hinkley

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by hinkley 3d ago
In 2010. Nobody has a phone to check the time and call people anymore, and haven't since smart phones became de rigeur.
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by hinkley 7d ago
At this point I don't even really need a phone. Nobody makes calls anymore and I can use my watch for 911 calls. What I need is a more portable iPad. But that would cannibalize iPhone sales.
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by hinkley 7d ago
I'd like to think if Steve were around, the apple watch would have been pushed for more battery life and connectivity instead of more health monitoring, which is a gimmick people mostly use for a few months and then turn off. I'd
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by hinkley 7d ago
There was a while where the bezels were getting smaller and the pixels cleaner where getting a new iphone/ipad pretty much kept pace with my declining near vision. But these days I pretty much need to buy different pants so the goddamn
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by hinkley 7d ago
At this point it's feeding screen addiction. When I go for walks I only bring my smart watch. If I break an ankle or someone has an emergency we can talk. But I can't pull up a bench and doomscroll for an hour.
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by hinkley 7d ago
I feel like they should have started with a folding iPad.
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by hinkley 7d ago
I didn’t say it’s happening. It’s a next step that has already been tried by others, though.
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by hinkley 7d ago
The problem with number 2 is that it creates an allowance for people to plant the wrong tree in the wrong place and have fallback instead of being rewarded for their complete lack of forethought by having their tree summarily removed. One o
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by hinkley 8d ago
I'm remembering cooking recipes. Here's a simple recipe for deviled eggs with only four ingredients. My great grandmother was born during the Great Depression. They valued foods that could be made with cheap ingredients. [four par
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by hinkley 8d ago
You lack imagination, which is a liability in this field. Not your creds. Nothing stops the manufacturer from making a deal to get an account from XFinity and shipping the creds on the TV. Then they can exfiltrate data from anyone who has
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by hinkley 8d ago
I was about to switch carriers anyway, that was the kick in the butt I needed to make the call and schedule an appointment. Some parts of these organizations are aware that some of their rent comes from inertia. Other parts don't reali
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by hinkley 8d ago
XFinity has some bullshit where your router provides an AP for other XFinity members. My understanding is that it uses bandwidth you aren't paying for to carry this signal rather than using up what you paid for, but still it's bee
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by hinkley 8d ago
> for a few turns at most before they completely forget Which sounds more like Claude has ADHD than the user does.
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by hinkley 8d ago
You're going to hell for that bit.
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by hinkley 8d ago
Do you suppose it's just that it's aping humans who say too much without saying anything or do you think maybe this is a stalling tactic to get people to spread out their transactions? Like how theme parks generally don't do
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by hinkley 8d ago
Might I suggest you instead call this Executive Summary? It's not just neurodiverse people who would like to get to the fucking point sooner and the explanations afterward. All of us have other shit we need to be doing.
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by hinkley 13d ago
I think the idea was that the IDE trusted itself, the same way we trust the CI server. Ken Thompson's Trusting Trust holds pretty equally for both.
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by hinkley 13d ago
Some compression libraries have an 'rsync compatibility mode', that plays some games with the block sizes to make it easier to rsync to not have to completely re-transmit a large compressed file because not the whole file changes
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by hinkley 13d ago
I was informed many eons ago that one of the hot features of Rational was that when one user made a change that required recompiling the headers, those headers were uploaded to the server so that other users didn't have to recompile th
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by hinkley 14d ago
Yeah the number of times displeasure with our lack of progress turned out to be some customer yelling at a manager who forgot to prioritize work for that customer and I later discovered was just letting the shit roll downhill was too damned
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by hinkley 15d ago
I have a rule of thumb that goes something like, if you want to get people to use something 2x as much you need to make it 4x more reliable. The reliability becomes a enticement, and you will often underestimate how much more popular it wil
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by hinkley 15d ago
They also remove the secret menu item of rewrites which is to have some peace from management because you’re not delivering anything for a long time while you do the rewrite. I predict AI will cause the number of rewrites people ask for to
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by hinkley 17d ago
Wonder if this effect happens at all with stone.
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by hinkley 17d ago
I was taught this in school thirty years ago. Is this not a known thing?
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by hinkley 18d ago
Yes, the curse of knowledge. The new person only has industry jargon that everyone else will have and so they will describe any new concepts that way instead of with the circular logic the team has established. And that is often something I
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by hinkley 18d ago
I also repeat the process with people that I'm responsible for onboarding. But it becomes my responsibility to compliment their contributions to the project in those early days so that it quells their nervousness about me tapping the b
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by hinkley 18d ago
You could still do map-reduce operations, but for it to really fly, what you'd want is a side channel between the memory chips that allows the reduce to happen out of band from the front-side bus and the reduction to be sent to the CPU
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by hinkley 18d ago
Maybe PIM will push this forward, but I still think we're doing something fundamentally wrong by not just embracing NUMA and trying to do something Sun tried decades ago, which is have number of cores share 4GB of semiprivate working
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by hinkley 18d ago
Yes, and no. Two decades ago it was a challenge to get people to see that what they were doing was preventing horizontal scaling. Today horizontal scaling is table stakes and people don't even always register that they are doing it. It
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by hinkley 18d ago
Nobody talks about SEI anymore but their Capability Maturity Model informed and/or aligned with how I approach new-to-me projects whether that 'new role' is internal or a new employer. CMM says that an engineering team whose

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