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The ugly reality is consultants like Martin have little production coding experience. Martin has posts going back to the early 90s showing he had little understanding of how softwa…

"Not all households are as dysfunctional as the ones you described". This comment of course needs to be taken in the context of HN. In the wider world, we have literal tens of mill…

I feel the same way, and treat AI the same. Very conservative use, and check everything possible. To me, the key missing factor with the current crop of AI is the lack of physical …

I disagree a little bit, but only for this reason: the amount matters because it is invariably very, very small compared to the revenue/profit of the company and the impact the lob…

That machine was my intro to computers too, and I was fascinated by “fast mode” blanking the screen and the interesting tradeoffs between hardware and software.

It is jarring to me that most of the dancing seems slightly out of sync with the music. It is like a music video uncanny valley - images look good, but the lack of sync to the soun…

Very commonly in the U.S. are liabilities that "run with the land", not the owner. This is done intentionally. Easements can be a huge headache too e.g. some utility may have an ea…

My 2023 Mazda CX-5 uses knobs to control car play, it basically acts like using Tab key to walk through selectable UI elements.

Based on your description, I don't think the process is working. You describe a shared database, micro services you aren't aware of using the same database, and a desire for everyo…

I think you're missing the point of the poster you are replying to. You make it sound like 3 weeks is 3 years. It ain't. Very little, or possible nothing at all, is going to change…

The original Agile poster child, Chrysler Comprehensive Compensation System (C3) was never very successful as a project. It achieved only a fraction of its goals and was ultimately…

This was the issue with the early agile-developed systems. Not that they didn’t write no code, obviously, but they didn’t understand the domain and so YAGNI’d everyone to death. As…

What Beck misses over and over again is there are many domains where there are “table stakes” that simply have to be done. I think a huge amount of technical debt goes straight to …

This sounds great until your counterparties, banks, the government, customers and others complain bitterly that your monetary amounts are off. Your expectations of course are not u…

My personal take is a pre-requisite of true human-like AI is physical feedback and a concept of emotions or something like it. Without physical feedback you can rapidly devolve int…

Needs 2019 in title, this is Intel MacBooks not Apple Silicon.

I am not surprised, but disappointed, to see something like the CHIPS Act be used for something which is still in ultra-super-unbelievably-early-research-phase. Put more candidly, …

I have been using an 8GB Macbook Air M1 for non-development work, and it has been fantastic. Macos really excels at managing memory very well.

I went to Holmdel High and my girlfriend's dad was an engineer at the Bell Labs Holmdel location. As it turns out he invented a little something called Adaptive Delta Modulation (a…

> What happens at your job if there's suddenly 14 times as much load? You mean like every startup ever that has been successful? And for a service that is heavily text bound? A 14x…

Maybe I am really dense, but a single issue getting 2 vs 25 PRs seems to be no practical difference.

"AI coders submitting 25 PRs within an hour of an issue being filed, GitHub bears the brunt of that....". What "brunt"? These are not large numbers.

Precisely. If Microsoft can't scale something like Git 14x, then the problem is with Microsoft.

I really don't understand people saying that this is due to AI commits and it is all the volume's fault. A volume increase that is a single order of magnitude (which 14x is) should…

My roommate circa 1989 had a bunch of Apple II’s with multiple modem cards per machine to run a bulletin board. Not sure why an Apple II could support multiple users logging into t…