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by wrs 6mo ago
The point of the article is exactly that you shouldn't hand over software development to people with no expertise in software development. So he sounds smarter and more humble than a lot of CEOs at the moment.
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by wrs 6mo ago
It’s a system that generates $100 billion in profit. [0] [0] https://techcrunch.com/2024/12/26/microsoft-and-openai-have-...
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by wrs 6mo ago
Yes, Plaid clearly has different levels of integration with different banks. When I connect something to Chase with Plaid it is clearly a cooperative system with an OAuth-like permission dialog, and the Chase side even mentions they're
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by wrs 6mo ago
Laws hold parents accountable for their childrens' crimes , not their noncriminal actions . Nothing about this is saying that accessing social media is a crime -- that would be more similar to drug possession laws, firearms licensi
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by wrs 6mo ago
Using social media is not a crime. I think what we’re talking about here is child welfare or child protection laws (which all 50 states probably also have).
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by wrs 6mo ago
>data collected would not be used for performance assessments or any other purpose besides model training And you expect Meta employees , of all people, to believe this?
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by wrs 6mo ago
That field is opaque, but the entire type isn’t, no matter what you do. E.g., let x = new Age(); x.notSoOpaque = 42; console.log(x.notSoOpaque); We can all agree to layer conventions on top of the language so we just don’
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by wrs 6mo ago
In my experience the last several years, primarily we’re all on Zoom waving our hands and making false promises to update Confluence with what we talked about. I miss offices with walls and whiteboards.
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by wrs 6mo ago
I think you're confusing values with types. JS modules can certainly keep a value private, but there's no way for them to expose an opaque type , because that concept simply doesn't exist in JS. The language only has a few
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by wrs 6mo ago
Assuming we’re talking about TypeScript here, because JavaScript doesn’t have exportable types… Any instance in JavaScript, whether or not its type is exported, is just an object like any other, that any other module is free to enumerate an
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by wrs 6mo ago
Assuming “phenomenally well” means what it says, the conversation would have suddenly gotten a lot more real if she had said that more precisely: “I don’t know what your kids are going to do for work.”
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by wrs 6mo ago
Yeah, my personal anecdata is that Claude has just gotten better and better since January. I haven’t felt like even making the minor effort to compare with Codex’s current state. Just yesterday Claude Code made a major visible improvement i
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by wrs 6mo ago
I'm still not great at knowing when it's going to happen, but at least I've gotten a lot better at noticing that it is happening. The 50/50 part is then being able to get out of it by knowing what the nonexistent imp
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by wrs 6mo ago
This is the normal script, though. Authority figure overreaches, violates law either knowingly or (more likely) without even thinking about it. A.F. is sued, judge laughs out loud in court, A.F.'s action is reversed, A.F. becomes even
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by wrs 6mo ago
This is basically weak people in authority overreacting from fear and resentment. Same as when the principal expels a student for saying something rude at assembly, or when a bank sues someone for sending in a vulnerability report about the
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by wrs 6mo ago
An explanation of government that ignores or downplays the effects on part of the constituency wouldn’t be a very good explanation, would it? The government is by definition for everybody , not just a “target audience”. Even if you ignore
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by wrs 6mo ago
The point of the stubs is so you don’t have to know which cloud files are actually on your device at any given moment, because they will be fetched automatically. Marking files as “always local” is a niche feature, and in any case has nothi
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by wrs 6mo ago
The OP’s complaint is that the files were not backed up. If they had discovered that only stubs were backed up, I don’t think they’d be any happier.
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by wrs 6mo ago
Editorially, it might be good to point out that government money moves in both directions. I spent $X on interest payments on the national debt, but I also received $Y of those interest payments if I have any Treasuries in my portfolio. S
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by wrs 6mo ago
Lock ordering is indeed a common pattern to avoid deadlocks. I learned it in school in the 80's and MIT teaches it today. [0] [0] https://web.mit.edu/6.005/www/fa15/classes/23-locks/#deadloc...
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by wrs 6mo ago
Why would the US start this in the first place? Be assured that however this comes out, a “Truth” will be posted assessing it as the Greatest Deal Ever and a Total Win, end of story.
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by wrs 6mo ago
You had Claude create a team of agents imitating actual specific people ? That’s a bit…creepy…but also I wonder if it was distracting for the agents, as opposed to just generally describing their roles.
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by wrs 6mo ago
Are you familiar with the phrase “cutting off your nose to spite your face”?
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by wrs 6mo ago
Long experience with Window Taskbar icons has demonstrated you should not give developers that sort of control, only users.
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by wrs 6mo ago
> no options to rearrange the menu bar items This, at least, is not correct. Hold down Command and drag an icon to rearrange the order.
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by wrs 7mo ago
I follow sport climbing, which has always seemed like a great example of this. Climbing ability isn’t just a matter of strength or any other single dimension. E.g., the women’s routes are set on the assumption they’re more flexible than the
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by wrs 7mo ago
To be clear, this work was done years pre-AI. I was just giving an example of how lowering software development costs could be a public good.
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by wrs 7mo ago
Well, on the other hand, software isn’t all about checking emails. I know someone who worked for a nonprofit that made pregnancy health software that worked over text messaging. Its clients were women in Africa who didn’t have much, but the
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by wrs 7mo ago
It’s not just that they don’t want it, it’s that they’re liable for it themselves if they should have known it was happening. Asking you adds one more small layer of “we discouraged illegal activity and we didn’t know about any”.
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by wrs 7mo ago
That’s simple CYA, and also ensures you’ve not only done the illegal activity, you’ve defrauded the brokerage and breached your contract with them, and they get a weak KYC defense as well. Similar to the “Al Capone” instructions from the IR

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