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Do they do double-tap strikes on schools and hospitals? Do they shoot children 355 times to make sure they're dead like with Hind Rajab?

Just trying to see how the compare to the US and Israeli militaries when it comes to war crimes.

I have read but not verified that washing with water is about as effective as with soap at removing bacteria from hands. Having soap on your hands forces you to get all the soap off, which requires touching more skin surface.

"On that footing the loop closes"

I was curious what Marv from Home Alone had to say about lighting... guess it must be a different guy!

This is exactly how our letters came about - 'A' originally was written sideways and represented an ox head, but now everybody just knows it as a letter.

I think (c) isn't right. Byte-identical sounds to me like it's almost certainly a copy.

I read that book right at the beginning of my career over 20 years ago, when I was the new guy who had actually studied software engineering among all my entirely self-taught older colleagues. Lots of big messes to clean up in that codebase!

Just being able to instantly generate a complicated query expression to pull specific bits out of a JSON blob sold me. It's awesome that I can ask Claude to build a whole feature and it will often one-shot it for me, but generating utility bash / python scripts or little throwaway utility webapps is what really excites me.

I believe the term "seam" came from Michael Feathers' "Working Effectively with Legacy Code": “a seam is a place where you can alter behavior in your program without editing in that place”.

https://martinfowler.com/bliki/LegacySeam.html

Claude is using it a bit liberally, but not totally incorrectly.

The color definitely made me want to shut my mouth

The turd brown color certainly didn't help

All those crazy complicated CLIs are now super useful for LLMs!

But building a web browser isn't a niche skill - it requires a whole bunch of them. You need to be a generalist to write a web browser.

When I was at Google it wasn't uncommon for a particular conference room to be "assigned" to a director or VP. From what I remember their calendars were always crazy full, too.

I assume the 30 minutes didn't involve learning how to use wish.

There are tons of apps I could build in 30 minutes using a development environment I'm familiar and productive with already, but LLMs don't have that restriction.

For me, filing taxes and dealing with medical bills take a LOT of extra effort to overcome my dislike of these tasks. Not because of having to pay money - but because in the past I experienced a large amount of real physical pain doing these tasks when I had hand and shoulder problems.

Even things like filing receipts for reimbursement feels similar enough that I procrastinate, even though I'm going to get money back. Brains are weird things.

You could sue cloud providers who are using your software and selling to the military

Yeah, if I rent a murderbot and tell it to murder, then I'm responsible.

If I rent a cleaning bot that is actually a lightly reprogrammed murderbot, and it "cleans" the mailman to death, that's not my fault.

Somebody's gotta man the night shift at the empty lockup!

You really think he was working 23 hours one day and then 15-16 for the rest of the week? That sounds like timecard padding to me. No way he's not spending a significant portion of the job asleep, unless he's severely abusing stimulants.

We have at least one in Portland, and they do both clothing and electronics repairs. It's great to see a repairability movement!

Which requirements made them cancel it? Was it a high deductible scam plan?

Companies don't hesitate to lay people off when their jobs aren't needed. I don't see why these parasitic insurance companies need to stay in business.

There was never a guarantee that you were going to keep your plan anyway, was there? Insurance companies are changing plans from year to year.

I've had the experience with junior engineers where I would describe in detail what I wanted, and then they'd produce something very different in most aspects. And then I'd keep telling them what was wrong until I got something that looked like what I wanted, or at least got the job done.

Not just a rural thing. Plenty of poor areas in big cities have a dearth of affordable grocery stores.

"It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it." -Upton Sinclair

Anthropic has no incentive to make their products more efficient as long as they're selling them by the token.

Do you have another earth or two in your back pocket? I'm not saying degrowth is the answer, but continual growth is just not feasible.

The fanciness is mostly decorations, which can cost a huge amount but don't have to, especially if you buy secondhand.

Also good preparation for when they live on their own and may not have as nice a place as you've provided for them as kids.