps them clean, not that his gentlemanliness somehow keeps them from being…

> This positions Tesla as an energy provider like Shell/Chevron. No, this positions Tesla to be an energy middleman. They're not finding and distributing energy, just reselling it …

> Why not live eccentrically and take risks? Maybe because there are dependents that needed that money for school, shelter, clothing, or food. There was a story in the news recentl…

That's just like how shampoo companies advise you to "lather, rinse, repeat". It's a great way to boost sales, but besides being unnecessary it's terrible for your hair, your water…

> Perl 5 is an old language. Period. That's an odd way of looking at it. C is an old language. C++ is an old language. Java is an old language. Nobody is arguing against them becau…

Your comparison is poor. A more accurate comparison would be firing the whole team for inserting intentional backdoors and collecting fractional pennies from each transaction and d…