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by munk-a 8mo ago
AI also led me to experiment a bit more. In my case it helped remove the barrier to getting that initial bare-bones skeleton of code in a new environment by helping setting up libraries and a compile chain I was unfamiliar with and then gi
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by munk-a 8mo ago
It has always been my opinion (and born out by our statistics internally, when counting self-review in the form of manual testing and automated test writing) that reviewing code (to the level of catching defects) often takes more time than
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by munk-a 8mo ago
I gain comprehension through the authoring process. I've always been weaker on the side of reviewing and only really gained an understanding of new tooling added by coworkers when I get to dig in and try to use it. This is absolutely
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by munk-a 8mo ago
It would be pleasant to know a bit more about the whole of what was reported. If this system reported 24 potential vulnerabilities of which thirteen were legitimate that's pretty excellent, if it only reported these twelve then that&#
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by munk-a 8mo ago
Heck no - I own a Samsung purely to continue to have access to Sound Assistant (to enable individual app volume control without rooting my device). I just want everyone to be clear on why it isn't happening. This is also the same reaso
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by munk-a 8mo ago
Yea, it's fricken cold. Vermont internal combustion buses were extremely unreliable already and would struggle in the extremely hilly environment as soon as there was ice. Even Williston is too much for buses to be a reliable year ro
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by munk-a 8mo ago
The problem is that we'd all blocklist advertisers and then they'd all cry. It's like how most mobile distros don't allow you to control relative app volume - if it might hurt ad bucks it can't be allowed.
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by munk-a 8mo ago
Job sector growth (after revisions down) has been almost entirely within the healthcare industry which is quite unsustainable. We can't all get rich being a middle man between the doctor and our neighbors. Outside of that sector we&#
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by munk-a 8mo ago
I absolutely believe in that value proposition - but I've heard a lot about how beneficial it will be for large organizationally backed software products. If it isn't valuable to that later scenario (which I have uncertainty abou
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by munk-a 8mo ago
Let me clarify - why should we offer Meta leeway to implement such a flawed review system.
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by munk-a 8mo ago
For what reason should we allow such leeway? No hosted platform in the 80s was responsible for a similar amount. Maybe if Meta can't properly police such a large platform it shouldn't be allowed to operate one. Facebook doesn&#
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by munk-a 8mo ago
This gets to one of my core fears around the last few years of software development. A lot of companies right now are saddling their codebases with pages and pages of code that does what they need it to do but of which they have no compreh
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by munk-a 8mo ago
I believe you absolutely could... as the model owner. The question is whether Go project owners can convince all the model trainers to invest in RL to fix their models and the follow up question is whether the single maintainer of some cri
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by munk-a 8mo ago
Middling code should not exist. Boilerplate code should not exist. For some reason we're suddenly accepting code-gen as SOP instead of building a layer of abstraction on top of the too-onerous layer we're currently building at.
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by munk-a 8mo ago
PHP went through a similar effort a while back to just clear out places like Stackoverflow of terrible out of date advice (e.g. posts advocating magic_quotes). LLMs make this a slightly different problem because, for the most part, once th
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by munk-a 8mo ago
CBS is responding rationally (cowardly, certainly, but also rationally) to an administration that is misusing the tools of state. Change the administration.
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by munk-a 8mo ago
That's true when the debt is taken it is taken by the company (at the direction of the acquiring firm)... and maybe the bigger issue is that banks should be a whole lot more judicious in extending that debt. But some firms have found
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by munk-a 8mo ago
My apologies on the imprecise language - maybe "extension of FDIC account insurance beyond the standard 250k limit to depositors" is better terming? SVB came out of this broke - as they should for such mismanagement - but the conc
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by munk-a 8mo ago
I dislike that the SVB bailout happened without a revision to FDIC insurance rules. It felt like a good time to reevaluate those rules (if the limit needs to be raised then lets raise it) and encode the new version to ensure consistency of
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by munk-a 8mo ago
I have no idea why leveraged buyouts are legal. What a bizarre mechanism for acquisition that feels so easy to just shut down with a relatively simple rule. Restricting a previously purchased business from taking out debt feels harder to r
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by munk-a 8mo ago
It'd be difficult to ban what we commonly describe as private equity (a.k.a. PE firms) without banning the private (a.k.a. random people) from being able to hold equity. Someone smart might be able to ban the kind of investment vehicl
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by munk-a 8mo ago
Undo is something that's extremely useful after the fact - commits can accomplish the same end if you're fastidious about continuously committing but fall short if you only realize your need after you've made the edit.
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by munk-a 8mo ago
That's correct, a toUpper would just use OR.
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by munk-a 8mo ago
Your statement isn't incorrect - but I think it needs a slight qualification of "And none of them are acceptable". Both Apple and Android have regressed in quality and it's only possible because of a duopoly.
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by munk-a 8mo ago
Potentially that will be the case in actual terms. Likely that will be the case in terms of their growth rate. But (for most) that certainly won't be the case in relative terms - the large US corporations would ride through such a de
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by munk-a 8mo ago
The article ended up making it to HN and, at least the discussion I'm seeing, is highly critical of Apple's recent design changes. There isn't a threat you can construct that'd throw 20% of Apple's profit into unce
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by munk-a 8mo ago
That's a way to bolster it, certainly. None of the listed companies are on the hook for US debt and they'll just relocate if the US becomes a liability. Their value isn't (greatly) at danger of collapse if the debt becomes
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by munk-a 8mo ago
It's not a technical issue, iMessage, whatsapp and Signal can all internally communicate just fine. It's a corporation trying to exert monopolistic pressure to box out competitors by forcing additional social pressure.
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by munk-a 8mo ago
But reality does have a well known liberal bias - they should try and be more fair and balanced!
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by munk-a 8mo ago
I remain skeptical. I have some 20sish cousins that seem to be highly aware of the potential dangers online and were pretty clear eyed about it in their teens - but the relatives I have that are five years younger seem absurdly trusting.

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