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If you're reading this thinking "wow, a recall! tesla must suck at building cars!" then you probably don't know anything about how the automotive industry works and you should refr…

The problem that occurs in practice is “focus on finishing” leads people to finish without actually doing anything meaningful. Advisors may or may not encourage this depending on w…

> Focus on finishing. Reduce the scope as much as possible again. in my field this would be terrible advice. instead you need to be doing something that your audience actually will…

If you can somehow get your hands on a dozen NVL72 racks and duct tape them together in such a way to rent them out as a service, you can make your money back in less than 2 years …

its a device for reading text ffs

There are also other bad interview processes, yes.

It’s hard to argue against hiring contributors, but a bounty system that pays pennies vs. market value for skilled developers shouldn’t be the only interview path, it’s borderline …

in other words - "it is lol, also go pound sand"

The leap is not really there yet and it's cheap because you are the product. The robot will be a massive headache, will work poorly for most tasks, frequently break and require mai…

how far we've fallen where the concept of owning something that you bought seems preposterous to some people

Makes sense, lack of editors is why all my essays in high school weren’t any good either

If you are unwilling to teach through python's warts you should use Matlab, not fortran.

its the new YOLOv*

Why is a centralized service provider for crypto useful? It doesn't solve any of the problems that banks and credit card companies solve for cash. Those problems are already solved…

Okay and the key difference between crypto and cash/credit/whatever is supposedly that it is decentralized. Or have we abandoned that false premise now?

Dynamic programming problems are trivialized by using a library that implements dynamic programming algorithms. So?

Embrace…

Why do you have to invent things to be mad about in advance? Aren’t there enough real things to be mad about?

A common refrain here seems to be that there is no good std lib, which makes sense for something like "chalk" (used for pretty printing?) That being said, let's take color printing…

As an outsider to the npm ecosystem, reading this list of packages is astonishing. Why do js people import someone else's npm module for every little trivial thing?

There are no zoomer coders drinking YC koolaid and moving to seattle with a backpack and a dream. Seattle is where you go to live a regular american upper-middle class life.

People actually interested in environmental responsibility have been screaming about golf courses for decades and have succeeded at slowly improving regulations over the years. Thi…

The viable alternative is not PHP, its almost any sane compiled language.