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The upside will mostly be the schadenfreude we'll get when, coming in Q4 of this year, the managerial class is finally called on to show ROI for the $100,000+ (depending on company…

It cannot be uninstalled

You never need to write "fix", or "prevent" if you write a good message. Nobody says "fixed the car by changing the flat tire" or "Go prevent engine wear by getting an oil change t…

None of this is as good as "free array memory before it goes out of scope". This is better than `fix: memory leak` - which is what most people would do. It's also better than `fix:…

This is what a changelog is for

There's no benefit to any of this. Just write like human. It will be clear if it's a fix, or a refactor, or ?. Typically it isn't just one of those things.

The "Just Say No" engineer is a person who knows what existing tools can do, while more junior people don't know what their tools can do. So junior people are constantly proposing …

Reading a well written programming book will put you ahead of 99% of other programmers using that language. Most programmers learn some subset of a language to get things working, …

When a cop does millions of dollars of damage they only choice is for tax payers to pay, or for the victims to get nothing. Definitely the cops should also face consequences though…

Many (most? idk) governments that employ the cops (city, county, whatever) do have insurance for this, and grant police qualified immunity. There are some attempts to hold cops lia…

Can't you just build the source and run it without giving them any information? Or does the editor itself require information and phone home while running?

These are called co-los (co-location facilities). Probably any medium to large city has a few.

> technology, ai, screentime Significant parts of our society and government are actively hostile to education. Blaming the students is convenient, but probably not accurate.

> They'll never accept intentionally "slower" development for the greater good. That comes post Chernobyl.

> ...for a few days, access is granted to this work. The number is extremely limited. The window only lasts four days. Will you answer the call?... What? This sounds like a phishin…

> Highly skilled early- to mid- career engineers, technologists, and innovators join NASA for focused term appointments, typically 1–2 years with the possibility of extension, to s…

Given the list of very large companies in the "glasswing" project - it is likely every competent state actor and criminal organization already has access to Mythos in one way or an…

> t just sounds like a giant scheme to burn through tokens and give money to the AI corps, and tech directors are falling for it immediately. This is exactly what's happening. The …

If you're a billionaire there's no risk to "sticking to principles", so there's nothing to admire. Also that's not what they're doing. These are calculated moves in a negotiation a…

I don't know if I've seen "tech debt" do serious damage to any company, and I've been around a long time. I've definitely seen whole teams grind to a halt in pursuit of someone's i…

I've been watching PgDog for a while now. Great progress!

It wasn't that long ago that email servers just trusted all input, and we saw what happened there. Right now the entire internet is wide open to LLM bots and the same thing will ha…

It's not so bad over here in android world. If you don't like the keyboard you can just pick a different keyboard.

YC has always been about cashing in on the latest grift, and nothing more.

FB/Discord/etc were never the internet. They were walled gardens you could enter via the internet. This could be a revitalization of the internet - pushing people back to decentral…