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You can have some idea, but it’s not like estimating the time and cost of building a house.

Makes sense only if you assume building software is like building a house. Imagine getting an author to tell you when the novel they are writing will be finished? Or this: imagine …

They sort of touched on this point in the movie: >No one exceeds their potential. If they did, it would mean we did not accurately gauge their potential in the first place.

This is why I thought it was one of the more interesting problems in the list. There’s a lot of potential suffering that can fit inside an eternity.

Would your answer change if you were stuck on the trolley quite literally for eternity, rather than just the remainder of your biological life?

I suppose I'm hedging my bets by using vim in VSCode.

> My suspicion is that staring at objects closely and under dimly lit conditions causes pseusdo-myopia Are you implying that cell phones could be a factor?

I've worked on a service that handled credentials where we added tests like this to try to catch if a log statement gets added containing the username/password. We used a few end t…

The article mentioned that the blog itself is hosted on a replit, so I guess that's one example. This seems like it would be great for rapid prototyping.