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by tbrownaw 2y ago
That's certainly a funny phrase, since it ought to mean that too much engineering effort was put in to getting something right but what it's actually used to mean is that someone got the trade-offs wrong. In this case it's be
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by tbrownaw 2y ago
But then you'd have to include things like bombings and maybe bomb threats. And that might re-focus attention away from the chosen tools and towards the people doing it, which would make it less useful for election season.
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by tbrownaw 2y ago
Public opinion polling is sub-linear in the size of the population.
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by tbrownaw 2y ago
Just last week I tripped over a couple compilation bugs in (an old version of) bpftrace. One was caught by internal checks somewhere, something about struct member offsets that I think was an alignment / padding issue and didn't s
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by tbrownaw 2y ago
> framing race and gender filters as "merit" filters Do you have examples? I haven't gone systematically digging into this, but the general impression I've gotten is that this sort of explicit demographic filters ar
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by tbrownaw 2y ago
So we're about to finally get the year of Linux on the desktop?
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by tbrownaw 2y ago
Minimum wage is not a market-driven empirical number "here's the lowest wage that we were able to find someone working for". It's a government imposition that bans any jobs that would pay less than some decreed amount.
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by tbrownaw 2y ago
> This is the reason "equal opportunities" should be guaranteed to all Oh silly me, I thought the reason was that it follows naturally from everyone having equal moral worth.
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by tbrownaw 2y ago
Then I suppose someone would miss their sales targets.
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by tbrownaw 2y ago
Well that should depend entirely on whether or not it actually works, yes? Either it makes it cheaper and/or faster to develop new games, or it doesn't.
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by tbrownaw 2y ago
If only we got rid of <group>, we'd have a utopia because they wouldn't be around to ruin it. We could do this by putting them on the B ark.
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by tbrownaw 2y ago
Genghis Khan? Whoever it was that sacked Rome?
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by tbrownaw 2y ago
> If the hardware requires software that is not available for self service, then the customer is entitled for full refund at any time. If a service it depends on goes away within X years (5? 10?) you're owed a prorated refund.
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by tbrownaw 2y ago
> You can just choose not to buy products whose future you’re skeptical of. I had a meeting last week whose sole purpose was for me to re-describe something a couple times which I had already described in text. And which also could be
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by tbrownaw 2y ago
Move fast and break things!
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by tbrownaw 2y ago
> Those who want "soft skills" from their engineers are often looking to place blame. It's easier to blame the engineer who didn't raise concern when things were going off the rails. That is not what "soft skil
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by tbrownaw 2y ago
Some people are clearly more popular than other people.
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by tbrownaw 2y ago
I don't know anyone in a stereotypical "only yes-men allowed" toxic management environment.
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by tbrownaw 2y ago
> This discovery raises significant questions about the reliability and safety of AI systems in critical applications. What? Perhaps it helps characterize their unreliability, but I'm pretty sure the fact of their unreliability
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by tbrownaw 2y ago
I am unclear on how exactly this is meant to show that.
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by tbrownaw 2y ago
> Paradoxically, they'll find a way to waste $100k on an "enterprise" stack to do the same though. Paying someone else to be the Single Wringable Neck when things go wrong is not the same as paying for some binaries.
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by tbrownaw 2y ago
> Except Mark Twain never said that Never let the truth get in the way of a good story.
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by tbrownaw 2y ago
> And why is AI hailed as a game changer? Precisely because AI takes the thinking out of the achieving. So, like WYSIWYG designers and RAD tools?
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by tbrownaw 2y ago
I've gotten lazy and do that far too often. But yes, it's better to only use actually running it to verify that it does why I already know it'll do.
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by tbrownaw 2y ago
> Sure, the code works, but ask why it works that way instead of another way? Crickets. Ask about edge cases? Blank stares. "This is the worst code I've ever run." "But it does run." > I recently realized
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by tbrownaw 2y ago
> what you get if you started with the idea of sign, exponent, and fraction and made the most efficient hardware implementation of it possible. It's not "beautiful", but it falls out pretty straightforwardly from those st
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by tbrownaw 2y ago
> 2029, the year of Linux on the desktop. Heh. I ran Linux as my desktop since... approximately the turn off the millennium, with a brief downgrade to Windows from when the Rift S came out until I finally got around to switching back l
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by tbrownaw 2y ago
> Why should we humanise and care about someone who was a terrible Problematic people are still people, and pretending otherwise in order to feel better about needing them out of society is maybe not a great idea.
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by tbrownaw 2y ago
It's from eight years ago almost exactly (a couple months off). Saying it references today's current events isn't prescient, it's "second verse, same as the first".
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by tbrownaw 2y ago
> Hackers generally do not like authoritarianism. The BOFH was plenty authoritarian, and was celebrated for it.

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