jacobsenscott

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by jacobsenscott 3mo ago
The upside will mostly be the schadenfreude we'll get when, coming in Q4 of this year, the managerial class is finally called on to show ROI for the $100,000+ (depending on company size) per employee they shunted to anthropic and opena
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by jacobsenscott 3mo ago
It cannot be uninstalled
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by jacobsenscott 3mo ago
You never need to write "fix", or "prevent" if you write a good message. Nobody says "fixed the car by changing the flat tire" or "Go prevent engine wear by getting an oil change today. You say "Chang
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by jacobsenscott 3mo ago
None of this is as good as "free array memory before it goes out of scope". This is better than `fix: memory leak` - which is what most people would do. It's also better than `fix: free array memory...` because `fix:` is redu
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by jacobsenscott 3mo ago
This is what a changelog is for
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by jacobsenscott 3mo ago
There's no benefit to any of this. Just write like human. It will be clear if it's a fix, or a refactor, or ?. Typically it isn't just one of those things.
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by jacobsenscott 4mo ago
The "Just Say No" engineer is a person who knows what existing tools can do, while more junior people don't know what their tools can do. So junior people are constantly proposing new types of yak shaving (new architecture, n
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by jacobsenscott 4mo ago
Reading a well written programming book will put you ahead of 99% of other programmers using that language. Most programmers learn some subset of a language to get things working, and never learn more than that.
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by jacobsenscott 4mo ago
When a cop does millions of dollars of damage they only choice is for tax payers to pay, or for the victims to get nothing. Definitely the cops should also face consequences though.
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by jacobsenscott 4mo ago
Many (most? idk) governments that employ the cops (city, county, whatever) do have insurance for this, and grant police qualified immunity. There are some attempts to hold cops liable as well - https://leg.colorado.gov/bills
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by jacobsenscott 5mo ago
Can't you just build the source and run it without giving them any information? Or does the editor itself require information and phone home while running?
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by jacobsenscott 5mo ago
These are called co-los (co-location facilities). Probably any medium to large city has a few.
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by jacobsenscott 5mo ago
> technology, ai, screentime Significant parts of our society and government are actively hostile to education. Blaming the students is convenient, but probably not accurate.
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by jacobsenscott 5mo ago
> They'll never accept intentionally "slower" development for the greater good. That comes post Chernobyl.
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by jacobsenscott 5mo ago
> ...for a few days, access is granted to this work. The number is extremely limited. The window only lasts four days. Will you answer the call?... What? This sounds like a phishing email from before phishing emails got good.
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by jacobsenscott 5mo ago
> Highly skilled early- to mid- career engineers, technologists, and innovators join NASA for focused term appointments, typically 1–2 years with the possibility of extension, to solve complex... is somewhere in that word salad. I think
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by jacobsenscott 5mo ago
Given the list of very large companies in the "glasswing" project - it is likely every competent state actor and criminal organization already has access to Mythos in one way or another. Meanwhile the opensource volunteers respons
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by jacobsenscott 6mo ago
> t just sounds like a giant scheme to burn through tokens and give money to the AI corps, and tech directors are falling for it immediately. This is exactly what's happening. The top 5 or 6 companies in the s&p 500 are running
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by jacobsenscott 7mo ago
If you're a billionaire there's no risk to "sticking to principles", so there's nothing to admire. Also that's not what they're doing. These are calculated moves in a negotiation and the trump regime only
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by jacobsenscott 7mo ago
I don't know if I've seen "tech debt" do serious damage to any company, and I've been around a long time. I've definitely seen whole teams grind to a halt in pursuit of someone's idealized vision of the &q
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by jacobsenscott 7mo ago
I've been watching PgDog for a while now. Great progress!
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by jacobsenscott 7mo ago
It wasn't that long ago that email servers just trusted all input, and we saw what happened there. Right now the entire internet is wide open to LLM bots and the same thing will happen. But rather than just happening to one thing (emai
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by jacobsenscott 7mo ago
It's not so bad over here in android world. If you don't like the keyboard you can just pick a different keyboard.
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by jacobsenscott 7mo ago
YC has always been about cashing in on the latest grift, and nothing more.
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by jacobsenscott 7mo ago
FB/Discord/etc were never the internet. They were walled gardens you could enter via the internet. This could be a revitalization of the internet - pushing people back to decentralized ways of communications.
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by jacobsenscott 7mo ago
Remember when businesses ran on cobbled together access databases and vb? It was easier than building something ny prompting an llm.I made a good living just rewriting those things for them when they fell apart.
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by jacobsenscott 8mo ago
The second footnote makes it clear, if it wasn't clear from the start, that this is just a marketing document. Sticking the word "constitution" on it doesn't change that.
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by jacobsenscott 8mo ago
Governments and corporations are never interested in protecting children - they don't vote, and they don't have money. So making it "easier for predators to find victims" is not a failure of the policy.
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by jacobsenscott 8mo ago
mise has more features - it is a super set of asdf. For example it can set your env vars when you cd into a directory (like direnv). It also has tasks (which I haven't used) - they appear to be similar to what a Makefile does. So you c
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by jacobsenscott 8mo ago
Trump watched the video in front of a bunch of reporters and said "meh". Nothing will change for 3.5 years minimum. 40% of the country thinks he's doing great, and a greater percentage of those 40% vote vs the people who vote

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