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Isn’t it the cheapest AWS region? Or at least among the cheapest. If I’m correct, this incentivizes users to start there.

See a psychologist or counselor. If you an underlying diagnosis, you could be suffering more than necessary.

Pronoun confusion. The second pronoun is ambiguous. Since we are all “hackers” here, I’ll be pedantic… “While it is a great language…” The “it” pronoun clearly refers to the C++ la…

In context, this means “self-inflicted harm”.

I’d say it’s like the mental health distinction of a trait versus a disorder: if this is negatively impacting your day to day life, consider therapy / counseling. (As an aside, I t…

To be pedantic, this would be violet. (Purple is a mix of red and blue light.)

Naive question: why not remove all sensitive data, or all data, from the notification and leave the context for a secondary API call?

Maybe a bit more hand for the woman. She’s got a bit of a stump going on there. But otherwise I like the image!

Generic reply to siblings here… I get the intelligence argument. My _main_ point is that there’s a non-trivial question to answer here. I’m not qualified to answer (though I’ve off…

I believe we first need to answer the question of whether the copyright of the AI model’s source text or images affects the output. My opinion — and note I’m a software engineer, n…

I agree though I’d say non-technical people are naive and so don’t know why the experience is not ideal or fun or smooth. I suspect if asked the right questions, non-technical peop…

The answer, I think, is warranties. As soon as software can no longer be delivered “as-is”, the profession will need to change. Hobbies will still exist, just as they do for almost…

I use Hover for my personal domain, and added a "small mailbox" for my email address. For calendaring, I use iCloud, which works fine since I'm an iPhone user and that thing is _al…

Indeed. In email threads I will sometimes say “To amplify, …” to make it clear that I’m adding on, rather than rebutting.

"Simple != easy." --Rich Hickey The closest I get in my career is striving for the simplest approach to building something in software, which is not all the easy path. The easy pat…

For me, the big drain was running Google Chat in Firefox. I switched running GChat using Google’s app and that solved the problem for me. Now the only big drain is WebEx. (This is …

I had this same belief but there is one other useful situation where an interface plus just one implementation class helps, and that's when you want to hide the noise of implementa…

Ah. Understood. The Patriot Act is the problem. We knew it at the time. Sounds like we all agree on that point.

I don't think this is a good example. If memory serves, the threat _was_ detected, however it was not acted on. There was lots of finger pointing about lack of coordination, but (a…

Are you sure about the "do whatever you want" part? Just because there is no need to register with the FAA doesn't mean the FAA rules do no apply.

See my reply to bryanrasmussen for a full explanation. Basically: you reindex ES periodically, so when a user is deleted from the primary, it will disappear from ES upon the next r…

When using ES for indexing and not the primary store, you can (and should) periodically fully reindex the data set. You can use a blue / green pattern — create a new index then swa…

4 months for my 2016 Model S. Most of this time (all but 2 weeks, I think) was waiting for airbag related parts. Missed the entire summer last year -- accident in May, got the car …

Amdahl's law for sure. We all know most software sucks, so in this vision (simpler cores), that reduces us to taking the performance hit and optimizing elsewhere. For example, olde…

How about CPUs without speculative execution and simultaneous multithreading (SMT / Hyper-Threading, which has similar issues)? We would, of course, need other optimizations to cla…