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Most things get done in spite of management, not because of it.

The numbers are as good as they can get with hard manual work that goes into compiling them. The problem is that small businesses lag by 1-2 months reporting them, so the initial n…

Okay then - let's stop subsidizing gasoline, yeah?

They do, but the current leadership does not have any appetite for entering Iran's airspace after the last downing drama. If Iran captures a pilot, there is going to be no more roo…

It IS an issue if stand-off war is your only war, and it seems to be the exclusive approach here. If you run out of long-range precision weapons, what do you have left? Boots on th…

Leave it to HN to over-intellectualize and twist something obvious because why not? The cretins in charge of the country think the problem is that the soldiers don't have enough te…

If I do it, I make sure it's a good image, not just slop that I prompt and paste in, because I can. And on rare occasions when I do, it's on my own gaming system with Stable Diffus…

It's kind of ironic how Stephen Miran's strategy of "to hell with the rest of the world, we do what we want" keeps running into electric fences. They want to devalue and inflate th…

You probably don't want your soldiers all wound up and ultra-horny during an offensive. The Nazis gave you speed as part of a standard kit. That's why the Blitzkrieg was done in on…

They are just adding zeros to already obnoxious numbers that make no sense. The endgame is on.

I think of that Netflix series on FIFA and its rampant corruption. The bribes in question are laughable, considering that FIFA is a multi-billion dollar operation, and it's always …

We don't really have that nomenclature. We just recently decided what a planet it for the solar system, and even that is contentious.

If you are learning for sure. If you know what you are going to write, that's just typing. I am will punch a baby squirrel if I ever have to hand-craft another login or contact for…

No - you do not always give it back immediately in many cases as you have a transaction, which cannot "change hands". If a write connection makes consecutive updates to the DB, you…

You can easily deal with these cases by tactically using transactions, but a vast majority of code can be simplified by dealing with an HTTP endpoint as an atomic concept. This all…

Most of the time you will save yourself a lot of grief by having a transaction decorator for each endpoint, as each HTTP call should be atomic. And then have another read-only deco…

We can actually review code and prompt better. Most of these people's skills involve connections made in business schools and the ability to shoot shit during three-martini lunches…

Like others have said - many people at the top are so successful because they ended up at the right place and right time, and their approach just fit exactly the problem at hand. T…

I stopped caring about wellness trackers ever since the FIRST FitBit. Once you get an idea of what 10K steps feel like, it really becomes redundant at that point. This personal opt…

When I write these days, I am more aggressive in using "I", so it's clear it's my own voice. Generally, an LLM is less prone to self-reference like that unless it's prompted to, I …

The one Claudism I will never ever use is "synthesize". I don't even know where that came from - no one talks or writes like that - "I can synthesize that for you".

The problem is bigger. Outside of coding, there is no real way to reinforce a model with pass/fail cycles until it stops hallucinating. This is why customer service uses will alway…

The news here is that people are still using instagram.

That only happens in governments that treat regulations as a racket, not something to be used for public good.

Yes, but it does get easier with experience and some battle scars. Telling a startup to stick to the problem and not go wild with microservices and event sourcing is not exactly a …