I’m reading it now and yes, my previous book was also the Project Hail Mary. I’m not even a Sci fi reader.

The user tracking is dodgy, yes but i can see it happening in any business where developers are clueless yes men.

As for pay wall countermesures I can see how some person in Trump org not being happy about the links in the app being pay walled and asked the dev to remove the popups which they did without question.

Ugh, drivers hate those

Are roads profitable?

I just checked with Gemini (fast), it answered correctly and recognised the twist.

The top one looks like it may need replacing soon as well 😂

Especially if you’re Python programmer

Can they use the Jewish space lasers instead?

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See I’m not the only one who fell for the red herring 😅

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Smartphones and mobile phones used to be inventive too.

PCs aren’t faster, they have more cores, so they can do more at a time, but it takes effort to optimize for parallel work. Also the form factor keeps getting smaller, more people use laptops now and you can’t cheat thermal efficiency.

If review is the “bottleneck”, I’d say the code needs to be optimized for review time. Ship small increments of easy to understand code, touching as small surface as possible, and make sure it passes the review with no need for corrections and re-review.

Everyone. One person is too lazy to write a message, the others can’t be bothered to listen to the whole thing 🤷‍♂️

The transcription should be attached to the audio recording so if the sender cares about it being correct they should be able to comment or add correction.

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This is where AI could be useful. Transcribing and summarising the voice recordings.

I like the size of the display

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I think this is a showcase photo for the case and the flipppies look better amd more like generic floppy disk with the metal slider on the top. It clearly communicates the purpose of the item, and the keys are in to show that it locks with a key and there’s 1 spare key.