kstrauser

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by kstrauser 6d ago
The “Apple only does X better because they do Y” thing has been a meme for ages. I remember dismissals like “PowerPC is only faster at math because it has more integer units” or something along those lines, and thinking, uh, isn’t that a go
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by kstrauser 7d ago
From your link: > Style guides like The Chicago Manual of Style, The AP Stylebook, and The Penguin Writer’s Manual regard the following as correct in modern usage: “a historical event” “a historic event.” If you don’t pronounce the h, “a
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by kstrauser 7d ago
Confession: Whenever I hear an American say "an historic...", pronouncing the "h", I roll my eyes at the pretense. That's the only word I think I've ever heard someone swap in "an" for "a" b
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by kstrauser 7d ago
I agree. Nginx, Caddy, Apache, etc have found and fixed a million edge cases you'd never think of just from reading and implementing the spec. I guarantee there's code in each of these along the lines of: # Send an extra 0x20
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by kstrauser 9d ago
Yeah, for real. A friend sent me a copy, captioned “this u?”, and I nearly choked.
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by kstrauser 9d ago
I am, or was. Once, while living there, I wrote a little C program to read a Visual FoxPro database file and write out PostgreSQL commands to load the data. It was for my employer at the time. We needed it for a migration. And then, a year
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by kstrauser 9d ago
Heh, right? Author: Ugh, this is ugly, but it fixes the specific problem I’m having so I can go on and work on other things. Author, later: What do you mean, you’re all using this?
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by kstrauser 10d ago
I’ll do you one better: if that’s the same project, I contributed to it: https://pypi.org/project/SOAPpy/#user-content-contributors I recoil in horror at SOAP, not because I don’t know it, but because I do.
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by kstrauser 11d ago
Bottom line: I look forward to coming to work here every day. If I'm ever the smartest person in the room, I'm in the wrong room. Here, I am definitely in the right room because I get to learn from some brilliant folks.
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Factory raises $200M at $5B valuation(factory.com)
1 points by kstrauser 11d ago|1 comments
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by kstrauser 12d ago
It was last updated in 2001. I'd be shocked if it didn't have any relevant breaking changes in the last 25 years.
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by kstrauser 12d ago
So, first up: why? Why is everything still using SOAP? I'm not talking down on Brazil, by the way. I've worked in American healthcare tech, and at some point you find yourself learning EDI to talk to insurance companies.
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by kstrauser 12d ago
That's dramatically overstating it. iOS 26 was just... alright. It wasn't great. It also wasn't the devil incarnate in a phone. iOS 27 has been legimately good since the early public betas.
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by kstrauser 12d ago
Who was the first Oracle? Did IBM transition into it before Oracle did?
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by kstrauser 12d ago
Sure, but then they're out of the "growth" stock category they so badly wanted to be in, with its higher valuation multipliers, then in the stodgy "keep the lights on" niche. If a company makes $10B this year, and y
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by kstrauser 12d ago
There's approximately zero chance Google would go along with the changes that Apple would have had to make to support EU's DMA.
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by kstrauser 12d ago
Can you imagine a Beowulf cluster of these?
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by kstrauser 12d ago
Ah, the infamous Crimson Wave.
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by kstrauser 13d ago
This is so cool. That's going to be amazing when it lands.
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by kstrauser 13d ago
You know it. They also lack the imagination to see how this could be used against them, instead of the "right" people.
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by kstrauser 13d ago
OK, big surveillance fans: please explain why this is OK because "it's not the government", and this keeps us safe, and we don't have any expectation of privacy. It's inevitable that someone is going to claim it&#
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by kstrauser 13d ago
How’s that GCC backend coming along? I could look it up, but I bet others would like to hear about it too.
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by kstrauser 13d ago
So their tracking is OK because it's immobile. That's an interesting and novel defense of a surveillance state which I hadn't heard before.
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by kstrauser 13d ago
In my opinion, yes, that makes you a radical. I don’t want an armed organization with a trillion dollar budget stalking me. That’s the common stance in America. We even put it in our constitution.
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by kstrauser 13d ago
What broke and affected you?
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by kstrauser 13d ago
That’s literally exactly what Flock does. I can’t find sympathy for the company on this.
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by kstrauser 14d ago
And the sign along the highway says my speed might be monitored by airplane, but I don’t want to live where that means a surveillance drone is flying along side me at all times. Consenting to let a taxi record me in case it comes up later t
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by kstrauser 14d ago
Those are bad examples of things where a computer should make a judgement call. > Going to shoot up a place? Take your guns on a waymo. It won't complain. I take my kid to go skeet shooting. You’d call the police on us for having
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by kstrauser 14d ago
Yes. Well, not exactly wave guns around, but say and do stupid stuff? Not in a taxi around a human driver, no. And not in a subway car with people other than me and my friends, no. But your question had an “or” in it. If we had nerf guns an
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by kstrauser 15d ago
I remember this, and my stubborn side rejoiced in the hack.

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