mattmcknight

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by mattmcknight 26d ago
Scar is also a very loaded word to use here for something that is not a scar.
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by mattmcknight 2mo ago
This is why I hate the "marketplace" of these stores. In many cases these products never hit their inventory at all, they are functioning like a search engine and payments processor.
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by mattmcknight 2mo ago
It is really trendy? I don't think important, irreplaceable or integral are semantically equivalent. Required and necessary almost get there. The point is that if you want to remove it or change it, you need to put something else in pl
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by mattmcknight 2mo ago
Guaranteed issue can be achieved without requiring "free" checkups. However, it can't be achieved without the individual mandate. And no one has shown any interesting in enforcing the individual mandate (despite the forced ta
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by mattmcknight 2mo ago
> It existed only as extremely expensive boutique products until the government put its regulatory thumb on the scale and passed the ACA. 100% untrue. There were affordable catastrophic coverage plans available, and many were made illega
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by mattmcknight 2mo ago
What do you replace it with? "necessary dependency"?
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by mattmcknight 2mo ago
People do write like that. Claude learned it from somewhere, after all. I read an X post yesterday where someone was complaining about "genuinely" as being an AI tell. I think the broader phenomenon with the AI tells is it is reve
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by mattmcknight 4mo ago
Perhaps we can blame exposure to actual pathogens which resemble the pollen in some way, triggering a misdirected immune system response.
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by mattmcknight 4mo ago
> What do release trains have to do with SAFe? An Agile Release Train (ART) in SAFe is a long-lived, cross-functional "team of teams" (typically 50–150 people) that plans, commits, and delivers value together on a synchronized,
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by mattmcknight 5mo ago
"release train" ... "learn how to ship software faster" SAFe is poison.
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by mattmcknight 8mo ago
Sort by controversial. https://slatestarcodex.com/2018/10/30/sort-by-controversial/ Just need to find the right scissor statement to really get the debate going.
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by mattmcknight 10mo ago
One person wants a list of their political enemies banned from software conferences, one of them doesn't want them banned. Which one is tolerant? The only intolerance and exclusion I see is from those requesting that specific people wi
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by mattmcknight 10mo ago
Can we fix the title to be "scams and banned items"? It seems like the banned items bit is misleadingly left out, and this title falsely implies it is 10% from scams alone.
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by mattmcknight 11mo ago
I am really tired of the lazy argument style of using "corporate" as a synonym for "bad". I too think it's bad to encourage addictive gamblers. I don't care if it is corporate, individual, or state run.
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by mattmcknight 11mo ago
It seems like things have ended up in a better place than they started.
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by mattmcknight 1y ago
For me, the push to single page applications and the unnecessary complexity that brought with it made me just sick of fooling around with web things- we had solved the problem and they invented nonsense that made it harder. There has been s
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by mattmcknight 1y ago
"the postmodernists attacking physics" The Sokal affair was a physicist attacking the postmodernists for attacking physics (and scientific realism) by showing the postmodernists would publish complete nonsense. The current attack
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by mattmcknight 1y ago
I think it depends a little on what your intended head is? Headless CMS is just CRUD UI for a database that has an API.
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by mattmcknight 1y ago
This is where John Gall's Systemantics comes into play, “A complex system that works is invariably found to have evolved from a simple system that worked. The inverse proposition also appears to be true: A complex system designed from
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by mattmcknight 1y ago
> Anytime data is recorded legal is immediately asking about retention so they don't end up empty handed in front of a judge. In my experience, they are setting automated 90 deletion policies on email so they don't end up with
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by mattmcknight 1y ago
I have 10 Claude agents running so I am able to develop years of experience in parallel.
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by mattmcknight 1y ago
They sued both.
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by mattmcknight 1y ago
I am trying to explore the ways in which the IPO, in particular, separate from the continued operation of the company, is evidence that blocking M&A is good. I have seen nothing from you supporting Khan's position that the IPO is v
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by mattmcknight 1y ago
They were independent the whole time and it wasn't considered a success. I suppose IPO is an indicator they might stay independent longer. Now that they are in the public markets even Adobe can buy a few shares. I just don't feel
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by mattmcknight 1y ago
But how is the IPO a sign of success in that case?
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by mattmcknight 1y ago
But the company only sold the shares at $19.3B.
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by mattmcknight 1y ago
So blocking a sale at a $20B valuation so the company can IPO at a $19.3B valuation 3 years later (a loss of $700M in value over 3 years) is a success?
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by mattmcknight 1y ago
React is so unnecessary. Would make more sense to do this with web components. The event model of VB, before .Net, was much more coherent.
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by mattmcknight 1y ago
The original source explains that it is 1 home in addition to a primary residence.
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by mattmcknight 1y ago
It's not even a long article, but why are so many of the comments ignoring the end of it? "Indications are that institutional investors are scaling back home sales." from the article would seem to contradict a large number o

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