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My colleagues and I have been talking about this for the past 15 years. I have been contending that 'all' we have to do is supply the requirements and the machines would create the code. Bugs presumably would be a result of incomp
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> But if you need 10 wrong answers for "How to center a <div>?" it's your place. Ain't that the truth! That's why I avoid SO if I can - it's like looking for a needle in a shit pile: even if you find
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Economic policy is nuanced. Trump is the opposite of nuance - he's a bull in a China shop. Moreover, Trump has never once demonstrated a basic understanding of business, finance, or economics. Things are going sideways as a result: we&
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France doesn't use bespoke designs for its nuclear generation units. Instead, it adopts a generational approach, where each unit within a generation is built nearly identically, allowing for minor site-specific modifications. This st
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1. Get experience. Generally, that involves internships. 2. Look for opportunities to make a quantifiable impact. If you don't understand the business impact of your work then ask. 3. Learn how to use AI properly. It's a produ
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The killer feature for humanoid robots is home healthcare. A lot of people don't want to move out of their homes and go to a nursing home, yet they need monitored to ensure they're safe. They may need meal preparation, cleaning, e
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YouTube Is Cracking Down on Sharing Premium Family Accounts Outside 'Household'(lifehacker.com)
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Bill Gates also famously said we'd never need more than 640K RAM! /s Personally, my timeline horizon for technology planning is five years. I've already said that I see AI "replacing" 5% to 10% of developers during
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Good point - you wouldn't want to discard your inputs. You're going to need them should you ever redefine deriveValuedCustomer() - which is likely for a system that will be in production for 10-20 years or more.
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For processing and analysis, you're centralizing the compute of complex analysis and storing the result so downstream decision support systems can use the result as a criterion in their analysis - and not have to distribute, and mainta
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What I'm getting out of this is boolean shouldn't be a state that's durably stored, it's ephemeral, an artifact of runtime processing. You wouldn't likely durably store a boolean in an OLTP store, but your ETL into
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Also, nice job further diminishing the role of pharmacists. I suppose RFK Jr. is too ignorant to know that pharmacists actually know medicine? They're not just pill counters (which, strictly speaking, is what a pharmacy tech does, not
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Our healthcare freedoms are being diminished by the government. Didn't have that on my BINGO card.
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This is Orwellian doublespeak. "Investigate" means "harass." There's no intent to do any fact-finding. "Allegations" means "baseless accusations." Trump often employs the tactic of saying "p
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AI's coding abilities take care of the mundane so I can focus on the more interesting bits. Plus, it sharpens your code review skills - you have to review the results and adjust as necessary.
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This action was taken under an administration whose supporters frequently champion free speech as a core American value. Yet when dissent arises from within, the response is not dialogue or debate - it’s discipline. The irony is hard to mis
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I get a Video Unavailable message
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Two things: 1. Job growth in May, June, and July of 2025 has been quite anemic across the board. 2. Fall of 2022 was the end of the post-pandemic hiring boom, which affected young software developers at the time because Big Tech was hiring
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The real news is Harley Davidson motorcycles are so expensive people are getting 8 year loans at over 10% APR - and that's with good credit! Prices today are insane!
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Delphi was brilliant at the time it was created in 1995. Niklaus Wirth had created Pascal in the late 60s. When the PC revolution happened in the late 70s/early 80s, Turbo Pascal had become the first IDE (of sorts) and top-selling
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The reasoning behind Roe v. Wade was controversial from day one. Texas v. Johnson is much more straightforward and doesn't suffer from controversy. United States V. Eichman re-affirmed the ruling. This is going to be extremely to
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As long as the world sits by and doesn't take political action, they are complicit in Israel's crimes.
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Sign away. This is already settled case law. It's just further proof that this administration is all theater and offers nothing of substance.
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OR - learn how to manage your time effectively so that you're not mediocre and you can achieve balance. It's staggering how much time people waste, and I'm not talking about time spent in meditative contemplation and reflec
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I'm curious - whose chatbots do you find useful? Clearly these are the bots us HNers should be looking at as an example for what we should be building.
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How many times has a chatbot successfully taken care of a customer support problem you had? I have had success, but the success rate is less than 5%. Maybe even way less than 5%. Companies need to stop looking at customer support as an expe
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And they wonder why people aren't having as many kids. Soaring daycare costs, soaring food bills, soaring rents, soaring utilities, soaring car prices, an AI job apocalypse - people simply can't afford them and it seems rather foo
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There was an article here on HN earlier today, American Millennials Are Dying at an Alarming Rate ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44963675 ), and this article just provides additional reasons for why that is happening.
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It's happening in the motorcycle market, too.
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If a plurality of "insiders" have sold 50% of their stock then you can be sure the company is on shaky ground. What they've just done is cashed-in to cover any downside losses and perhaps make some money. They're still i

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