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They would have to trade off building new features for refactoring. It seems they consider shipping more important, and that as long as the existing features mostly work, that’s go…

“Which side”? What other side is there in Iran? You think there’s some shadow government that can realistically topple the mullahs from within? The only way the Shah comes back is …

VENI/VIDI/VICI are easy for anyone who studied Latin (as indeed used to be common), and ARIA is similarly easy for anyone who knows about opera. Basically, the crossword is for sno…

Sure, I agree. Kneejerk condemnation and othering is bad. But there’s a need to balance even-handedness with a healthy skepticism of those in power. Otherwise you risk becoming an …

“I reject demonisation of the wealthy” is quite an odd thing for someone identifying as “far left” to say. But then you go on to identify as a “left liberal” - canonically not cons…

Sure, and for those cases I’d rather tell the agent to use htmx instead of something hand-rolled.

React is hundreds of thousands of lines of code (or millions - I haven’t looked in awhile). Sure, you can start by having the LLM create a simple way to sync state across component…

We need dinners, we don’t need AI

Meh, sort of. Just because LLMs let you output reams of code, doesn’t mean you should use them to do that. As always, you should make the smallest diff that would accomplish your g…

That’s a little simplistic. Iranians feel, somewhat justifiably, that they and the Arab world have been pushed around by the West for over 100 years. The Jihadism we bemoan today d…

It’s not a justification, obviously. But it is a (partial) explanation. Israel wanted to keep sweeping the Palestinian issue under the rug, and Hamas and its sponsors were not goin…

Because Rooney writes dressed-up romance novels. They’re mediocre. But to the author’s point, at least they’re readable and touch on real emotion, even if I find them a bit trite. …

October 7th was a reaction to Trump’s “Abraham Accords” which benefitted Sunni countries at the expense of Iran.

Have you been to Israel? I have cousins there. When I was 14 and visited, my 19 year old cousin told me we need to kill all the Arabs because “if we exile them, they will just come…

Iran has shown itself a rational actor time and time again by not escalating against continued provocation by Israel and the US, knowing that to do so would be to enter a conflict …

> Letting the structure emerge requires people thinking in depth about the underlying principles of what the code does or should do. Right, yes, but those principles are often stil…

So much this. It’s hard not to lose the forest for the trees — we are craftspeople after all — but at the end of the day the overall structure of a program is so much important tha…

I would be much more sympathetic to this stance if you weren’t implicitly endorsing the rights of companies like Meta/Alphabet/OpenAI to profit from the disruption of copyright law…

Actually, C-level execs are among the most privileged professionals on Earth. Once their salaries take a hit, we can talk about mine getting cut as well. Till then, enjoy being a s…

If you clicked on the “biological daughter” link, you’d see it links out to a Twitter post where Pavlo shares a paternity test he had to take for some reason. So it’s just a joke, …

Trying to understand: what’s to prevent someone from calling an FFI-defined function on a free type without going through the whole linear types rigmarole? E.g. could I call `fopen…

It’s not the same outcome at all - severance pay is often the difference between needing to take out a loan or not when embarking on a job search after a layoff. Lack of that stabi…

Wanting to retain a benefit you had for years is whiny? What are the execs giving up in exchange for asking their employees to work harder? Way to punch down, dude.

There are many reasons someone might want to remain at their place of work and still retain improved benefits and treatment from their employer. As an adult, it’s not for you to ju…

In 2019, SF Gate found a household income of around 200k a year was still “middle class” ( https://www.sfgate.com/expensive-san-francisco/amp/SF-househ... ). I’d wager that’s a fai…