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As a fellow Ballard home owner I have to say that anyone who thinks Ballard is affordable to buy in is out of touch with reality.

Unfortunately there are two sub groups of Iu Mien with somewhat different vocabulary as well - and my wife is from the other group. I had found this pdf document previously - thank…

I would love such a model. My wife's family is Iu Mien which is a sub group of the Dao/Yao Chinese ethnic minority. Mien is its own language but most speakers are essentially illit…

I saw this very banana car while I was having brunch Sunday morning in Ballard Seattle!

Or the GitHub mobile app where I was using a remote copilot session.

I can easily create a 1 hour track in Ableton and have some minor variations every say 48 measures. It's basically just copy paste with some parameter variation which can be script…

These were expert office hours for API modeling. The company has certain requirements and standards - this team is supposed to live and breathe them. The question wasn't that advan…

They were speechless. Kind of shocked. It was hilarious. They then agreed to reach out to some colleagues / other teams to research and find the answer. After 20 min they followed …

Just yesterday I had to attend internal "office hours" of an expert team to get a question answered - I had done extensive research of my own, both manual and using AI leveraging i…

They had a working PDP-10 at the Living Computers Museum (since shut down by Paul Allen's estate). Definitely a mainframe. That thing takes up an entire room.

Most of us never had the option for work to pay for Claude Code -- some internal orgs did this. That being said I had a personal Claude Code subscription for a bit. Honestly I find…

Who is the best? Just curious.

Pretty sure the parent comment is sarcastic.

I was a GS-15 before (same level most CTOs in government have). Maybe senior executive service roles (SES) might not concern themselves with ethics violations. In any case the vast…

In theory as a government employee you already fear getting in trouble with OGE (Office of Government Ethics) and in normal times this is truly enough. Nobody wants to have a confl…

Agreed - I have been checking to verify whether this truly is a Google service or just something that links out to generic Google ToS and Support pages. It looks suspicious.

Due to lots of long distance running my rest heart rate is below 40. I am highly skeptical I would experience a 3bpm lower heart rate after sauna. Maybe this benefit applies after …

But isn't that why you would squash before merging your PR? If you define a rule that PRs must be squashed you would still have the per commit build.

Like Jensen Huang said the job of an engineer is to solve problems not writing code. The code is a means to an end. This is certainly true for me as an engineer and why I'm not wor…

Exactly - any USB mouse via the USB-C connector (or lightning camera adapter before that) works. External displays also work via USB-C.

I use Opus 4.6 Fast-mode. It produces significantly better results in my work than any Codex 5.3 tier.

I am one of the people who uninstalled ChatGPT and closed their account and installed Claude in the last 24 hours. I know plenty of others who did the same. I wonder whether this t…

I have to defend the Googlers here (I work at a different hyperscaler). Teams / services need to optimize their COGS. That means optimizing infrastructure cost. A lot of pay as you…

I second this. Not experiencing any Azure issues at this time.

Speak for yourself :)