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Honestly expanding this point for the joy of debating. Granted, grandparent comment used _charged_ words. Let's rephrase: labor is used to ultimately provide owners more money than…

This is the way. If the C-suite idiocy is inevitable, as I believe it is, the more moral thing to do is to take advantage of such idiocy.

I believe this provision already exists in screen media. That's why you get some awful movies, like 2015's Fantastic Four.

Catch is perhaps a strong word. Trade-off would be more accurate. Every action in the known universe (and surely in some unknown ones too) results in a trade-off. This is maybe the…

The only correct answer to the question asked is "I don't know the context, I need more information". Anything else is being a bad engineer.

Man, more than two decades of open source and people still don't understand what free as I'm freedom means. It's depressing.

If this is correct, which I partially believe it is, it's even worse. It's not measuring the "useful" kind of stress, like when you're on-call or in active incident handling. It's …

Never understood the "I'm solar" or "I'm nuclear" crowd. The issue is an engineering problem, not a baseball match. As an system-oriented person, give me a healthy combination of a…

Another misconception I'd say. "Time is not a thing in math" is not understanding what math is. Time is another ideal object following certain rules under a given domain. Programmi…

Got it, thanks for the reply

A lot of people in this type of threads always makes the same mistake: confusing what math is with branches of math, or rather, ways in which math is used. The way the education sy…

Is it possible your mental model of what CS is more aligned with software engineering rather than actual CS? Could you share some examples of what you consider to be CS but lacks a…

You read it right. There's no contradiction. The famous original bit started with "a man and his son". This bit is certainly part of the LLM's training corpus, so it's expected to …

Yes, because it's not intractable. It's just a good definition and statement of the problem. Without that, you can even being thinking about solutions or make sensible assessments.…

But you're also using "social media" a shorthand for "algorithmic-based attention-maximizing recommendation machine". That's the current implementation of the bigger and most impac…

Please supply sources for this outrageous claim.

This is an outstanding resource, thanks!

Agree with the spirit of the argument, but I disagree about the bad design. BCrypt has its trade-offs, you are expected to know how to use it when using it, specially if by choice.…

Can't believe the answers you're getting. The answer's a big fat NO. If you find yourself in that situation, there's something very incorrect with your design.

Thanks a lot!

Related to the subject, can anyone recommend a book about timezones? Not a technical, programming book, but one with the history of time zones and curious use cases?

Point 3 is dishonest, imo. jj has no evidence today to support the idea that it will be a main tool in the future. An even heavier burden of proof comes from the idea that it could…

Interesting topic! Completely disagree with his take though. > The centrality of computing stems from the fact that it is a technology that has been changing the world for the past…

I can't stop thinking parent comment is ChatGPT output

I don't think that's the point of the article, happy to read the reasoning used to get to that conclusion. To me the point is not concerned with usefulness, is with reliability. Yo…