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by wrs 1y ago
Given this is rewinding to the 1970s, I expected a mention of CSP [0], or Transputers [1], or systolic arrays [2], or Connection Machines [3], or... The history wasn't quite as one-dimensional as this makes it seem. [0] https:/&#
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by wrs 1y ago
That's how I read it at first too, but I think the more probable interpretation is that it was a fix to a project that has 4.5M lines of code.
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by wrs 1y ago
The SolveIt tool [0] has a simple but brilliant feature I now want in all LLM tools: a fully editable transcript. In particular, you can edit the previous LLM responses. This lets you fix the lingering effect of a bad response without havin
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by wrs 1y ago
Cols 73-80 were sometimes used for sequence numbers so when you spilled your cards on the floor you could run them through the sorting machine. This may help you get the feel (pick the COBOL card at the top). [0] For an even more authentic
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by wrs 1y ago
See commit d9a5e3e, “Added comments to the code to help curious folks understand what each line is doing”.
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by wrs 1y ago
"Try to solve the issue" is the key phrase there. In my experience you're generally wrong about how long it will take to solve any nontrivial software problem, and that's exactly what's hard about results-based plan
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by wrs 1y ago
I must have missed something, because this seems to say you do capacity and headcount planning and publicly commit to the work before you know how to solve the problem ? This seems like the “draw the rest of the owl” part of this process…
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by wrs 1y ago
Yes, that’s the empirical observation method and the source of ground truth for model training.
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by wrs 1y ago
To answer the question in the article, I’m pretty sure Windows Explorer (and probably File Manager before that) has sorted filenames this way for at least 30 years.
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by wrs 1y ago
It’s not really specific to systemd, it’s about cgroups in the kernel. If your code is running as a systemd unit so it gets its own cgroup, there you are.
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by wrs 1y ago
This is exactly why RightSignature is an expensive SaaS contract and not just something you can self host for cheap: providing somebody credible to testify which document was actually signed.
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by wrs 1y ago
How simple did you think it was before?
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by wrs 1y ago
Replace “coding agent” with “new developer on the team” and this article could be from anytime in the last 50 years. The thing is, a coding agent acts like a newly-arrived developer every time you start it.
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by wrs 1y ago
The term was "excited", not "successful and effective". The excitement for Obama vs. Biden was not even close. ("Yes we can!" vs. "Let's elect our doddering but normal 80ish white guy, not the crazy 8
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by wrs 1y ago
Be careful with those "no one" and "everyone" words. I think everyone I know who is a software engineer and has experience working with LLMs is quite clear on this. People who aren't SWEs, people who aren't in
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by wrs 1y ago
1. Research -> Plan -> Implement 2. Write down the principles and assumptions behind the design and keep them current In other words, the same thing successful human teams on complex projects do! Have we become so addicted to “attenti
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by wrs 1y ago
I skimmed down as far as the Y2K bug being “obviously false” and closed the tab.
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by wrs 1y ago
Both have necessary and legitimate uses, which is why they exist. Any institutional power can be used corruptly. The defense against that is not to try to predecide and constrain every action of the executive. It is for the people, directly
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by wrs 1y ago
Note that the fee can be waived at the discretion of the Secretary of Homeland Security. So, just like the tariffs, one purpose of this change is to give companies the opportunity to come to the White House and ask what favors they can do i
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by wrs 1y ago
To clarify my comment: the challenge is how to make room to follow this advice as a manager, when your own manager doesn’t share these values. In particular, when visibly bending rules, or spending any time coaching “nonperforming” subordin
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by wrs 1y ago
What’s not mentioned here is the challenge quite a few aspiring leaders will face: how to act like a leader when your manager is a manager.
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by wrs 1y ago
Google "dark triad".
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by wrs 1y ago
What’s really bugging me is they didn’t think it was interesting to even touch on that point in the big announcement. Contrast Apple making a big deal about private cloud compute before it even really does anything.
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by wrs 1y ago
It is astonishing that the word “privacy” appears zero times in this announcement. There have been repeated controversies over exactly how Google sees just the URL I visit. Now they want to see the entire contents of multiple browser tabs
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by wrs 1y ago
Absolutely. It’s a sore point for me because I spent a couple of years with all the traffic from my computer in Seattle being routed through Bentonville. :) The tradeoff is split tunnel setups usually mean you also need an endpoint firewall
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by wrs 1y ago
All VPNs do the same thing: give remote access to another network. Plenty of companies use full tunnels so access to the general internet goes through the company network. That happens to bypass content restrictions using exactly the same m
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by wrs 1y ago
Turns out they're not all that big on "free speech" in general! Who knew.
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by wrs 1y ago
It is by package name, but at least you won't be surprised when left-pad suddenly has an install script. You can put a fingerprint on the package dependency itself, though, so if you add a fingerprint to anything you approve the instal
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by wrs 1y ago
The pnpm version of this is persistent. You approve the package once, and regular install works thereafter. Which is nice.
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by wrs 1y ago
I think the only way you can consider iOS “amateurish” is according to a ridiculously high standard for phone software that Apple itself is responsible for normalizing.

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