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by jonstewart 6mo ago
'"That's not my department," says Wernher von Braun.'
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by jonstewart 6mo ago
The vast majority of government employees would not have access to MNPI.
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by jonstewart 6mo ago
I would argue that nondeterministic finite automata are both more significant and more practical.
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by jonstewart 6mo ago
Dave Cutler and Raymond Chen might like a word.
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by jonstewart 6mo ago
This might be the major dilemma in the tech industry today, where the natural tendencies of literalism and optimism among technologists has turned into a form of defensive credulity. The real world rigor of The New Yorker’s editorial standa
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by jonstewart 6mo ago
The absolute best thing about coding agents is not having to waste time on build systems. I had Claude code port my autotools scripts to meson (which uses ninja) and it’s been a huge quality of life improvement.
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by jonstewart 7mo ago
It's a fantastic museum and featured a bit in Stewart Brand's Maintenance of Everything ( https://books.worksinprogress.co/book/maintenance-of-everyth... ).
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by jonstewart 7mo ago
I once explained to a friend as "imagine Umberto Eco made a museum when he was drunk, and he was a mean drunk."
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by jonstewart 7mo ago
Woodworking is an analogy that I like to use in deciding how to apply coding agents. The finished product needs to be built by me, but now I can make more, and more sophisticated, jigs with the coding agents, and that in turn lets me improv
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by jonstewart 7mo ago
We had a government agency working on stopping threat actors, the Cybersecurity & Infrastructure Security Agency, but then DOGE ruined it. Now it’s a shell.
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by jonstewart 7mo ago
The C++ standards committee’s antiquated reliance on compiler “vendors” holds it back. They should adopt maintenance of clang and bless it as the reference compiler.
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by jonstewart 7mo ago
John Backus had some correspondence with Dijkstra that's worth a read: https://medium.com/@acidflask/this-guys-arrogance-takes-your...
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by jonstewart 7mo ago
Yes, make it black.
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by jonstewart 7mo ago
It reminds me a lot of Hans Reiser’s original white paper, which can be found at https://web.archive.org/web/20070927003401/http://www.namesy... . Add some embeddings and boom.
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by jonstewart 7mo ago
About 150 Iranian sailors drowned this morning, far from home, not a clear and present danger to anyone, no war declared on them by Congress, nor sanctioned by the UN. We could have demanded a surrender but instead we blew them up. https:&
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by jonstewart 8mo ago
One of them is illegal for DoD to do and the other is not.
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by jonstewart 8mo ago
I’m a development manager and senior developer. I have seen the described behavior from TFA play out on several different teams. Sometimes such team members learn to adapt their approach while holding onto their ideals, and they become valu
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by jonstewart 8mo ago
It’s a trust issue. There’s no one more of a PITA than a new team member who joins and starts questioning every little thing and demanding it be changed (the initial questioning is fine, so long as you accept “because” as a reason). OF COUR
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by jonstewart 8mo ago
https://www.americanscientist.org/article/freakonomics-what-...
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by jonstewart 8mo ago
Using an ISI Whip and a microwave to make cake is a well-known molecular gastronomy technique. Here’s one that doesn’t require the ISI Whip: https://www.seriouseats.com/microwave-rocky-road-sponge-cake...
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by jonstewart 8mo ago
Laissez faire. They’re making businesses absorb the externalities, as they should.
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by jonstewart 8mo ago
ODNI also did not publish its quadrennial Global Trends report last year, even though it was written. It probably talked too much about the rise of fascism.
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by jonstewart 8mo ago
Make the dollar the global currency and reap the benefits of facilitating gentle commerce?
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by jonstewart 8mo ago
I bought a Samsung HP dryer a few years ago and it'd be great except for a terrible design flaw where lint gets trapped in its heat sink fins, turning into a soggy mess.
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by jonstewart 8mo ago
I just finished Annals of the Former World. It's essentially a 700 page-long ode to geology, using scientific terms for their prosody as much as their meaning. I once saw someone else remark that "Rising from the Plains" was
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by jonstewart 9mo ago
I’m reading your comment more sardonically about the state of US manufacturers, but globally I don’t think this holds up. Some of the most expensive vehicles—trucks and SUVs—have the worst mileage. Often the cheaper a new car is, the better
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by jonstewart 9mo ago
Go is an extremely cynical language in this regard.
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by jonstewart 9mo ago
I’m looking forward to when people realize that the agents stay more focused when feedback is provided more frequently, with adjustments to the spec made after every round of feedback, i.e., agile.
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by jonstewart 9mo ago
Doesn’t seem like slow-walking so much as a mad-rush. I saw a Kalshi ad on tv last night.
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by jonstewart 9mo ago
Exactamundo.

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