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Seems to me like the better action would be to implement rate-limiting, rather than complain when people use your resource in ways you don't expect. This is a solved problem.

> In the software world, how would you sell a competitor to the cat command? It's called bat, and it's a great enhancement. I think the author lost me here.

I can't believe we're going to forever have to live with people who don't speak English as a first language having their written work assumed to be done by AI. It's pretty disappoi…

When the next best option is "serialize", suddenly stringify doesn't seem so bad. I would prefer a silly-sounding but immediately clear function to a more abstract concept.

Great read, and an interesting warning sign about overly-controllable configuration files. If there's no conceivable good reason to to much of this, then the ability to do so becom…

Sounds like this is not for you then. I think a lot of people have had different experiences with it than you have

Bisect is a very cool feature that I used once over 5 years ago. The collection of git tools that I use often is very small. I've found that the more experienced I got with git, th…

We survived the age of StackOverflow. I don't see why LLM's will be the death of critical thinking where all else has failed so far.

Tools like direnv gets .env files out of repo paths and improves things a lot. You can integrate secrets management in code, but with that there's still no getting away with the as…

I think the joy of working at this scale makes up for that for a lot of people. There are plenty of low-stress, low-impact companies that someone that's bigtech-approved can go to

Saying it's targeted at beginners because it supports MacOS shows a lot of disconnection with what many DevOps people use these days. The year of the linux desktop has yet to arriv…

What? I love seeing this. I want to see how to get it quickly via package manager.

You didn't also factor in the time to learn Pandoc (and to relearn it if you haven't used it lately). This is also just one of many daily use cases for these tools. The time it tak…

I might be misremembering but I think slosh was the failure cause for one of the three failed Falcon 1 flights. It was number 11 out of a pre-flight list of top 10 most likely fail…

No company does things out of the kindness of their own heart. That's just not how enterprise is designed to work, and it is a mistake to ever assume otherwise. Regulation needs to…

To socialize with the people at your table, surely? Not do socialize with the waiter?

You're right, you are old-fashioned. I love order by phone. Any amount of time I'm sitting at a table trying to get a waiter to notice me and come by just feels like agony. Let me …

Part of this is a consequence of Amazon's hesitance towards shutting down old features. They are getting better at this lately, but S3 remains an example of a system with too many …

Maybe his project simply has expectations beyond being a static website from 1995

People don't use Slack in this way though. I've worked at several organizations where the freshest documentation we had was in Slack. The truest FAQ is when someone actually asks a…

Being unable to have a meaningful conversation sounds like general technological skepticism to me. I don't see any reason to think talking to chatbots will erode our conversation s…

If technology has truly removed a need to think in a certain capacity, then surely it has just expanded our skills enough that we don't need to be so personally skilled in that cap…