jdlshore

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by jdlshore 2y ago
Only very lightly modified to prevent crashes, which seems legit to me.
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by jdlshore 2y ago
What evidence do you have that 1% of users would be willing to pay a subscription to Firefox? Given that the alternatives are free and probably already installed, and given the friction involved with signing up for a new subscription, I sus
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by jdlshore 2y ago
Speaking as a former consultant, just… no. The chain of events here is fantasy-land: 1. Consulting company writes article supportive of remote work 2. But they’re lying because remote work increases their profit margins 3. Because it decrea
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by jdlshore 2y ago
Eh, unlikely. Consultancies usually charge for travel and expenses (or a per diem).
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by jdlshore 2y ago
Yes; my build script plays one sound on success, another when lint fails, and a third when anything else fails. It’s on a watch loop so it runs whenever I save. I use TDD, so I’m running the build every few minutes. The build (including tes
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by jdlshore 2y ago
These are encoding symbols from 80s microcomputers, so presumably the lack is in the source material.
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by jdlshore 2y ago
Isn’t “ggez” a taunt, meaning “I beat you easily?” (effectively, “you suck”). Given the toxicity in online gaming communities, I can see why global servers might play whack a mole with those sorts of bans. That’s not to take away from your
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by jdlshore 2y ago
They are. Solar and wind is seeing massive investment and build-out. See, for example, the first graph at https://www.wri.org/insights/clean-energy-progress-united-st... .
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by jdlshore 2y ago
What, you expect existing power plants to instantly get upgraded or replaced when something better comes along? Not to mention that there are many other dimensions to optimize other than cost.
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by jdlshore 2y ago
These sorts of “gotcha” tests are silly. People are complicated, with many different personalities and behaviors. I can think of many reasons an excellent engineer might choose not to fix a broken coffee machine, especially in the stress of
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by jdlshore 2y ago
I’ve always seen it as Statement of Work, but either way it defines the work that will be done.
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by jdlshore 2y ago
There’s 80 hammers, one for each character. They’re small.
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by jdlshore 2y ago
I doubt a big company like Hertz carries insurance that’s similar to individual car owners. Presumably they have their own maintenance and repair shops.
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by jdlshore 2y ago
That’s the exact point of the article..?
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by jdlshore 2y ago
Not exactly. The author’s example is a bit cutesy, which makes it a bit difficult to tell what’s going on. What’s happening here is the author is doing outside-in development, but doesn’t want to use mocks or spies to test dependencies that
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by jdlshore 2y ago
Companies increase team size because they want to increase overall output, not per-person output. Even if 20 people produce half as much per person as 5 people, they’re still getting twice as much done. (The other answers take a cynical “
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by jdlshore 2y ago
They asked the AI a question with a yes/no response. If the AI chose randomly, it would be correct 50% of the time. That’s what “random baseline accuracy” means.
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by jdlshore 2y ago
I’ve seen this conspiracy theory so many times, and it just doesn’t hold water for me. Let’s see some actual evidence, not baseless speculation.
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by jdlshore 2y ago
Even on long trips where we didn’t have the opportunity to plug it in, we were seeing ~65mpg, which is still a notable improvement over regular cars.
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by jdlshore 2y ago
> PHEVs have been shown not to yield meaningful emissions savings over conventional vehicles. Can you say or link to more about this? My family borrowed a PHEV Prius Prime for about six weeks. Our fuel economy over that time was ~210mpg,
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by jdlshore 2y ago
I think you’re implying that imitators are more interesting or fun, but I disagree. I’m in a field that became very popular and lucrative. It has far more imitators than experts. Some of them are interesting and fun, but a lot are shallow s
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by jdlshore 2y ago
Oh, it’s real, and goes down exactly as GP describes.
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by jdlshore 2y ago
You also have to have a European GDPR representative, plus legal review to make sure you’re in compliance. It’s not hard, and not necessarily a large cost, but I can see it being judged “not worth it” for a small concern.
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by jdlshore 2y ago
Cheap laugh. When you look at the actual example they provide, it seems like a useful feature, and not at all on the AI hype train: > AI-generated alt-text for images inserted into PDFs, which makes it more accessible to visually impaire
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by jdlshore 2y ago
US product labelling laws prevent peanut butter from containing palm oil. Products with palm oil are called “peanut butter spread.”
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by jdlshore 2y ago
Whereas I appreciated the unexpected spice, only to quickly be reminded by your comment that, yes, this is HackerNews.
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by jdlshore 2y ago
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muda_(Japanese_term) “Defects: Having to discard or rework a product due to earlier defective work or components results in additional cost and delays.” In TPS and Lean, you’re expected
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by jdlshore 2y ago
Yes, that’s exactly right. I appreciated the CEO’s offer and was happy to accept. He added on an offer to take me boating on the lake near his house. The actual meeting waited until a bunch of us were in town for an unrelated meeting, and t
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by jdlshore 2y ago
“Muda” is a technical term with a specific meaning. (Google it.) It originated in the Toyota Production System, then migrated to software development via the Poppendiecks’ “Lean Software Development.” It doesn’t mean “pointless” any more th
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by jdlshore 2y ago
You’re making a lot of assumptions. The reality is that I was going to be in that city for other reasons, and the visit to his house—which I appreciated and wanted—was tacked on to that trip, and followed by a party the CEO hosted for every

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