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This is extremely difficult to read. Can someone summarize the point?

It would be helpful to show n. speakers of those languages or at least grade based on % of remaining non-English, non-Spanish speakers. My intuition is that German, for example, is…

Could you please consider making your points without "you'd have to be insane/an idiot to believe X"?

Anyone have any recommendations for software contract shops who can prepare codebases for localization / internationalization? They don't have to do the translation itself, just th…

I found the article interesting, even given a large range of possible definitions of CTO. I do wonder if it is possible to agree on a general definition of the CTO from the perspec…

I really appreciated this blog post, John, to know that you're doing what I've been doing without a guilty conscience. I'm a VP eng/research at a startup and also feel like one of …

Does anyone know if they published the dataset?

I'm curious about the simple, lightweight change management process listed in the article. Anyone have any tips on doing this well? I kind of hate the part of having to convince ev…

I enjoyed this piece, including references to the Stoics and Spinoza. It preaches serenity, goodwill, composure, etc. As someone in their 30s with children, work and a generally bu…

Consider outbound AI calls as a weapon against inefficiency. What is the game-theoretic equilibrium when faced with adversaries like call centers & other businesses with labrynthia…

I have an existing handwritten knowledgebase with screenshots of an app, a codebase with standard CI/CD pipelines, and an API whose docs are autogenerated against an OpenAPI spec. …

Can you add calendar week and fiscal year start

I used the example sentence from your link.

纔 in this case should use the definition of 才 (cai2) not (shan1) which is extremely uncommon. Otherwise, cool app!

Can you share more about your experience regarding how management at a small company lead to management at a big company? Was the switch voluntary, and how did you do it?

Does anyone know where I can find reasonable salary data for Romanian positions? It's fine if it is not exact, I just don't know what "rules of thumb" are in this country I am unfa…

"Absolutely ruined"? We still get value from flight, just now trade wait time and privacy for security. It's clearly still worth it for the vast majority of the world, see global f…

Multiple EU airports like Schiphol already do facial scanning+passport for automated entry for citizens of select countries; so does CBP on US entry from abroad. What's the issue, …

[This is not legal advice] Not a good sign. Most DE-based eng contracts max at 3 months, or the default per § 622 BGB. 6 months likely means the company fails to retain good staff.…

I like the article's premise. I would like some argument for why we'd suddenly get better at measuring something that has escaped us for at least 80 years when knowledge work becam…

It's your personal preference to be addressed with _Sie_, but languages change and German is seeing shift to the use of _Du_ even for transactional business [1]. Target audience, r…

I also didn't know, some Googling led to this being the likely reference: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/OneWeb#2022_Russia_controver...

Here is a summary, part ChatGPT and part me: The “Lone Banana Problem” describes subtle biases of Large Language Models (LLMs) in AI: LLMs reproduce the statistical average of the …

FYI: A quine is a computer program which takes no input and produces a copy of its own source code as its only output.