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Do smart people work at Boring Company? Do smart people work on FSD at Tesla? What about the HyperLoop? It is possible for smart people to make technical achievements without the o…

At least as of a couple months ago, `ty` was actually being developed in the `ruff` repo (per an pdocast interview the devs did on Talk Python), so that might be why the `ty` repo …

I've been considering this as my Android exit plan (as part of a slow rolling de-googling effort, even before the recent "sideloading" news). Are you using it as a daily driver? I'…

Likewise on the prime number game, I had a board with all even numbers >2.

Also, sending Matt Damon places usually seems to involve a pretty expensive and involved rescue mission later...

My kid is a bit young, but this is the laptop he'll be getting in a year or so to replace the garbage Chromebook he's currently using (which has steadily gotten flakier since purch…

At my company we're using GCP Artifact Registry for an internal PyPI proxy as well as to publish (proprietary) Python wheels to.

FWIW, I believe DNF (as of 5?) is now written in C++. But as a long time Linux user who always has to use a Mac at work I've been consistently floored by how painful Homebrew is to…

I've written some fairly complex stuff in Ansible. It is mostly declarative but you should be careful with assumptions about its idempotency, especially if you reach out for commun…

They have to wait for the AI scraper bots to steal it for them :(

I'm sure there's technical reasons, but from Google's perspective, one benefit has got to be the non-copyleft license.

Somewhat weirdly, if you want to play Minecraft Bedrock (not the classic Java version, but the one developed for handhelds, consoles, and Windows) on the SteamDeck this appears to …

I've applied to a couple of these. If I remember correctly PostHog and Enveritas both posted here and for both I went past the initial screening step, but that's where it ended for…

It seems like it would matter if they internally believed/discussed it being illegal for them to do so, but then did it anyway and publicly said they felt they were in the clear.

> Property rights will still have value. Manufacturing facilities will still have value. Social media sites will still have value. I was with you on the first two, but the second o…

I've been digging over your website; super interested and just applied.

This is kind of a strange comment to leave to the author of the tool that's being compared... Obviously "nothing in life is free" - the person you're replying to literally spent a …

> You consented to people reading your code and learning from it when you posted it on Github. And if I never posted my code to github, but someone else did? What if someone had po…

Yes, I totally get the distinction (and I was among those amazed by BeOS back in the day - I still show the old demo videos to friends who haven't seen it). I hadn't considered the…

My gut reaction to this was "isn't that just sqlite"? I don't think this is what you were thinking of, but I do kind of love the idea of formalizing sqlite file formats where the "…

> In fact cookie banners show this. People hate them because they force meaningless choices on them. If you make a website with tracking as an opt-out option, almost everyone click…

If anyone out there has questions about VM Squared, I'm happy to try to answer them. Typo aside, the title certainly gives you the jist, but this is a great chance to move VM workl…

I think the only way is to summon @dang. Also, for disclosure, I work at SoftIron as I've mentioned in the past.

Typo in the title, the company is SoftIron, not SoftIorn :)

As someone who's nearly exclusively used Firefox since before it was called Firefox, I would not say that the product itself has been neglected. It continues to get better, from my…