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by csnover 1y ago
> Otherwise you’ve abjectly failed to evaluate one of the most important trade-offs in engineering: whether something is even worth your time to think about. Phew, several folks have replied to me about how it’s not worth the time thinki
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by csnover 1y ago
> Why wouldn't you default to the most full-featured option when its performance and space usage is adequate for the overwhelming majority of cases? This is the logic of buying a Ford F-150 to drive your kids to school and to commut
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by csnover 1y ago
No, it is the following the principle of YAGNI.
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by csnover 1y ago
In my opinion, clap is a textbook example of over-engineering for a single metric (UX) at the expense of all other considerations (compilation speed, runtime cost, binary size, auditability, and maintainability). It is an 18kloc command-lin
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by csnover 2y ago
Three-strikes-style rules like this make for easy decision-making, but they don’t make for good decision-making. They eliminate curiosity about the root problem, reject the reality of how humans learn (it is almost never linear), and us
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by csnover 2y ago
The goal of an online community is to be a space where people interact, so banning someone from interacting is a failure to succeed at the goal, but so is allowing someone to remain to the point where others choose to leave voluntarily. The
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by csnover 2y ago
Sorry for the confusion. I was referring to other online spaces like Twitter and Reddit where the discourse today is so toxic that it has desensitised people into accepting or even encouraging abusive behaviour. Name-calling is a typical ex
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by csnover 2y ago
This is exactly what happens on VOGONS, but it relies on the community reporting violations, and I suspect this isn’t happening consistently. I’ve reviewed too many reports where multiple people had been breaking the rules for days before a
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by csnover 2y ago
Forum admin here. No posts were reported or removed and the author hasn’t posted since last April. I don’t know what’s going on here and have reached out to them to try to understand and assist. The community standards explicitly prohibit o
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by csnover 2y ago
By the time someone has entered the workforce it should not be necessary to be ‘checked on’ by some surrogate parental figure. In a functioning workplace, everyone agrees to do their work because it is part of the social contract of working
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by csnover 2y ago
There is a podcast miniseries called The Divided Dial[0] that answers the question of why conservative radio dominates in America, but very briefly, based on my understanding of their reporting: 1. The elimination of the Fairness Doctrine m
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by csnover 2y ago
It’s not making up history. There is a documentary[0] on the history of React where the people involved in its creation and use at Facebook described it this way: > Bolt [a predecessor of React] was basically more or less Facebook's
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by csnover 2y ago
This doesn’t make sense to me. You can perform the exact same fingerprinting by looking at which image in a srcset is being requested.
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by csnover 2y ago
What can be asserted without evidence can also be dismissed without evidence.[0] The burden of proof is on the author to demonstrate that software quality is actually worse now. If they want to refute the argument that they are engaged in r
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by csnover 2y ago
The answer is “because the author is engaged in rosy retrospection”. The Atlantic, in 2013: Why is software so slow?[0] Mac Observer, in 2015: OS X quality is declining.[1] Some random programmer blog, in 2015: “Worse Is Better” 25 Years La
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by csnover 3y ago
> If you supply your own encryption key, it's true that Backblaze can't read your data at rest. It’s worse than this. The private key for data decryption is sent to their server by the installer before you can even set a PEK. T
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by csnover 3y ago
> Of course, if you've started with the conclusion that smartphones and social media can't possibly be the problem, you'll be able to deflect anything away from that particular cause. Similarly, starting with the conclusio
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by csnover 3y ago
> I think few people have any doubts about social media being a net negative for young people. They should have doubts. This position is not supported by the currently available evidence[0][1][2]. The APA’s position paper makes this ex
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by csnover 3y ago
No, it is just a numeronym[0], just like K8s for Kubernetes, g11n for globalisation, i18n for internationalisation, or L10n for localisation. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Numeronym
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by csnover 3y ago
The article states that adverse events were “twice as likely”, but the abstract of the study says that the hazard ratio was 4.53 (95% CI 2.00–10.27). Can someone who is hopefully more statistically literate than me explain what seems like a
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by csnover 3y ago
> I'm not sure if there's a decent UPS brand any more. I get the impression APC has been going downhill since the acquisition. I’ve noticed a similar thing. I had a 2005 Smart-UPS tower that never failed, but developed some tra
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by csnover 3y ago
It’s baffling. When APC first added native USB support to their Smart-UPS series, they chose a standard USB-B port. When they introduced “SmartConnect” a few years ago, this port was replaced by a USB-A port which requires a non-compliant U
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by csnover 3y ago
I never said generative AI was itself capable of creativity. Generative AI is a tool, not an entity. I said it enables more people to be creative, in the same way that other tools like Photoshop enable more people to be creative. Using
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by csnover 3y ago
> Society is built by and for humans. These machines are also built by and for humans. > If we want to empower humans over machines, that seems perfectly acceptable. But that’s not what’s happening here. This is a faction of humans fi
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by csnover 3y ago
As far as I can tell, consumer interchange fees in the US are significantly higher than they are in Europe. The interchange fees for Visa and MC consumer products within the EEU are 0.2–0.3%[0][1], whereas in the US they are from 1–3%[2][3]
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by csnover 3y ago
There is some additional detail in the reporting from Ars Technica[0]: > The study looked at all emergency department visits, not only visits related to abortion. This could capture medical care beyond abortion-related conditions, becaus
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by csnover 3y ago
Places like Avivo Village[0][1] which put single-room homes into unused commercial/industrial spaces and offer them up to unhoused people without most of the strings attached to traditional shelters: families are allowed, pets are allo
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by csnover 3y ago
Link to the actual report: https://groundworkcollaborative.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/...
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by csnover 3y ago
The medical underwriting on Medigap plans also affects people who have the foresight to choose Original Medicare with Medigap. Once you have a disqualifying health condition (and since Medicare is for the old and disabled, this is most peop
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by csnover 3y ago
Man, thank you for saying this. Stuffing results with geolocated local junk despite explicitly opting out by choosing “All regions” is so frustrating. This wasn’t happening a year or two ago. I submit negative feedback about it constantly,

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