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by questionableans 4d ago
What kind of software are you talking about? Test harnesses were commonly used in 2006. JUnit was created in 1997.
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by questionableans 4d ago
Or it does make economic sense, but the people drawn to power are too deluded to understand.
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by questionableans 4d ago
I don’t mean for one data center, I mean globally. There are resource limits to this planet, and we’ve been stretching past them in the short term, and are starting to see the long term consequences. The problem is people think “oh, it’s ok
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by questionableans 5d ago
More likely all they’ll pull ahead in is making an even bigger mess.
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by questionableans 5d ago
Winners don’t decide what is sustainable, the reality of the planet does.
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by questionableans 5d ago
It’s not just a feel good thing. There are real resource limits, even if someone chooses to foolishly not believe that. If you can get more done with a given level of power and other resources, you get more out of your data centers.
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by questionableans 5d ago
There is a huge business opportunity to become the world leader in sustainable data center design. Whoever wins could one day have immense influence over every single data center in the world (or even out of this world, where efficient reso
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by questionableans 19d ago
There once was a time when tech companies mostly stayed out of SF. People who worked in the valley but hated it lived in SF amongst mostly people who had nothing to do with the tech industry. Then someone had the bright idea to put branch o
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by questionableans 22d ago
Or is it a transition to truly declarative programming?
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by questionableans 27d ago
Yes, and your second paragraph above is the interesting part that I would want the reader to focus on, starting from the title.
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by questionableans 27d ago
But a language being “typed” doesn’t tell us anything useful. Untyped languages are typed too: they’re uni-typed (every expression is an expression). I think you do your analysis a disservice by focusing on “is assembly language typed?” as
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by questionableans 29d ago
The only shaming I’ve seen are for people using AI badly or not at all. I also think we should differentiate between programming to get a program you can do something else with, programming to understand the machine, and programming to give
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by questionableans 1mo ago
And their team, if they treat them well.
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by questionableans 1mo ago
Yeah, the car is significantly older than that, and I last tried the FSD trial a couple years ago.
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by questionableans 1mo ago
I’m glad to hear it’s gotten better. This was a couple of years ago, when they were pushing the free trials. It’s an earlier Model 3, and I barely drive it. I’m clearly not a typical driver. I love keeping the camera views all on screen for
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by questionableans 1mo ago
Maybe just a motherboard if it would be compatible with standard drives, power supply, etc?
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by questionableans 1mo ago
Tried FSD once. It was very confused about a traffic circle, cruised up to it & slammed on the brakes. Got rear ended (at low speed). The incomplete, miscategorizing and glitching display of other vehicles and obstacles does not give me
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by questionableans 2mo ago
Were Roland MIDI keyboards used by the developers to capture game audio tracks as played by musicians? Maybe they already had the driver code from that.
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by questionableans 2mo ago
Including Windows 11 on T2 Macs, even though there are places online that claim it doesn’t work. It’s much easier to set up Linux, though.
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by questionableans 2mo ago
I feel like Apple got a lot of devs who would otherwise be Linux users on board circa 2005 due to solid-feeling laptop hardware with drivers and power management that just worked. That pattern became self-propagating as startups scaled up,
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by questionableans 2mo ago
I second that. I wouldn’t buy an Intel Mac specifically to run Linux, but my T2 Mac Minis work well for me on Linux. I did have to copy some Broadcom firmware from macOS, and I keep a small macOS installation in order to access recovery mod
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by questionableans 2mo ago
It gets tricky when you want to say “allow this particular tool to have a little more access.” Like allow the codex client to access the GPT API but not some random other site the LLM learned about. Or like letting git write to .git to comm
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by questionableans 2mo ago
Sorry, I meant that’s not desirable behavior that the user might expect. I understand that coding agent tools tend to play fast and loose with access because it’s not their own privacy/security at stake.
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by questionableans 2mo ago
The repo you’re working on, sure. But all files?
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by questionableans 2mo ago
Third option: realize the effect of the policy is undesirable and change it.
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by questionableans 2mo ago
Real police are trained not to stand in front of or reach into vehicles.
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by questionableans 2mo ago
What a mess.
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by questionableans 2mo ago
There is something fishy about where someone happened to be born (or looks/sounds like they’re from), where they are, and the relationships between different government blowhards having a bigger impact on their life than just being a d
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by questionableans 2mo ago
It’s because the way it’s being done in the US is unnecessarily brutal and arbitrarily discriminates more against people from certain countries.
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by questionableans 3mo ago
Are bubble sort and quick sort the same algorithm?

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