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901.
by wrs 2y ago
And to be practical, that's fine. In a big codebase it's more important to encourage consistent, well-defined, small interfaces , and a clean separation of concerns, than to try to get consistency in the lower-level implementatio
902.
by wrs 2y ago
I’ve been working with Cursor’s agent mode a lot this week and am seeing where we need a new kind of tool. Because it sees the whole codebase, the agent will quickly get into a state where it’s changed several files to implement some layeri
903.
by wrs 2y ago
I went from Apple to Microsoft in 1995 partially because Microsoft was so far ahead of Apple on the Internet. At the time, Apple was entirely concerned with promoting eWorld. (Ironic because Apple had a /8 IP allocation and was process
904.
by wrs 2y ago
Not program it, read the program out of it.
905.
by wrs 2y ago
This sort of thing used to be called "Computer Literacy", which was a much better name. The equivalent of (and I suppose including) what was called "typing class" in the 80s.
906.
by wrs 2y ago
I don’t think riots were ever “OK” in any official estimation. Are you actually saying the government encouraged riots? And all indoor gatherings were discouraged, not just church gatherings. Especially gatherings where people sing. Remembe
907.
by wrs 2y ago
Sure, but saying something in an ornate way is not the same as “saying nothing”.
908.
by wrs 2y ago
It's rather purple prose, but it's entirely meaningful. Maybe it doesn't seem to mean anything until after you know some linear algebra, though...
909.
by wrs 2y ago
I doubt it's completely false. So...same to you, I guess.
910.
by wrs 2y ago
The previous Twitter administration was quite open about the censorship they were doing and the reasons they did it. You may not like the result, but at least they tried to deal with their inherent conflict of interest (commerce vs. socie
911.
by wrs 2y ago
True, exactly “noon” hasn’t had a solar definition for a while. But whatever time the sun is highest for you, I imagine you still expect that to happen at the same time every day.
912.
by wrs 2y ago
Bear in mind that IBM has been making computers — and terminology — since the 1950s. They invented hard drives. So it seems wrong to say their terminology has “diverged”…from what? IBM terminals like the 3270 operate almost like a web bro
913.
by wrs 2y ago
If I had a site (no time lately to maintain one) it would be because I wanted to inform people and contribute to the world’s accessible knowledge. I would want my information presented in context, accurately, the way I intended, not digeste
914.
by wrs 2y ago
Of all the definitions and hidden assumptions about time we’re talking about, possibly the oldest one is that the sun is highest at noon.
915.
by wrs 2y ago
If you thought that was confusing, you’ll definitely want to skip C++ too!
916.
by wrs 2y ago
Coming from me as a hiring manager, not a financial advisor: seeing a gap year has no effect at all on me except maybe a bit of jealousy. If you did something interesting and relevant in that time, bonus points.
917.
by wrs 2y ago
I'm personally not a fan of being talked at -- I don't listen to podcasts, and I reluctantly watch talks on YouTube at 2X speed -- but I would love to see a textual version of this. Basically a pane in VS Code where you could read
918.
by wrs 2y ago
"...routinely fails to address vulnerabilities in its products... When cybersecurity experts point out the flaws...the company declines to engage with them..." I feel like this used to apply to most mass-market home routers. Have
919.
by wrs 2y ago
The FTC has guidance on when it considers a compensated endorsement to be "deceptive advertising", which is something they can legally enforce. [0] [0] https://www.ftc.gov/business-guidance/resources/ftcs
920.
by wrs 2y ago
https://console.ncompass.tech/models has no models on it, just a "Get in Touch" button.
921.
by wrs 2y ago
Exactly — reasoned debate about political issues (remember that?) is a positive good; reflexive name-calling and jingoism is not.
922.
by wrs 2y ago
It seemed like you were questioning the need for the institution, but public health is as needed as defense, so maybe you’re equating them. You left out vaccinations (obviously effective) and mask mandates (somewhat effective but certainl
923.
by wrs 2y ago
Depends — do you then start claiming that because your data structure is like a tree, it’s surely going to start bearing fruit and emitting oxygen?
924.
by wrs 2y ago
No, I used Radar in the pre-NeXT days. I even still have the state diagram mug from when it was introduced in the early 90s. At that point it was a client-server app, because the web didn’t exist yet. Now, it may be that the Apple bug datab
925.
by wrs 2y ago
Contagious diseases aren’t compatible with the fantasy that individual liberty is always the highest good. That is why decades ago our society realized the need for public health authorities that can temporarily override individual libertie
926.
by wrs 2y ago
The public policy for individual pain management and the public policy for highly contagious diseases can be different, for logical reasons that I hope are obvious.
927.
by wrs 2y ago
Reminds me a bit of Chile’s Project CyberSyn room. [0] [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Cybersyn
928.
by wrs 2y ago
The Delaware Chancery Court has about as much to do with “small-town ideals” as the Cayman Islands Monetary Authority.
929.
by wrs 2y ago
This may vary by state, but in Washington my broker tells me that a one-person LLC can work, if it elects to be taxed as a corporation so it can issue that person a W-2. Which accountants hate because of the potential extra taxes, but as sh
930.
by wrs 2y ago
Having involuntarily engaged in some litigation in Nevada, I can tell you it can be literally and metaphorically the Wild West. To paraphrase the local attorney: "Nevada has one small shelf of case law precedents -- so the judge can do

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