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When that happens they're usually badly formatted too.

The second two lines of your example smell like LoD violations. It's not a formatting problem, it's a structural problem.

There's a big difference between a "prototype" (or a POC, or a spike, or whatever your company calls it), and an "MVP" (minimum viable product). An insecure product is not viable. A product which cannot be extended or maintained without being almost competitively rewritten is not viable.

MVP means just enough engineered code to solve a problem, rough around the edges and lacking features sure, but not built by someone who has literally no idea what they were doing.

Prototypes of physical products are never put into production and sold to consumers. Unfortunately software prototypes "run", and are sold at that point. Then they begin to scale, and the inherent flaws in their design are amplified. The same thing used to happen with MS Access apps; the same thing still happens with "low code" solutions.

The engineers cost just as much after the prototype phase, but if you don't hire them to build your MVP then you never have one.

So the solution to healthcare for the self-employed is pansexual polygamy without the sex. Benefits without "benefits", if you will

It can be tricky with certain sites to track down the correct domains to whitelist without giving a whole swath of ad domains the keys to the kingdom. Getting weather.com working was a bit of a bear in this regard (I know the information they present is available elsewhere ad-free, but I find the way they package that information convenient and I'm nothing if not lazy).

You get up to 3 months or so of reduced anxiety and increased sense of well-being and "interconnectedness". It has to be a full-on psychedelic episode though, micro-dosing doesn't seem to have the same effect (or much of any effect beyond placebo in my experience). ~6 hours of intensity is a bit steep, especially if you've got real baggage that's going to surface.

So over an average span of 8 years, the people in their middle 50s who consumed the most artificial sweeteners aged an average of 1.6 years more than they should have, meaning 9.6 years? What makes that "62% faster"?

They get a certain amount of mileage out of trademark, though not the same level of protection to be sure

They're Scottish, your script is missing the f word

Nothing as in "from scratch", as opposed to Nothing as in "Visual Basic's NULL".

We are certainly being beaten over the head with it, if that's what you mean by "impact".

It's decent for scenarios where I need to look something up but don't have the most likely specific words for the concept, it seems to be able to consider synonyms and/or domain-specific jargon that I don't have a grasp of yet.

It's bad for scenarios where I need to accomplish something using a specific version of a library, language or platform. It can help to be very specific with your version numbers in your prompts, but at a certain point it doesn't seem to alleviate the effort of just reading version-specific documentation for whatever you're trying to do yourself.

It's worse than terrible at writing code, because it's great at writing code which looks correct and is thoroughly commented as though it understands what the code it's generating should be doing, but that code is often wrong in subtle ways.

Formulate hypothesis, test hypothesis, record results, compare results against previous experiments, adjust hypothesis, share the data. Again, I think the problem you have is with the subject matter.

Which is to say, hacking one's wifi router is a legitimate and worthwhile pursuit, but hacking one's mind is not?

That seems a bit like trying to put a number to how hungry you are. "Experiencing a desire or need for food" doesn't even begin to describe the sensation, but that doesn't mean it's not a real phenomenon that can't be induced or adjusted in a fairly predictable manner

One's state of consciousness is very much their subjective experience while conscious

Isn't that the direction the earth rotates?

Accu-pressure mat seems to (for me) induce the body temperature spike and dip that accompanies the start of the sleep cycle in the same way that taking a warm shower before bed is supposed to. I've also found that it adds to the intensity of deep breathing exercises.

The most surprising thing is that despite the initial discomfort, I often find myself waking up on the thing an hour or more after laying down on it. I always set a stopwatch timer on my phone when I use it since 20 full minutes on it is the baseline recommendation, but very often I'll blow right past that.

And if it does, that value will likely fall somewhere between 0 and 1.

Marine loans for boats also appear to carry 10-20 year terms. Value being subjective and all, if you find the juice tasty enough then it must be worth the squeeze.

Car loans have a bit more of an inherent predatory bent since most Americans need a car to get by. That's not to say we all need a car which costs so much that an 84 month term becomes worth considering...

They added always-connected DRM to software development, neat

Getting upset at loved ones for how they phrase a request for help is pretty disrespectful too. No one is being manipulative here, this is just how humans communicate. Being annoyed by it is a choice.

The adjective "needful" means:

- being in need

- necessary, required

"Can you do me a favor?" "Can you come here a second?" "HELP!"

It's an attempt to use emotional leverage to acquire assistance.

In the author's case they're appealing to prowess; "if you can help me with this then clearly you are an accomplished java person."

In my first two examples it's usually someone leveraging the nature of your relationship; "if you care about me you'll do this/look at this for me."

In my third example they're probably drowning or something and are trying to get someone's attention before that happens.

It's all very needful.

Seeing as how it's written in VB.Net, and 3 more of his 5 total public projects are also VB.Net, I don't think "selfless" really fits; I'll bet this project very much scratches this man's own itch.

Dedicated for sure though, and commendable, especially since it's FOSS.

I might get worried once I see AI that's capable of maintaining existing software, maybe.

For now, AI can give you an implementation, but it can't tell you if that implementation is good, if it's secure, if it's fast, or if it will play nice within the ecosystem of an existing project.

We've got plenty of work over the years fixing code that was written by people who shouldn't have been trusted to write it, and we're going to get plenty more work fixing code that was written by AI that shouldn't have been trusted either.

Yeah, it's exponential. You'd have to double the dose each day to achieve the same result as the day before. Otherwise they're just gonna have some mildly distorted thoughts and a nasty headache.

Try as I might, I have not been successful in getting my wife to use IRC. I guess I should take that as a sign that she just doesn't want to talk to me...

This seems less "decentralized social network" and more "html-less www with extra steps," especially since it's only going to allow socializing between the specific types of people who fall within 3 very specific Venn diagram circles who 1) use emacs, 2) use org-mode, and 3) want to go through the trouble of hosting their own section of the network.