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C++ is proposing pre- and post- conditions to verify functions in C++26; notably, Bjarne Stroustrup (C++ creator) is opposed

It's about a specific type of debilitating fear. The DSM has a rule for criteria that, to be considered as having a condition, it must seriously affect your ability to live a norma…

If you're already an American, move to St. Louis. - North enough that climate change will not affect it as much - Inland so not at risk of sea level change - Next to a large fresh …

But a mountain would work, yes? And if you already need the mountain lab for physics, what is the extra cost to staff military personnel there?

(This is not China-bashing, as I assume lots of other nations do this for the same reasons.) It's a lot harder to have unwanted intruders, and satellite surveillance is less likely…

Do you think that most businesses have the consistent cash flows needed to pay out wages every hour? I’m not sure this is a technical problem, I guess. Maybe a financial engineerin…

Aren’t most security vulnerabilities in C or C++ code? Seems a bit rich to point to C’s write-your-own approach as being a security benefit. I’d want to see some data on that befor…

One suggestion - it would be really cool to allow FFI. Something like const foo = (bar) => { document.getElementById('my-element'); // More here! }; That way you could really lever…

Are you serious?

The interesting stuff tends to be webapps, that people pay for and are often internal to a company. If you just care about sites that are document based, of course you’d prefer the…

Oh it's not good advice for everyone! If they're a lead on a team you must interface with, they fall into my "you must work with them" bucket, and then the article is pretty good a…

As in software, the best tool for avoiding errors is to not have the software in the first place. If you must work with someone, or consider yourself to have an ethical obligation …

Oh haha I forgot how much information was not exposed in the API at all. I remember having to bring in a senior engineer because I thought I was going crazy. I could only ever find…

This was almost a decade ago, I assume (hope?) things have changed in a decade of trying. But it was official VMWare advice! It was literally in their documentation too.

Oh my lord, I remember dealing with a VSphere API early in my career. They didn't have a concept of service accounts so the official advice for our nightly automation was: Pay a sy…

China is closed to us! Not super surprising from that lens. They make nice EVs, though. It's political suicide to entertain making things easy for China, particularly in auto manuf…

I would vote in anyone who recognizes what a giant problem it is that the first suggestion for someone who only wants to write SQL for one specific database is our federal governme…

Well, with the hollowing out of OpenAI, it seems that someone else will easily take the lead! They're not my personal hopes - this move destroyed OpenAI's best chance at retaining …

And people with money will want to make UBI happen because...?

The board vote did it! They had a tender offer in the works that would have made employees millionaires. The board clearly signaled that they viewed the money-making aspects of the…

Ilya torched peoples' retirements by signaling that it would be very hard to cash out in OpenAI as it is now. You don't have to be emotional to understand the consequence of that a…

What percent of those devs don’t do a valuable thing and become homeless? Maybe devs are a bad example, so replace them with “retail workers” in your statement if it helps. Is “put…

I’m not sure this article was as sympathetic as the author intended - the vignette didn’t help too much. Neither person in the example couple brings much to the table, marriage-wis…

I bet the data breach being covered up is not customer data, but IP. My #2 theory is that the breach is prompt data and it went to a nation-state adversary of the US. Plenty of peo…