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The regular 17 is cheaper than the Air, not more expensive. And it has a better camera and battery and a slightly worse processor (but still better than the 14 there). The next gen…

> Keeping things up to date and holding critical infrastructure to higher standards than consumer tech is not a bad idea. This is a great theory, but practice (over centuries now i…

The legal arguments against Flock are different than the legal arguments against thermal imaging by the police (without a warrant or probably cause). And the latter is closer to th…

It's already been decided by SCOTUS that things like heat imaging require a warrant, and that arbitrary scanning without a warrant (or presumably also probable cause) is a violatio…

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49166860 - huge discussion over here

It was updated and the second edition was published last year. I have not read it so have no idea what changed and what did not.

> You're sacrificing end user experience for developer ergonomics. No. You may be sacrificing end user experience, but it's not guaranteed. You have to examine the system under dev…

Iran has been two weeks away from getting the bomb for decades now. And last year the US supposedly set them back decades on their nuclear aims. This war was absolutely unnecessary…

> Gas prices are up a bit. A gross understatement. https://www.eia.gov/dnav/pet/hist/LeafHandler.ashx?n=PET&s=E... Zoom in on this year and you'll see it's below $3 a gallon in Jan…

That as well, what resistance was present was reduced from what it could have been (not everyone was in on it).

> But running out of missiles—which is the accusation being made above—would be a tactical and logistics failure, not a strategic one. It's absolutely a strategic failure to enter …

> Have we already forgotten what happened to Maduro? What other country in the history of the world could pull something like that off? Venezuela was a raid, not a full on war. And…

> He also could have showed the if-statement version, and it wouldn't have some of the performance impacts, but there's a big chunk of the article that's independent of that. You j…

It's a strawman because Muratori took an obvious toy example meant to illustrate a concept (using classes and methods to dispatch on operations instead of using a series of if/else…

I've seen 10k+ SLOC functions written in C, and 20k SLOC functions written in Fortran, so it wouldn't surprise me if people created ones as big as bluGill describes. The C was almo…

> programming in general is waaaaaay bigger than what the book covers. It's way bigger than any book covers. Clean Code has some useful things, but if anyone actually reads chapter…

> So is The Pedestrian... It's set in November, not August, and another 27 years further in the future (at least the version currently linked to on the front page).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1981_Professional_Air_Traffic_... That's the last time there was an ATC strike, 90% were fired and they got none of their demands. Turns out, the peop…

> Where was the air traffic controllers' union? They could have used industrial action to address the unsafe conditions Effectively neutered 45 years ago after the strike in 1981.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49158144 - CNN submission earlier, people flagged it.

> It's an 18 year old kid talking up their accomplishments two years ago on Twitter. 16-year-old, not 18-year-old. The original work that they disproved with GPT-5.5 was from two y…

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49115506 - 112 comments from a few days ago on this same topic, different source.