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by cflewis 1y ago
Incredibly I was thinking the exact same thing. Computers used to fun! I miss the candy iMac theming.
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by cflewis 1y ago
Things can be both a rant and true at the same time. I'm glad Fish didn't attempt Posix compliance.
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by cflewis 1y ago
IANAL but my understanding from floating around open source licensing circles is that you'd have a hard time with the judge if you didn't just ask for the license to be put back as step 1. Microsoft willingly not restoring the lic
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by cflewis 2y ago
Yeah, we have had two of the same and fancy rats make for really sweet pets. But it left a hole in my heart each time they died and I am not sure I can face it again :/
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by cflewis 2y ago
iOS has this problem as well. You search for a setting in the Settings app. It’ll say “doesn’t exist” (or whatever) while it’s looking for something extremely obvious (like “software update”) instead of just showing a processing icon. Then
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by cflewis 2y ago
I enjoyed this a lot. Congratulations :)
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by cflewis 2y ago
I want to make it super clear (although the site takes pains to not): this comic wasn’t written/illustrated by McCloud. It was created by the person with the “Leah” handle.
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by cflewis 2y ago
I worked on Fuchsia engprod for a while. I am still employed at Google and can't talk about anything that isn't publicly available already (which really means anything gleaned from commits to the Git repo). I think the best way to
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by cflewis 2y ago
Can’t comment on the slowdown, I left the team a long time ago. The goal at the time I thought was very sound: it was a massive PITA that Go programs that ran on cloud servers (of which I would hazard most of them do) were not Write Once Ru
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by cflewis 2y ago
FWIW the internal Google style guide says to not pass anything via Context unless you _really_ know what you're doing and why. Things that make sense: security tokens and tracing. Things that don't make sense: almost everything el
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by cflewis 2y ago
I worked on Wire right at the beginning, happy to answer any questions about it.
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by cflewis 2y ago
I just had my annual “career check-in” or whatever they are calling it now at work. I’m at the crossroads level: stick as being a software engineer and accept I’m not smart enough to ever be promoted again on software engeering track, or he
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by cflewis 2y ago
The problem with Java since Java 8 has never been Java. It's been about the appalling ecosystem that infected it with reflection frameworks. It was bonkers that "POJO" was ever a thing that had to be defined. It feels like th
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by cflewis 2y ago
Yeah, I wonder what that is going to ground out to. With the AI race, basically anything tangential is research, at least in the definition of "doing something scientific-looking that's not been done before". That could inclu
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by cflewis 2y ago
That is _possible_, but in the real world if your team has chosen YAML, it’s not because they want to write more reasonable JSON. They want to write YAML.
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by cflewis 2y ago
Yeah, the dreams of what computers could do around Windows 95, and what the Internet could do around Windows 98/Windows 2000... it felt amazing as a teenager who wanted to go into computer science. IMHO social media heralded the beginn
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by cflewis 2y ago
I would not consider this news, but I am glad it has been written down regardless. This has been true for decades in Computer Science. 1. Undergraduate degrees: Getting things done, getting in on the ground floor. Needs to be screened rigor
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by cflewis 2y ago
Actually we do, the reporting in WaPo itself said they had already put together the copy for Harris and were ready to run it. The newsroom basically did all they could to say it without saying it.
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by cflewis 2y ago
Watermarking I think is supposed to be the goal, but I don’t think anyone can think that the web is in anything but managed decline. The AI feeding itself AI will just end it all. I think Platformer describes it best: https://www
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by cflewis 2y ago
I had a manager who thought putting questions in group chats would make it look like we were not competent and so should be only posted in DMs. Same about asking questions to other team members in bug tickets: don't do it, others will
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by cflewis 2y ago
I think most people would see not interacting with coworkers in any sociable way aside from video conferences as a net negative. You can’t form relationships that way. I think this is a key difference between people in this conundrum: some
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by cflewis 2y ago
At least in Photos, the model is not what one would consider working. A quick example: "Halloween with [x]" works, because Halloween is recognized as a specific date. It works well. Christmas throws it for a loop. Christmas isn&#x
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by cflewis 2y ago
Yeah, I'm waiting to see if BM condensed ever arrives. I am thinking it won't. I don't think it would take this long if they really intended to get v2 out the door. It's vaporware.
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by cflewis 2y ago
Agreed. Just log it and move on. The code _probably_ wrote what it needed to even if it didn't close. If truly cared that you got everything out correctly, you'd need to do more work than a blind `defer Close()` anyway and you&#x2
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by cflewis 2y ago
It doesn’t feel like a genuine question you followed it up with a snide jab. Assuming you didn’t: as a non American who emigrated to the US, the answer is fairly clear. My home country (UK) pretends like if you need therapy you either menta
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by cflewis 2y ago
I feel like there were companies in the past that did try this, where you would chuck $5 or whatever in an account, and then each page you went to that supported the service would extract a micropayment from the account. Never took off. Sho
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by cflewis 2y ago
Wild guess: most people go "I want the Google TV thingy"
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by cflewis 2y ago
Honestly more than I would have expected.
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by cflewis 2y ago
I know someone prescribed for Wegovy/Ozempic for over a year now and has not managed to find any supply at all. I think a big problem is that pharmacists have to be sure they can _continue_ giving it to a new patient.
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by cflewis 2y ago
Can confirm NYT is appalling, and they should really be ashamed of themselves.

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