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Everyone knows internet points make someone more of an expert. Especially on websites that have the most inane political discussions frequently and has tanked in quality to only ma…

They are objectively similar in that both are a big multi-decade commitment to a living being that you chose for yourself (yes, you did choose to have the kid unless you live in a …

What are you asking? Nchagnet is just acknowledging the existence of people who regret having kids, not making a value comparison

Tell us you know nothing about embedded without telling us

I work with ESP32 devices and 600k lines of code is insane.

600k lines of code for anything on the ESP32 sounds like the absolute polar opposite of “good”

Counterpoint: my handwriting is way harder to read and my hand tired faster than when I was in high school. And I am worse at spelling and my vocabulary has stopped expanding much …

People who want to be childless usually champion the importance of building strong community through friends and neighbors, just because they don’t want kids doesn’t mean they don’…

Getting the girl as a reward is more about misogyny than a the bullying lesson. I haven’t seen grease so I can’t talk about that but I really can’t think of any media examples of w…

We used to teach kids to be themselves and stand up for what they believe in and their own authenticity and uniqueness even in the face of bullying. That having less or other doesn…

It’s weird that you equate time spent thinking with intelligence and egotism. Plenty of “normal people” jobs require lots of time spent thinking like art, writing, product and ad d…

The author thinks that it’s fine to do this for code, which I find strange. I have big time ai:dr; when a commit comes in for me to review and it’s 300 lines for something that is …

All I’m saying is that by ‘I don’t read code,’ I mean: I don’t do line-by-line review as my primary verification method for most product code. I do read specs, tests, diffs selecti…

You claim you don’t read the code. People believe you. Later you reveal that actually you do read the code, as well as metrics about the code. You just don’t read line by line and …

Well, when you clickbait/lie about your own premise you can’t really expect a decent conversation lol

Doing the god’s work. Now if only my team members would care about the data…

Anecdotally, I never feel more awake when having coffee. I can drink coffee at night and sleep great. On the other hand, if I try to sleep too soon after tea I feel very mentally a…

If you don't want to, and you don't have to... why do it? If it becomes a necessary thing to keep your job you can learn it then. It will take like a week max. And you will save yo…

I didn't learn phonics in school, while my only 2-year younger sibling did (not sure why, maybe related to the school being super low income?) yet I always had a much higher grade …

Your perspective is quite thoughtful, thank you. I do agree that if you are just fixing a bug or updating function internals, +20/-20 is certainty good enough and I wouldn’t oppose…

See a lot of people on this site doing it willingly. I think a lot of people will always choose perceived convenience over anything

It may also have to do with the domain and language to some extent. Yes, the code archaeology is the time consuming part. I could use an LLM to do that for me in my co-workers gene…

Here’s the thing, they say all the same things you just said in this comment. Yet, the code I end up having to work in is still bad. It’s 5x longer than it needs to be and the nami…

Thought we learned this lesson with attention span/ADHD-mimicking symptoms from phone addiction but apparently not!

Ah yes, slightly abstracted mathematical concepts compiling down to mathematical logic is totally the same as trying to unpredictably guess which mathematical concepts your massive…