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The stolen property in the story in the above comment was recovered. I don’t see how this justifies more surveillance that is likely to be abused.

Are the financials available? Because based on “asked it to make a profit” I expect financials in the story. Even if it is a bit of a ”Clarkson’s Bot”, for the farm there is discus…

There’s the NYC Mechanical Keyboard Meetup if you would like to see and try different builds. Most people will let you try their builds. https://nyckeyboardmeetup.com/

Physical objects should be rounded, virtual windows should be square. I will die on this hill.

I recommend dialing in a mill before claiming there’s no craft in CNC.

When LLMs transition from predatory pricing to rent seeking, the enthusiasm will evaporate.

CSS does suck because of the globals. Class names, ids, z index values are all areas where one commonly bumps into other developers in sometimes confusing ways. But to the point of…

You are correct, I think he was talking about a different device: https://www.fda.gov/news-events/press-announcements/fda-clea...

I just heard about a related device from a family member who is an endocrinologist. https://www.fda.gov/news-events/press-announcements/fda-clea... First off, he had discomfort wit…

Note that one big database can decimate productivity as well.

Is it about process space and programming languages? Or is it about source control and CI architecture? How is a monolith different from a monorepo?

It works extremely well for ux development ;-)

He's been slightly famous for technical writing for a long time https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eric_S._Raymond

This seems a very nostalgic take. So long as websites pretend they are documents, they will remain bloated poorly performing synchronous applications. Accept that websites are dist…

Don't debate coding standards beyond the 2 pizza rule. No more than 8 engineers per service.

Once I lived in an apartment with a safe that had been locked open. It was a giant, heavy thing too large to move. The owners simply renovated the apartment around it. Eventually I…

Or rather, was. At the time one could either: - write a sax event based parser that scaled but was low level - use a DOM parser with a fairly convoluted API. The combination of att…

The XML bloat is on the processing side.

Who needs foreign keys... or relations? Documents do well for a wide variety of applications ;-)

YAML predated / was concurrent with JSON. Both were in reaction to the bloat of XML.

Also css, early on. Anybody remember LAYER tags?

Waterfall isn't an engineering methodology, it's an investment methodology. Engineering will mirror the interests of the capital. And sometimes capital wants to build the same thin…

There's 6 channels, and I think a high / low setting to get a total of 12. With indoor positioning, the anchors aren't positioned as precisely as GPS satellites, nor do they have t…

babel solves the problem of polyfills in a more elegant manner.

UWB scales poorly. There's a limited number of channels. Ad hoc range finding requires a call and response. However. The range finding is accurate. So long as one is dealing with a…