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541.
by crote 5mo ago
Don't forget about DST and leap seconds!
542.
by crote 5mo ago
The problem is that fractions suck to do math with. Rather than doing basic addition you have to do a divisor conversion and then do an addition. Heck, the third-pounder burger failed because a significant fraction of the American consu
543.
by crote 5mo ago
Exactly: the entire world has a standard, and the US is doing its own weird thing. The long-term gain is being able to sell your stuff to the rest of the world, and being able to import stuff from the rest of the world without paying a Weir
544.
by crote 5mo ago
You're forgetting that taxes pay for government services, and those corporations consume government services as well. Give them a big enough tax break and it'll end up at a net negative.
545.
by crote 5mo ago
Like it or not, having a bus factor of 1 is a pretty big risk. You are a giant single-point-of-failure, which means that operations-wise you are a far riskier option to your customers than a significantly larger competitor.
546.
by crote 5mo ago
I'm currently at a small startup trying to do ISO 27001. A big issue we run into is that there simply aren't enough people . For example, the processes are built around having one person who writes code, and another person who re
547.
by crote 5mo ago
> And that CPU is no more "open" than the libre end of ARM chips elsewhere. It is amazing how often people seem to forget this. The only thing RISC-V means is that the person designing the cores doesn't have to pay a lic
548.
by crote 5mo ago
Rich countries suffer from a first-mover disadvantage: companies existed heavily in building internet infrastructure based on DSL and DOCSIS in the 2000s, so they are now trying to milk every cent of profit out of it while they can. Meanwhi
549.
by crote 5mo ago
Not all packets are 1500 bytes.
550.
by crote 5mo ago
There is, and it is. Just not in this specific SoC, originally intended for general-purpose computing.
551.
by crote 5mo ago
The new part is that the nationalists of various countries are now, ironically, banding together in international cooperation.
552.
by crote 5mo ago
In the same way that the US hates itself, yes. How well do the various US states get along? Surely there is absolutely zero tension between, say, California and Alabama?
553.
by crote 5mo ago
The issue with voter ID laws isn't with the concept of having to identify yourself at the ballot box, it is with the way it is implemented . For example, in my EU country I can vote with my passport, my drivers license, or my ID car
554.
by crote 5mo ago
Their idea is that the EU cloud's corporate structure is completely independent, so AWS US isn't a parent company' so the CLOUD Act doesn't apply. They aren't a local subsidiary, they are an independent company lice
555.
by crote 5mo ago
And then you've got a country like the US introducing the CLOUD Act, which "allow federal law enforcement to compel U.S.-based technology companies via warrant or subpoena to provide requested data stored on servers regardless of
556.
by crote 6mo ago
And of course the actions in Iran and Venezuela, demonstrating that even the most braindead threats aren't just empty bluffing.
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by crote 6mo ago
Appreciation isn't always enough, lived experience provides a lot of value as well. See all the Falsehoods Programmers Believe About Names/Addresses/Birthdays/Phone Numbers/Time Zones/etc, for example. Do you
558.
by crote 6mo ago
The problem is that people are being cut for not being perceived as a team player, because they don't exactly fit the narrow perspective avoided by the dominant social culture. That doesn't mean they aren't team players
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by crote 6mo ago
> I think we'll have Just-In-Time software. An ephemeral one. It will be generated on the fly for specific task and discarded after. For years I've been telling people that every office worker should be able to do at least
560.
by crote 6mo ago
If they were thinking far ahead, they wouldn't need to do any firing at all - they would've gradually adjusted their hiring policy in time to avoid it.
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by crote 6mo ago
How well would the tech industry do if they fired all the autistic people for "not being team players"? How many dev teams are there without at least one furry, trans person, or socially awkward geek?
562.
by crote 6mo ago
Big Tech CEOs having a front-row seat at Trump's 47 inauguration should give you a decent hint: they bribed the right people, so now they get to enjoy the kickbacks. There's no risk of being regulated to death right now, so there&
563.
by crote 6mo ago
They don't need to be. GitHub is already the main platform for random open-source projects, and that's unlikely to change any time soon. GitLab's selling point is essentially "Github, but not by Github". They would
564.
by crote 6mo ago
Ownership implies both accountability and agency. In practice you often get all of the accountability, none of the agency.
565.
by crote 6mo ago
> The point here is that they get delivered on. ... so where's the delivery? I have no doubt that AI is making some programmers quite a bit more productive. But if it is even 10% as good as all the marketing claims, we should be see
566.
by crote 6mo ago
The problem is that such voluntary separation programs tends to disproportionate attract high performers. You're losing the "10x engineer" who has stuck around because they like being here - despite getting attractive offer
567.
by crote 6mo ago
This feels like a massive own goal. GitHub is publicly destroying itself in a desperate attempt to realize Microsoft's AI dreams, and as its main competitor your response is... to do the same? Rather than going for a "Humans fir
568.
by crote 6mo ago
Why would a certified calibrated breathalizer test be inadmissible in court? How is it any different from catching speeders with a laser gun, or doing a DNA test? And if giving every cop a calibrated breathalizer is too expensive: give them
569.
by crote 6mo ago
Some countries are already (accidentally) solving this problem. The problem there is that they can't upgrade the grid fast enough at the neighborhood level. Combine that with residential electricity contracts where you pay the spot mar
570.
by crote 6mo ago
Wait, so not giving unprofitable power plants subsidies to keep operating at a loss is "anti-nuclear"? And sure, it is a Really Good Idea to contract additional intertia to keep the grid stable. But why shouldn't that be done

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