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by jcgrillo 7mo ago
I guess a counterpoint might be Apple's "strategy". Scare quotes because I truly don't know if it was deliberate or just a happy accident. But somehow they've managed to not get so intensively exposed to the downsid
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by jcgrillo 7mo ago
Leadership doesn't need to give a shit about the code to cause the cultural defect that leads to comments not being maintained. All they need to do is set the conditions which prevent code owners from having the agency to reject shoddy
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by jcgrillo 7mo ago
That seems like a really niche use case, and probably not worth the surface area? The power savings would have to be truly astonishing to justify it, given what a small fraction of compute time your average device spends processing voice in
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by jcgrillo 7mo ago
Yes, what I meant was there's no way ICs will change any of this. Using this or that extension, or choosing not to use some service won't really change anything either. The popular appetite just isn't there. Personally I use
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by jcgrillo 7mo ago
I wonder what was the imagined use case? TBH I was seriously thinking about buying a framework desktop but the NPU put me off.. I don't get why I should have to pay money for a bunch of silicon that doesn't do anything. And now th
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by jcgrillo 7mo ago
You can't actually push back as an IC. Tech companies aren't structured that way. There's no employment protection of any kind, at least in the US. So the most you can do is protest and resign, or protest and be fired. Either
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by jcgrillo 7mo ago
> soon you'll need to pay every website 5.99 a month No, I won't. I'll just stop using them. So will almost everyone. I don't think there's a single ad-supported product that would survive by converting to a paid
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by jcgrillo 7mo ago
k, but what actually are you talking about?
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what even is this
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by jcgrillo 7mo ago
This is the guy that ignored warnings that Iran would respond by closing the Strait of Hormuz. He was briefed on exactly this scenario and decided he knew better. That is to say he's been proved capable of making incredibly bad decisio
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by jcgrillo 7mo ago
> that's their problem not mine IME unfortunately that's not actually the case. It very much is your problem, as the architect of the original system, unless you can get yourself transferred to a department far, far away. I&#
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by jcgrillo 7mo ago
Comments are great until they diverge from the code. The "no comments, just self-explanatory code" reaction comes from the trauma of having to read hundreds of lines of comments only to discover they have nothing to do with how th
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by jcgrillo 7mo ago
> like nyt I hope editorial departments everywhere are taking careful notes on the ars technica fiasco. Agree there's room for some kind of quick "verified human" checkmark. It would at least give readers the ability to qu
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by jcgrillo 7mo ago
> change in police culture until then, there's a simple rule which works well: never talk to a cop. Or at least say the minimum number of words possible, give them nothing to use against you. Present ID if they ask for it, but never
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by jcgrillo 7mo ago
The toll it takes on your sleep schedule is also brutal, because the rule is 10hr on / 8hr off. If those 8 "off" hours happen to coincide with sleeping hours you might get some rest but that won't be frequent, or enough.
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by jcgrillo 7mo ago
Good to know, thanks for that
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by jcgrillo 7mo ago
> I concluded Mercedes was trying to be clever in making a protocol so complex nobody else could understand it (thus ensuring you had to use a dealer) - and then discovered they couldn't debug it. lol that sounds just about right
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by jcgrillo 7mo ago
Yeah, it seems like more modern technology has settled on standard protocols (maybe a naive impression--someone will shout at me if that's the case) but there's probably a very long tail of bizarre false starts if you want full co
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by jcgrillo 7mo ago
+1 on the "plz tell me how" train!
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by jcgrillo 7mo ago
That's super cool, I'm currently struggling with scan tools for a 1999 Mercedes E300 Turbodiesel. I had one that worked OK for about a decade (Autel something or other) with a 38pin connector, but it recently bricked itself with a
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by jcgrillo 7mo ago
They would keep multiple overlapping logbooks so they could always present a "legitimate" log to DOT.
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by jcgrillo 7mo ago
If you actually use two 120V circuits that way and one breaker flips the other half will send 120V through the load back into the other circuit. So while that circuit's breaker is flipped it is still live . Very bad. Much better to
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by jcgrillo 7mo ago
Framed less blamefully, that's basically the central thesis of "devops". That is the notion that owning your code in production is a good idea because then you're directly incentivized to make it good. It shouldn't
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by jcgrillo 7mo ago
holy fuck this is awesome.. I haven't laughed this hard in a while
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by jcgrillo 7mo ago
IME one thing that makes this choice a very difficult one is oncall responsibilities. The thing that incentivizes code owners to keep their house in order is that their oncall experience will be a lot better. And you're the only one wh
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by jcgrillo 7mo ago
It's good enough for the folks who choose to do it that way. Many of them do things that are quite "serious"... Databases, kafka, the lmax disruptor, and reams of performance critical proprietary code have been and continue t
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by jcgrillo 7mo ago
Optimal in what sense? In the java shops I've worked at it's usually viewed as a pretty optimal situation to have everything in one language. This makes code reuse, packaging, deployment, etc much simpler. In terms of speed, memor
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by jcgrillo 7mo ago
> And what exactly is preventing you from building bespoke software for "infrastructure monitoring and operational tooling tailed to your specific needs"? Let's say I emit roughly 1TB of telemetry data per day--logs, metri
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by jcgrillo 7mo ago
> the progress there in the last few years is nothing short of absolutely astounding Yet, all the astounding progress notwithstanding, I don't have a suite of bespoke tools replacing the ones I depend on. I cannot say "hey clau
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by jcgrillo 7mo ago
> you would know it should not be mixed like in a dj set, and you would not optimize your dj algorithm for it. Yet the computer program happily tried to do it anyway. It would be much better to fail with a clear error message than to try

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