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by woodruffw 3mo ago
“Good tools are invisible” is not an objectionable thing to claim, but the example used is confusing: a power user of vim presumably feels like their flows are invisible, just like the author feels like his Sublime patterns are invisible. I
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by woodruffw 3mo ago
If you want to be pedantic, NYC is a different “land” to have a “landmark” for :-) (I like arguing too. Nothing wrong with that. I think in this case it suffices that they’re regulations in different states with relatively different politic
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by woodruffw 3mo ago
I don’t think it would be a federal concern, but a state one. However, in this case it’s because NYC law is typically allowed under NY state law to be stronger (but not weaker) than any corresponding state law.
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by woodruffw 3mo ago
It’s a landmark change in NYC . Again: this is NYC’s official website. It might (as a stretch) be a “lie by omission” on a national newspaper’s website, but this is a website that is solely dedicated to NYC itself.
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by woodruffw 3mo ago
I think you, as the reader, are expected to mentally append “in NYC” when a link comes from nyc.gov. It seems very silly for a given municipality to need to qualify every sentence on its own website.
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by woodruffw 3mo ago
Going more than 20 miles an hour and not dying of heat exhaustion (or because your oats are too dry) are pretty big features. But my point was that it’s a bad analogy. People are opting out of GitHub despite the alternatives having fewer
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by woodruffw 3mo ago
I don’t follow how it would be in Anthropic’s interests to maintain an LTS version of Bun. It seems unlikely they’d use it, and it would cost them money (in the form of labor). To my understanding, Java and .NET offer public LTSes because t
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by woodruffw 3mo ago
This is not an effective argument, given that these smaller services are uniformly retrograde in functionality.
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by woodruffw 4mo ago
> Systems that pin to commit hashes (e.g. Go module proxies, Nix flake locks, Github Actions references, Dockerfiles naming a specific commit, etc) rely on the assumption that a hash is a unique handle for content under a given signer. I
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You shouldn't trust Trusted Publishing(blog.yossarian.net)
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by woodruffw 4mo ago
I don’t agree, because no evidence of bias has been advanced. They might be biased, but the plain reading of the situation of that (1) Odin is not notable under GNG, (2) JangaFX might be notable, but notability isn’t transitive.
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by woodruffw 4mo ago
I think GP’s question was rhetorical. They know it’s an example.
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by woodruffw 4mo ago
> A DNSSEC signature for "this domain doesn't exist" is much longer than a DNSSEC signature for "this domain exists, but doesn't have the type of record you asked for" so these providers choose to always ret
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by woodruffw 4mo ago
> It would be great if Wikipedia's notability goes "All youtube sources are not reliable" but instead its always phrased like "Some Youtube sources are not reliable" and what qualifies as this "some" is
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by woodruffw 4mo ago
Yes, this is a huge advantage (and one among several reasons why malaise in the commercial real estate market in other US cities doesn’t transfer easily into lessons about NYC’s market).
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by woodruffw 4mo ago
NYC appears to be at least somewhat ahead on converting older office stock to residential stock, and I don’t expect the current administration would attempt to slow that down (it has no particular political valence in the city that I can
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by woodruffw 4mo ago
Notability is a qualified state on Wikipedia, as both TFA and Wikipedia itself document. One of the qualifications is having third-party sources document the subject, where those third-party sources are themselves notable and reputable (in
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by woodruffw 4mo ago
Thank you, that’s very persuasive.
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by woodruffw 4mo ago
I keep up with PL development, and I am only vaguely aware of Odin (and same for Jai and V). (But this isn’t the point: lots of programmers know about relatively obscure thing, but that does not itself make them notable. Notability is a w
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by woodruffw 4mo ago
This is an argument for deleting those non-notable articles as well, not retaining other non-notable articles.
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by woodruffw 4mo ago
Sure, it’s not impossible to reach. But I think you’ve demonstrated that you need to work to reach it. Particularly in a family context; I don’t eat at Popeye’s but even I know that the whole point of the family menu is that it’s meant to b
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by woodruffw 4mo ago
I can probably eat an 18” pizza alone, but you would rightly accuse me of misrepresentation for claiming that a “pizza for lunch for one” costs me $25+.
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by woodruffw 4mo ago
This is from their online checkout, so it is what you'd pay. (It doesn't seem implausible to me that you'd pay $20/pp for food in most parts of the US; I'm responding purely to the hearsay claim that someone paid
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by woodruffw 4mo ago
Yes, but that meal is for 6-8 people. I don't think you can get to $68 for half as many people, even with drinks and tax. I just tried it with the "8pc meal" and 3 fountain drinks for the same location, and it came to $39.36,
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by woodruffw 4mo ago
I can't say I've ever been to Popeye's, but $68 for 3 people seems unlikely based on their online prices: I picked a random one in Orlando, Florida and the "family meal" (which appears to be a very large amount of c
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by woodruffw 4mo ago
> You opened files like autoexec.bat and you read them. Sometimes you built a boot disk for a single game. A floppy whose entire reason to exist was to start the computer in the configuration that one program demanded. Is the premise her
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by woodruffw 4mo ago
Given that VPN services are essentially an unalloyed commodity, the only differentiator they can provide is their politics. Mullvad has made this a loud and clear part of their branding (again, because they’re selling a commodity), so to
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by woodruffw 4mo ago
I understand the idea. The point was that it isn't good enough: humans are fallible, so you still want to provide a secure CI/CD environment for untrusted external contributors.
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by woodruffw 4mo ago
I don't think it's theatre, in the sense that it is effective for the advertised purpose (preempting AI-based cheating). But it seems to me like there are also plenty of ways to make reasonable accommodations for people who can&
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by woodruffw 4mo ago
I don’t disagree with that, but I think GitHub has shown that projects want to have their cake and eat it too. GitHub has also shown that it’s incredibly easy to design an insecure CI/CD that satisfies that goal, but I see that more

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