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They kind of touch on this: > Imagine a future where a handful of people can conduct scientific research and engineering tasks much more rapidly, and with higher quality, than mass…

The dystopia that PayPal is we’re cheering and paying trillionaires to bring forward faster. Can’t wait.

This is true to some extend, but you may confuse runaway technical arguments (Rust in Linux?) with spitting vitriol over somebody.

There’s a way to make a profile the default. I personally appreciate that it reverts back to it when turned off.

> I'm surprised they didn't eat it up until new releases when they often increase prices. There may be an element here where announcing new hardware at a 30% higher price would lar…

> convincing someone that their excessive null checking is harmful is an uphill battle. The argument that seems to hit home more often than not is that optionals effectively “fork”…

You can quickly get the "lay of the land" and discover primary sources which you can study. Learning from the AI, I agree, is rife with landmines.

Exactly, plus you now have a new superpower with AI — the ability to dig into and ramp up expertise in mostly any domain. I’d say the article gets it backwards.

You’re right, I never noticed! This actually also explains why I couldn’t change my default card the other day - I must have been in that screen that opens from the button shortcut…

Wait, what? Double-clicking will prompt for Face ID to open your default card for oayment, and from there you swipe down to see the stack — which I suppose is the screen you’re loo…

Exactly. The principle to go by for estimates is finding a balance between time/scope/cost, and figuring out which aspects of the context affect which dimension is the first step.

I’ve no experience with Elastic but what they’re getting at I think is indexes in Elastic is actually your data because that’s all it does due to the purpose it was built for, wher…

Agreed. I think you may be too generous with hubris -- that requires agency, but it may just be incompetence. I don't generally like the "old days" argument, but this is consistent…

What feels plausible to me is changing the underlying 19x19 px control would break layout of many existing apps, and the design team was hell bent that window corners had to be tha…

I agree with much of your comment on what it takes to succeed commercially in today's music scene, but it also nails why modern (popular) music is so same-y and uninteresting -- ju…

Feels like a missed opportunity they didn’t design the Mac Studio part of the Mac Pro as a replaceable module you could upgrade every other year. Or buy the non-Studio part to upgr…

Right, but what about the name? This isn't Cascading Style Sheets any more. Hmm let's see, Composable Style Sheets. There. Oh, wait...