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I've not had that problem, but I have 35 years of programming experience, so I can describe exactly what I want. Maybe that's the difference. It doesn't have to be a single sentenc…

That may change over time, but it's not going to change anytime soon. All the fabs are sold out and companies like Nvidia and AMD are buying up all their capacity until at least 20…

Imagine someone telling you that their cousin who convinced someone to off themselves and may hallucinate occasionally that they should be the person dealing with your customers. Y…

I tried it out, it built a system, calling itself AGOS, created a test project and coded it up successfully, added validation checks, verified everything worked properly, made a bu…

No love for fossil (fossil-scm.org)? It has a wiki, bug tracking, forums, email alerts, chat, dvcs, etc. It's written by and used by the same developers of sqlite. A single small f…

No, they gave the cannibal ants a link to a new food source. Imagine you're living in your house, your neighborhood, and there's this large pit in the center, where the cannibals l…

From what I've seen (at a fortune 100 company) they made the supposedly "best" employees fully remote, and they neglected to tell the others that there were "limited slots" for ful…

Aerospace already has software standards for certification like DO-178C which is critical for certification from the FAA. You don't have to be licensed to write the software, but i…

That's not even the point. Also IQ tests are normalized for individuals in their same age group. If they're comparing them to people, then what age group people are they comparing …

There's so many photos of just her staring off into the distance, and only one photo with her presenting the actual thing that she's supposedly famous for. I don't get the point of…

fossil is great, and I wish more companies used it. It's so simple, has everything you need, documentation, bugs, email alerts, chat, a forum, a wiki. It's all there. Having to go …

>From what I was told, Python was originally seen as a Swiss Army knife for sysadmins. Yea, I was a sysadmin around 2000 (before that too) and I knew it as such. >between 2005 and …

I think you may be mistaking Society of Mind with a different book. It's not about lisp or "good old fashioned AI" but about how the human mind may work - something that we could p…

I've been programming in python for over 20 years. An LLM creates code that sometimes works, but it definitely doesn't meet my standards, and there's no way I'd use the code since …

>That’s a disingenuous argument. You don’t know what you don’t know. Literally. A completely self guided high school graduate following random online materials will not learn nearl…

Washington has "committed intimate relationship" which does confer community property and is similar to a "common law marriage" so if people think that being in a long term relatio…

Not just farmers, pilots, and anything that flies long distances will be hugely affected. Pilots rely not just on forecasts, but also warnings like turbulence, icing, thunderstorms…

I don't think the result of this study would stop people from getting tattoos, but if you're on the fence, then perhaps it could sway you. Either way, it can provide information to…

Would have to be a branch that was spliced, and wouldn't be 150 years old, apple trees don't live that long. Either way, the worst office snack IMHO is the apple, the person sittin…

You don't ask for the requirements. You ask what they're trying to do, or what problem they're trying to solve. Sometimes I have to ask "where is this data going" or "what do you e…

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You can buy any Nissan leaf since about 2013 and you get vehicle to home as well. No need to spend 50-55k.

"FSD" is not running red lights, the so-called "driver" is. Ultimately you are responsible for what your car does, when you are in the driver's seat. If you allow it to run red lig…

there's 8 million pixels in 4k, so if you're trying to graph 8 million points, might as well just fill up the screen with a single color and call it a day. If you have 8 billion, w…

I don't get the whole societal focus on these 'grade school kids attending college classes' type of "genius kids". They are advanced for their age, but that's about it. When you ge…