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by jimbokun 5mo ago
Or to introduce a major exploit.
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by jimbokun 5mo ago
> Poetry does the same by default, using a format like >=1.23.4,<2.0.0. I find this less readable than ^1.23.4, but the effect is the same. What??? I understood the first format instantly, but had no idea what the second meant unti
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by jimbokun 5mo ago
This article expanded my understanding of the memory industry dramatically. For anyone who doesn’t follow the market closely, this is about a good a primer as you could hope for.
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by jimbokun 5mo ago
Banning accounts for no stated reason is kind of a Google speciality. They have a long well documented history of this sort of thing.
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by jimbokun 5mo ago
Google has suspended entire accounts countless times for absolutely no reason.
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by jimbokun 5mo ago
In the meantime start by migrating away from them for anything serious.
577.
by jimbokun 5mo ago
There is a history going back many years of Google suspending or terminating accounts with no explanation, often having to backtrack after users published their frustration and the incident went viral. Google has always acted as if they hav
578.
by jimbokun 5mo ago
What’s a MET hour?
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by jimbokun 5mo ago
This study also shows a noticeable benefit from lower exercise levels, just not nearly as much as very high exercise levels.
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by jimbokun 5mo ago
I’m honestly struggling to figure out how I would fit 2 hours of cardio into my daily routine.
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by jimbokun 5mo ago
Walking to subway station and from destination subway station to final destination is significantly more walking time than using a car from home to final destination.
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by jimbokun 6mo ago
An employment relationship is transactional??? Like the employer pays money and the employee provides labor??? Scandalous!
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by jimbokun 6mo ago
Putting everyone responsible for some function of a product on one team, instead of having separate departments for separate functions, can do wonders for actually shipping and iterating on software.
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by jimbokun 6mo ago
A previous iteration of my company had a CEO with a simple management idea that I believe worked really well: treat each product team as a mini startup. That means EVERY role needed to develop the product was in that team. No separate corp
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by jimbokun 6mo ago
That is brilliant and simple and shows that when Graph Databases were a big thing they probably should have used Prolog as a front end.
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by jimbokun 6mo ago
Those are for the grad students and faculty.
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by jimbokun 6mo ago
If they stayed viable into the heyday of prediction markets and betting apps they should have been printing money.
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by jimbokun 6mo ago
The 538 brand focusing on the quantitative aspects of politics and sports should have been massive in this age of omnipresent prediction markets and betting apps.
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by jimbokun 6mo ago
You do realize the person responsible for 538 is the same person?
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by jimbokun 6mo ago
Yes. There is a lot of absurdly complex software that runs with high reliability. We hear a lot about the ones that don’t.
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by jimbokun 6mo ago
Yes but most people won’t.
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by jimbokun 6mo ago
No. Younger implies cheaper.
593.
by jimbokun 6mo ago
It’s the old developers who have been doing it the longest who pick the simple and obvious solution.
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by jimbokun 6mo ago
I want the people building the buildings I live, work and shop in to know what they’re doing so those buildings don’t fall down or let in the wind and rain or require too much maintenance. And the equivalent for software. It’s usable, intu
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by jimbokun 6mo ago
Yeah management should make clear they just don’t want to see AI use of zero in a given week. Not “more tokens consumed the better“ on performance reviews.
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by jimbokun 6mo ago
The eternal evergreen lesson of managing software developers, and knowledge workers more generally.
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by jimbokun 6mo ago
Timeless classic.
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by jimbokun 6mo ago
This is like when the Pointy Haired Boss offers a bounty for fixing bugs and Wally pumps his fist and says “I’m gonna go code myself a Porsche!”
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by jimbokun 6mo ago
We have always been living in the Dilbert and/or Office Space universe.
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by jimbokun 6mo ago
My main problem putting out that many PRs per day is getting them approved and merged back into main so I can start the next one. I guess “stacked” PRs are a thing now? I haven’t figured out the process that avoids making the merges for st

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