dfunckt

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by dfunckt 1mo ago
They kind of touch on this: > Imagine a future where a handful of people can conduct scientific research and engineering tasks much more rapidly, and with higher quality, than massive teams of scientists and engineers do today. By automa
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by dfunckt 2mo ago
The dystopia that PayPal is we’re cheering and paying trillionaires to bring forward faster. Can’t wait.
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by dfunckt 2mo ago
This is true to some extend, but you may confuse runaway technical arguments (Rust in Linux?) with spitting vitriol over somebody.
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by dfunckt 2mo ago
There’s a way to make a profile the default. I personally appreciate that it reverts back to it when turned off.
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by dfunckt 3mo ago
> I'm surprised they didn't eat it up until new releases when they often increase prices. There may be an element here where announcing new hardware at a 30% higher price would largely make the latter the focus point, so instea
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by dfunckt 3mo ago
> convincing someone that their excessive null checking is harmful is an uphill battle. The argument that seems to hit home more often than not is that optionals effectively “fork” the state space, the possible states your program can be
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by dfunckt 4mo ago
You can quickly get the "lay of the land" and discover primary sources which you can study. Learning from the AI, I agree, is rife with landmines.
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by dfunckt 4mo ago
Exactly, plus you now have a new superpower with AI — the ability to dig into and ramp up expertise in mostly any domain. I’d say the article gets it backwards.
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by dfunckt 4mo ago
You’re right, I never noticed! This actually also explains why I couldn’t change my default card the other day - I must have been in that screen that opens from the button shortcut.
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by dfunckt 4mo ago
Wait, what? Double-clicking will prompt for Face ID to open your default card for oayment, and from there you swipe down to see the stack — which I suppose is the screen you’re looking for.
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by dfunckt 8mo ago
Exactly. The principle to go by for estimates is finding a balance between time/scope/cost, and figuring out which aspects of the context affect which dimension is the first step.
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by dfunckt 8mo ago
I’ve no experience with Elastic but what they’re getting at I think is indexes in Elastic is actually your data because that’s all it does due to the purpose it was built for, whereas in Postgres indexes are, well, indexes — that is, derive
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by dfunckt 8mo ago
Agreed. I think you may be too generous with hubris -- that requires agency, but it may just be incompetence. I don't generally like the "old days" argument, but this is consistent with overall trends -- it's frivolous.
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by dfunckt 8mo ago
What feels plausible to me is changing the underlying 19x19 px control would break layout of many existing apps, and the design team was hell bent that window corners had to be that round. I’d say it’s simply form over function, and that li
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by dfunckt 2y ago
I agree with much of your comment on what it takes to succeed commercially in today's music scene, but it also nails why modern (popular) music is so same-y and uninteresting -- just the "logisistics" requirements only fit pa
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by dfunckt 3y ago
Feels like a missed opportunity they didn’t design the Mac Studio part of the Mac Pro as a replaceable module you could upgrade every other year. Or buy the non-Studio part to upgrade your Mac Studio.
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by dfunckt 11y ago
Right, but what about the name? This isn't Cascading Style Sheets any more. Hmm let's see, Composable Style Sheets. There. Oh, wait...