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by munk-a 8mo ago
There's a case in process that'll likely resolve in the next two months. Quite a few companies have filed suite banking on getting their fees reimbursed. In the current political climate nothing is certain - but this will likely
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by munk-a 8mo ago
It's cool though, you can probably get a few billion in funding if you "lobby" a few million to the right people. The tariffs exist, imo, primarily as a threat to induce bribes for loopholes (e.g. the smartphone loophole).
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by munk-a 8mo ago
Tariffs to produce market effects (like onshoring) only work if those tariffs are observed to be durable (in four years all these tariffs will evaporate) and are strengthened by being paired with other encouragement (i.e. industry developme
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by munk-a 8mo ago
Even if it isn't as clearly separately billed - the market works the way it does and that cost is going to be passed onto the consumer unless the seller just decides to eat the cost (and I am aware of several small businesses that are
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by munk-a 8mo ago
Do you think the younger generations are properly prepared to view the internet as having a dark side? My impression has been that such an early introduction has caused those warnings to be delayed and lost and younger folks are much more
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by munk-a 8mo ago
When I was an early teen I had access to the internet but my activities weren't entirely unsupervised (and I doubt yours were either). Since it was a new technology there was a lot of discussion around how best to talk to children and
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by munk-a 8mo ago
We're getting so close to having an agent that can pass the Torvalds test!
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by munk-a 8mo ago
Assign the PR to the offshore team and then just forget about it when they never end up reviewing it?
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by munk-a 8mo ago
I don't disagree that they're quite rare now - but they used to exist and we could make them exist again.
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by munk-a 8mo ago
Oh, they can certainly do that (in part evidenced by companies doing that). It's a large cost to the company, you'll get attrition and lose a lot of employee good-will, and it'll only pay off if you're right. Going wit
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by munk-a 8mo ago
Bad blood is better than no blood! Also, I'm not certain how much they treat blood, but I wouldn't be surprised if it ends up being a purification system sort of similar to Dialysis where you rely on an external machine for removi
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by munk-a 8mo ago
A well run company would provide an incentive to their employees for increasing their productivity. Why would employees enthusiastically respond to a mandate that will provide them with no benefit? Companies are just groups of employees -
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by munk-a 8mo ago
If performance was the true goal then we'd just naturally see slow adopters unperform and phase out of that company. If you make good tooling available and it is significantly impactful the results will be extremely obvious - and, jus
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by munk-a 8mo ago
There might be a temporary resistance from violence but eventually competition will take over. The issue in this case is that we're not looking at voluntary adoption due to a competitive advantage - we're seeing adoption by fiat.
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by munk-a 8mo ago
That sounds like a lot of work - maybe you could burn some tokens asking AI to write a cron to burn some tokens for you?
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by munk-a 8mo ago
Awesome, with that new policy we'll be sure to justify my purple drill evangelist role by showing that our average employee is dependent on purple drills for at least 1/8th of their workload. Who knew that our employees would so
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by munk-a 8mo ago
Well that's inspiring. If you're going to follow anyone right now be sure to follow someone from the company that has committed to spending a trillion dollars without ever having a profitable product. Those are the folks who kno
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by munk-a 8mo ago
Can I modify your example to: Demanding everyone, from drywaller to admin assistant go out and buy a purple colored drill, never use any other colored drill, and use their purple drill for at least fifty minutes a day (to be confirmed by me
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by munk-a 8mo ago
A good example of a genuine natural color. Natural doesn't mean good, artificial doesn't mean bad. I dislike this change because if you care about "minimally messed with food" then avoiding extra processing for appeara
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by munk-a 8mo ago
Canada has the interac system and it works pretty wonderfully, it's integrated into other systems for overseas compatibility but it can operate entirely independent of VISA/Mastercard if the POS supports it.
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by munk-a 8mo ago
No, I prefer emacs.
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by munk-a 8mo ago
Early on in the AI boom NVidia was highly valued as it was seen as the shovel-maker for research and development. It certainly was instrumental early on but now there are a few viable options for training hardware - and, to me at least, it
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by munk-a 8mo ago
But what if my product is just an attempt to make a cushy exit during the AI bubble?
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by munk-a 8mo ago
That's going to be up to the business building the logic. Ideally those assumptions are clearly encoded in an easily readable manner but at the very least they should be captured somewhere code adjacent (even if it's just a comme
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by munk-a 8mo ago
I think that's an excellent way to build a defensive parsing system but... I still want to build that and then put a validator in front of it to run a lot of the common checks and make sure we can populate easy to understand (and volum
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by munk-a 8mo ago
Without any other context? Nothing - it's just a type alias... But the context this type of an alias should exist in is one where a string isn't turned into a PhoneNumber until you've validated it. All the functions taking
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by munk-a 8mo ago
When in doubt - schedule a meeting about how you're unable to do work to keep doing work!
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by munk-a 8mo ago
It's especially painful for anyone who uses Github actions for CI/CD - maybe the release you just cut never actually got deployed to prod because their internal trigger didn't fire... you need to watch it like a hawk.
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by munk-a 8mo ago
It depends whether the outages are overlapped or not. If the outages are not overlapped then that is indeed how you do it since some of your services being unavailable means your service is not fully available.
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by munk-a 8mo ago
When I first typed up my comment I said "their current business approach" and then corrected it to technical since - yea, in the short term it probably isn't hurting their pocket books too much. The issue is that it seems li

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