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New comment by mrits in "JetBrains reported a net financial loss first time in its tracked history"

mrits — Tue, 06 Oct 2026 16:05:21 +0000

It's interesting your complaints are similar to mine about TDD. I've dealt with so many engineers that assume that coverage and passing tests is the bar.

New comment by mrits in "Anthropic reported diary entry to police, woman faces felony charge"

mrits — Mon, 05 Oct 2026 22:43:04 +0000

If you want technology that won't report you to the police for credible threats at they can easily detect perhaps create your own. I hear pen and paper work great for this.

New comment by mrits in "Borland Turbo Basic"

mrits — Mon, 05 Oct 2026 16:43:18 +0000

I hung out on #C from 92-96 quite a bit. The most shocking part of your story was that people didn't recommend an ftp site where you could get anything you wanted for free.

New comment by mrits in "MongoDB CEO resigns to join Meta"

mrits — Mon, 28 Sep 2026 16:00:21 +0000

Not sure why he'd want to take the pay cut with being a CEO

New comment by mrits in "Dutch governments builds alternative for Microsoft based on NixOS"

mrits — Fri, 25 Sep 2026 13:36:16 +0000

You can't even build your own website to go to discuss this.

New comment by mrits in "Toyota is taking the Corolla electric"

mrits — Fri, 25 Sep 2026 13:33:11 +0000

We don't need to bring Norway into a conversation about how cold weather effects batteries.

New comment by mrits in "Toyota is taking the Corolla electric"

mrits — Fri, 25 Sep 2026 02:54:36 +0000

EVs don’t work well in a lot of North American climates

New comment by mrits in "Toyota is taking the Corolla electric"

mrits — Fri, 25 Sep 2026 02:52:28 +0000

Yes, the famously meaningless US consumer…

New comment by mrits in "Federal judge orders Texas to air condition all prisons by the end of 2029"

mrits — Fri, 25 Sep 2026 01:59:55 +0000

Norway is certainly going to learn this the hard way.

New comment by mrits in "Verda (Finland) raises $189M in Series B"

mrits — Wed, 23 Sep 2026 15:36:57 +0000

You confuse poor with lean

New comment by mrits in "Verda (Finland) raises $189M in Series B"

mrits — Tue, 22 Sep 2026 11:15:35 +0000

$198M for AI Cloud when US has a company that pays one of it's employees about that?

New comment by mrits in "Learning Programming in an Age of LLMs"

mrits — Wed, 16 Sep 2026 18:22:58 +0000

I don't think it's a feature or a bug. It is an indicator of an extremely poor spec though.

New comment by mrits in "Learning Programming in an Age of LLMs"

mrits — Wed, 16 Sep 2026 12:37:38 +0000

Extraneous and ambiguous is superior? Or are you talking about hypothetical new spoken languages?

New comment by mrits in "I'm sorry, you're not going to die from an AI-engineered supervirus"

mrits — Thu, 10 Sep 2026 11:07:58 +0000

There must be some evolutionary kill switch in humans to prevent us from accepting our irrelevance.

New comment by mrits in "I'm sorry, you're not going to die from an AI-engineered supervirus"

mrits — Thu, 10 Sep 2026 11:03:01 +0000

Not much of an argument as you just proved the counter point. You don't need a specialist for what is now common knowledge.

New comment by mrits in "I'm sorry, you're not going to die from an AI-engineered supervirus"

mrits — Thu, 10 Sep 2026 02:07:44 +0000

Do you need to be a physicist to realize an asteroid is going to kill you ?

New comment by mrits in "I'm sorry, you're not going to die from an AI-engineered supervirus"

mrits — Thu, 10 Sep 2026 02:05:47 +0000

The cope principle

New comment by mrits in "I'm sorry, you're not going to die from an AI-engineered supervirus"

mrits — Thu, 10 Sep 2026 02:04:50 +0000

Is it so hard to think that super intelligence could piece things together that humans can’t?

New comment by mrits in "Shopify acquires Tailwind"

mrits — Wed, 09 Sep 2026 20:17:41 +0000

I do boostrap 5 and htmx. works great

New comment by mrits in "Among European Companies That Use a CDN, Nearly 9 in 10 Use Cloudflare"

mrits — Tue, 08 Sep 2026 11:23:59 +0000

The current Europe strategy seems to be to pay software engineers less money and hope for a superior product. I'm not sure how you'd catch up when some of your engineers literally make less than our fast food workers.