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We were benefiting from stacked pull requests in Phabricator for a decade before "AI" was a thing. Having well scoped commits that can be individually actioned by distinct sets of …

We did these sorts of exercises in my high school social studies class, in Ohio, back in 2002ish. I fear it may have been instructive to some of my classmates rather than warning t…

Location: California Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: no Technologies: Python, Rust, SQL, fullstack Résumé/CV: https://amethyst.cat/resume Email: amethyst@n7.gg Senior engineer wit…

3) recipient stores decrypted content in plain text and backs that up in well-known cloud storage systems

Is it really holding them "accountable" when the settlements are for laughably small amounts, like <1% of a single day's profit?

If it's anything like Facebook, the side entrances (which always had guards sitting by them anyways) were all converted to alarmed fire exits. So the fire marshal would still be ha…

It works pretty well for Apple

tools like dataclasses and pydantic would like to have a word...

Google Fiber isn't rolled out to most of the bay area. Monkeybrains is wireless with speeds significantly slower than what Comcast offers me. I've checked just about every wired IS…

*parts of the Bay Area. I'd say the majority of areas are still monopolized by Comcast, including my neighborhood of course.

In markets where Comcast has actual real competition, they "include" the unlimited data (aka no cap) with no extra charge when you sign up for their gigabit plans.

And yet it's the default when formatting a device on macOS.

And yet, as someone working on core language infra, we apply exactly that sort of ideal when making changes. If a diff doesn't break any tests, then it's "safe" to land, and if som…

That's the one I had. I got it from my friend in sixth grade, and who knows where he got it from!

I still miss my desktop sheep every once in a while: https://github.com/Adrianotiger/desktopPet?tab=readme-ov-fil... Edit: the best part was running it a couple dozen times to get …

You might prefer Eternal Terminal as a TCP mosh alternative: https://eternalterminal.dev/

My 2017 Golf R would intentionally turn off the dashboard backlights at night if the lights weren't on, providing me excellent feedback that they weren't on. Either head lights sho…

Justice runs on a log scale, and the base is left for individual jurisdictions or judges to decide.

Or it's a simulation and someone keeps pushing changes to production.

> Python makes it incredibly tough. I disagree, Python makes it incredibly easy to work with threads in many different ways. It just doesn't make threads faster .

I wish I could selectively disable only the "paste" events, because it's extremely useful to have "click to copy this value" type of buttons in our various work tools, and I miss t…

Imagine being on STS-1, piloting a shuttle that had literally never been to space before in any form. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/STS-1

Grumman wasn’t operating their own Mission Control — NASA did. But NASA isn’t operating this mission, similar to how they don’t operate SpaceX missions even if they are funding the…

Mixed with R.C. Pro-Am, one of my favorite NES titles: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R.C._Pro-Am

It almost always has to do with the details of EBITDA [1], in this case depreciations/writeoffs and amortized costs, especially if/when a bunch of funding may have been subsidized …