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by wrs 9mo ago
That made some sense back when the government used to use the taxes to help poor children in Africa, or poor children in the US for that matter. As of 2025 it seems to just leave that sort of thing up to Bill.
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by wrs 9mo ago
Next up, the Boring Company gets imaginary contract for underground datacenters, is now valued at $500B.
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by wrs 9mo ago
jj already pretty much does that with the oplog. A consistent way of making new snapshots in the background would be nice though. (Currently you have to run a jj command — any jj command — to capture the working directory.)
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by wrs 9mo ago
Though, if your choice is between Salesforce licensing and Microsoft licensing, at least it’s possible to understand Salesforce licensing.
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by wrs 9mo ago
It’s turtles all the way down, though — how do you know that last deal had clear title? At some point you’re going to want insurance anyway. In any case, the US system is already that the government records ownership (not for free, but for
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by wrs 9mo ago
"Meme language"? There are plenty of memes about C, and they aren't as flattering.
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by wrs 9mo ago
You missed the word "anyone". Of course tools for programmers have seen huge improvements. The "promise" referred to here is that you don't need to learn programming skills to be an effective programmer.
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by wrs 9mo ago
Yes, APFS supports snapshots. [0] [0] https://support.bombich.com/hc/en-us/articles/20686443871383...
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by wrs 9mo ago
Some minor editing to how this would have been written in the mid-1980s: “The real leaps are being made organically by employees, not from a top down [desktop PC] strategy. Where I see the real productivity gains are small teams deciding to
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by wrs 9mo ago
My recent experience demonstrates this. I had a couple weeks of happily cranking out new code and refactors at high speed with Claude’s help, then a week of what felt like total stagnation, and now I’m back to high velocity again. What happ
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by wrs 9mo ago
Alongside their AA-powered keyboard, Apple sold a little two-cell charger with two AA NiMH batteries, which is still what I use to charge my Eneloops.
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by wrs 9mo ago
In other words, a higher-level JIT compiler, meaning it still dynamically generates code based on runtime observations, but the code is in a higher-level language than assembly, and the observations are of a higher-level context than just r
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by wrs 9mo ago
On the other hand, look at our current appointed DoJ and FBI leadership. No solution is foolproof.
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by wrs 9mo ago
Gee, I thought the tariffs were supposed to take care of this. Isn’t that why they were calculated based on the trade deficit? /s
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by wrs 9mo ago
That analogy would make sense if Ofcom was proposing to enforce UK rules only on UK citizens living in the US.
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by wrs 9mo ago
They do work for the inferred purpose here though, assuming Gmail only downloads them when the email is successfully delivered to the mailbox (and thus the address is valid).
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by wrs 9mo ago
And the 2024 lateral thinking award goes to...
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by wrs 9mo ago
Don't forget to account for the risk we added by creating places where hundreds of people line up outside the security check. [0] [0] https://www.rand.org/pubs/commentary/2016/05/out-of-line-how...
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by wrs 9mo ago
OK, it’s a mech suit. The question under discussion is, do you need to learn to walk first, before you climb into it? My life experience has shown me you can’t learn things by “observing”, only by doing.
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by wrs 9mo ago
Yes, this is literally the scenario every 2nd amendment fanatic justifies themselves with. But we already knew that made no sense; it doesn't change anything to have the hypocrisy demonstrated.
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by wrs 9mo ago
There were investigations. There were indictments (including four of Trump himself). Here we are. What we learned is that the only constitutional remedy is impeachment (which was also tried twice). What has disabled all the checks and balan
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by wrs 9mo ago
Is it possible their only miscalculation was not realizing how much of the world would fight back? Because if it hadn't, they would have continued enjoying the benefits.
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by wrs 9mo ago
Perhaps it was his followup post about how people are lining up to throw millions of VC dollars at his bizarre whimsical fever dream that disturbs people? I’m all for arts funding, but…
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by wrs 9mo ago
It changes the shipping address, not the billing address. And yeah, I do tap it to change what card to use. "Every single time."
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by wrs 9mo ago
I'll just say that I once installed Emacs from a 9-track magtape that someone mailed to me.
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by wrs 9mo ago
Or in my case, it was sold directly to the CMO, and as the CTO I was stuck with it!
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by wrs 9mo ago
I read this post as saying he won’t take funding from VCs, but he will from (his own word) crypto-bros?
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by wrs 9mo ago
Huh. I just tell Claude “write a self contained uv script” and it does that fine by itself.
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by wrs 9mo ago
As one often finds with “effective LLM usage” advice, all of those things would help humans on the team as well! As would other advice like keeping the architecture docs up to date, writing down important design decisions with rationale, br
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by wrs 9mo ago
Regarding your last sentence, this isn't happening in a vacuum, and rejecting the risk-free assumption behind US debt seems like a symbol with a lot of information content.

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