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by lmm 5mo ago
You raise all your defenses in the trial, you only get one. If they'd wanted to put all their eggs on the statute of limitations point then they could, but you can understand why defense lawyers generally don't do that.
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by lmm 5mo ago
Some say the greatest compliment a mathematician can be paid is when a concept that bears their name is so ubiquitous that we no longer capitalise it. (E.g. Abel with the abelian group).
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by lmm 5mo ago
> Almost 2 decades in IT and I absolutely do not believe this can ever happen. And if it does, it’s so rare, it’s not even worth talking about it. It happens completely routinely, IME. Just compare how much effort it takes to clone a sys
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by lmm 5mo ago
> Are people in the habit of asking their admin to order a pizza or a Uber? They're in the habit of their admin telling them the Uber has arrived to take them to their 3 o'clock yes.
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by lmm 5mo ago
> Their compiler fails to compile (well, at least link) some C programs altogether, and in other cases it produces code that is 150,000x slower than a real C compiler with optimisations turned off I would bet that those things are also t
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by lmm 5mo ago
> I have the feeling that Git winning the war hinges heavily on GitHub being the way to do open source projects Nah. At the time BitBucket was the better way to do open source projects, and they were Mercurial-first. But eventually they
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by lmm 5mo ago
In theory yes. They've got a bargaining chip with TSMC. But it's unclear how much use that would be without a safe shipping route between Europe and Taiwan and/or a navy capable of maintaining such.
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by lmm 5mo ago
Happy to pay for? Or happy to spend other people's money on?
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by lmm 5mo ago
> How's this any different than any professional license? You're basically paying for preferential treatment from the state in a given subject area. Because it's got nothing to do with the professional part? Licensing shou
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by lmm 5mo ago
> I imagine there are a bunch of things on the internet that break if you start trying to connect to them from varying IP addresses. Things like the various CAPTCHA schemes and rate limiting etc, IP reputation etc. Given how much of the
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by lmm 5mo ago
Is that wrong? My assembly programming sucks, but I can do it (slowly) if I need to. I'd expect most serious developers to have that level of knowledge.
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by lmm 5mo ago
> using the Social Media "vibe-coding" as a strawman risks anchoring against something that's a mirage. It's not a strawman. A lot of people are doing it.
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by lmm 5mo ago
> Now, I worked for a company who last year cut all the parties, food, drinks, team events, 3 year HW refresh cycle, even the color printers, to ensure we'll still get to keep above average salaries through the tremulous times our i
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by lmm 5mo ago
The dangers of technical debt and the importance of mitigating it have been known for a long time. Unfortunately a lot of entities now ignore all experience and best practices as soon as you say the "AI" buzzword.
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by lmm 5mo ago
They're already paid better than adjunct professors or grad students which is the normal career path for people with advanced degrees.
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by lmm 5mo ago
> you would be stupider every time you go on vacation Are you sure people aren't?
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by lmm 5mo ago
They don't. In the culture some kinds of undefined behaviour are taken seriously and some aren't. If you want to write code that "works", you emulate what popular performance benchmarks do (whether their code is undefine
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by lmm 5mo ago
> OK. What is the value of a spec to which compliance is impossible? It lets you tell people you have a spec? It makes it easy for compiler developers to dismiss bug reports with "your code violated the spec"?
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by lmm 5mo ago
"Error establishing a database connection", apparently? Groovy.
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by lmm 5mo ago
Yes, but the company may well be judgement-proof at that point.
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by lmm 5mo ago
> To align the interests there has to be a substantial negative consequence that would be felt by the grifters if the endeavor fails. Like what though? The failure in Iran has had pretty substantial consequences that are being felt. If t
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by lmm 5mo ago
> The Iran war doesn't count as the alignment of interest requires an actual threat of being defeated. That's starting to sound a bit no-true-scotsman. If we need an existential threat to the US, that's not going to happen
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by lmm 5mo ago
> The structure of the US makes it basically the single most secure democracy anywhere right now or in history. No country in Europe or Europe as a whole is even competitive by comparison. How do you figure? I hear you have roving gangs
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by lmm 5mo ago
> Government, industry, and general integration into the business software stacks are not easily swapped out. My business's integration literally has a dropdown for which model you want to use. I think that's pretty standard.
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by lmm 5mo ago
Look at profit rather than revenue - "it's easy to make a lot of revenue when you're selling a dollar for 80 cents" applies just as much to big legacy automakers as it does to startups.
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by lmm 5mo ago
Is anyone outside the US trusting anything hosted in today's US? If so, why?
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by lmm 5mo ago
> If the US didn't take that bait it could have made better choices that would have left it in a stronger position militarily long term Like what though? If the problem is that not going to actual war has enabled the MIC to be captu
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by lmm 5mo ago
The goal was to be able to patch and fix the systems I was using, and swap out bits and pieces as I wanted. And that seems to be less and less possible on Linux these days, as you have these tightly vertically-integrated stacks where everyt
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by lmm 5mo ago
The only thing worse than changing APIs is never changing APIs. Having to use APIs from 5 years ago sucks .
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by lmm 5mo ago
Not all interpretations of QM have collapses, which tend to be underdescribed even in purely QM terms.

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