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by fmbb 3mo ago
I have not seen Kent Beck argue for eXtreme Programming or other Agile methods in nuclear power plant software or aviation. These are niche industries and constitute a vanishingly tiny part of all the lines of code out there I presume. The
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by fmbb 3mo ago
Well he makes software and writes about software development doesn’t he? Hardware has some hard limitations. The reason software was even invented at all was precisely to escape those limitations.
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by fmbb 3mo ago
All tech debt I have ever seen in my 15 years of professional software development has been someone building too many abstractions or generalizations trying to future proof stuff.
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by fmbb 3mo ago
Human talent or LLM talent?
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by fmbb 3mo ago
> I always thought this complexity was there for some good reason (security?). It's just design by committee.
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by fmbb 4mo ago
> Economics is downstream of physics. I don’t think this is true if finance is included in economics. … unless of course by physics you also mean metaphysics.
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by fmbb 4mo ago
> Some times one will spin for a long time on certain problems where the other has no problem finding the appropriate parts of the codebase and getting an efficient solution. Surely this is just to the random nature of these stochastic p
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by fmbb 4mo ago
You prevent the LLM from deleting your instances by not granting its AWS user that permission. Whatever tool you let it use to talk to AWS is irrelevant.
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by fmbb 4mo ago
I’m not sure it can ever be cheaper than a human cleaner so maybe the hotel industry does not want to subsidize the training.
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by fmbb 4mo ago
Seems like there is some synergy to be found here!
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by fmbb 4mo ago
Solution: take turns every other year.
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by fmbb 4mo ago
Not putting all your eggs in one basket is a good choice. I think the AWS service catalog makes you adopt more than you need or want anyway, it is a great way of locking people into one vendor.
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by fmbb 4mo ago
A lot of the alternatives there are tagged "EU hosted". Some are not. Are the ones that are tagged "EU hosted" among the ones you mean host on Google Cloud, AWS or Microsoft?
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by fmbb 5mo ago
I don’t thing maintaining and testing support for an extra runtime is free. It is by definition cheaper to not support extra runtimes like Kaluma, Elsa, WinterJS. Adding support is not just the initial work of adapting CI and writing polici
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by fmbb 5mo ago
Proactively removing work, yes.
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by fmbb 5mo ago
Well if you promise support you promise support. You cannot take back a promise after you make it. So if you discover bugs later you cannot just leave. This script is just a JavaScript helper to bring full YouTube support to some media down
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by fmbb 5mo ago
Adding support again later is cheap. Stopping maintaining and testing support for upcoming versions is cheaper than doing that work. Sure it’s political but it is also just a sane approach, to stay away from such disruptive change and treat
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by fmbb 5mo ago
What is ”a tool like this”? If AI is agentic I would expect it takes an hour of chatting for any PM to integrate some agent Ralph loop with Jira. Jira or Trello or Linear or Basecamp all have APIs and I guess CLIs any agent can use to talk
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by fmbb 5mo ago
I just want a ”report to HR” button. Someone is actively inhibiting their coworkers’ ability to work.
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by fmbb 5mo ago
Wage theft is saving them tens of billions in the US every year. So they are hardly spending all of that for this!
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by fmbb 5mo ago
They have the lawmakers on their side.
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by fmbb 5mo ago
They are democratically run. This is a problem workers can solve.
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by fmbb 5mo ago
What about language exclusivity makes a package manager a security nightmare?
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by fmbb 5mo ago
A corporation does not have its own will. Their owners are invested in AI and need AI to do well. If this goal clashes temporarily with the goals set up for Cloudflare, so be it.
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by fmbb 5mo ago
All pianos have the same interface, no?
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by fmbb 5mo ago
I always sudo curl to be extra sure.
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by fmbb 5mo ago
That’s the other half. Coincidentally also PHP.
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by fmbb 5mo ago
Synthetic diamonds and natural diamonds are not the same product for jewelery. The price of natural diamonds has not decreased much as a function of synthetic diamonds being cheaper to make. > People might think that the amount of code t
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by fmbb 5mo ago
I think you have the timeline confused. The pro-life movement is older than the Reagan era courting on Christians to grow the Republican base. So it was not a Christian base that caused a shift, it was the other way around.
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by fmbb 5mo ago
> Obviously usage of something goes up when it gets cheaper. Sure. But is it not also obvious that when usage of a resource becomes more efficient, the price of that ”usage” becomes cheaper? So usage goes up obviously because efficiency

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