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by efitz 6mo ago
That was an awesome app, I loved it. Thank you.
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by efitz 6mo ago
When my data structures are messages to be sent over a network, I always start with msgId and msgLen, both fixed width fields. This solves the message differentiation problem explicitly, makes security and memory management easier, and redu
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by efitz 7mo ago
Not every damn thing needs to be “social”.
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by efitz 7mo ago
That's precisely why you want it in a safe.
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by efitz 7mo ago
What about drunk driving laws?
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by efitz 7mo ago
To an LLM, answering “no” and changing the mode of the chat window are discrete events that are not necessarily related. Many coding agents interpret mode changes as expressions of intent; Cline, for example, does not even ask, the only app
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by efitz 7mo ago
The government operating automatic camera citation systems, almost never is interested in improving safety or even minimizing undesirable behavior- often the placement of such cameras is done to maximize revenue (as when red light cameras a
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by efitz 7mo ago
I don’t agree but I take your point. After seeing the recent scandals regarding US AID etc. I have very low confidence that the majority of nonprofits have altruistic motives. I also don’t buy the “most of our money goes to staff and direc
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by efitz 7mo ago
Im reading through all these comments and it amazes me how the perfect is the enemy of the good, for many computer people. Ofc there are edge cases. So since there exist a handful of edge cases where a zip code maps to two states, or the m
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by efitz 7mo ago
I believe that many (most?) non-profits are a combination of grift and money laundering. I would love to see requirements that 75%+ of all non-profit revenue has to pass through to the community, that non-profits may not transfer funds to o
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by efitz 8mo ago
I would love to see this but don’t want to run the code. Could you link a video? I understand if you have to omit or mangle sound to avoid strikes.
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by efitz 8mo ago
I worked at Microsoft for many years and blogged there. Microsoft was unique among the companies I worked for in that they gave you some guidelines and then let you blog without having to go through some approval or editing process. It ma
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by efitz 8mo ago
Random UUIDs are not compressible. They are also frequently stored as 38-character strings.
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by efitz 8mo ago
It seems like it would be a killer for any sharding systems.
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by efitz 8mo ago
I’m going to vibe code an app that lets you register a computronium unique id (is that name taken?) I’ll corner the market. I’m also going to devise a standard that arbitrarily breaks it into groups of hexadecimal digits of arbitrary length
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by efitz 8mo ago
The headline (“violate ethical constraints, pressured by KPIs”) reminds me of a lot of the people I’ve worked with.
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by efitz 8mo ago
Why EPA and not FTC?
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by efitz 8mo ago
This is why agents can’t have nice things :-)
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by efitz 8mo ago
Blameless postmortems are for processes where everyone is acting in good faith and a mistake was made and everyone wants to fix it. If one party decides that they don’t want to address a material error, then they’re not acting in good faith
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by efitz 8mo ago
The paper touches on a point (“sustainability “) that is a sacred cow for many people. Even if you support sustainability, criticizing the paper will be treated as heresy by many. Despite our idealistic vision of Science(tm), it is a human
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by efitz 9mo ago
Although the Anglican Church is a hybrid of Reformation era Protestantism and of Catholicism, I think that the US tradition of Protestantism is generally (not always) more positive and less fatalistic. I believe that the cultures of both na
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by efitz 9mo ago
No word games at all. Every American, even the president, even (gasp) Donald Trump, has the right of appeal of judicial orders and rulings. I could just as well say that people and organizations who oppose Trump's immigration policies
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by efitz 9mo ago
Senators aren’t hereditary and never were; they used to serve at the will of elected officials but were isolated from electoral influences.
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by efitz 9mo ago
Where is Garcia now? In the US. Who brought him back? Trump
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by efitz 9mo ago
Repeal the 17th amendment - popular election of senators - and all of a sudden it gets much easier for states to amend the Constitution in ways they want. Popular election of senators has been a disaster, it essentially turned to the Senat
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by efitz 9mo ago
The justice department IS part of the executive branch; it’s a department headed by a cabinet secretary.
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by efitz 9mo ago
What do you mean no one is willing to buck the trend? It’s almost a certainty that Republicans will lose the house this year and maybe the senate. On the other hand we have federal district court judges in podunk deciding that they have th
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by efitz 9mo ago
It’s a feature, not a bug. The United States federal government was set up as a representative republic, not a democratic republic, and not a democracy. We are supposed to be a federation of fairly-independent state governments with just
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by efitz 9mo ago
Someday a delta engineer will go fix the UI bug where the labels for the difficulty levels were inverted in order compared to the enums used by the chess engine.
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by efitz 9mo ago
What is the percentage of US adults who even know who Jerome Powell is? If only a tiny minority of surveyed adults knew, then I really doubt whether the poll tells us anything useful. I think that these polls mostly tell us that: - Trump is

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