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A technician submits one timesheet row. Paying it correctly requires Awards, EBAs, on-call windows, and continuation rules that compose in surprising ways.

Reading source code is the best way I know to understand how software actually works, not what the docs claim, but what it does.

From a neural network on a PIC16F877A that overheated in class, to 25,000 GPUs training GPT-4 for 90 days, a reminder that a for loop can drain a battery.