mbonnet

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by mbonnet 7d ago
just donated to the saddle lake cree nation's GFM for this. great use of indigenous rights
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by mbonnet 15d ago
you've listed eight different software doodads I'd need to accomplish what my one Spotify app that gives me access to everything I need for $15 does.
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by mbonnet 15d ago
yes, that + jams are important to me socially
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by mbonnet 15d ago
Why I stay: 1. family plan that I run. my parents and siblings all use it. 2. social. Sharing playlists matters to me, and everyone else uses spotify. This is also important in my romantic pursuits. 3. It has 10+ years of my listening histo
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by mbonnet 16d ago
You can disable that behavior in the settings.
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by mbonnet 16d ago
I definitely enjoy Wrapped. But also something that keeps me in Spotify is the social aspect. If I want to make a playlist for someone, 95% of people I know use Spotify, so I need to have Spotify.
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by mbonnet 16d ago
Why do you think you need to take action on how other people raise their children?
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by mbonnet 16d ago
Apex Space | Multiple Roles | Full-Time | Onsite | Los Angeles, CA | apexspace.com Apex Space is building standardized spacecraft platforms to enable true mass-production of spacecraft and enabling getting varied and similarly mass-produced
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by mbonnet 22d ago
this is counterbalanced by somewhat talented products of nepotism getting in, like Stella Lefty
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by mbonnet 1mo ago
Who the hell uses GitHub socially?
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by mbonnet 1mo ago
Using LLMs for prose that matters is already a perversion of writing.
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by mbonnet 1mo ago
> transcendence > immanence somebody has been studying Christian theology!
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by mbonnet 1mo ago
Apex Space | Multiple Roles | Full-Time | Onsite | Los Angeles, CA | apexspace.com Apex Space is building standardized spacecraft platforms to enable true mass-production of spacecraft and enabling getting varied and similarly mass-produced
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by mbonnet 2mo ago
Robert Martin, the author of Clean Code, is a caustic dick defending a book full of spurious commandments. I don't put any stock in his takes.
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by mbonnet 2mo ago
> I break about 1 USB-C plug a week. That's a you problem. I have never done this, and neither have any of the dozen people I just asked in my office.
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by mbonnet 2mo ago
Yes. People don't want to go out and buy or borrow physical writing, or lug around a laptop, if they don't have to.
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by mbonnet 4mo ago
what makes you think you can unilaterally expand a very well-accepted meaning of a term, especially in a discussion that is basically semantics of the term?
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by mbonnet 4mo ago
it's generally another layer on top of things like unit testing, MC/DC coverage, etc. not all programs use formal verification though.
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by mbonnet 4mo ago
now I have a moral reason (in addition to clear engineering reasons) to never use Flux!
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by mbonnet 4mo ago
The potion seller guy wrote Challengers
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by mbonnet 4mo ago
Golden Dome is tens of billions of dollars for extremely limited small-salvo ballistic missile interception. It will get canceled next administration, and for good reason.
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by mbonnet 4mo ago
A decent amount of mission-critical software undergoes formal verification, like spacecraft flight software (my area of expertise). SparkADA lives on because of not just its safety, but formal verifiability.
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by mbonnet 4mo ago
I agree. Art isn't a playing field!
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by mbonnet 4mo ago
This is why you should have several of them checking against the same rulesets and cross-check them to reduce chasing of false positives.
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by mbonnet 4mo ago
this is pretty much my conclusion. I try very hard to teach my interns the straight and narrow.
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by mbonnet 5mo ago
That, or any other potentially apocalyptic event
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by mbonnet 5mo ago
what is the point of this comment?
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by mbonnet 5mo ago
> I would like to know how can someone like me defend against them? You could take the Galactica approach - de-network everything you can.
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by mbonnet 5mo ago
How are GLPs bad for the world?
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by mbonnet 6mo ago
It is absolutely something to be ashamed of, and a moral crime.

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