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shmichael

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About shmichael

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Recent public activity

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    Comment #49119904

    Stack management: automatically rebasing all dependent PRs on any downstack change. Ability to view & navigate the stack in the reviewer UI. Ability to merge a whole stack with one…

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    Comment #49080723

    No one is forced into buying the product, so it feels like an emotional rather than a rational rant from OP.

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    Comment #48083139

    So you argue we discriminate based on who/what wrote the code, instead of what's in it? Let's take this to a different domain, self driving cars. Would you equally argue for human …

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    Comment #47822500

    Imagine military instructors would say that it's important to focus on cavalry and bayonette use just because they can't figure out how to adapt their curriculum to the new reality…

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    Comment #47643414

    On the other side of every "useless war" is the what if question. Killing Hitler before WWII would have been seen as a cruel interference with German sovereignty. Anyway it would b…

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    Comment #46657230

    Without the purchase price, it is unclear whether this deserves congratulations or condolences. Two years in the LLM race will have definitely depleted their seed raise of $4m from…

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    Comment #46022620

    It is, as far as I know, an unsolved problem how to implement full metadata transparency on a mobile device. For example, Aztec, a privacy focused blockchain, requires recipients t…

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    Comment #45765566

    It's a lesson as old as history: You either exit a hero, or live long enough to become the villain.

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    Comment #45765488

    I'm trying to understand, would jj's first class conflicts solve the issue of having "stacks" of PRs that can easily be updated at any point in the stack? This is one of the featur…

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    Comment #43566396

    Inventing the automobile has clearly made humanity less fit. Should we stop driving? No. Going back to the stone age is not the solution. For the majority of our day, commuting wit…

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    Comment #42920486

    https://kulipa.xyz | Senior Software Engineer | ONSITE (4d) | London, UK MISSION Kulipa issues Visa/MasterCard cards backed by stablecoins. It matters to people who do not have acc…

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    Comment #42022609

    Kulipa | Backend Engineer | London | ONSITE We issue Visa & Mastercard cards not backed by a bank. Instead we use stablecoins held in non custodial wallets. This type of service is…

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    Comment #41297517

    It seems parent is more interested in riddling than informing. Their browser is likely https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Links_(web_browser)

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    Comment #41145161

    In Israel this is done naturally by feeding children Bamba, a puffed peanut snack, at a very early age. Research shows significantly decreased levels of peanut allergy. https://www…

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    Comment #41123394

    How do you fit r into hex?

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    Comment #39795823

    I would love the ability to record a web flow and scrape data into another flow. Fixes the long tail of apps and sites

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    Comment #38993112

    You might go to jail, or there are any number of methods to disqualify yourself from service, for instance through mental or religious reasons (which you'd presumably fake).

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    Comment #38991090

    Where I grew up, mandatory military service was required, and not just for a few months but rather years. I've seen people who quit and people, like me, who clinched their teeth an…

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    Comment #38814182

    Love these choices? Wait two years and read again. More seriously, this content should be read and evaluated divorced from the reader's personal affection for specific tools, other…

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    Comment #38754333

    Can't wait to read your review of the Wright Brothers' first (utterly "useless" and dangerous) flight. :)

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    Comment #38554501

    Future interoperability with WhatsApp.

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    Comment #38049283

    The "not fun" mentioned by the author is the same principle as good children's movies have to be genuinely scary or sad. See Disney/Pixar classics like Lion King. The larger amplit…

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    Comment #37855866

    Amending commits, while having the advantage of keeping the git tree pristine at every single point, is incredibly uncomfortable for async workflows such as the one suggested, wher…

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    Comment #37810390

    the iterm mode allows one to create, split, resize remote terminals as of they were native terminal windows, instead of all of them being contained within one terminal window and c…