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by nickm12 1y ago
Sorry, I disagree. The lack of a business model means a lack of competition and a weak market. For years I've been looking to find an email list hosting solution that works for a small family, sports team, friends group, etc. There is
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by nickm12 1y ago
What makes them feel like 1970s technology: everyone has to manually manage their own archive and pay storage costs for media files, there is no way to share history (if you want), there is no integrated search, differences in clients mean
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by nickm12 1y ago
Yes! I just bought a dealer-certified three year old Kia Niro with 24k miles for $22k. The current new version of this car has an MSRP more than double that price. There is no world where the difference between these cars is worth $25k. In
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by nickm12 1y ago
Agreed. Any complex mechanical device like a car can be "ridden rough", regardless of whether it is gas or electric. I feel like with gas cars there are a lot more moving parts to get stessed, while electric it's mostly about
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by nickm12 1y ago
I read the TeXBook over 25 years ago when I wanted to learn about how mathematics was typeset. It gave me a lifelong appreciation for and love of the art of typography. The downside is that once you know, you know and you will see lots of b
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by nickm12 1y ago
Agree these are advantages: Mailing lists are simple - Mailing lists are bandwidth-friendly - Mailing lists interoperate - They're asynchronous - They're portable - They can be freely interconverted - They can be written to
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by nickm12 1y ago
> There's an important sense in which you are very wrong here because nothing on the internet is actually hidden. Everyone can see everything I'm impressed with how confidently you disbelieve in the field of computer security.
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by nickm12 1y ago
I've used a lot of social networking systems over the years based on a lot of technologies. I deeply understand the nostalgia for blogs and RSS—I had a blog for many years and have used an RSS reader continuously since probably 2002. I
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by nickm12 1y ago
I can relate, but generally if I avoid updating in the first quarter of the release, I don't find it is too difficult to get my Mac back to a happy state. I did try to move to Linux a couple of years ago, but just couldn't. The ke
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by nickm12 1y ago
It's still a talking point. Lattner said in this very interview "at some point people will consider it to be a Python superset, and effectively it will feel just like the best way to do Python in general." Note the hedging ph
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by nickm12 1y ago
We have different expectations I guess. I think of CLI as applications, even though they aren't "Mac Apps". I don't see what is gained applications putting their files in different places based on how I interact with the
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by nickm12 1y ago
This piece is arguing against what is often called "over-engineering" or unnecessary abstraction (YAGNI). Over-engineering is a problem in software systems because it generally takes longer to build and it makes the systems unnece
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by nickm12 1y ago
The hypothetical comparing ChatGPT to a human OpenAI employee is instructive, but we can also compare ChatGPT to a lawnmower sold by a company. We have product safety laws and the ability to regulate products that companies put on the marke
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by nickm12 1y ago
This is the answer. Gruber has and will continue to criticize Apple, but there has generally been very little room for daylight between his values and those of the company (either as expressed in their products or by their leadership). Also
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by nickm12 1y ago
Put me in the disagree camp. The XDG spec seems like it is for X windowing-based systems, not the Mac, so that's not a reason to adopt. The author asserts what users expect, but without any evidence. FWIW, it's not what I expect.
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by nickm12 1y ago
It's been 10 years since Rust 1.0, the first stable version of Rust. It's a perfectly reasonable milestone to use as the birth of Rust as we know it today.
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by nickm12 1y ago
hear hear! I've worked with exceptional people from all sorts of backgrounds, but pound for pound, Waterloo CS grads are significantly better on average than grads from any other CS program. They start off way ahead, but also maintain
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by nickm12 1y ago
I was, for a time, a neuroscience major and have had this same thought. I'm concerned that we're treating these systems as engineered systems when they are closer to evolved or biological systems. They at at least different in tha
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by nickm12 1y ago
The article compared to biology and art history. It's my impression that art history doesn't lead to good job prospects, but is it actually true? A good article would provide support for that choice rather than rely on stereotypes
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by nickm12 1y ago
...and I would have gotten away with it if it weren't for you meddling kids! I find it interesting that the whole scheme might not have been noticed had he been more modest and not tried to translate the pages into rare languages. We d
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by nickm12 1y ago
> it shouldn't be a problem for you establishing a space even without going to the office. No, this was nothing to do with company culture. This was just my own mental response to just always being at home. Admittedly, the pandemic
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by nickm12 1y ago
I find these types of articles from the Times very frustrating. Most of this article is filled with sad anecdotes, but no indication of how those people were chosen. Were they the biggest sob stories found that fit the narrative? Even the d
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by nickm12 1y ago
> This idea that 'work life balance' should mean that the two should be compartmentalised to specific blocks of time seems counterproductive to me. Different people are different and can have different preferences. For me, havi
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by nickm12 1y ago
You can't reduce the in-office or remote experience purely to commuting. It's just one aspect about how and where you work and work life balance in general. But since you asked, yes, I actually enjoy commuting when it is less than
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by nickm12 1y ago
I don't see what argument you're trying to make. This satellite is producing data that is a common good (not unlike the Bureau of Labor Statistics data). There are lots of use cases for such data. Just because one use case doesn&#
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by nickm12 1y ago
To add a little more color, each section also has a branch of possibilities. Given a problem, there are many possible functional specs that could solve it. Given a functional spec, there are many possible implementations. The act of choosi
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by nickm12 1y ago
The parent comment was talking about the "abstraction offered by compiled languages over assembly". I quote an alternate form of "compiled" from that sentence.
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by nickm12 1y ago
I generally read "optimal" to mean "optimal according to some objective function". In the case of a technical design, the objective is not something you can readily formalize, because there are so many considerations. Fo
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by nickm12 1y ago
Yes, agree with all of that. I don't think every design doc needs every possible section, but if readers would benefit from the background or the an enumeration of stakeholders, that belongs up front, before the design.
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by nickm12 1y ago
The structure I prefer for a technical design document is like a three-layer onion.The first layer is the problem statement, goals, non-goals, and requirements, both functional and non-functional. The next layer is the functional specificat

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