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931.
by hinkley 11mo ago
We are still trying to figure out how maize came to be. Last I heard we haven’t found the smoking gun yet.
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by hinkley 11mo ago
If you lived in the Midwest at any point and heard about high school kids getting “detassling” jobs, they were forcing hybridization of two corn lines in half the crop by removing pollen from the other half. Two strains were planted in the
933.
by hinkley 11mo ago
From Nixon’s standpoint it worked great because they put brown people in jail.
934.
by hinkley 11mo ago
Back when he was in competition with Gates for #1, I recall him changing his contract so he was getting paid in stock options instead of salary so he could get rich faster.
935.
by hinkley 11mo ago
On fridays, yes.
936.
by hinkley 11mo ago
They were intending to start a maintenance window starting 6 minutes ago, but they were already down by then.
937.
by hinkley 11mo ago
I wonder if objectively Seattle got hit harder than SF in the last bust cycle. I don’t have a frame of comparison. But if the generational trauma was bigger then so too would the backlash against new bubbles.
938.
by hinkley 11mo ago
I would classify my work as “shouting into the tempest” about 70% of the time. People are more likely to thank me after the fact than cheer me on. My point, if I have one, is that gaming has generally been better about this but I don’t real
939.
by hinkley 11mo ago
I’m a working software developer, and if they prove they cannot do better, I get people who make statements like GP quoted demoted from the decision making process because they aren’t trustworthy and they’re embarrassing the entire team wit
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by hinkley 11mo ago
If I’m being charitable, I’m hoping that means the decision was made early in the development process when concrete numbers were not available. However the article linked above kinda says they assumed the problem would be twice as bad as th
941.
by hinkley 11mo ago
> In the worst cases, a 5x difference was reported between instances that used duplication and those that did not. We were being very conservative and doubled that projection again to account for unknown unknowns. That makes no goddamn s
942.
by hinkley 11mo ago
For my money, the scorpion is halfway across the river and y’all are about to become the frog. I haven’t touched a windows machine in 15 years and I’d really like to continue that streak to the grave. Gaben is working hard to become my new
943.
by hinkley 11mo ago
Seems to me that most of these situations have an 80/20 rule and it would be worth someone’s time to figure out what that is. Get rid of 80% of that duplication for a 2x instead of a 5x slowdown would be something.
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by hinkley 11mo ago
5x space is going to be hard to beat, but one should always be careful about hiding behind a tall tent pole like this. IO isn’t free, it’s cheap. So if they could generate terrain with no data loading it would likely be a little faster. But
945.
by hinkley 11mo ago
It’s the same sort of apathy/arrogance that made new Windows versions run like dogshit on old machines. Gates really should have had stock in PC makers. He sold enough of them. I don’t think it’s always still the case but for more than
946.
by hinkley 11mo ago
… pardon? Are you confusing practice with rehearsal?
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by hinkley 11mo ago
You don’t have to reply instantaneously. Just soon. And if you want to e a lead or principal, better learn to organize your work into little atoms that you can checkpoint because you’re gonna a get interrupted. A lot.
948.
by hinkley 11mo ago
That… makes squatting more of a problem not less.
949.
by hinkley 11mo ago
Unfortunately that is also the definition of “practice”.
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by hinkley 11mo ago
Not spending on maintenance is bad. Not spending on maintenance and spending gobs on something many people don’t want is far worse. It says we have the money, we just don’t give a fuck.
951.
by hinkley 11mo ago
So how many bugs did you file on sourceforge when GitHub hadn’t quite killed it off?
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by hinkley 11mo ago
Oh no, our decentralized VCS will be… decentralized! Seriously though the big problem to solve will be squatters, when there are three logical places for a module to be hosted. That could create issues if you want to migrate. I would rather
953.
by hinkley 11mo ago
They also either fairly accurately predicted the death of HDDs by selling off their research division before the market collapsed, or they caused the end of the HDD era by selling off their research division. They did a lot of research.
954.
by hinkley 11mo ago
I would like to clarify that I wish I weren't right but I probably am.
955.
by hinkley 11mo ago
Devs listen to who they trust. And how can you trust that worker you never work with?
956.
by hinkley 11mo ago
When I was piecing together how I got to be a relatively young lead developer, it came down to my open door policy. I essentially rediscovered Hamming's wisdom just by extending a policy that started with my college roommate who was st
957.
by hinkley 11mo ago
The speed shows up for large projects. Especially if you end up with multiple node_modules directories in your dev sandbox.
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by hinkley 11mo ago
I wonder if this is a sign of AI companies trying to pivot? > Bun will ship faster. That'll last until FY 2027. This is an old lie that acquirers encourage the old owner to say because they have no power to enforce it, and they didn
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by hinkley 11mo ago
Toyota is the largest automaker, still has a lot of gravitas, and they've had some recalls that were doozies. The two are not mutually exclusive. Unless they become a pattern.
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by hinkley 11mo ago
Have you checked the warranty?

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