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I know you probably mean very well, but IMO it's really bizarre and patronizing to be offended on someone else's behalf, especially if the offended people in question are perfectly…

I think your main point is right, but there are many Costco members who are NOT shopping for "weeks of groceries" at a time, and many of them live in suburban or urban areas with h…

It is significant if you don't want to sit at a computer all day just to MAYBE get basic functionality, then find you've backed yourself into a corner because you didn't know some …

This just doesn't matter for a lot of us. We have LLMs that can tweak it and the tools work as intended. The whole point of this sentiment is that the personal tools wouldn't EXIST…

IMO, it's a bit disingenuous in 2026 to argue that technical college degrees exist for the sake of pure education and that we're best suited to continue pretending as such. The vas…

I've been thinking along similar lines as you and really appreciate you posting this comment. I, too, think it's important to put dreams out there even if they have holes in their …

Thanks for taking the time to write such a high quality reply; this is something I've wondered about for a long time and I appreciate the thought and detail you've shared here. :)

Low barrier to entry and hard to get fired once you're in. Rotten people put on a good face in the interview and then spread their misery around for decades to some of our most vul…

I'm willing to bet TPUs wouldn't be nearly as successful or sophisticated without the decades of GPU design and manufacturing that came before them. Current manufacturing numbers a…

Almost certainly not at the scale of the consumer gaming industry, however!

We don't need to know the exact boundaries of what's acceptable to recognize obviously harmful behavior and make efforts to stop it on a societal level. This is the classic "perfec…

The drug so popular no one thinks of it as a drug any more.

Criticism without a better solution is only so valuable. How would you do this instead, and why?

I was in an extremely good spot financially when I quit (years of runway) due to living well below my paycheck for years of working at FAANG. I was terrified to do so, but the only…

I went through the exact same thing as you, and I needed some time to explore different ways of living. I tried being a drone pilot, a kayak guide, and a paddleboard instructor and…

You cycle multiple packs to run for hours. Your battery blower sounds like it's just not very good. I can move piles of wet leaves easily with my makita blower that uses two 18v ba…

Corded yard tools will always suck because they can only pull It's always better to go with batteries for electric outdoor stuff for that (and other) reasons.

It seems very likely to me that the sensations experienced during exercise are highly variable among individuals. I say this because my experience is very different from yours: I g…

There is no universally "correct" granularity. You could easily scoff the same way about some number of API endpoints, class methods, config options, etc, and it still wouldn't be …

Credentials should only be provided at the application root, which is going to be a different root for a test harness. Mockito shouldn't change whether or not this is possible; the…

It's useful to get "glue" code out of the way while building, but to the point in the article it all becomes very difficult to debug and maintain once there are problems in the tha…

Fabrice is certainly very skilled in CS, but his achievements are more in software implementation IMO. AIUI the Turing award is primarily CS focused.

These tests also break encapsulation in many cases because they're not testing the interface contract, they're testing the implementation.

The world is too complex, and life paths too varied, to reliably assume "everyone" in a community or group knows about some fact. You're usually deep within a social bubble of some…

no one asked, but FYI in English it is more commmon to say "for several years" instead of "since some years" :)