guitarbill

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by guitarbill 7mo ago
Sure, we can ignore that specific example, and that software has an effect on the world, and that people have been trained to expect software to be deterministic and accurate. Or if you want compare vibe coding with any technology, like ele
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by guitarbill 7mo ago
One counter-example is the Horizon IT scandal. Obviously, you didn't say this directly, but "only a few people died/were affected, somehow civilization continues to function" maybe isn't the best argument.
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by guitarbill 8mo ago
> Germany has a very sad and weak airport security story. The system you describe is hardly unique to Germany, so this just reads like hyperbole or inexperience travelling. > Classic example of government run workflows This I can agre
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by guitarbill 8mo ago
I'm a fan of the RP2040 chip. It's a good trade-off between being simple and capable. There are more powerful chips like the STM32's, but frankly there are too many variants and their data-sheets are nightmarish. And there ar
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by guitarbill 10mo ago
I really like the idea... but I have to admit my first visceral reaction was "I hate this". I think it's because the tone and style is quite infantile/childish. A good experiment nonetheless. Maybe there's a middle
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by guitarbill 10mo ago
You aren't wrong on either; Germany's tax law is insanely complex but also many people don't want to change the tax law as they can deduct a million and one things.
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by guitarbill 10mo ago
> Same story with rollover testing. That's for occupants. > Furthermore, the NHTSA doesn't do most testing. Which is why I quoted IIHS and other non-US testing. > NHTSA standards Which standards are for e.g. pedestrian s
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by guitarbill 10mo ago
Downvote or not, it's true: > NHTSA conducts frontal, side and rollover tests because these types account for the majority of crashes on America's roadways. > IIHS tests evaluate two aspects of safety: crashworthiness — how
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by guitarbill 11mo ago
First, you try to normalise it: > It is completely normal for staff to have to work 24/7 for critical services. > Not only is it normal, it is essential and required. Now you come with the weak "you don't have to take t
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by guitarbill 11mo ago
Nice try at guilt-tripping people doing on-call, and doing it for free. But to parent's points: if you call a plumber or HVAC tech at 3am, you'll pay for the privilege. And doctors and nurses have shifts/rotas. At some tech p
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by guitarbill 11mo ago
As far as I can tell, the author isn't claiming e.g. all of Usenet or IRC was affected. Only that this issue has been happening to communities for a long time in many different online places.
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by guitarbill 1y ago
Sorry, it's not even close to Rust. Or even C# or Java. It can't provide the same "fearless refactoring". It is better than being blind/having to infer everything manually. That's not saying much. And that&#x27
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by guitarbill 1y ago
In the US, mugshots of people are published before they have been found guilty. Comparing privacy laws by example is beyond ridiculous. And there are big cultural differences what "privacy" entails.
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by guitarbill 1y ago
> law enforcement is in a difficult situation Are they? More so than usual? This rhetorical device or similar seems to be always used, no matter the situation or time. "Criminals are so sophisticated, our jobs are so hard, we need m
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by guitarbill 1y ago
> I feel like you're defending the system in Germany not because it's a better system as measured by some objective criteria but because it's the system that you identify with. Is there any sort of data to back up the asse
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by guitarbill 1y ago
> Taxation without representation could not be juvenile thinking, it's a founding concept of my country which seems to be lost today If by "my country" you mean the US, it's perfectly happy with taxation without repre
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by guitarbill 2y ago
Time and survivorship bias can explain the ultra-large MySQL usage, given it used to be the popular choice.
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by guitarbill 2y ago
> Also has excellent Windows[1] support so I can take it everywhere! Nit: You mentioned it can be used "everywhere". That would be a useful feature! But while it's kinda true, there's some quite big limitations IMO
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by guitarbill 2y ago
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by guitarbill 2y ago
The post was edited, previously it just said roughly this part: "step 2 and 3 here: https://go.dev/tour/concurrency/1 ". Which - as far as I can tell - does not mention worker pools...
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by guitarbill 2y ago
> Just feels like lots of devs will take whatever random configs they find online Well it usually isn't a mystery. Requiring a developer team to learn k8s likely with no resources, time, or help is not a recipe for success. You migh
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by guitarbill 2y ago
> Supply needs to meet demand: we most need new housing where the economy is booming and jobs are being added. > But you act like we need some federal authority to say, "okay guys, put housing HERE". That's totally unne
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by guitarbill 2y ago
Sure, absolutely. But we've also seen that landlords/owners are sometimes happy to keep units vacant. Or just use RealPage. How many vacant units are required? And where? For what it's worth, I agree housing is nutty. But few
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by guitarbill 2y ago
> Western governments have just become NIMBY-entrenched. The whole culture and bureaucracy is designed to make building things expensive, painful, and time-consuming, and then we look around and wonder why we can't seem to build eno
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by guitarbill 2y ago
rust-analyzer, the Rust LSP used in e.g. VSCode, can expand declarative and proc macros recursively. it isn't too bad, although the fewer proc macros in a code base, the better. declarative macros are slightly easier to grok, but much
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by guitarbill 2y ago
I have a similar experience. Was drawn to Rust not because of performance or safety (although it's a big bonus), but because of the tooling and type system. Eventually, it does get easier. I do think that's a poor argument, kind o
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by guitarbill 2y ago
I don't really understand this argument, and it isn't the first time I've heard it. What problem other than name squatting does it solve? How does a Java style com.foo.bar or Golang style URL help e.g. mitigate supply chain a
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by guitarbill 2y ago
Wasn't alive in the 60s and don't have a US perspective only a UK/EU one. My parents did see the Stones in the day and I distinctly remember them struggling to decide whether they should go see them in the 00s because tickets
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by guitarbill 2y ago
It sure seems that things like concerts, festivals, theme parks, even movies are more expensive than e.g. 20 years ago - though I don't have inflation-adjusted data on hand. If true, people are willing to pay more for these kinds of &q
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by guitarbill 2y ago
Huh, "Hast du das gechecked?" used to mean "Hast du das kapiert?", with a quite negative connotation.

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