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Is that really a problem that needs solving though? The easiest way to not spend time bikeshedding is to just not bikeshed. Don't make guidelines. Don't run tools to check them. Do…

Why do you need another human to review the code of a human why can't these things get code right the first time

RFC 3514 was just ahead of its time

You’re in a desert walking along in the sand when all of the sudden you look down, and you see a tortoise, it’s crawling toward you. You reach down, you flip the tortoise over on i…

The best commit message: is what is meaningful to a future you 1 week from now, no further otherwise takes up the least time to think about right now

Reversing max and min. That's one I've done a lot, and I don't think any compiler could save me from.

C++ has Algol roots, but I think the C++ template metaprogramming style is an ur-language of its own. You could draw some parallels with ML maybe, but they came at it from a differ…

You could solve the original problem statement using just the part of the script that lists unmerged branches

"Because I use NixOS, this was very easy." First time I've heard someone say that

I heard an anecdote years ago about some medical device where people were clicking through confirmations without reading, so they made the user type IRREVERSIBLE on the keyboard to…

"Get in contact with current employees at the company" and draw the rest of the owl? This blog is really missing the core question of what contact would be more effective than appl…

Watch them

Wikipedia is not a newspaper. Please stop trying to update it with information less than a week old.

Looking in from outside, people going immutable with Nix sure seem to struggle a lot more than people going immutable with disposable containers and Terraform/OpenTofu

Some of the most valuable meetings I've ever had were optional meetings without agendas. The crucial feature was it was only people who code. When technical people who didn't often…

It would be nice to be able to ignore Peter Thiel's opinions, but that's not a luxury we can afford while he's buying federal law enforcement politicians up to and including the vi…

It's humans. This is like TSA's fake bomb detectors with nothing inside the plastic shell

Nate Silver is an ideologue who deeply wants BlueSky to be failing.

This isn't a bailout, though. It's strong-arming.

SDI was real and led to the missile defense systems that the US has fielded today.

keeping data orthogonal to presentation

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All the contractors and pork districts could still be engaged in doing something more useful.

The bottleneck is context switching