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by jghn 2mo ago
It *can* do that. I wouldn't say it's necessarily "often". Again, it's hard to predict the future. I think that the "use Postgres for everything" messaging was a necessity, even if it is overstated. Use it
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by jghn 2mo ago
It’s also entirely possible that nothing you do in the eventual history of your company hits a scale where this matters.
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by jghn 2mo ago
I don't believe I said otherwise. And yet, your response doesn't at all touch on my other point.
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by jghn 2mo ago
This is correct yet also obscures an important point. The popular narrative is that one party is the party of fiscal responsibility and the other is fiscally wasteful. But the data don't really bear that out, and it's arguable tha
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by jghn 2mo ago
> here are a lot of people who think they’re going to love remote who ultimately flame out I'm the opposite. I avoided remote work, figuring I'd hate it. Then COVID forced it upon me. And now I won't even consider a job un
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by jghn 2mo ago
Perhaps I was always a weirdo but while it did frustrate me when I ran into these I always found it to be an amusing part of the game. So much more so than games requiring specific twitch reflexes or hand eye coordination that I might not b
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by jghn 2mo ago
All I can think of when reading this was Hank Hill yelling at his neighbor: "Dale you giblet-head, we live in Texas, where it's already 110 in the summer. And if it gets one degree hotter I'm gonna kick your ass!" [1] [1
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by jghn 2mo ago
I think people can use their critical thinking skills to understand my phrasing was to help make the point to answer the sub-question instead of being taken literally in the context of how legal authorities handle unauthorized development.
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by jghn 2mo ago
"have to": If I don't, they'll shoot me "need to": It is a moral imperative for me to do this "WILL": Because of course this is the case
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by jghn 2mo ago
Because a single FP could ruin a student's tenure at school or a professional's career.
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by jghn 2mo ago
> they did not run at human speed, their interfaces were inscrutable, and they had precipitous learning curves. So the invented Dwarf Fortress?
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by jghn 2mo ago
This is exactly how I have always worked. I personally don't operate well breaking things up into small, bite sized PRs like people want. So instead I do the whole big project, and then break it apart into logical segments for my colle
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by jghn 2mo ago
The problem is that the false positive rate needs to be exactly 0.00% and that's not going to happen.
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by jghn 2mo ago
Concern about engagement is IMO the root cause issue going all the way back to Twitter. Somewhere around 10 years ago people started focusing on "engagement" instead of just interacting with people organically. Worrying about how
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by jghn 2mo ago
This was a few decades ago but we had 2 tiers of weed outs. The first was the intro classes that most everyone took their freshman year. Then there was another wave that was major specific and tended to show up 2nd semester of sophomore yea
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by jghn 2mo ago
> Nothing but an open flame gives me the kind of control I need to cook with the precision I do Please explain how an induction cooktop doesn't give you the control and precision you need as compared to gas flame.
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by jghn 2mo ago
Depends on the scale. Most companies don't approach the scale where this matters.
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by jghn 2mo ago
Mostly this. The phrase "code was the never the hard part" touches on a larger culture war. I was I was moving up in the ranksit was common to see people, both myself and then watching others, say things like "I just want to
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by jghn 2mo ago
My largest issue is that when I'm looking for this I'm already dangerously close to autocompaction. And what I really want is a prompt which manages to preserve the most important parts of the chat log. And my opinion of important
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by jghn 2mo ago
Or understand risk ratios and don't rely on food that's 100% safe.
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by jghn 2mo ago
> The USA has never been defeated. Did the entity now known as the USA defeat the British in the mid-1770s or did it just get a little too expensive and more of a headache than it was worth for the British to hold on to them?
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by jghn 2mo ago
When Google started taking the world by storm, and for a few years after that, I had the same problem. The way I solved the problem was by making a big show about the fact that I used Google to type in literally what they asked me word for
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by jghn 2mo ago
It's easy to see why it works though. I know people like this who have made bank with these stupid schemes. Far higher returns than doing things the "right" way. The problem is you usually only hear from folks like this who a
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by jghn 2mo ago
One thing that's worth noting. I don't know about this one but a number of those old SE pressure cooker recipes don't translate to Instant Pots. I'm thinking of Gritzer's french onion soup in particular. For those w
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by jghn 2mo ago
What I was specifically pointing at was it being a heavy AI play combined with the direct relationships he has at high levels with AI companies. For instance the chief of staff to Anthropic's CEO. What I was specifically referring to w
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by jghn 2mo ago
I say this with absolutely no evidence and only stating it as a hypothetical. But as an example it would be plausible that insider trading was involved.
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by jghn 2mo ago
Unlikely. I'm hoping when the foldable models come out that the folded version is a decent form factor. And then I can just not bother unfolding it.
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by jghn 2mo ago
Technically my current iPhone is part of the upgrade program, but I paid if off years ago. Why haven't I upgraded? Because there's no mini and all they make are phablets now.
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by jghn 2mo ago
Yes. The list of reasons is long, but at the end of the day the Haskell on the JVM crowd moved on to other things, and the people who just wanted Java++ moved to Katlin. And that was most of the audience.
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by jghn 2mo ago
> For context, there have been issues with MacOS 26 which have led many people to defer upgrading For me the issue is liquid glass. Which I doubt is getting fixed any time soon

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