drewcoo

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by drewcoo 2y ago
To be fair, both say "don't waste time" on it.
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by drewcoo 2y ago
Microsoft just can't name anything well.
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by drewcoo 2y ago
"A computer on every desktop and Windows on every computer" was the company's goal. Ever since they claimed success on that one (glossing over the ubiquity of Linux everywhere else) they've been sorta directionless.
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by drewcoo 2y ago
Microsoft bought Dave Cutler so that he could reinvent his OS (VMS), which became the NT line.
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by drewcoo 2y ago
WinXP was also NT family. It wasn't from that married-in Win9x gene pool.
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by drewcoo 2y ago
Your mere footnote is my soft, soft underbelly. Any hardening is still hardening.
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by drewcoo 2y ago
for related, see Ken Thompson: http://genius.cat-v.org/ken-thompson/texts/trusting-trust/
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by drewcoo 2y ago
An algorithm does not require a computer. A set of rules followed by anything (including humans) is an algorithm. Stories like this blame computers because that's easier on everyone's reputations than blaming the people who made t
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by drewcoo 2y ago
> The onus is on you to try to prove otherwise. You each made claims. You each have onus for them because you made the claims, not because someone says you do. That's how the burden of proof works. https://en.wikipedia.or
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by drewcoo 2y ago
Put that coffee down. Coffee's for closers only.
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by drewcoo 2y ago
I tend to think all jobs are exactly as hard as the people doing them can handle. It plays well to the myth of the hard worker. We're all rugged individualists. It means companies soak as much work as possible from labor. We're al
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by drewcoo 2y ago
Any number under 100% is also a vanity metric. Focus on why there are test holes and whether they matter.
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by drewcoo 2y ago
The author believes he is better than his friends and probably irritates friends when talking politics but can rationalize his way out of the problem while still blaming his friends. What a jerk.
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by drewcoo 2y ago
That misrepresents Technicolor. The 3-film process was adopted in the 1930s. It was the most popular, but not first, incarnation of Technicolor. Kodak also had Kodachrome by the 30s, despite nostalgia for Paul Simon's early solo work.
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by drewcoo 2y ago
Check out the TV show, then. Brit 60s fun with Roger Moore, before he was a Bond! https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0055701/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0_tt_8...
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by drewcoo 2y ago
FTFA: > it centers on citizen experience rather than administrative convenience There is not paper, real or implied, involved in that goal.
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by drewcoo 2y ago
> I wonder why there are so many, just people reinventing stuff that no one really needs? Or were you being rhetorical? What do people really need? Who defines and polices that? > just reloading full state from the server is just easy
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by drewcoo 2y ago
Git is a DVCS. The D stands for distributed, meaning (in old people language) masterless. Git doesn't have a "global."
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by drewcoo 2y ago
> you end up with lossy notes Notes are definitionally lossy. If they weren't lossy, they'd be a transcript. The act of compressing a lecture into notes helps students learn. Merely transcribing does not imply understanding.
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by drewcoo 2y ago
$100 for books for a single course would have seemed cheap to me 30 years ago.
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by drewcoo 2y ago
I think the parent was saying that services should own their own mutable data. Libraries should not be used to "share" mutable data. At least that's what I believe, so that's how I read it.
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by drewcoo 2y ago
There was a time when all the people who would be electrical engineers were basically tradesmen. In the US, mostly trained by Edison. They were called "muckers."
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by drewcoo 2y ago
What separates software from engineering are concerns about legal liability. If we actually sued software companies for shipping us harmful crap, software would start to look like any other kind of engineering.
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by drewcoo 2y ago
Please take Brent Hull with a grain o' salt if you own an old home. Anything pre-catalog is different and does not really fit a recipe. Brent is opinionated but doesn't often broadcast that he's expressing opinion instead of
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by drewcoo 2y ago
> window without removing a nail There'd be brads to pull at least part-way out to release sashes, though. And the damned cords and all that. Much easier to re-glaze a removed sash!
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by drewcoo 2y ago
It stole all his ideas . . .
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by drewcoo 2y ago
Seattle weather keeps strangers away. And drives sunglasses sales.
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by drewcoo 2y ago
> don't consider COBOL to be a good indicator of programming quality COBOL wasn't designed for that. The intention was a language that non-coders could code in. This was the precursor to things like FIT which was a precursor to
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by drewcoo 2y ago
> We use LLM for exploring data with language That seems problematic, too. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HARKing
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by drewcoo 2y ago
The "improve its usefulness" comments are totally inline with suits (execs) interacting with smellies (software) and make this even better.

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