Still better than the codex or gemini cli though :)

Shouldn’t that mean any software development positions will lean more towards research? If you need new algorithms, but never need anyone to integrate them.

> Models are not quite good enough to write an entire parser from scratch

In my experience models are really good at this? Not one shot, but writing decoders/encoders is entirely possible.

They can oneshot relatively simple parsers/encoders/decoders with a proper spec, but it’s a completely different ballgame when you’re trying to parse a very domain knowledge heavy file format (like the format electronics CAD) with decades of backwards compatible cruft spread among hundreds of megabytes of decompiled Delphi and C# dlls (millions of lines).

The low level parts (OLE container, streams and blocks) are easy but the domain specific stuff like deserializing to typed structs is much harder.

If you don’t at least mention that damning fact on your polygraph, of course it is!

The person that made the svmjs library I used for a blue monday.

Those are’t the prime slots. Before 8 in the morning (before school), and somewhere between 6 and 7, during or right after dinner (make it a family activity)

Are there really parents that would force their children to say it anyway? This feels like such a bizarre thing to have a fight over.

Absolutely. Children have been disowned and cut off for not following the faith of their families. Many parents take the "under God" part seriously.

I think it reasonable to assume that the principal, at least, would be such a parent

What? This is incredible if you don’t think a sizable portion of parents in America would force their children to say it.

I think it's slightly unbelievable to us who grew up in secular societies where being agnostic/atheistic/non-practing-believer is fairly common and not so out of the ordinary. Then we start hearing about the experiences in christian-nationalistic countries and how it is growing up there, and it's just very different from what you expect from a modern country.

I'm guessing Aeolun might be from one of those places/countries/states :)

I’ve never been Christian, but I have lived in the US my entire life, so I was always at least peripherally aware of “Christian culture”. I knew about Christian Rock and Christian movies, Christian video games, those weird Christian TV channels, etc. There has always been a distinct “Christian media” that is separate from the regular secular media.

For nearly my entire life, I had assumed that it was like this everywhere in the world, until I spent two weeks in the UK in 2022, when the topic of “Super Noah’s Ark 3D” came up (I believe because of a Steam sale).

The people I was with were extremely confused by the idea that there is a version of Wolfenstein 3D themed around Noah going around the ark firing food at goats, and I said “oh you know, it’s part of that whole Christian media culture”.

They had no idea what I was talking about, so I had to explain the weird dual media economy that exists in the US.

Kind of eye opening, I guess one of those stereotypical American things of assuming “everything is the US”.

No idea, but this was an overwhelmingly conservative part of Florida (Niceville, probably most famous for being where Matt Gaetz is from), so it wouldn't surprise me if some of the Southern Baptists or Pentacostals in the area would get their children in trouble over that.

Even twenty-three years later, I'm still a little surprised that they sent me to the principal's office over it. It seems like it was a waste of everyone's time, considering it would have been considerably easier to just roll their eyes and let me sit in class.

Well those pearls weren't going to clutch themselves, you know.

Not sure. That level of size variance where the median falls off the middle seems to indicate a large extent of obese people.

The distribution in Japan would be very different.

I buy shirts with a collar and length size. Surely it can’t be that hard to do the same with waist size?

Wait, I buy my pants with a waist and length size. So the problem is already solved?

80% of the people are saying that this is highly complex software. We should not expect to serve more than 4 requests per second without a full kubernetes cluster backed by 27 pods, a cloud spanner database, and 200k lines of code.

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