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jj has made me much more comfortable using non-linear DAGs in my trunk-based development workflow. Several changes with the same parent, changes with several different parents, etc…

At internet scale, this would roughly be equivalent to not doing any warning or detection at all. Scalable systems need to use heuristics to catch threats. Needing concrete evidenc…

How is any kind of antivirus or threat detection software supposed to operate on this standard? Libel suits can be financially catastrophic, so even a tiny false positive rate coul…

It seems that many people lean into the "community" aspect of open source. In real communities there are webs of mutual responsibility. If you use open source to fill the role of c…

> RISC-V doesn't make sense to 99% users at this stage. Agreed. Boards like this are helpful for getting RISC-V to the next stage, where it could make sense for more users.

I'm not sure if it's true that the leader is less powerful. In many countries, it seems that the leader has near total control over candidate selection, and dissent is punished rut…

I thought QPR2 and QPR4 were the only releases anyone cared about regardless.

I agree that we should not provide targeted subsidies for Twinkies, Mountain Dew, or cigarettes. The whole premise of food stamps is flawed. We should provide cash instead. If ther…

Mountain Dew and Twinkies are bad for your health regardless of your income level. We should tackle unhealthy eating by going after the supply, not by going after a class-segmented…

People should be able to get cash transfers to buy goods on the general market. There shouldn't be food stamps. The success of SNAP comes despite its inherent inefficiency, frictio…

> I am a firm believer that the very notion of IP ownership needs to die a horrible death, something that AI may very well make happen in short order, yay. The leading AI labs are …

ChatGPT dominates the consumer market (though Nano Banana is singlehandedly breathing some life into consumer Gemini). A small anecdote: when ChatGPT went down a few months ago, a …

I don't understand the disappointment expressed here in the maintainers deciding to WONTFIX these security bugs. Isn't this what ffmpeg did recently? They seemed to get a ton of co…

I think people are confusing the bubble popping with AI being over. When the dot-com bubble popped, it's not like internet infrastructure immediately became useless and worthless.

Don't self-promote without disclosure.

Microsoft hasn't been very quiet about it, at least in my experience. Every time I boot up Windows I get some kind of blurb about an AI feature.

jj has been fantastic for my productivity, but most of that comes from its alignment with the particular SWE practices on my team: trunk-based development, small atomic commits, qu…

It depends on the nature of the code and codebase. There have been many occasions when working in a very verbose enterprise-y codebase where I know exactly what needs to happen, an…

This is tricky to get right. If the false positive rate is consistently 0.0%, that is a surefire sign that the detector is not effective enough to be useful. If a false positive is…

Notably this post did not examine whether any of the sites it was hosting on this domain was malicious/misleading.

If religion had been the cause of a lasting difference, I would have expected it to go in the opposite direction. Articulate, persuasive, emotive public testimony done in a declama…

iMessage is extraordinarily popular in the US. Its userbase dwarfs Signal by over an order of magnitude

This might not be charitable, but my perspective is that some of the advocates want it both ways. I would be interested in seeing an MIT/BSD licensed project saying, from the begin…

I haven't been following this conflict: have the terms of the GPL been broken?