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tensility

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About tensility

senior pro-level computer engineer / architect

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    Comment #49252080

    Okay, but does it support comments?

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    Comment #48781197

    Agreed. Lack of CarPlay support is just one of the reasons that I won't own a Tesla. (Also, I prefer not to support anything tainted by Elmo's toxicity.)

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    Comment #48781145

    Agreed. CarPlay support is table stakes fo me fir my next vehicle, no matter how good its native UI is.

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    Comment #48584138

    Trying to figure out whether this statement was intended as sarcasm or if it's willfully blind to decades of rising surveillance capitalism as business model.

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    Comment #48534982

    The only reason it doesn't is the greed of folks who become billionaires.

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    Comment #48534967

    This...100%

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    Comment #48534936

    Guillotines are the classic method, and they are likely coming if we don't change course.

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    Comment #48534911

    Well, with the extreme levels of income stratification that we have in the US and greater world, money literally means a different thing to the few folks who've escaped the poverty…

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    Comment #48534600

    It's all interesting advertising / news; however, why does it have to constantly cost me five precious vertical lines of text worth of screen real estate in Claude Code that appare…

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    Comment #47227814

    Certificate expiration timeline...

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    Comment #47062414

    Cool. Now go check out Mojo.

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    Comment #47062380

    SICP should probably be required reading in the CS curriculum. It's a great start at understanding register hardware simulation.

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    Comment #46882189

    Yeah, that was not at all my experience in CoreOS/SWE, where we would sometimes/often have to wait weeks for submissions to turn around in B&I to become part of "daily" builds. Gla…

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    Comment #46872213

    A statement which goes to show that confusing correlation with causation is all you need.

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    Comment #46872094

    The fixing of a bug at Apple is the easy and quick part. It's the submission process from then until it gets released as part of an OS update that is the ridiculously long (and too…

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    Comment #46871940

    It would have to be a very serious security bug. Even then, unless they've totally upended their software development workflows in the past couple of years, the Apple I knew extrem…

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    Comment #46868638

    At a very low level, it is. I know the individual that made a "diagnostic" for the floppy drive while working as a tech on the Apple I and Apple II designs which caused the drive t…

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    Comment #46868591

    If I recall correctly, when you wanted all of the bells and whistles that Slackware had to offer, it required 72 floppy disks.

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    Comment #46868571

    Bring back Slackware?

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    Comment #46665432

    The fruit company still has an internal culture, especially in hardware-focused teams, with a relentless focus on shipping products followed by iterative refinement.

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    Comment #46657932

    So, should we assume that they vibe-coded this patch? Sad...

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    Comment #46657818

    Meanwhile, I've had the same blender for thirty years, and it's still going strong.

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    Comment #46657777

    [flagged]

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    Comment #46584678

    I would love to go back to more skeumorphic system interfaces. The layered panes of glass metaphor has been a pain in the ass from a usability perspective from the get go, enough s…

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    Comment #46543329

    One of the few languages I've known that didn't provide any standard features for libraries (until the sixth major revision), Scheme, has been the worse for it.