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This post is for paid members only. For trivial tasks - like converting pdf to PowerPoint - are there other tools that do it automatically? Or by trivial, you mean time consuming r…

Have you seen the spec for RSS? I've vomited better things. The spec is a horrible mash up and seriously needed refinement. It made it easy to kill

Nice breakdown. My experience has been that code generated "vibe coding" is prototype worthy, but code driven to be developed with Test Driven Development mindset and with forced a…

To scared to install. Negative would be too depressing.

It tends to the mean. You can get it to do that less, but it's an inherent bias

How many had slaves? How many had business partners with slaves?

I don't have a problem using AI. I also acknowledge, when doing so, how I use it. But, literally typing in a prompt and then massaging its output and then claiming ownership of its…

"prepared to do what I do every single day in my actual scientific practice: type a prompt and receive a coherent, well-structured response that I would then lightly edit and prese…

The hero worship of him makes me physically ill, always has. He did cost people their jobs though, so I guess he's a good person.

If it crashes it's a security issue. It should adept reject what it does not expect.

Browsers won't. No, really, they simply won't implement it.

Which means you have to structure everything around multiple scenarios anyway.

So, I need to update all the tools to support QUERY, or I need to update all the tools to support GET/body. So, either way, I need to update all the tools. Just fix GET.

Fixing GET would be easier. And yes,it would be fixing a flawed interpretation of what should be implemented.you are, by definition GETting something. Tools dropping body from GET …

QUERY won't be supported by them either. So, change is required. Just change GET to allow for body and move on. Most of the systems that are blocking GET/body could be easily tweak…

Comment-driven development may be a useful design exercise, but calling it the only approach that follows engineering principles misunderstands engineering. Engineers don’t stop at…

Nothing to discuss. Don't do this. Ever.

If your browser crashes it's not the site, it's your browser.

There's a broken idea that AI know Python because they're written in Python. Not how any of it works.

No. "This program reflects the enduring company we want to build. It applies to all full-time employees meeting performance expectations on their work anniversary. The longer someo…

The site isn't violating your privacy.

Contrast is a violation of accessibility guidelines.