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by randusername 2mo ago
I read the article and found it interesting. It's wild to me that when I think MS I think this article, Vista, Windows Phone, Zune, Metro, ads in the start menu, the pleated pants meme and so-on, but I have coworkers that are total eva
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by randusername 2mo ago
I think reducing junior value to something like time to first merge is playing with fire. Semblance of value is not value, and the value increase here, if there is any, is from the AI. I trust junior + claude significantly less than I tru
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by randusername 2mo ago
I always liked gradians [0]. 400 gradians to a turn. This means 100 gradians to a right angle, so arbitrary small angles feel more like percentages of a right angle. [0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gradian
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by randusername 2mo ago
Either the shop will be C++-14 for all time or they will do whatever it takes to use the latest and greatest compilers and language features. I don't see why breaking changes is such a major concern. Unless the aggrieved party is the c
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by randusername 2mo ago
This is called "grounding" or "earthing" and Wikipedia doesn't pull punches in dismissing it [0]. You can buy grounding wires for your mattress or copper rivets for your shoes. From my tissue engineering class in un
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by randusername 2mo ago
EXCLUSIVE: Local man gleefully continues letting himself go while awaiting scientific consensus on universally optimal diet and exercise
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by randusername 2mo ago
Some of my coworkers will complain that management is short-sighted for trying to automate programming work they don't understand then immediately suggest we automate management because nobody knows what they do all day. Maybe they&#x2
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by randusername 2mo ago
I was under the impression electron is chosen less because of broad cross-platform concerns and more because chat apps, specifically, require a level of care in text rendering that nobody really wants to design from first principles when th
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by randusername 2mo ago
I think it is underappreciated how you can make almost anything meditative, even things you previously did not like as mentioned in this article. For me it's loading and unloading the dishwasher. I hated it, still do, but if I'm c
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by randusername 2mo ago
This is a bewildering article and discussion. Grades and academic performance are outcomes. They're indirect stressors at best; why would one generation suddenly be unable to cope? The real story is what has changed to increase the sta
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by randusername 2mo ago
The key question to me is whether AI only undermines the financial incentive to make internet content. If nobody can expect to make money on the internet, that could be a good thing. But we won't get an indie-web authenticity utopia
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by randusername 2mo ago
The US government is undoubtedly aware that renewables are the future. I assume they're still cooking up a backup plan to the petrodollar system and it will be business as usual until they have one. Expect the US to double down with we
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by randusername 2mo ago
Tired of these absolutes. Software should be about the code, but not for every person on every project for all parts of that project. It's great to "wake up" and realize that code doesn't have the intrinsic value you m
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by randusername 2mo ago
3.5) You decide what evidence you need to see to convince yourself it works 6) You maintain the program with architectural gymnastics as time eats away at the utility and relevance and user base of what you originally built Both of these ac
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by randusername 2mo ago
I think you've got the cause and effect backwards. If X dollars buys 1.2 times more stuff in the future (deflation) you will hoard your dollars and deprive the economy of them. If X dollars buys 0.8 times more stuff in the future (infl
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by randusername 2mo ago
This is a great example of a blog post that isn't obviously AI written, but that also doesn't make much sense. > Not hiring junior engineers won't solve the problem you think you have No payoff, what is the problem they th
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by randusername 2mo ago
I do this too, but I use cmake to switch the backend between pandoc and lowdown [0]. Lowdown is not a drop-in replacement for pandoc flavored markdown, but it's between 10-100X faster. It's very handy to switch when tinkering with
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by randusername 2mo ago
Burdensome regulatory compliance is a moat. These companies have AI and enough money to lobby the Pope. They can afford to reanimate members of congress and push some tactical legislation through. But all the money in the world cannot move
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by randusername 2mo ago
All paradigm shifts and regime changes happen because of a coalition of people that have nothing to gain and everything to lose by the current system. But I think we should decouple mediocrity from laziness. I haven't seen any team inv
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by randusername 2mo ago
Can't you just put a real PCIe NIC in an eGPU enclosure with a fan? I bet you can solve this problem for like $150 and two craigslist transactions.
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Senate of High Schoolers Pass Symbolic "Legislation" on Classroom AI Policy(npr.org)
1 points by randusername 2mo ago|0 comments
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by randusername 2mo ago
It's far-fetched that the GNU project is authentically concerned about software licensing?
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by randusername 2mo ago
The GCC stance seems reasonable to me, where do we think the rage is coming from in comments like this? Off the cuff, I would be surprised if the GNU project embraced AI, so I'm confused that people think so strongly otherwise.
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by randusername 2mo ago
> Endless tweaking of your tools that eats all your time can be a sign that you are just trying to avoid that daunting and uninspiring task I think a lot of this comes from beginners skipping some steps because they want to be accepted a
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by randusername 2mo ago
News is perpetually in decline just like the old perpetually fear the young will bring humanity to ruin. Kierkegaard in the 1850s: "The daily press is the evil principle of the modern world, and time will only serve to disclose this fa
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by randusername 2mo ago
I have to point out how deeply unserious it is that the following line... > As the technology matures, advanced robotic devices have growing use cases in monitoring and securing critical infrastructure. ...cites: 'Secret Service use
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by randusername 2mo ago
I'm tired of friends, family, coworkers, and neighbors being revealed as soulless time-optimizing automatons. 2026 has been the year "you're not just X, you're Y" creeped into sermons and birthday cards. I want off
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by randusername 2mo ago
I think too many billionaires convince themselves it was fate and scramble their brains under the weight of figuring out what the greater purpose is for their extraordinary wealth and influence. The asymptotic equivalent of $20 "burnin
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by randusername 3mo ago
I have almost the exact opposite problem. My focus is as strong as ever, maybe stronger, but as time goes on I notice that it is harder and harder for me to gracefully respond to interruptions. It's pretty damaging to my relationships.
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by randusername 3mo ago
> Learning to check the compliers optimization reports is arguably more valuable Where do I start? I want to trust the compiler, but I don't always have time to feed every little piece into compiler explorer and interpret it. Is the

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