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I find that function point estimation, potentially adjusted with COCOMO factors, is pretty decent. I find it strange that no one is talking about these methods

I don't like it. We should be divesting from unethical businesses, not from american ones. Nationalism can be so seductive but if you engage in it you're being pulled down to "thei…

Too vague yes

It is nature that demands labor for survival, not society. Society has been gradually diminishing that demand, and may theoretically be in the position to remove it entirely, but s…

There's you who insisted on a FAANG job to make 6x more than you probably need and then there's me living on 1.5k a month because I refuse to do anything that feels more than 1% us…

In other words, MCP is RESTful (as in, it has HATEOAS) and "REST" is not

Prices are about communicating almost more than they are about prices...

Not the one you're asking, nor the one you meant to ask, but I find it rather objectionable that we are now restricting the production of new memes in academia to the ~25% that is …

This whole answer hinges on knowing that 0 is not a positive integer, that's why I couldn't figure it out...

She's a physicist. LLMs are not for creating new information. They're for efficiently delivering established information. I use it to quickly inform me about business decisions all…

Or maybe the stress-reducing effect carries over to the next day? Stress has a habit of not being randomly reset to the default value every morning when you wake up

To me this statement looks like, they can't really make bold statements, so they make vague ones instead

you either define d-day as defense or you admit that WW2 wasn't won with defense

Might find it beautiful, but I'm also just f'in busy. Why do you think that if I enjoyed it I would've already done it? Enjoying things is great but it's not my main desideratum fo…

Location: Amsterdam Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: No Technologies: Yes :) Résumé/CV: https://www.linkedin.com/in/toon-alfrink/ Email: news.ycombinator.com.trial916@passmail.net …

Not that hard nowadays to switch to a decent developer-led neobank

European here. I'm honestly shocked to find out that there's anything else than the "work for money so you can live" mindset. Unless you have equity or it's a charity, of course.

Like, i tried all the cliche stuff and applied them religiously. None of it worked. I tried sleep restriction. It worked. I even started consuming caffeine in the evening which wou…

Have you tried sleep CBT? Data says its the strongest intervention (set of interventions really) and it’s checked out for me. I had insomnia and it’s straight up gone (probably not…