Lots of talk of prompts being the new source code Good business if you’re OpenAI and I have to pay you every time I hit compile

Having towed a Bridgeport on a trailer I would not want to drive around with that thing in the back

Turns out inflation was the easiest way to increase tax rates without anyone noticing

I run an inventory / ERP which stores a lot of unit prices, stock values, etc. Had to switch to fixed precision because of a lot of .99999999’s etc. much better if your database simply disallows this.

California’s effective tax rate is actually much higher than the Midwest even though the rates don’t seem that different Because cost of living is higher, you hit different tax brackets

Using coding agents (i.e. codex) feels like having a junior dev on the team Lots of output, and code looks good. But then I realized a week or two later that the implementation missed something major Sometimes you only really understand the requirements once you get into it

Reddit gold. This was posted by an American fyi

Crazy we were already using times new Roman in 1609

it's possible to be pro america without being anti china

Cannot believe the stupidity

It’s crazy there are no engineering classes in high school I think people are too fixated on the dependencies on math/calculus & physics, but the basic concepts can be explained and experienced at any age. The math part is much less important these days anyway.

I don't use it much, but I get the concept of GraphQL for fetching data But who the f thought mutations were a good idea?

Better alpha in founding something that raises lots of money then getting fired

Easiest way to to reduce churn: say you’re sorry a lot