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A label is fine. With USB the risk is that the thing doesn't work as well as it could. It's been the situation forever with extension cords that they have the wire gauge printed on…

Yeah we were trying to develop an internal corporate MacOS desktop app and the amount of shit I had to go through just to get it to the point where someone who isn't a developer wa…

As an American that stuff is fairly inconsequential to me, although I am already aware of those things so I wouldn't even have a reason to ask. Likewise a Chinese person probably w…

Of course he presents a hypothetical person who honestly earned a billion dollars, because he can't name an actual example. All you have to do is double your million dollar busines…

Why would remote working have anything to do with the amount of junior hiring? You can maybe make the case that remote work isn't as helpful for juniors etc etc. but that has absol…

As if the reason people don't like Windows is because the ads on their desktop weren't loading fast enough.

Why teach people bad habits starting out? Probably dating myself specifically but I started out with Pascal, and I'm glad I did.

I wish I could do the same thing. Coworkers would be allowed to ask me X number of questions per month, and once they hit that limit I get the rest of the month off.

I'm one of those cowards that always succumbs to the pressure and ends up tipping, but it bothers me enough that I just won't buy anything if I know I'm going to get asked. This is…

Walmart InHome is $40/year and no tips.

Let's ban it before anyone finds out if it's useful

But it is being continually refueled. The output of an LLM, at least in the process of generating code, is a combined product of human creativity and the LLMl. I have told it what …

Yeah if they thought unions were bad, they really won't like dealing with another company larger than them.

Interesting that I read elsewhere that most Venezuelan oil goes to China due to the sanctions. Would be nice to see them put a carrier group down there to guard their shipments...

Because it has oil on it, you can sell oil for money.

No shit. My question is the real question, how can I make money straw-buying GPU's and smuggling them to China?

Is the new Gemini really that good? The "AI Overview" stuff on the google search page is so incredibly bad that I have never even given it a look. If so, the AI Overview is horribl…

I always made sure to include "Time spent on time tracking" when I had to do it.

> Let's Encrypt was _huge_ in making it's absurd to not have TLS I still find it too much of pain in the ass to deal with to justify for my personal stuff. Easier to just click thr…

Why not do it in English? I have a "program" that exists entirely as the history of an AI chatbot session. To "run the program" I load the history and a file into the message conte…

I've always seen estimates as trying to guess the highest number the PO will accept, the time or effort involved in actually completing the task is irrelevant. I have never had a P…

In my experience, having to track my hours absolutely destroys my performance. Thinking about how I need to pay attention to how long I spend on everything is a constant distractio…

It sucks if you're looking for entry level work, of course. However, I'm a TL/manager with mostly entry-level reports and I have told them for a while the other side of this mentio…

In my experience the style bikeshedding comes about when PRs are not properly scoped. At least I have learned to just say TLDR.

I'm staff and that is probably the main thing I use AI for. It's maybe a bit ironic that AI is a lot better at sounding like an empathetic human being than I am, but I'm still bett…