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"CS is the welding. SE is the structural engineering." No. Computer Science (CS) is the basis. It's the fundamentals underneath Software Engineering (SE). The author is trying to c…

With a minimum of googling, it seems that Honda already makes this vehicle in both the U.S. and Canada. They appear to be adding shifts to the U.S. to boost production 30% while lo…

The "Intelligent Machines" podcast from twit.tv interviewed them and they get away with this because they are not recording the audio. It is never recorded or kept, it is transcrib…

For years I've thought of creating a "paid" Firefox fork that is _just_ Firefox rebranded, but otherwise the exact codebase. The money brought in would be used to pay an open sourc…

This is the key message in my opinion. I've worked with wonderful software developers who can accomplish far more than others (as well as a few who are a net drain on the team.) Th…

He has joined the same substack, The Contrarian

I've heard AI advocates talk about a "right to read" or "right to learn"; meaning that we have the right to read something and then internalize it and use it. Therefore, why should…

I HATE working out. One thing I found that worked for me was to simply do 5 pushups and 10 squats first thing stepping out of bed. No matter what. Takes a few seconds and it's done…

My team recently paid for this on self-hosted GitLab ultimate. I would not suggest this for self-hosted. We've been having issues that seem to be related to self-hosting that are r…

If it's just the text that they're concerned about, then putting that text (email and website text content) into something that can track changes is the right solution. Developers …

I would assume that the intention is that the user sets their default (e.g. Firefox) and this prevents Microsoft from changing it back to Edge.

Since it doesn't say it anywhere on the linked page or in the headline, from Wikipedia: Capture the Flag (CTF) in computer security is an exercise in which participants attempt to …

I expect there are many careers that are similar. In some ways, your experience doesn't matter. A civil engineer with 40 years of experience building houses, malls, or parking gara…

Based on my experience with Large Language Models (LLM) so far, I see more value in niche sites that marginalia will help the user find. An LLM is regurgitating what it reads, true…

There's also that picture of the trucker that shows the damage the sun did to the left side of his face after 28 years of driving a truck. Google "picture of trucker with sun damag…

Based on my mastodon experience, it's a little more nuanced than that. You are on a server (not the star trek one). Someone on your server needs to follow stuff on that star trek s…

Lazarus on FreePascal

"ReactOS™ is an Open Source effort to develop a quality operating system that is compatible with applications and drivers written for the Microsoft® Windows™ NT family of operating…

ACM code of ethics and a discussion about it below. Otherwise a good general article. We (developer related jobs) need to be able to push back. But then again, some people just don…

"While Bose is no longer manufacturing and selling SoundControl™ Hearing Aids, we are continuing to offer our complimentary technical support for those who have already purchased S…

Just to take a different perspective for anyone reading this, your database is more than _just_ your persistence layer. It can be where rules about the business live. Rather than r…

Twice in the comments you said you wanted to discuss "neopotism" (I'm assuming you mean nepotism). Yet you didn't say that in the main question for some reason. Nepotism wouldn't b…

Maybe others can sympathize with my personal experience. I'm a morning person. But mentally, I can't completely focus when there's things that I have to do later. I'm always worrie…

Part of the problem within this article is the choice of pictures. The first section states, “In nearly every country all people really wanted was a landscape with a few figures ar…

One small anecdote of a project at work. The oldest current project. All our projects are fairly simple and similar. They all use libraries and templates. This one is the last of t…