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> Will you also complain when enough Waymo cars start running on the freeways that a couple of them in a row can effectively enforce following distances and speed limits, for examp…

Shell scripts are a byproduct of the shell existing. Generations of programmers have cut their teeth in CLI environments. Anything that made shell scripts "no longer a thing" would…

> every thought comes with a couple of extra thoughts, for free! Bonus points if you branch deep enough to lose the original thought.

Chase Private Client refunds ATM fees too. It's especially nice if you live in a location where a substantial fraction of Chase ATMs and branches are shuttered!

Sibling reply notes the "process" is the problem, amd I would second that. I would also like to add, it's perfectly possible to produce a high quality code base with poor practices…

Defense in depth is always valuable. The point of this thread is that screen protects your workflow from an unexpected disconnection.

The risk is anything else dropping your connection while an interactive long-running process is going. You can nohup, or run inside something like screen/tmux,

If TikTok didn't exist, wouldn't you expect those Pro-Palestine viewpoints to appear somewhere else? The whole thing is unverifiable because we have no test/control, but it seems i…

Why exclude indentation? A block of code that is indented say... 5 levels deep at 4 spaces is missing 20 columns. If that loss of space gives the developer discomfort, it sounds li…

He fell off the rails when Trump was running for office. I remember being really disappointed to see the trading observations (and his own product advertisement) replaced by politi…

I think it's quite different. It involves money, but QE is all about monetary supply and interest rates alone. Buying entire companies comes with a lot more implications, like deci…

> the government doesn't have to spend taxpayer money on countless r&d experiments If you expect the government to make a tender offer on the largest market-cap companies, they sur…

> Branches where there's enough history to be worth maintaining multiple commits should - 99% of the time - be separate PRs. I appreciate that anyone saying this is probably alread…

I can't speak for anyone else, but this can clearly be interpreted on a personal level. Every day I can do my best to influence public policy; but even if I am successful, a policy…

A perfectly efficient market is the asymptote, you would never actually reach it. In any case, if everyone had an omniscient genie, then free will would clearly not exist the way w…

If the kid CC's their parent it's usually obvious that the conversation is supervised. A thoughtful and respectful individual will Reply All.

I rented an electric car from Hertz out of necessity. They gave me NO information about this functionality, and in a new car UI my priorities were covering the basics for safe trav…

Ehhh I think labeling user input as backpressure, because the software is waiting for _input_, is somewhere between confusing and inaccurate. When I have seen backpressure discusse…

> ... something more like how humans get along with dogs, cats, cattle, insects, or microbes? There's some MASSIVE selection bias here. Note that we're significantly more capable t…

IMHO GP should not have to specify this, and we should take their word at face value.

A rebase to clean up your branch is great, and I lean on my team to do this. Unfortunately it's impossible to automate, because it amounts to craftsmanship. I've seen larger teams …

It can be, but usually isn't. Similarly, dropping a feather and a bowling ball simultaneously might be science, or might not be. Did I make observations? Or am I just delivering so…

This really sounds like victim-blaming. The community is vulnerable to somebody publishing asinine modules, which should be addressed. However, this individual is still the perpetr…

Why didn't the IT folks step in and provide the labor for the conversion? This helps them accomplish their goals. Tading desks love free labor. This shows a novel way in which cost…

People in general should not be seriously forced to consider that a coworker will murder them, regardless of the power imbalance in the workplace. This is totally out of line.