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[MIGHT HAVE INACCURATE IMPLICATIONS BUT PRESERVED FOR POSTERITY:] In Germany I don't think that counts. "Software Engineering" as a title isn't regulated (as kcexn is asking for). …

I think we often don't realize how much performance is part of the user requirements (i.e., "the thing it was meant to do") because users don't specify that as a requirement. And w…

We have a partial list from https://nltimes.nl/2026/06/25/rare-book-dealers-fear-tech-fi... : > The attachment contained 3,000 English-language titles organized by ISBN number, inc…

I'm not really the most AI-friendly person around but this news cycle is just as equally annoying. "Rare and out-of-print" is fabricating a lot of aura here. It's technically corre…

> But fuzzy searches can be extremely useful. Most folks are "fuzzy." > > Google built a pretty huge empire, on simple, fuzzy search. I was considering whether OP's complaint is an…

Amen! I hate this trend towards fuzzy-first for everything. Deterministic should be default, fuzzy should be a special toggle. I'd say close to 90% of my daily searches could be se…

I say let the coaches have the right to initiate a VAR review. They inform an official they want a certain moment/decision/action reviewed. As long as the review gets resolved in t…

I'm almost too afraid to ask but what the hell...what makes a good half-time show? I ask in earnest. I'm not American. I know there's a huuugggee buzz on who gets to do the Superbo…

That's really not a good comparison. When you screenshare, even when you forget, you are the one who initiated the action. You also have the power to stop it when you realize it. N…

I think it has to do with how closely people think they are being recorded. Someone filming/shooting in a park with a kit 18-55mm lens is fine. Swap that with a bulky 300mm or more…

Is https://didtheyghostyou.com/companies/robert-half an artifact of vibe coding you think? Robert Half is apparently an HR consulting firm but in TFA it links to a very sus ` https…

All true what you say. My question is whether (a) AI models drew significant investor attention before GPT3 and (b) whether AI models at the time had any credibility to make the cl…

> Investors have rewarded every story of "our models are too powerful to be controlled" since before ChatGPT. Can you elaborate/refresh my memory? IIRC before ChatGPT 3 there wasn'…

> Is that by weight? By volume? It's holding up 3300 pounds . Pounds is a unit of weight. > Even so, spaghetti strand is not known for strength or tension resistance even when cons…

Reminds me of the tensest moment in my first month driving and with a brand new car too. I started driving and something beeped. I was in pretty thick traffic at the time so I nerv…

> It’s a pretty safe assumption that the people who worked on the codebase before were as smart as you. Amen! Code is never written in a vacuum. Code is never shaped only by engine…

Software engineering is much easier if you assume you have no users. Except for the part where you have to make money, that is.

My gut reaction to this was "Duh, the money is in AI now, leaving less for crypto". Then I looked at the numbers. TFA: $189M so far for 2026. CNBC: $119M so far for 2024. TFA has a…

I agree with your sentiment and would advise the same. However, I would caution anyone sympathetic to the idea: we are probably at the stage where the current generation(s) who can…

There was a time when if your "boss" tells you to install a keylogger on your work machine, it's a black-teaming exercise. How the times have changed...

I've spoken about my troubles getting as much mileage out of LLMs as before while being vague about my industry and, well, this hits the nail in the head. > because the tooling use…

> When in doubt, grab the RFC and figure it out. Back in the day, I was using Cloudhopper, a Twitter-developed library for the SMPP protocol (not to be confused with SMTP!). Protoc…

I could be wrong but, based on experience, the trick seems to be to give them a chance to prove you wrong. ;)

Huh? Anthropic bought the books it seems. They acquired the books fair and square. They ripped up their own books; I may hold that to be sacrilege but those aren't my books. They'r…

> Does Gitlab do better with this? Not exactly but if you're not obsessed with maintaining a monorepo, Gitlab allows you to organize your repos around organizations, which then has…