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You seem to be attacking a different statement that no one says: "if the product isn't free, you aren't the product". There's no "if and only if" in the maxim. Pretty sure you agre…

Great example of what we used to call: "default definition changed". RSI 20 years ago = Repetitive Strain Injury RSI today: Recursive Self Improvement

You don't think a human using an LLM to generate content that convinces another human to press the launch button is a concern? Sure seems like there's more than one thing we need t…

> Tend to like a lot of formal rules about everything. I would amend to: what Americans don't like to accept are what they see as preventable mistakes. The least American sentiment…

> there's not really a destination. There is only the process of improvement Surely you can appreciate that if the next stop on the journey of technology can take over the process …

"Until then" means others will pay for your decision to ignore policy when it happens. It's never on the person who -- with every good intention, full of an instinct to "build a be…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SSzoDPptYNA&t=53s

This is an extremely important question, and you’ve phrased it nicely. We’re either handicapping our brightest, or boosting our dumbest. One part is concerning, the other encouragi…

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XEDIT https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VM_(operating_system)

Try to keep in mind that your attention to detail is almost certainly perceived by them to be fastidious, and that quietly your seniormost colleagues and leaders may well muse: "Ma…

"Short-lived" depends on your perspective. Cloudflare owns the rights to that trademark now; because they believe their mission furthers that vision: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/…

Wahlberg lampooned himself in a follow-up appearance with Samberg: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xYcHxF_cO8o . So: "and" is also correct.

> the vast majority of Kubernetes clusters are just hanging out on the public How does the author know that? Doesn't "not public" mean not visible, and therefore not countable?

“I love deadlines. I love the whooshing noise they make as they fly by.” - Douglas Adams

This 2021 New Yorker article: How Your Family Tree Could Catch a Killer ( https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2021/11/22/how-your-famil... ) was incredibly illuminating and changed …

See also good podcast dedicated to this topic: Why can't we turn all the empty offices into apartment buildings? https://pjvogt.substack.com/p/why-cant-we-turn-all-the-empty...

OK but then what is the thing in the middle, between documents and applications? There are fantastic, beautiful interactive experiences (for lack of a better word) that are obvious…

I think what you're picking up on is that people in leadership positions have to communicate to very different audiences. As a first approximation, just think of the size of the de…

It sounds like you already have exactly the right perspective. It _is_ a nightmare. That $200M isn't their money, it's not in their pockets, and it's far short of what it was hoped…

Yup, all those. Also, at least for me: - it was slow - it wasn't consistent; not unusual that thread replies would be out of order - it was text only (essentially) - posting and do…

Made a list of all the revision control tools I've used over the decades, the year they were created, and the year I last used them: sccs 1973 2000 rcs 1982 2000 cvs 1990 2004 clea…

Great to see. More generally: I feel like playgrounds are grossly underused in our industry. It's possible the issue is in the name -- it immediately connotes that whatever you're …

I think we've already seen the first shoots from that nascent new system: https://webassembly.org/ . And this hilarious talk will continued to be viewed by future generations for m…

Great observation. I found myself thinking it reflected the famous quote: "“Watch your thoughts, they become words; watch your words, they become actions; watch your actions, they …