locknitpicker

> What rules "aren't actually necessary" is a matter of opinion. The blog post clearly tries to frame their problems complying with existing regulation as stumbling upon road blocks …

> The article is about a company trying to make an electric "converter dolly" that improves the fuel efficiency of diesel trucks by essentially turning them into hybrids. No. The article …

> There are some laws prohibiting the sale of used tires with less than a certain amount of tread. I think you're confused. I'll explain why. Some contries enforce regulations on what tyr…

> Over a period of ~8 months, they were subjected to like 4 different levels of restriction over here, culminating in them only being provided by pharmacies to prescription holders. Can you explain…

> The problem isn’t that regulations exist. The problem is that they are defined in a way that reasonable work arounds or alternative pathways do not exist for situations like this. 270 engine fami…

> I know a few local people who have only been impacted for the first time by regulations preventing the sale of vapes, and local regulations preventing the resale of used tyres to motorsport enthu…

> The people who object are the people trying to start a new business, because nobody is paying them to do things that don't make sense and all they want is to get on with what they're ac…

> /r/kubernetes had this announcement up about five mins after it dropped at Kubecon. It's a huge deal. So many tutorials and products used ingress-nginx for basic ingress, so them t…

> But different tasks require cars, other tasks require trucks, vans, bicycles, motorcycles.. No, they don't. You may believe that some frameworks or programming language are ideally suited fo…

> Do you also make everyone wear the same clothes, drive the same vehicle, order the same food I don't think this is an valid comparison. There's a problem called technology sprawl, which…

> The intent of the transaction code is that the consistency is checked (using `tx.commit()`) "even if an unexpected exception occurs". A transaction failing is the opposite of an unexpec…

> haha good one, so why haven't they done this yet? What are they waiting for? Let's see these super advanced "experts" with "specialized models"!! I understand it…

> Taking that at face value, it means we would have to invest exponential resources just to get linear improvements. Not necessarily. Approaches such as mixture of experts help lower training costs…

> So vibe coders need to know how to write tests? Inasmuch as they need to know how to write code.

> Vibe coding will simply be the new "no-code". Not really. Vibecoding is the new code-completion, where every single developer uses extensively but is so mundane that no one bothers to b…

> I can get near miraculous results from vibe coding, but it often gets stuck in weird “bug loops” where it goes back and forth between broken states, and I have to understand either like bracket …

> Most things that people who don't know how to code want to build are not actually dead simple, and they often won't be able to articulate what they need very well. I think it's wro…

> Reminds me of people supporting the senseless bombings and genocide in the middle east. The genocidal arguments frame them as solutions to long-standing problems, including labelling them as a &q…

> This is a characteristic of spite. I don't think so. The motivation behind spiteful actions is to purposely cause losses to others, and the gain derived from this action is rejoicing on othe…

> Not OP, but a surprising number of senior(+) engineers at my company use default vim or neovim (no plugins or customizations) That's fine. They could very well be using the tool they always …

> (...) but in the end of the day, you somehow need to derive the expected outputs from input arguments, just like your SUT does. I think you're manifesting some misconceptions and ignorance a…

> Google only ever returns a maximum of <400 results. That's perfectly fine. If I'm going to use a search engine, I'm not willing to sift through hundreds of potentially relevant …

> That being said, the cloud does have a lot of advantages: Another advantage is that if you aim to provide a global service consumed throughout the world then cloud providers allow you to deploy y…

> Stack enough layers - framework on library on abstraction on dependency - and nobody understands what the system does anymore. This is specious reasoning, as "optimized" implementations…

> But to say that (some) software bloat without considerations is ok is how we have the fastest machines imaginable and still end up with UI that can't keep up visually with keystrokes. Is thi…

> It is for someone - the market price is pretty much always going to be around the point where a small increase causes a noticeable drop-off in customers (otherwise the only sensible thing for the…

> Yes, because if you get a leak in your air conditioner, instead of just patching the hole and refilling it with coolant, you have to replace your entire system in places like California because t…

> How would you go about reviewing a PR like this? State the PR is too large to be reviewed, and ask the author to break it down into self-contained units. Also, ask which functional requirements t…

> In Japan you can get minisplit's installed for $1k a unit, here you regularly find quotes over $10k. How much does the unit cost? What work does it take to install it? How large does it need…