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When your AI consumes documents that are out of date it introduce bugs and incorrect behavior into the system. Code is the only source of truth that actually matters. The only arti…

Are these “features” just hooks to get people to burn more tokens faster? I’m at the point where deciding what we should and should not do takes a lot more time than actually doing…

There's always wtf, why did we add this feature, but at least in my experience, once a week or so I run into something in this category. Me: "AI, please cleanup/refactor/improve th…

I could see this being used for fitness tests for cross country skiers. A very common exercise is med-ball slams. These aren’t a perfect analog to double poling but definitely clos…

Pure economics. In Minneapolis the railroad demanded a crash wall to separate the light rail trains from their trains. It runs 1 mile and somehow cost nearly $100 million. This is …

Here's an example. One of my friends works for a manufacturing company. He attended a protest. The next day ICE called his employer and he was informed that if he attended another …

SimpleCov in ruby has 2 metrics, line coverage and branch coverage. If you really want to be strict, get to 100% branch coverage. This really helps you flesh out all the various sc…

Seems like a great opportunity to curtail betting. You want to leach money out of people, well you have to leave yourself open to let the pros do it to you.

My first startup we had to support IE 7 for a bit and then IE 8 until like 2017… I thought I had it bad then. I’m so glad I didn’t have to fight any older version

My friend owns a metal stamping company. One of the things they make are the heat dissipation fins for radiators. That portion of their business has grown 20x in the last few years…

The entrenched interests would fight tooth and nail against this but I think that the drive towards simplifying billing and pricing is a generally good thing. That being said, in m…

One of my favorite things when I was here was seeing an Amazon Prime logo on the saddlebag of a donkey. That struck me as a very weird collision of old and new worlds

I think that really depends on your definition. But I will also contend that even splitting your system into 2 or 3 services if it's not for strong reasons will 100% slow you down …

Microservices make sense from a technical perspective in startups if: - You need to use a different language than your core application. E.g. we build Rails apps but need to use R …

From searching the codebase, I can only find eval() used in the markdown and the specs. You’re totally right that eval()’ing unknown code is terrible but it doesn’t look like the g…

Iceland has boiling hot water at the surface and so doesn’t need to drill far to reach hot rocks do to all the volcanism there. This does not apply to the vast majority of the worl…

Am I missing something... it looks like the chainring is able to spin independently of the pedals, as if they moved the freewheel from the rear hub to the bottom bracket. Without t…

We use a gem called olive branch. Yes it’s going to give you a performance hit, but it keeps you sane which is very worthwhile

But as far as I know, one Merlin engine produces more thrust than the empty booster weighs which means they have to time things perfectly to get to zero velocity exactly at the gro…

Traveling from a fairly walkable, but still car dependent midwestern city to NYC and also Europe in the last few months, it's amazing how much our living environment contributes. M…

I've been a rails dev for over a decade... love the framework and the language. About a year ago we started a client project where they had a fractional CTO that wanted to do the A…

Reminds me of hurricane Irene in Vermont. They got less rain but some areas got 7" in a short timespan and b/c of the mountains and narrow valleys it decimated some towns. I went t…

I think US internet would give you a run for your money on best ISP in the country. Been doing gigabit symmetrical for probably close to 10 years at very reasonable prices. When I …

Yep! And a slight oddity is that at least the group I’ve worked with at Swiss timing is primarily Germans. I worked with them for XC Skiing events but I think they are also the one…

This is why you’ll see the finish times in track move a little bit from the immediate unofficial time to the final time. A computer selects which frame was the finish and then some…