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by 2d8a875f-39a2-4 10d ago
you missed (not a complete list): the TSA travelling over to your country to give to their "was it as good for you as it was for me" inspection on your home soil, the non stop 16h conversation between two strangers right behind yo
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by 2d8a875f-39a2-4 18d ago
oh god, so many hacks, so many hacks ::facepalm emoji::
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by 2d8a875f-39a2-4 1mo ago
Been saying it for years. Basic probability theory should be taught in schools, it's a strong tool for understanding the world around you.
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by 2d8a875f-39a2-4 1mo ago
"Their old testing tool, Enzyme, had fallen out of active maintenance and was becoming a blocker to modernizing Asana’s frontend stack" Non prod code, good use case.
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by 2d8a875f-39a2-4 1mo ago
Well sure, and lots of things that used to be luxury items are now normal. The wheel turns.
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by 2d8a875f-39a2-4 3mo ago
"My one walled garden won't let my other walled garden in."
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by 2d8a875f-39a2-4 3mo ago
Yeah, not much to see here. Each of the activists named likely had a similar "dossier" on MSG and the Dolan guy. Knowledge workers are going to practise knowledge management. People use to do this with a Rolodex.
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by 2d8a875f-39a2-4 4mo ago
Much as I liked the books, enjoyed the most recent movies, big fan of Herbert; lining up the Pandora books to reread next. Etc.... people tend to read too much into his world building. Mostly he was just looking for backstory to lightly jus
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by 2d8a875f-39a2-4 10mo ago
TFA has a point that it should never have happened, and that CF software engineering practices are likely to blame. But a BCNF (or 5NF or whatever) database without nullable columns wouldn't have prevented it. Formally verified code mi
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by 2d8a875f-39a2-4 10mo ago
Haunting images. Plenty of blind spots today that might be looked back on similarly.
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by 2d8a875f-39a2-4 11mo ago
Yup, we've all been cornered at a party by that dude, the one who has all these great contrarian ideas he got from reading books. And listening to podcasts. And reading blog posts like this one.
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by 2d8a875f-39a2-4 11mo ago
Yeah, MPESA was and is still an incredible product. A real lightning-in-a-bottle moment. Even if they've struggled to replicate that success in other geos, the original vision and execution back in the 200x's is a textbook case th
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by 2d8a875f-39a2-4 11mo ago
The npm ecosystem's approach to supply chain security is criminally negligent. For the critical infrastructure that underpins the largest attack surface on the Internet you would think that this stuff would be priority zero. But nope,
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by 2d8a875f-39a2-4 11mo ago
> we’ve eliminated resilience wherever we could, because it’s more cost-effective. Resilience is expensive. You are right. But alas, a peek at the AMZN stock ticker suggests that the market doesn't really value resilience that much.
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by 2d8a875f-39a2-4 1y ago
Echoing a lot of users ITT, Windows has been good to me but the enshittification has reached what feels like the end point. Windows value to me was "everything just worked". But that's no longer the case now, unless you are w
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by 2d8a875f-39a2-4 1y ago
Sounds about right. These kids have been on camera since they were in the womb. The delivery had a pro videographer. Parents had baby monitors with a video feed, later a nanny cam. Schools had cameras in the classrooms and busses from befor
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by 2d8a875f-39a2-4 1y ago
TFA doesn't make it clear to me how the line is drawn from "bunch of mates playing a pro-sports seasonal drafting game and spice it up with a buy-in pot" to "you sit alone in front of an online skinner box and lose money
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by 2d8a875f-39a2-4 1y ago
>> ...summarize these rules into one sentence, it’d be: >> Prefer global UI consistency over local optimizations. I weep for our field, because this should be true beyond the confines of each app. Instead even on the desktop we
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by 2d8a875f-39a2-4 1y ago
I did wonder about that. Maybe yeah. It's likely that several no-better forks would have sprung up right away.
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by 2d8a875f-39a2-4 1y ago
i would contend that they are no worse than the original teams, who also clearly didn't care. their motivations may have been growth rather than AI training data but the outcomes were the same
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by 2d8a875f-39a2-4 1y ago
It's a stretch to pin blame on Microsoft. They're probably the reason the service is still up at all (TFA admits as much). In hindsight it's likely that all they wanted from the purchase was AI training material. At worst the
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by 2d8a875f-39a2-4 1y ago
Sure, SOAP was often awful, I agree with that. But I can't see any angle where one can credibly assert that a SOAP XML payload isn't equivalent to a REST JSON payload in terms of the operation of a receiving application. Both are
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by 2d8a875f-39a2-4 1y ago
Maybe it's just me but I find the complaint confusing and the suggested remedy absent in TFA, despite reading it twice. Data comes from outside your application code. Your algorithms operate on the data. A complaint like "There is
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by 2d8a875f-39a2-4 1y ago
Do you still need an add-on library to use more than one core?
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by 2d8a875f-39a2-4 1y ago
As others have kind of pointed out, using "outside our DC" processing for corporate data is a non-starter for many companies. These companies are left to choose between self-hosting models, or a vendor like MS who will rent them &
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by 2d8a875f-39a2-4 1y ago
Only vibe-coding influencers were ever talking about 10x multipliers. Internally we expected 15%-25%. A big-3 consultancy told senior leadership "35%-50%" (and then tried to upsell an AI Adoption project). And indeed we are seeing
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by 2d8a875f-39a2-4 1y ago
Nah, this lays out what everyone knows going in and leaves out what you really need to know as a newby. Budget. Getting some for your team or at least for your priorities. Protecting what you get. Capex vs Opex. Upward management. Translati
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by 2d8a875f-39a2-4 1y ago
The author puts the BLUF: "The actual bottlenecks were, and still are, code reviews, knowledge transfer through mentoring and pairing, testing, debugging, and the human overhead of coordination and communication." They're not
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by 2d8a875f-39a2-4 1y ago
Devereaux's objection is that Scott is to some extent trading off a reputation for making "historically accurate" movies. As TFA points out, on a "historical accuracy scale" Gladiator gets about a 2/10. So in t
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by 2d8a875f-39a2-4 1y ago
Yeah it's an issue for new devs for sure. TFA even makes the point, "A lot of people felt refreshed by having better transferable skills to the industry. Our onboarding times were slashed by half".

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