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In my experience DRY and many (any?) other coding principles are only problematic when misused. They're typically misused because the user doesn't understand the motivation or unde…

I've never heard this one before, but I love it. Unfortunately we've also got "Don't Abstract Methods Prematurely" and "Descriptive And Meaningful Phrases".

Yeah I disagree. As the article said > RFC 8259 raises the important point that ultimately implementations decide what a JSON number is. Any implementation dealing with money or mo…

I agree, but in the context of this conversation I think we're just talking about databases/state. So "is M a distributed system on its own?"

No. A rolling shutter deals with different parts of the sensor being exposed at different times within one frame. It generally requires a much faster object (think airplane propell…

This is exactly what I think of when considering actual remote work expenses for myself. I live in 600sqft which is not bad for a place to live. But not great for one, let alone tw…

It would have been wild if you'd built what you did with founders + 3

disclaimer: I'm not a big rust programmer, but I appreciate it. I think it's a matter of perspective/background. Depending what language you're coming from you might appreciate a l…

There are a lot, the most mainstream are going to fall under "socialism". But to give you a specific answer, check out "Alternatives to Capitalism: Proposals for a Democratic Econo…

> Immutable data does not necessarily let you answer the "what state does this value hold" question easier than mutable data. Yes, it does. You're right that you still have a chain…

This is a false dilemma. There's no need to choose between ugly buildings with climate control and attractive buildings with poor climate control. It can be very hot in Las Vegas a…

Losing your job is a big deal to the average person, but a salary cut is immaterial to a big tech executive. An executive salary cut would save hundreds of jobs. People are laid of…

Hardware like TVs are especially insidious because unlike a service you don't simply decide to stop using it one day and the ad revenue stops. Rather ad revenue continues for the l…

> change patentable subject matter to (effectively) exclude computer software I don't necessarily disagree with you, but what makes software unique in that it would be effectively …

It's A But once users spend a lot of time in an area wearing the device, they have a better ability to navigate that area even with the device removed. I imagine it's similar to ho…

> a book with instructions on how to use the chemical to attempt suicide I'm not an Amazon apologist. But if someone is adding a book on how to commit suicide to their cart then my…

it can be good / a relief to find out you've been doing it wrong the whole time, because it means that now you can do it right and you may yet reach your objective

Valid question, the article has a footer > JSON5 is in the top 500 by both dependents and PageRank that probably confirms the project is significant but doesn't answer your questio…

Did you contact them or get any response back?

Zipcar will charge your credit card for no reason and would rather have you dispute with the credit card company than refund you. I encountered this and thought it was interesting.…

is this ML workload an "I trained a model, pickled it, and now we ship that around in production" type situation?

Thanks for the recap. That sounds pretty familiar. I found https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Block_size_limit_controversy to refresh myself as well, but there's clearly a lot of detail mi…

I've stopped following bitcoin at a deep level for some time. Could someone summarize for me what changes/problems led current bitcoin to need lightning?

running an actual server on your phone would absolutely execute your battery life. if we hadn't had NAT and reverse tunneling then things might have evolved differently. maybe a wa…

I think manual copying would kill it for me. I'm just back and forth between multiple devices throughout the day and it seems like that would amount to a lot of copying. Although t…