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I would only share that kind of information if it were in the context of my Magical Name which includes my first pet, street I grew up on, and SSN

“I’d rather have my country die for me.”
-James Joyce (as Stephen Dedalus)

Probably to recoup hosting costs for downloads

Please let them overthrow dictatorial regimes like the USA

Better to have public funding of FOSS projects

"My prediction… is pain " -Muhammad Ali

Software skills plus domain knowledge

Software skills --> Anyone will be able to vibecode a good-enough app within 2-3 years

Domain knowledge --> Top LLMs already have domain knowledge comparable to specialists in whichever field, and are getting less hallucinatory & more accurate every year.

Not being a doomer, no idea what policies make sense going forward, but this is what I observe

Not what you’re thinking of, but adjacent and worthy on its own

Yeah CEOs are frickin’ hilarious that way

HVAC

I remember when I just graduated from college

STEM degrees.

Looking in the newspaper of my major US city.
All the ads were for HVAC techs. Nobody was looking for Comp Sci or Chem Engineering.
Almost switched to HVAC.

Glad I held out for an actual debugging software job

Pity young people today. Don’t be programmers; there’s no future in it.

“I love being at the podium. If I can’t be erect, at least I can be upright!”
-Christopher Hitchens (RIP)

Can be != will be

You’re looping over 50M records, extracting into your csv. Did you bother using the appropriate library, or did your little perl script just do split(/,/,$line)