slindsey

"CS is the welding. SE is the structural engineering."

No. Computer Science (CS) is the basis. It's the fundamentals underneath Software Engineering (SE).

The author is trying to convey that current CS education is not enough to create a good Software Engineer, which is true. But SE is a specialization and CS is a broad overview of the core components of a computing education.

If you want to create a comparison to Civil Engineering (CE), this isn't it. CS to SE is more like the underlying physics that support the specifics of Structural Engineering.

A more apt comparison is that the low-level programmer who takes a spec and just implements it is the "welding"; this would be that fresh hire out of college in their first position.

With a minimum of googling, it seems that Honda already makes this vehicle in both the U.S. and Canada. They appear to be adding shifts to the U.S. to boost production 30% while lowering it elsewhere. So "Yay" I guess. It's one of the few situations where the tariffs can work short term. In most cases, shifting production from another country to the U.S. is a multi-year investment that tariffs won't significantly impact because they are changing too often to drive such long-term decisions.

The "Intelligent Machines" podcast from twit.tv interviewed them and they get away with this because they are not recording the audio. It is never recorded or kept, it is transcribed in real-time and then sent to the AI and tokenized. Cheating maybe, but it's how they're trying to get away with it.

For years I've thought of creating a "paid" Firefox fork that is _just_ Firefox rebranded, but otherwise the exact codebase. The money brought in would be used to pay an open source developer to work strictly on things intended to be sent upstream to the Mozilla Firefox. If nothing else, it would prove whether or not people are willing to pay for Firefox.

The problem with Firefox currently is the organizational structure; the way that they need to monetize; the fact that you can't pay for Firefox development. The problem with forks is that they are all "Firefox plus this" or "Firefox without that".

This is the key message in my opinion. I've worked with wonderful software developers who can accomplish far more than others (as well as a few who are a net drain on the team.) The key is to craft an organization that allows anyone with a minimum skillset to be successful. At least on the team that I'm currently in, this means a well-defined organization with clearly defined limits of what they should and should not do. This is with respect to customers and also internally.

He has joined the same substack, The Contrarian

I've heard AI advocates talk about a "right to read" or "right to learn"; meaning that we have the right to read something and then internalize it and use it. Therefore, why shouldn't an AI have the same right? The difference to me seems to be that the AI has the ability to regurgitate it in whole.

I can read a book, learn about the concepts, then use or repeat those concepts. The AI can do the same. But is it really "learning"? It may be just spewing out pieces of the content without any understanding. In which case it's a copyright violation, right?

I HATE working out. One thing I found that worked for me was to simply do 5 pushups and 10 squats first thing stepping out of bed. No matter what. Takes a few seconds and it's done before you can complain about it. After a while I bumped the numbers up. Then again and again. I still wasn't doing a long workout, but it was something and it made a big difference in eliminating wrist and back pain from sitting all day.

After a few months something would happen and I'd stop. Then after a few more months, the pain would start again and I'd get back into it the same way.

My team recently paid for this on self-hosted GitLab ultimate. I would not suggest this for self-hosted. We've been having issues that seem to be related to self-hosting that are requiring a lot of effort from our System Admins to work through with GitLab support.

Separate from that, there don't appear to be any benefits to having it "integrated" into GitLab. I'm assuming we'll switch to another tool shortly.

If it's just the text that they're concerned about, then putting that text (email and website text content) into something that can track changes is the right solution. Developers would use git. You could use Google Docs with a separate one for each email template and website content. Maybe MS Word if they use Sharepoint.

The simple answer is probably Google Docs with all the tracking and collaboration turned on so that every change is tracked by who made it and when. But again, that's only relevant for the text and maybe minimal layout.

I would assume that the intention is that the user sets their default (e.g. Firefox) and this prevents Microsoft from changing it back to Edge.

Since it doesn't say it anywhere on the linked page or in the headline, from Wikipedia:

Capture the Flag (CTF) in computer security is an exercise in which participants attempt to find text strings, called "flags", which are secretly hidden in purposefully-vulnerable programs or websites.

I expect there are many careers that are similar. In some ways, your experience doesn't matter. A civil engineer with 40 years of experience building houses, malls, or parking garages is still a rookie if they're building their first bridge, right? Many concepts still apply, maybe even most, but it's still going to be new and difficult. I have over 30 years experience as a software developer but I wouldn't want to program for medical equipment or dive into complex low-level architecture that I haven't thought about since college.

Based on my experience with Large Language Models (LLM) so far, I see more value in niche sites that marginalia will help the user find.

An LLM is regurgitating what it reads, true or false. There's a bias for things it sees more often. There's randomness in the response. Sure, humans are error-prone but a problem with known computer responses is that humans tend to think "a computer did this so it must be right." And LLMs are not pumping out true thoughtful answers but simply putting a string of probably words together.

The internet is vast and is increasingly filled with garbage, stolen and duplicated data, and monetization. It's nice to be able to look in the nooks and crannies of the internet for data.

I'm actually more interested in sites that do personal curation of interesting links that are personally vetted and of interest to someone than what's found through google or chatgpt.

There's also that picture of the trucker that shows the damage the sun did to the left side of his face after 28 years of driving a truck. Google "picture of trucker with sun damage"