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> Kill Sauron and the Palantiri are safe to use again. Alt: Be Aragorn and wrest control of the Orthanc stone from Sauron.

I used to tell people there that my favorite development technique was to sit down and think about the system I wanted to build, then wait for it to be announced at that year's re:…

AWS Fault Injection Service: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/fis/latest/userguide/what-is.htm...

> A modern compiler embeds a considerable degree of probabilistic behaviour. Can you give some examples?

I'm intrigued, as this article did not trigger my (clearly as yet underdeveloped) GenAI spidey sense. Will you share some specifics of what triggered yours? Separately, do you have…

I agree that it wouldn't cause the doors to open any sooner for deplaning, but once they did, people could just ... leave. The people standing in the aisle with their luggage out o…

One reason that I would value is that it would speed up boarding and deplaning. As you correctly point out, the prevailing overhead luggage system provides a benefit to some travel…

I do the same substitution for “ML”. :-)

Whenever I see the term "AI" or similar, I mentally substitute the phrase "a lot of math, done very quickly", which is more concrete, and typically helps me sort out the stuff that…

SDE, just passed ten years at Amazon; opinions my own, obvs. The three best managers I've worked with in my career have all been at Amazon (you know who you are). Also the three wo…

> it runs red lights Fixing that would require "full self stopping". Coming soon[1]. [1] ... for some value of "soon", that is.

He did? I'm surprised to find a quote I'm not familiar with. On what page of which edition did he say this?

I recently was asked to take over the role of Deputy Governor Danforth in The Crucible a week before opening. I accomplished it -- barely -- largely through rote memorization. Yes,…

And how do "you" evaluate Alice, with an MS in Computer Science, active Github, ten years of experience, all FAANG? Exactly the same way. Even if I agreed with your premise that th…

Perhaps because it was a better deal than any of the alternatives. I left a startup a few months before it was (as far as I know) acquihired, partly because I could see the end of …

@dang: Not sure what guideline I broke with my previous comment that was flagged, but I would love to learn so I don't repeat offend.

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As far as I can tell, all of these are problems with deferring integration, not rebase per se. I prefer trunk-based development, partly because of all of this: https://trunkbasedde…

I didn't read "not targeted at industry" as equivalent to "doesn't care about industry".

What's a scenario in which adding $20K to my income results in more than $20K in additional taxes? The highest marginal tax rate in the U.S. for 2023 is 37%, and it kicks in after …

I think Duverger's Law [1] is applicable here. The dominance of two primary parties is an emergent property of the rules for how candidates in the U.S. typically win elections ("pl…