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by wvenable 9mo ago
Failing to enforce the Constitution is part of the problem. The Constitution gives very few options for recourse and was not designed for the situation where two of three branches of government willingly abdicate their own power. Even the
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by wvenable 9mo ago
The Canada-US Auto Pact of 1965 effectively integrated automobile manufacturing between the two countries. This pact removed the previous tariffs and added certain guarantees. This effectively created one protected automobile market betwe
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by wvenable 9mo ago
This makes no sense. You can't buy anything on Fortnite with real money. The purchase you make is for blocks of v-bucks which can then be spent on items. The actual financial transaction is completely divorced from any items that are
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by wvenable 9mo ago
I play Fortnite -- I get the battle pass, I have a lot of skins and items, and I have never paid a cent. I earn enough v-bucks from playing the game to never have to pay. That's actually pretty amazing and so I question this fine situ
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by wvenable 9mo ago
This isn't the first time I've said this but also had an early-career job writing Perl code. And I actually got to the point where I liked it -- I mean I could see why it had a following. Subsequently I've written code in al
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by wvenable 9mo ago
The only reason Azure is a success though is because of Windows. Maybe now it's so big that it can exist without Windows but Windows is the gateway into Azure. So many other companies would kill for a platform (aka Meta) and here Mic
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by wvenable 9mo ago
Yeah, this works because it's novel. If it became the norm, people would adjust to it and we'd right back where we started.
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by wvenable 9mo ago
I can already think of something more useful to pass on my genes than typing on keyboard all day.
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by wvenable 9mo ago
There will always be better things for people to do. We don't exist on this planet just to sit at a desk and hit buttons all day.
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by wvenable 9mo ago
That might be true. But unclear, non-modular, and poorly designed is actually much easier to identify. I don't know if I like the builder style; I could go either way. But if I saw that, I'd still consider that clear and well de
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by wvenable 9mo ago
The only reason AI can do anything good is that it's been trained all this clean, modular, and well designed code. What happens when it stops existing? Even in my own use of AI, letting the AI get away with shit code means that it con
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by wvenable 9mo ago
You might as well stop being a software developer. Not because you'll be out of job, but because you're directly contributing to other people being out of jobs. We've been automating work (which is ultimately human labor) s
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by wvenable 9mo ago
If a machine can do your job; whether it's harvesting corn or filing a TPS report then making a person sit and do it for the purpose of survival is basically just torture. There are so many better things for humans to do.
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by wvenable 9mo ago
> my whole point was that letting exceptions bubble is not a universally acceptable policy. It should be. It should bubble to whatever boundary you have (web API, event loop, etc). At that boundary, if it's not supposed to leak in
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by wvenable 9mo ago
Why does it matter how it's sold? Unless you're overpaying for what it's actually capable of, it doesn't really matter.
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by wvenable 9mo ago
> I hope everyone realizes that the current LLMs are subsidized Hell ya, get in and get out before the real pricing comes in.
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by wvenable 9mo ago
If had happened any other time, there wouldn't be a blog post about it and we wouldn't be reading about it.
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by wvenable 9mo ago
I have a turn-based game that I play with remote family and after I play my turn, I swipe the app off (force close) so I don't have to see the ads. It used to be that I could just switch away to skip the ads but they must have gotten
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by wvenable 9mo ago
If your error logging is leaking privileged information to attackers that's a completely different problem from what you should do in code when throwing exceptions. Wrapping exceptions to remove information is mostly a pointless exerci
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by wvenable 9mo ago
You should leak implementation details on exceptions -- if an operation fails because of a network timeout or file access issue, that's useful information. Most exceptions cannot be meaningfully caught anyway so let me log with a good
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by wvenable 9mo ago
They have links to things, they did take down requests, take down requests got abused, now they don't do take down requests (as much). What does engineering have to do with that?
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by wvenable 9mo ago
One can probably assume that this is the result of far too many illegitimate take down requests. Google almost certainly doesn't want to be in the business of arbitrating link take down requests.
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by wvenable 9mo ago
I can get days out of my Samsung Watch 7 if I turn off everything like the always on display, constant health tracking, Wifi, etc. But I don't.
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by wvenable 9mo ago
Literally every sentence of that quote has sources listed in Wikipedia.
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by wvenable 9mo ago
Also US unemployment has been low. The idea that Americans need more jobs just doesn't fit the numbers. There are plenty of good paying non-backbreaking jobs for Americans but they just don't seem to believe it.
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by wvenable 9mo ago
"The United States provides over 40% of the world's humanitarian aid, and spends around 1% of its budget on foreign aid, including military aid . Surveys suggest that Americans believe 20% of the federal budget is spent on foreig
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by wvenable 9mo ago
If you're willing go through a little bit of trouble -- and it sounds like you are -- it's pretty easy to configure Windows 11 to look and act pretty much like Windows 7. You'd be hard pressed to tell what version of Windows
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by wvenable 9mo ago
Just don't activate. It's not necessary.
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by wvenable 9mo ago
Nokia was driving pretty close to the ground before Microsoft ever got involved.
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by wvenable 10mo ago
Yes. But first lets reduce the mess from 3 big mess technologies to 1 and then we can working on replacing JS.

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