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What bothers me ain't the subscription, but the lack of transparency. I'm asked to pay for future updates and support here, but I don't know what that would be. Some visibility int…

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Holding the title of engineer does not make one a good or capable engineer.

The FCC ain’t doing nothing about it. If anyone thinks they are, then I have an amazing US made router to sell them.

It’s true, and briefly made the news at the time[1]. The CSRB was also decimiated, and the current DHS deputy secretary, in his confirmation hearing, called for wrecking the agency…

Many wouldn't, but some people share his values, and given the compensation, it makes saying "no" much harder. Money may not be the most important thing in life, but it does make t…

I stopped reading once Evans emphasized consumer product. That was never a good strategy to sell SaaS, and I don't see how that changes.

X has only brand recognition right now, and an extremely toxic one. Big customers may buy but won't give them logos, people who are offended by Musk's worldview won't pay them eith…

Why is it a good thing? Manufacturing jobs are horrible, ask anyone who had one. The US built a high margins service economy. This is two steps backwards, no step forwards sort of …

Every statement in the above comment is wrong: People born in the 90s wouldn’t have a chance to be old enough to belong to any group other than a preschool before the collapse of t…

macOS is a certified UNIX[0], but iOS isn’t. — [0] https://www.opengroup.org/openbrand/register/

otoh: the non regulated should cost more. It’s kinda like “qualified investors” - you want to make sure people who are wiling to do something extremely stupid can afford it and ack…

By default, Claude code keeps session history (as jsonl files in ~/.claude). It’s wasteful not to save and learn from those.

And multiple years from the boardroom making a decision to build a data center to breaking ground.

We want to protect against the unknown, not the known. The less surface area, the better, and containers have much wider surface area than VMs. Both had their faults, of course.

Not sure if it's intended, but Apple Container is a microvm, providing mich better isolation than containers (while retaining the familiar interface)

Walmart famously refuse to pay the extra couple of basis points that are charged by the various payment-rails-involved-entities when doing NFC payments instead of physical card.

One of the issues. The idea that space is the place (for data centers) is more of a desperate marketing than serious engineering.

If you want people to interview better, you have to both allocate resources to it, and make it count on perf. It’s not laziness, it’s ROI.

No one might be Job-level ahole, but I'm certain Cook ain't less ruthless. It's a matter of priorities, not attitude.

Java bytecode is always dynamically linked.

> But what happens if there was a cosmic bit flip in a dynamic library? You'd need multiple of those, because you have ECC. Not impossible, but getting all those dice rolled the sa…

If he himself believes he can achieve his off-the-cuff deadlines or not doesn't matter for the rest of us: he already proven himself to be a fabulist, and after so many failed pred…

Less LOC also doesn't imply simplicity: just look at the demoscene, which often has the former but not the latter.

idk, the OP is all about the author misunderstanding what they bought. Hence a comment about bikes not understanding bikes deserves just as much scrutiny. My own life tip: there ar…