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by amethyst 2mo ago
We were benefiting from stacked pull requests in Phabricator for a decade before "AI" was a thing. Having well scoped commits that can be individually actioned by distinct sets of reviewers has always been extremely useful.
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by amethyst 3mo ago
We did these sorts of exercises in my high school social studies class, in Ohio, back in 2002ish. I fear it may have been instructive to some of my classmates rather than warning them of the inherent evils.
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by amethyst 4mo ago
Location: California Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: no Technologies: Python, Rust, SQL, fullstack Résumé/CV: https://amethyst.cat/resume Email: amethyst@n7.gg Senior engineer with 13 years in FAANG an
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by amethyst 5mo ago
3) recipient stores decrypted content in plain text and backs that up in well-known cloud storage systems
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by amethyst 5mo ago
Is it really holding them "accountable" when the settlements are for laughably small amounts, like <1% of a single day's profit?
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by amethyst 7mo ago
If it's anything like Facebook, the side entrances (which always had guards sitting by them anyways) were all converted to alarmed fire exits. So the fire marshal would still be happy, but it was far less convenient for employees.
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by amethyst 9mo ago
It works pretty well for Apple
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by amethyst 9mo ago
tools like dataclasses and pydantic would like to have a word...
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by amethyst 1y ago
Google Fiber isn't rolled out to most of the bay area. Monkeybrains is wireless with speeds significantly slower than what Comcast offers me. I've checked just about every wired ISP possible, and Comcast is the only option that se
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by amethyst 1y ago
*parts of the Bay Area. I'd say the majority of areas are still monopolized by Comcast, including my neighborhood of course.
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by amethyst 1y ago
In markets where Comcast has actual real competition, they "include" the unlimited data (aka no cap) with no extra charge when you sign up for their gigabit plans.
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by amethyst 1y ago
And yet it's the default when formatting a device on macOS.
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by amethyst 2y ago
And yet, as someone working on core language infra, we apply exactly that sort of ideal when making changes. If a diff doesn't break any tests, then it's "safe" to land, and if something does indeed break afterwards, the
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by amethyst 2y ago
That's the one I had. I got it from my friend in sixth grade, and who knows where he got it from!
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by amethyst 2y ago
I still miss my desktop sheep every once in a while: https://github.com/Adrianotiger/desktopPet?tab=readme-ov-fil... Edit: the best part was running it a couple dozen times to get an entire flock walking, falling, and
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by amethyst 2y ago
You might prefer Eternal Terminal as a TCP mosh alternative: https://eternalterminal.dev/
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by amethyst 2y ago
My 2017 Golf R would intentionally turn off the dashboard backlights at night if the lights weren't on, providing me excellent feedback that they weren't on. Either head lights should always be on auto by default, or more cars
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by amethyst 3y ago
Justice runs on a log scale, and the base is left for individual jurisdictions or judges to decide.
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by amethyst 3y ago
Or it's a simulation and someone keeps pushing changes to production.
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by amethyst 3y ago
> Python makes it incredibly tough. I disagree, Python makes it incredibly easy to work with threads in many different ways. It just doesn't make threads faster .
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by amethyst 3y ago
I wish I could selectively disable only the "paste" events, because it's extremely useful to have "click to copy this value" type of buttons in our various work tools, and I miss the ability to do that every time I
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by amethyst 3y ago
Imagine being on STS-1, piloting a shuttle that had literally never been to space before in any form. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/STS-1
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by amethyst 3y ago
Grumman wasn’t operating their own Mission Control — NASA did. But NASA isn’t operating this mission, similar to how they don’t operate SpaceX missions even if they are funding them.
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by amethyst 3y ago
Mixed with R.C. Pro-Am, one of my favorite NES titles: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R.C._Pro-Am
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by amethyst 3y ago
It almost always has to do with the details of EBITDA [1], in this case depreciations/writeoffs and amortized costs, especially if/when a bunch of funding may have been subsidized by governments along with healthy tax breaks [2].
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by amethyst 3y ago
You might appreciate setting `PAGER=cat` in your environment. ;) Git obeys that value, and I would hope that most other UNIXy terminal apps do too.
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by amethyst 3y ago
> created: 14 days ago
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by amethyst 3y ago
How else would airlines get little kids wide eyed at the vast array of lights and buttons and give them a branded pin and hat to win their hearts at an early age?
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by amethyst 3y ago
Part of the initial terms of service that you agree to is that the terms can be changed by the company at any time as long as they give you X days of notice.
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by amethyst 3y ago
Pretty sure that "insurance" only covers their money, not yours.

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