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by zaphar 2y ago
Code coverage is useful as a metric as long as it's not turned into a target. But it's primary usefulness is to tell a developer if they've given enough thought to how to test their code is correct or not. A robot that back-f
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If you can spout the big lies you can spout the small lies. The size of the lie has no impact. Preventing the lies in the first place regardless of size requires that you can 1. provide evidence of those lies. 2. create consequences for spo
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If it's hard to obtain or provide evidence, increasing the consequences isn't goint to be a deterrent. You have to make it easier to prove. Which means you either need to: * Lower the standard for proof * Make it harder to to avoi
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If it's already illegal but difficult to prove then making it "even more" illegal isn't going to help.
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My own experience does not suggest that your last statement is true at all in practice.
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Except that monorepos are just as capable of identifying and gatekeeping those spaces as separate repos are. If you aren't going to use those gatekeeping mechanisms in a mono repo I doubt that the quality of your separate repo codebase
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Since we are indulging in generalizations from our past. With separate repos you end up with 10 "cores" that are radioctive DMZ's everybody is afraid to touch. And those "disciplined" public API's will be unive
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And other languages implement the same thing just as fast without mutable aliasing.
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Additionally, if your organization doesn't have the kind of culture where managers do this, then you should get out as soon as you can. It is the kind of place that doesn't value quality because quality is too hard to measure. Sta
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This has nothing to do with the comment you quoted from my post.
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Boeing is failing because it's a private company with no market consequences for doing badly and no domestic competition. Those are not caused by self-regulation they are caused by bad economic policy. Regulation is a part of the story
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You fix this by letting Boeing fail. They keep going because our government keeps bailing them out. We deem them too important to fail so we keep holding their corpse up Weekend at Bernies style and hope the voodoo music doesn't cut ou
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by zaphar 2y ago
What the market will bear affects an already existing product. R&D is driven by one of two things: 1. An expectation of profit at the end. 2. A highly desired outcome from a motivated pool of Investors. Price caps can dampen #1. Which c
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I associate and even am friends with all kinds of people I don't agree with. Implying that I endorse their views just because I associate with them would be to assign motivations to me that I don't have.
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For what it's worth, if they bought the tractor I also think they should be able to call a third party on a Sunday to repair the tractor if it breaks. That is sort of how ownership is supposed to work.
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Not to endorse project 2025 or Vance, however, Your example is not an endorsement. It's an association which does not in any way imply endorsement.
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The typical solution is https://litestream.io/ . Comparatively easy to setup for most usages of sqlite.
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Our energy infrastructure isn't particularly reliable right now. Power outages, while not at the level of a third world country, are quite frequent. Nuclear is the highest energy density power generation you can get. Investing in react
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I mean, the government absolutely could fire people. They aren't giving money to Anduril because Anduril can fire people. They are giving money to Anduril because: 1. Anduril is more competent than the people they can afford to hire. 2
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According to studies, thing $X leads to improved job satisfaction, retention, and overall employee happiness. According to studies, thing $Y which is the exact opposite of thing $X leads to improved job satisfaction, retention, and overall
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I am not at all confident that a government lab will be either well-funded or efficient in any sense of the words.
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Asheville is in Western North Carolina
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I live in Sylva which is about 45 minutes from Asheville and yeah, Cell service made getting any useful information on your phone pretty bad. If I hadn't had Starlink I would have been in the dark for at least a week on a whole lot of
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Magic isn't real. But unnecessary magic can be annoying and sometimes doesn't pull it's weight.
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I think the issue there isn't IP but TCP. IP is purely an addressing and routing solution. It doesn't care about partitions or outages or intermittent connectivity. TCP does care about that as a protocol but you could envision and
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I'm not sure about all of them but Google's TPU is custom to them and not shared architecture.
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You may have already tried this and not found success but in case you haven't: Nearly all of my biggest career advancements have been the result of a job change not a promotion internally. I don't know your personal situation, how
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The thing about open source is that you can just fork it. You don't need to trust them. If the question is actually "Can we trust Microsoft with an Open Source Community?" then it get's more interesting.
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Nix solves this by forcing __DATE__ and __TIME__ to be a single immutable value in the sandbox for all builds. If you look in the store the file timestamps will be this value.
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It can be a valid concern however if it's overnight and he's asleep the harm might be somewhat minimized. However, our world if full of popular things that cause harm which incur a real social cost when you opt out of them. Teac

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