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GitHub will now maintain approval if a rebase doesn't result in a changed diff. Small things :P.

If you're going to give an LLM a tool that lets it send emails, set it up so you can read the emails before releasing them . It's not the LLM that spammed, it's the people who set …

Indeed. But lots of people have never even heard of Gerrit :P. And the implementation feels very much like it sits in the UI layer, rather than further down the stack. I'm not tryi…

They don't. But reviewing individual commits in the GitHub UI is hard. A set of stacked PRs is exactly the same as a line of commits. The only difference is the UI, but the UI is t…

Any claims are irrelevant to the inherent adversarial nature of the role, which comes from the authority they wield. Edit: which also means you're not wrong , if you've got claims …

Even if the people working in HR genuinely want to do the right thing for the employees, and company policies support them doing that, interactions with HR are inherently adversari…

OK, while the fix was pretty easy (stopping wrapping static content in Suspense), actually getting it deployed was delayed :P. But it's fixed now.

Indeed. And the amusing/disappointing/frustrating thing is: my next.js site works if you turn off JS . Links are server-rendered as links, HTML is server-rendered as HTML. If you v…

This works whether or not what you're working on is supposed to be magic.

It requires a positive action from the application developer to include GrapheneOS's keys as well as Google's keys. So this is a deliberate positive step, rather than a default.

I was slightly discombobulated by the first London link I clicked actually showing a number of artifacts from London that are currently held in Berlin.

The value of a business isn't its wages or its immediate profits: it (over-simplified) represents a claim on the future profits. Equity grants (and especially options) aren't parti…

On the other side: without the workers, those large capital investments are useless lumps of metal. Both Capital and Labour invest in the company, in different ways. It's not at al…

I've got quite a lot of historical data, yes. I don't back up `media` or `share`, but I do back up everything else using the automatic backup feature. Automatic backups are around …

I seem to recall having trouble with the read only flag and the backup API, but it's quite likely the problem was mine rather than with SQLite. Anyway, the sync-friendly output is …

I run my backups like this: OUT="${i}.sql.zst" PART="${OUT}.part" sqlite3 -readonly "${i}" .dump | zstd --fast --rsyncable -v -o "${PART}" - mv "${PART}" "${OUT}" That doesn't bloc…

There's a trade-off to be made, and it's not necessarily clear where the trade-off sits for any particular company, or even team within the company. One product person described it…

Why would an LLM be any more capable of maintaining the extra code than I am?

The thing is: I could produce 2-3 times as much code as before _without_ an LLM, if I didn't care about my colleagues' ability to review my output properly. Lines of code are a lia…

That seems more likely to be due to the device being network locked, rather than the networks disallowing them?

I have a Pixel Watch 2, it seems that only certain carriers (typically not MVNOs) can set it up with an eSIM that will present as having the same number, but any MVNO that provides…

Restricting users to "approved" devices seems to be a US thing? I'm fairly sure that anything that's capable of connecting with the right frequencies and protocols can connect to a…

That may well not be scalping per-se, if scalping is the bulk purchase and resale. I find it a lot harder to criticise folk who might well have used the controller themselves, at r…

One might imagine a world, which would have to be populated by non-humans, in which we do price discovery for every transaction. Scalpers wouldn't exist: each batch of goods would …

That appears to be the default, CEF is available if required (hint: it shouldn't be).