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My goodness, the security layer looks like it could be more complex than the applications themselves. And if this security agent is wandering around the IT system gathering all of …

If you're NVIDIA then open-weight models are a classic example of commoditizing your complements; cheaper models mean more people buying GPU's to run them. [1] Your guess is as goo…

Not as such, but out of the box you get reword and fixup as first-class rebase macros. I use them all the time. If you wanted to split a commit you'd still have to use a magit-assi…

I agree. It's amazing. I feel like I've got a private Emacs consultant at my elbow.

This is the way.

Folks focus on the impact simplicity has on the customer, but it's also worth noting the impact it has on the manufacturer. With a simple product they get a simple business. - Simp…

Upvoted. Sooner or later the Grim Reaper comes for us all.

I'm more curious about the other direction. How many times has a model replied to a request with "Are you sure?" I'd bet just about zero. In my job I do it all the time; people ask…

We had to pause the movie and explain to our kids who June Cleaver was. It was a fun echo, because when I was a kid I watched it with my parents, and my Mom had to explain to me wh…

Code filled with errors and warnings? PR's merged with failing CI? So I guess they've achieved human parity then? (I'll see myself out)

As always, anticipated (at least in some sense) by Neal Stephenson: https://www.wired.com/1994/10/spew/

Kim Stanley Robinson's description of a Martian space elevator falling and wrapping twice around the entire planet convinced me that they aren't a good idea. https://www.kimstanley…

I knew which scene that was before I clicked the link.

I think Library Science has contributed much more to modern computing than we ever realize. For example, I often bring up images of card catalogs when explaining database indexing.…

Back in the 90's I worked at Nortel and visited a modest size Captive Office in Los Angeles. It supported maybe 20k or 30k people. I was amazed by the field of lead-acid batteries,…

"The past is never dead. It's not even past" - William Faulkner Visual code is all over the place if you look; Any time something advertises itself as "low code" or "no code" it's …

"No one wants to write ifs, fors and whiles as connected nodes" For what it's worth LabVIEW presents those structures as container boxes, which IMO works well enough. To put it ano…

Exactly! Several different sorts of folks have an interest in product architecture, and each group needs the story told at a different level of abstraction. So inevitably one has t…

We're not as far apart as you might think. Clock time is correlated with performance, but by no means determinative. More important is initiative, enthusiasm, leadership, reliabili…

I've been in high tech for 30 years, and I've been laid off many times, most often from failed start ups. I _strongly_ disagree with a fully cynical response of working only to con…

No, the carrier leverage did not come from network policy, it came from sales-channel. That is to say, in those days one way or another every device passed through a carrier's hand…

Remember Jim B. scoffing at how you had to plug an iPhone in every night? And how much more efficient BlackBerrys were with data? Steve knew that the customers did. not. care. And …

I was at RIM at that time and saw _exactly_ the same thing. When I started in 2008, in addition to WiFi and apps they were squabbling with carriers about whether or not the Blackbe…

The sort order of the alphabet symbols is arbitrary, but since all of the words are composed of an ordered set of symbols then sorting the words relative to one another is trivial.…

Now I'm wondering how well calibrated those automatic public cuffs are in the first place...