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by cvwright 2y ago
Or containers. The Swift project is pretty good about keeping their Docker images up to date.
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by cvwright 2y ago
They have also been working on a completely open source version of the Foundation library for use on Linux and other platforms. (IIRC the URLSession type is part of Foundation, as are many core building blocks that you need for making a re
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by cvwright 2y ago
You have free will to do what you want to do. You do not have the ability to stop being you, the person who wants the things that you want. Even if you want to change yourself - and maybe succeed! - that desire for change is still part of
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by cvwright 2y ago
It goes back even further than that. There seemed to be a surge in 2011 too, when it became apparent that the Obama administration was going to let the big banks off the hook for the financial crisis.
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by cvwright 2y ago
Thanks, this was actually quite helpful. I’m just starting out, and had been wondering if I should get one.
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by cvwright 2y ago
This is so ridiculously overstated. I can think of at least 3-4 very highly respected faculty at top institutions who are short guys. Several more whose voice would never make it in a TV or radio career. And that’s just in CS systems and s
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by cvwright 2y ago
Yeah. I used to think it was all nepotism / corruption, but (at least in STEM fields) there’s a bit more to it. My phd advisor is one of the most intense, hardcore people I’ve ever met. If he says someone is a good researcher, that
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by cvwright 2y ago
Sounds like a Mr Bean skit
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by cvwright 2y ago
I think of AI like a very eager and bright 20 yr old intern who’s really into whatever tech I’m trying to learn. Good knowledge of facts, willing to give anything a try, but not much wisdom.
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by cvwright 2y ago
I’m not sure that 1) is such a win for MLS here. If I lose my phone, I want to get all my security footage back by entering my passphrase etc on my new phone. In other words, I want the “encrypted cloud storage” security model from [1], n
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by cvwright 2y ago
“Last Christmas” is definitely the worst. By far.
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by cvwright 2y ago
I have a PhD in CS, with peer reviewed publications on using cryptography, and all I learned in my studies is that it’s practically impossible to build a secure voting machine. I even took a class from a professor who regularly testified
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by cvwright 2y ago
They have done this since forever, even under the previous ownership. The “flavor” of the political content was different then, but it’s always been annoying. One of the worst features of the site.
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by cvwright 2y ago
This depends entirely on the neighbors
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by cvwright 2y ago
Lots of techies out in Bend though
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by cvwright 2y ago
Many years ago, I was a grad TA at a school that is now top 10 in the US. Based on that experience, I think everyone paying full freight at these schools is buying their grades. It was de facto impossible to fail any student for cheatin
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by cvwright 2y ago
I think the uncomfortable question for many here is, why should the SWE at Google get paid any more than the SWE at the NY Times?
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by cvwright 2y ago
The world is not just stuff!
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by cvwright 2y ago
The problem with this perspective is that iOS is where the money is. Almost ALL the money. So if western B2C companies have to pick just one platform to start with, it will almost always be iOS. This lets them then port that initial app to
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by cvwright 2y ago
Yeah we definitely wouldn’t want them chasing fads. Like, say, crypto currencies for example. https://www.wired.com/story/signal-mobilecoin-cryptocurrency...
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by cvwright 2y ago
Especially when we import millions of low-skill / no-skill people every year to compete with the poor people who were born here. Works great for the upper classes - keeps the price down for those fancy Michelin dinners.
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by cvwright 2y ago
And yet they had no problem springing into action to have him arrested on a weekend. Funny how that works.
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by cvwright 2y ago
Probably more that lots of kids will try super hard to be good at sports. Being good at school carries a certain level of stigma and lots of kids who could be “smart” choose to slack instead.
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by cvwright 2y ago
US Air buying American Airlines just to become American Airlines, is one of my (least) favorites
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by cvwright 2y ago
Clearly it's the E[l|r]on problem now
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by cvwright 2y ago
Then why do you care? If nobody is going to fork it anyway, what’s the benefit of being open source from the beginning?
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by cvwright 2y ago
According to the last 107 years of history, yes.
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by cvwright 2y ago
Making $10M ARR companies pay for the software that they use is not enshittification.
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by cvwright 2y ago
BSL code automatically converts to open source at a specified date. So probably several releases since then are now as open source as anything else in the world. And if not, then they will be soon - BSL allows a maximum 5 year delay.
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by cvwright 2y ago
I have about 30k lines of Swift in my app + Matrix sdk, all heavily using async/await. Plus another couple kloc in a Vapor API backend. Swift async/await is quite nice. The Actor stuff is IMO way oversold - reentrancy issues make

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