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The author is Gregg Miner, and Gregg has an extensive library of harp guitar music. A long time ago I met Gregg when one of my friends Brad Hoyt (a keyboard and harp guitarist as w…

It's not that as much as the usual something new, complain about rapid change.

It is hard to get vendors to give up revenue no matter how illegal the source of revenue is.

A few small things (from the perspective of the suburbs in a large flyover city), as in most things design the real drivers are usually material driven, and often a byproduct of a …

That is how it starts, trust is built on hobby projects.

When the legal reality does not align with actual reality, there is injustice of the worst kind. The button says "buy" not "rent" or "license". That should be enough to defeat all …

> The snake oil is much more how LLMs are being weaponized and utilized Calling something "snake oil" implies that the product only, at best, has a placebo effect (amplified, no do…

Another reason is their competitors didn't get it the value prop because everyone had been competing on rates, and little thought given to developer experience... early on a lot of…

If you don't have pride in what you are making with AI, you will let a ton of bugs through. Likewise you will ship bad architecture.

UV is very, very good. The command line is very different than any other package manager I've used, and so it does make for some learning, often in the heat of trying to ship somet…

This is the best question of all. Why are we allowing this?

Divorcing technical detail from how it is used does little good for humanity.

Why were we not doing this already?

Not really, now the social network can be immune from prosecution by checking the complies with bad regulation box.

An echo in the sounding chamber? Say it isn't so...

Byte was interesting because it editorially covered everything from home computers to high-end workstations. Byte was a favorite for me (at the time I was in high school) because i…

> New York Times that criticizes the New York Times, This has happened. > the government to decide what is allowed to be banned and what isn't, This is a civil lawsuit where people…

I hate seeing this down-voted. It is such an important warning to people here. Severance agreements are pretty strong. Also, be very careful of snap settlement offers. So many of t…

There was a body of evidence far before 2002 that dealing employees in was a good move.

> An empty justification, since a state has no interest apart from its citizen's interests. Sometimes a government only cares about a few citizens, or in some cases one citizen.

Camcorders were not, but cameras and portable battery powered tape decks were.

Reply of the year. I'm not sure if I'm supposed to laugh or cry.

Yes, it is precisely misguided, and will be in five years, too. Software lasts way longer than people think it does.

> It seems the open-source experiment has failed People have been saying this since the 80s. Reality is that without open source, this industry would be tiny compared to what it is…

> Actual evidence of kompromats? Epstein.