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"structures that use non-traditional methods and materials" ... "built on the foundation of Christ"

Ok, got it. That is a non-traditional building material.

I am in fact a bear at this very moment.

Similar to when someone said that the rule of thumb should not be DRY (don't repeat yourself) but WET (write everything twice) - that is, be happy to repeat similar code once or twice, and wait for the need for abstraction to become evident.

It's advice I like, as I'm prone to falling into design paralysis while trying to think of the One True Abstract Entity.

I'm pretty sure I've seen that one in a list, by a French person, of things they wish other people wouldn't say!

> I don’t believe it. There are just as many variables involved in writing a short story.

Surely you're not implying that writing a good short story is a solved problem for computers?

Or because they're shy and antisocial but it's nice to think that they're part of the gang - as the original article was all about.

For me the followup was the most obviously AI bit of writing - it's exactly the tone you get when the AI admits it's been utterly wasting your time.

My ex boss read too much Ray Dalio and it ate his brain.

Yes! The number of lousy articles and blog posts I've seen that talk about "imperative, oo and functional programming"...

Oh a bug, surely. How is the quiz supposed to give you insights when it's unanswerable?

Cron is definitely not the biggest problem in my life. I've never had a problem with its format. I think this is a solution to a problem I don't have - and I tend to find that "English like" formats don't do me any favours.

I remember how much I liked my old iPhone 4. I liked the straight edges and crisp look and feel. I upgraded eventually to an iPhone 6 and hated the roundness - the design language of the phone said one thing to me, and that was "drop me on the ground and break me". I got a case for only minutes after I bought it so it would have a chance of survival.

Currently on an iPhone 12 mini and happy both that the clean straight edges came back, and that Apple's still making the occasional small phone.

I'm closing in on 62 and I've been saying for a while now that as soon as I turned 60 my body sent me a note saying "That's it - I'm done now. The rest is up to you".

I feel validated by this study.

The comments on the apple insider piece are quite something - apple fans have the most amazing cases of Stockholm syndrome.