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by pards 5mo ago
For the non-US readers: > COBRA is the Consolidated Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act. It gives workers and their families who lose their health benefits the right to choose to continue group health benefits provided by their group healt
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by pards 5mo ago
This design is perfect irony. I love it.
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by pards 5mo ago
It's scary. Our society is not set up to deal with mass unemployment.
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by pards 5mo ago
Nope. Banking.
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by pards 5mo ago
It's an investment that is not generating returns. It's inventory sitting on the shelf requiring ongoing maintenance costs but generating no income.
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by pards 5mo ago
Yep, it's 100% a theory of constraints issue. Any optimization not done at the bottleneck (post-development) only serves to worsen the bottleneck.
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by pards 5mo ago
In my large enterprise world, AI adoption hasn't made it outside of the development teams - only developers have access to Github Copilot. Code takes 6-12 months to make it from commit to production. Development speed was never the bot
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by pards 5mo ago
The moving background detracts and distracts from the content making it hard to focus.
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by pards 5mo ago
> using TDD [...] without focusing on your core product This. Even in large enterprises, I've seen projects prioritize code metrics over product metrics. A beautiful codebase that nobody uses is completely wasted effort.
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by pards 5mo ago
In my experience, the level of test coverage has little to no correlation to the quality and readability of the codebase. These are subjective, of course, but some of the easiest codebases to understand had low test coverage, and some of th
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by pards 5mo ago
For clarity, PEBKAC is "problem exists between keyboard and chair"
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by pards 5mo ago
A few quotes that resonated with me: > it (TDD) makes you feel like a good programmer even if none of it necessarily contributes to the results your team is supposed to achieve. It also, in my experience, often makes refactoring difficul
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The Cults of TDD and GenAI(drewdevault.com)
5 points by pards 5mo ago|8 comments
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by pards 6mo ago
Missing the /s? Most people have a calculator in their pocket all the time now. I remember having to split bar tabs by hand at the end of the night without a calculator. The waiter delivers a hand-written bill, and we'd calculate
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by pards 6mo ago
Guns N' Roses blazed this trail in 1986 with their faux live EP titled Live ?! @ Like a Suicide [0] which was reissued as the B-side to G N' R Lies in 1988. [0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Live_%3F!*%40_Lik
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by pards 6mo ago
> the business is already pretty profitable As of March 2026, OpenAI generates annual revenue exceeding $12 billion. However, the costs of running ChatGPT are around $17 billion a year. Source: https://searchlab.nl/en&#x2
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by pards 6mo ago
> Take away the agent, and Bob is still a first-year student who hasn't started yet. The year happened around him but not inside him. He shipped a product, but he didn't learn a trade. We're minting an entire generation of
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by pards 7mo ago
> And in coding, L.L.M.s take away the drudgery and leave the human, soulful parts to you. Strong disagree. Coding was the fun part. Reviewing PRs is not.
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by pards 7mo ago
https://archive.is/S2nMA
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by pards 7mo ago
The 47 Lansdowne bus in Toronto has this problem with at least three locations (on the short section of the route that I take): 1. In the Dundas/College triangle, there are are 2 stops less than 100m apart. 2. At the Queen St turnaro
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by pards 7mo ago
I encountered this on the NYC subway trying to buy 4 metrocards with one credit card. No bueno.
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by pards 7mo ago
One of my large enterprise clients currently requires all tech staff to complete 18h (yes, eighteen hours!) of "agile training", in addition to speed-running 14 separate mandatory online courses. This time would be much better spe
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by pards 8mo ago
> They prefer working to non-working. This sums up many things perfectly. I'll be stealing this.
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by pards 8mo ago
It sounds like you didn't have a very good coach. My first coach wasn't very helpful, my second was amazing. Keep looking! Open mic nights at your local bar are a great source of data. Approach people after their performance, comp
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by pards 8mo ago
Got any youtubers you'd recommend?
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by pards 8mo ago
Ed Sheeran used to be bad at singing [0]. So was Jon Bon Jovi. In-person vocal lessons and consistent practice have dramatically improved my voice from terrible to half-decent. [0]: https://youtube.com/shorts/I05Ahr0tpA
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by pards 8mo ago
I assume all social media ads are also scams.
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by pards 8mo ago
Yep - dodo worked for me
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by pards 8mo ago
> I happen to rent and can't keep This is my fear - what happens if the AI companies can't find a path to profitability and shut down?
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by pards 8mo ago
My first introduction to the internet was through the telnet-based EW-too talkers like Foothills (Boston U) and Forest (UTS). I have very fond memories of staying up late talking to people from all over the globe. It was truly amazing to me

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