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The article appeared to state both the facts and the assumptions being made off of them pretty clearly.

> Insurance was illegal at different times in history because it was considered gambling. And it was, in fact, gambling. You could take out a life insurance policy on anyone withou…

I want the setting to steal YOUR focus

In my experience, ORMs save a little bit of writing SQL and then cost an unbounded quantity of time in debugging mysterious problems because knowing why a query is slow now require…

This is an excellent distillation. Yes, in practice you may find that one or two of these don't apply to your own special start-up. But probably they all actually do.

Developer community. "Open source" historically implied that an interested developer might hack on the code and submit their changes. But if the entire code-base is rewritten by th…

An easy example: you need 5 minutes of planned downtime (which is entirely within SLAs) to execute a major upgrade, but the system is also used by Sales for demos to major new clie…

Are Seattle, the Rust Belt, and upstate NY examples of higher taxes driving wealthy job-creators out? I think they were the opposite: the market moved and then the wealthy people l…

Most Americans cannot get a mortgage for $1M.

Now picture NYC, symbolic of wealth and power. Owning property there is a great way to show off. This tax may make it more attractive to own a second home there, because it proves …

And "large" just means that AWS will assign an account manager to talk with you. I was at a start-up who spent $300k/year on AWS and that was enough to get special attention and di…

Nowadays, the top Google result is probably LLM-generated blog-spam of lower-quality than whatever chatbot your company is paying for. Back when most Google results were authentic …

I think the down-votes on this comment are too bad. It's legitimately funny to write a muli-paragraph rant in high dudgeon calling other people "exhausting".

"Spider and Web" is quite short, pretty easy, mostly gives good hints. A great starter-game, I think. I also love Zarf's writing. https://eblong.com/zarf/zweb/tangle/

That sounds like https://git-scm.com/book/en/v2/Git-Tools-Rerere ?

Looking back, it would have been neat to have more metadata in my old Git commits. Were there any differences when I was writing with IntelliJ vs VSCode?

Claude adds "Co-authored by" attribution for itself when committing, so you can see the human author and also the bot. I think this is a good balance, because if you don't care abo…

For example, I just asked ChatGPT "The boat wash is 50 meters down the street. Should I drive, sail, or walk there to get my yacht detailed?" and it recommended walking. I'm sure w…

I would still recommend trying Bazzite today. If we take the post as truth (it's not clear to me whether we can), then Bazzite will get iffy kernel updates that will particularly b…

https://gizmodo.com/dilbert-creator-claims-he-taught-chatgpt... Scott Adams taught ChatGPT to put humans into an instant bliss-state. "Seems at least plausible"?

IME, taking on extra responsibility doesn't get you promoted. However, you can take it on and then find a new job with a better salary where the responsibility you added is part of…

The technology is currently being heavily subsidized and made widely available. If we decided to ban it globally things would look very different. Would it be worthwhile for scamme…

I love the Aphyr posts. > “Can I use any language?” > > “Sure.” > > Move quickly, before he realizes his mistake.

"Following an interview that Tom’s Guide conducted with Rabbit CEO Jesse Lyu, in which he said the company was planning to launch next-gen AI hardware in 2026, we received a number…