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by seanc 28d ago
Agree 100%. I often tell expecting parents "All the hard stuff they tell you about; the sleep loss, the stress, the cost... All that stuff is true. But there's also all this amazing stuff they don't tell you about, which i
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by seanc 1mo ago
Which is why they cleverly moved the central story of a software change from the commit to the PR. Commits migrate automatically with the repo. But migrating PR descriptions and comments takes engineering effort.
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by seanc 2mo ago
My goodness, the security layer looks like it could be more complex than the applications themselves. And if this security agent is wandering around the IT system gathering all of these details about access and identity and business process
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by seanc 2mo ago
If you're NVIDIA then open-weight models are a classic example of commoditizing your complements; cheaper models mean more people buying GPU's to run them. [1] Your guess is as good as mine for China though. [1] https:/&#x2F
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by seanc 2mo ago
Not as such, but out of the box you get reword and fixup as first-class rebase macros. I use them all the time. If you wanted to split a commit you'd still have to use a magit-assisted rebase. So if magit added explicit 'history&
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by seanc 3mo ago
I agree. It's amazing. I feel like I've got a private Emacs consultant at my elbow.
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by seanc 3mo ago
This is the way.
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by seanc 5mo ago
Folks focus on the impact simplicity has on the customer, but it's also worth noting the impact it has on the manufacturer. With a simple product they get a simple business. - Simple warranty support - No deep bench of customer suppo
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by seanc 6mo ago
Upvoted. Sooner or later the Grim Reaper comes for us all.
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by seanc 6mo ago
I'm more curious about the other direction. How many times has a model replied to a request with "Are you sure?" I'd bet just about zero. In my job I do it all the time; people ask for stuff and I often spend a lot of
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by seanc 8mo ago
We had to pause the movie and explain to our kids who June Cleaver was. It was a fun echo, because when I was a kid I watched it with my parents, and my Mom had to explain to me who Ethel Merman was.
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by seanc 8mo ago
Code filled with errors and warnings? PR's merged with failing CI? So I guess they've achieved human parity then? (I'll see myself out)
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by seanc 10mo ago
As always, anticipated (at least in some sense) by Neal Stephenson: https://www.wired.com/1994/10/spew/
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by seanc 11mo ago
Kim Stanley Robinson's description of a Martian space elevator falling and wrapping twice around the entire planet convinced me that they aren't a good idea. https://www.kimstanleyrobinson.info/content/clarke
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by seanc 1y ago
I knew which scene that was before I clicked the link.
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by seanc 1y ago
I think Library Science has contributed much more to modern computing than we ever realize. For example, I often bring up images of card catalogs when explaining database indexing. As soon as people see the index card, and then see that th
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by seanc 1y ago
Back in the 90's I worked at Nortel and visited a modest size Captive Office in Los Angeles. It supported maybe 20k or 30k people. I was amazed by the field of lead-acid batteries, 1.5m high x 50m^2.
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by seanc 1y ago
"The past is never dead. It's not even past" - William Faulkner Visual code is all over the place if you look; Any time something advertises itself as "low code" or "no code" it's a drag-and-drop flow
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by seanc 1y ago
"No one wants to write ifs, fors and whiles as connected nodes" For what it's worth LabVIEW presents those structures as container boxes, which IMO works well enough. To put it another way, visual coding has many problems, b
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by seanc 2y ago
Exactly! Several different sorts of folks have an interest in product architecture, and each group needs the story told at a different level of abstraction. So inevitably one has to maintain a few different flavours of the diagram and ass
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by seanc 2y ago
We're not as far apart as you might think. Clock time is correlated with performance, but by no means determinative. More important is initiative, enthusiasm, leadership, reliability, etc. All in, I work very little overtime. And yo
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by seanc 2y ago
I've been in high tech for 30 years, and I've been laid off many times, most often from failed start ups. I _strongly_ disagree with a fully cynical response of working only to contract, leveraging job offers for raises, etc. The
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by seanc 2y ago
No, the carrier leverage did not come from network policy, it came from sales-channel. That is to say, in those days one way or another every device passed through a carrier's hands before reaching the customer. So carriers controlle
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by seanc 2y ago
Remember Jim B. scoffing at how you had to plug an iPhone in every night? And how much more efficient BlackBerrys were with data? Steve knew that the customers did. not. care. And that the carriers would build more cell stations if they h
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by seanc 2y ago
I was at RIM at that time and saw _exactly_ the same thing. When I started in 2008, in addition to WiFi and apps they were squabbling with carriers about whether or not the Blackberry needed an antenna. Carriers were micromanaging devices
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by seanc 2y ago
The sort order of the alphabet symbols is arbitrary, but since all of the words are composed of an ordered set of symbols then sorting the words relative to one another is trivial.
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by seanc 2y ago
Now I'm wondering how well calibrated those automatic public cuffs are in the first place...
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by seanc 2y ago
Maybe an apochryphal story, but a famous orchestra conductor was talking to the players before a Mozart review show and had this to say: "Look, I know that professionals like you have been playing this music since you were kids and don
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by seanc 2y ago
In the old days we'd use tcpdump and wireshark for this, but nowadays everything is encrypted up in the application layer so you need this kind of thing. Or tricky key dumping hacks.
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by seanc 2y ago
The inspection and debugging features this offers are great additions though. I've stared at VCR yaml enough times to not want to ever do it again.

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