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I'm very confused about your comment; putting Trump in office is the nation-scale version of choosing to have brain damage. Why would any intelligent person think anything good or …

I wouldn't take this line of thinking too much to heart. At some point, a piece of technology is too complex for a person to parse what it means without sufficient background in th…

> I doubt there is any specialised hardware on the Windows 95 machines, the specialised hardware is likely connected to something else. Based on my experience with older government…

The focus here on "tariffs good vs tariffs bad" is missing the point. Tools can be used in a productive way or an unproductive way. I think anyone with even a basic understanding o…

This is a good representation of my experience as well. At the end of the day, this is because it isn't "writing code" in the sense that you or I do. It is a fancy regurgitation en…

Isn't code review the one area you'd never want to replace the programmer in? Like, that is the most important step of the process; it's where we break down the logic and sanity ch…

It does strike me that the purpose in attending college is the credential you get; education is a far second.

In my experience, complex tools encourage fluffy programming. You mention a generic container; if I were using C, I just wouldn't use a generic container; instead, I'd specify a fe…

I used it quite a bit early on during military operations. The ability to see the timing component was key; not only would you plot the purchase locations, but you could play the t…

In the world of content moderation, we refer to this as constructive friction. if you make it too easy to do a thing, the quality of that thing goes down. Difficulty forces people …

Curious, could you not calibrate using a force sensor, then include the output as a learning parameter. This seams a naive approach, which likely means it has been tried early on w…

Those three and REAMDE (which I'm currently rereading) are just fantastic. Snow Crash was very stylized; too much for some tastes, not enough for others.

I imagine the flight planning software they use was affected (so their ability to coordinate with other airport's ATC), but not their radio systems or aircraft radar (nearly all ra…

I assume if you weren't running crowdstrike, you would have still had logging/alerting systems set up, no?

I've run into #3 quite often in embedded Linux projects, especially when dealing with the Jetson ecosystem where upgrading to a modern Python is a nightmare due to all the speciali…

As someone who spent a decade doing precision metrology with optical devices... there isn't a way to correctly measure that part with the precision they indicate in the measured va…

I don't see it that way. Most of my travel (and what I assume is true for the majority) is that they are traveling to a location because of an event, be it work or personal. If I a…

It would be silly not to first ask your interpretation, given that you are a college student. Since this is about quantum computing, real world effects are very likely to be none e…

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Your point is likely entirely valid, but the example you used is the wrong one.

When trying to figure out something's type is the same as trying to fully comprehend a regex pattern, you know things have gone too far.

Good feels and security theater

Well, it is average locally earned disposable income compared to local housing cost, as a percentage. And in that case, houses are ridiculously expensive now. Most of my prior gene…

And those low population areas carry low paying jobs, which are proportional to high population areas. Yes, we have a housing problem. For the average person on an average local in…

I'm getting the impression you don't know much about aviation.