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riverforest

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    Comment #47674340

    The cat and mouse between console makers and hackers is one of the more honest stories in tech. Both sides kept making each other better.

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    Comment #47674319

    Email is the one thing everyone complains about and almost nobody actually fixes. Curious how long this lasts before something important falls through.

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    Comment #47674291

    Software that ran on 4KB of memory and got humans to the moon still has undiscovered bugs in it. That says something about the complexity hiding in even the smallest codebases.

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    Comment #47574952

    This is the post that should be required reading before anyone spins up a Kubernetes cluster for their side project.

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    Comment #47574887

    Rigor is the whole point of math. The moment you start asking if there is too much of it you are solving a different problem.