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This is pretty cool, it brings back memories. Thanks for posting. I used to manage Tru64 (Alpha) and OpenVMS (VAX and Alpha). Mostly Oracle DB and whatever they called their App de…

Rust tortures you into greatness.

But you don't have to handle errors in Go. With multi-return you just don't bother with the "err" value and happily proceed with whatever is in the first return position. IMHO, onl…

I mean, let's do it. But it seems more straightforward to tax wealth as capital gains when it's used as collateral for liquid assets (low interest loans, lines of credit, buying tw…

The worst thing about UEFI HTTP boot is the utter lack of information to debug anything that's gone wrong. Whether that's the DHCP filename option is some wrong format for whatever…

I agree with you, but haven't really left yet since there's still a good amount of discourse outside AI related topics. Seems a significant amount of contributors here are all to e…

I'm going to sound like a lunatic, but the best bug tracking software I've ever used was Apple's Radar internally. I wish they'd open source it. I've also had a bunch of fever drea…

Maybe that’s why I get the 1Password UI _and_ the native password selection UI :-/

Quality in general seems to be going downhill, too. Frequently the desktop app and the safari extension won't be in sync and missing a recently added password, or doesn't show up o…

You don't need other people anymore to find security issues, you can do it yourself with AI.

I don't think that's relevant. You can still find security issues in software nobody uses. The question is a matter of impact because of how used the software is.

I agree with what OOP said. But it’s not my intent to “shut sites down.” I have this view to try to increase diversity of media consumption and break people out of echo chambers. I…

There's two kinds of reviews in my experience: 1. Does it work? Then ship it. This is great for early on, high-velocity where the goal is to get something working in the wild. AI a…

If only the American Colonies would just have petitioned King George just a few more times…

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I would be very happy to do so if we had working infrastructure, education, and health care not coupled to the generosity of your employer. Isn’t it the case anyway that if you add…

Sources on the first paragraph? I can’t tell what you’re even trying at say. DACA ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deferred_Action_for_Childhood_... ) was an exec order specifically…

Fair point! Makes complete sense. But I wouldn't exactly call "professionals trying to make high brow media" exclusive alternative to Reddit, Youtube, Twitter, TikTok. A lot of the…

That's really root cause in everything, isn't it? - The consolidation of media (& social media in general) is about making money from outrage (emotions) - Anti Vax (& other) moveme…

being "hard-over on privacy" and regularly using google services is an astounding level of cognitive dissonance.

Author argues against strong typing systems and language features to prevent classes of bugs and instead encourages developers to "writing lots of tests" for things that a type sys…

Propaganda. The actual videos do not support this conclusion at all. You’re being lied to.

You describe a world where human skill is required to prevent these class of bugs, time and time again we've proven that people are people and bugs happen. Systems must be _structu…

I have two moonlanders but wound up giving up because I just couldn't adapt to it. And when writing code, finding the symbols like {, =, }, and other common coding ones was just to…