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The reason that European tech sucks is that people in Europe are open to such arguments. If an engineer in the US started talking about SHOULD vs MUST, some PM would just give them…

Sure, but if you look at more complex picture of engine development you could just as easily support the proposition that programmers are currently not in any danger (by pointing o…

Idk why the author thinks that C would be a better language than Rust for vibe coding. Intuitively, I would have thought that the more formal constraints the system imposes, the be…

This is a fun piece... but what killed off the horses wasn't steady incremental progress in steam engine efficiency, it was the invention of the internal combustion engine.

Its definitely wrong - I've used these exact checkout systems at places with way longer menus than any stadium has ever or will ever have. Even if that wasn't the case, it would st…

The article starts by blaming AI for the reduced food menu, a speculative claim which the author made no attempt to validate and which is almost certainly incorrect. I stopped read…

People in the US prefer Signal over Telegram because Signal was created by people who took security seriously, and Telegram wasn't. People outside the US prefer telegram because th…

A lot of people are in fact defending the game, just look at the replies to my post. I'm a staunch free speech proponent but defending this game is like defending the Nazis' right …

Are there people who have been avoiding Denver because the rent is too high? I think of Denver as somewhere you go if you're sick of the cost of living on the coast.

Bro it's not a "weird art game about trauma" its a rape simulator. Should payment processors be involved here? Probably not. But the game is definitely a bad thing that should not …

If you need to format your one-liner, maybe it shouldn't be a one liner? Anyway whether or not this tool is advisable its definitely cool, nice work!

If you've got less than 100 engineers, you aren't going to hit any of the scalability issues and there's literally no downside to a monorepo

URLs lasting forever was a beautiful dream but in reality, it seems that 99% of URLs don't in fact last forever. Rather than endlessly fighting a losing battle, maybe we should bui…

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If you're using Cursor with Claude it's gonna be pretty much the same thing. Personally I use Claude Code because I hate the Cursor interface but if you like it I don't think you'r…

I think any time a 50+ year old problem is solved, it should be considered a Big Deal, regardless of how the solution changes our understanding of the original problem.

Exactly - maybe the most significant long-term goal in computer science history has been achieved and it's barely discussed.

Geoguessing isn't much of a reasoning task, its more about memorizing a bunch of knowledge. Since LLMs contain essentially all knowledge, it's not surprising that they would be goo…

i mean... what would any "mere mortals" use the code for other than to directly compete with Gumroad?

Oh, I don't really care about IP theft and agree that it's funny that openai is complaining. But I don't think its true that deepseek is just doing this because they are too lazy t…

> This is obviously extremely silly, because that's exactly how OpenAI got all of its training data in the first place - by scraping other peoples' data off the internet. OpenAI ha…

The rebuttal is something like "things are complicated, large scale societal trends are always rough descriptions of reality at best and can never be reduced to a single 'cause'"

The timing is the whole point - original website is trying to blame everything bad on dropping the gold standard, which happened in 1971.

> People leaving trash outside the dumpster? Have you ever actually lived in a city? > There are piles of trash and shit? Wow. Why don't you use your freedom and move? I'm doing ju…

I live in an urban neighborhood where the housing is all apartments. I'm sure that some of my housed neighbors have trouble handling their trash and do destructive things to their …