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One advantage to leaving the configs around is that the next time you install the app, yiu get it set up just the way you had it before. Also, AFAIK, this mirrors how command line …

> All else being equal, you want to produce more with less labor and other inputs. I'm not sure how to work with the "all else being equal" part. I suspect it's a way to get out of…

If you ban the latter, the former will proliferate in secret until it becomes the dominant culture.

It's both "the entire nation's infrastructure." and not that. What I mean is... many cases are individual: the ramp for that library; the door knobs/handles in that office; the flo…

> I have no idea how an adult filming young girls on a train has anything to do with social media bans. The article is, I think, making several points at once: - some of the people…

Their product is ads slots and data, which they seem to be brilliant at. Everything else is a funnel to feed the ads, and the funnels change like wvery other marketing funnel.

AI probably should be. The bulk of its efficacy comes from the work of “everyone else” (in loose terms). AI also aims/hope/threatens to replace such a large number and range of job…

It’s a reasonable course for helping yiu identify a single line of notes across the two staves. Or maybe just the “right hand” upper/trebble clef stave (the bormal one for most ins…

I agree that we had much better patterns back then. The software industry in general worked towards sharing visual paradigms, making use of system designs of their host playforms, …

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Context: I vibe code most of my production code, but I come from a long FED career so I'm vibe-coding small things, constantly tweaking, refining prompts, picking work to do that f…

Thanks for replying. I think I missed the significance of your narrowed definition of recursion, and didn't apply it the way you intended when I read the article. I admit to my bad…

I’ll re-read it, because clearly I don’t get it. And I’d like to. My first two attempts made it seem like it was building on a function calling itself, with itself as an argument (…

I found it extremely confusing. It sets a challenge as a rhetorical tool, but then completely fails to honour the challenge through the bulk of the explanation. - don’t use recursi…

> Poor quality comes from the fact we have outsourced manufacturing. My experience with software development suggests this is not the main driver. The main driver seems to be manag…

This sounds like something I'd enjoy. Do you have a blog post or guide on your approach?

The "right" abstraction seems like quite an art. Sometimes it's not obvious, or it takes multiple rounds of exploration and testing (I'm thinking here of the mental shift moving fr…

My inherent pedantry drives me to say "this sounds like compression, not gating". Do lots of people use "gating" to mean "automated volume control"? In 30ish years of hobbyist musi…

Most of those people wont be checking the provenance of the images. FB have stopped from their fact-checking processes. Only the investigative or journalistically inclined will mak…

> Another way in which it's not cheap to lose sight, I guess. True. We can frame it even more strongly: "default societal practices actively discriminate against people with disabi…

TypeScript interfaces just merge. You can aet any property name you like on a plain JS object, at any time. The CSS version is a risk, for sure. The dev tools in all the main brows…

> With CSS names are global. In your "programmatic" code (your JS/TS, python, C++, whatever..) your classes are global. Even if the language supports flexible namespaces, or module…

Mix this 3d graphics, with data science notebooks, with local LLMs, and perhaps an integrated coding harness, with visibility over your personal data and you’d have something absur…

My banks provide different colour options for their cards. All my digital cards differ, even from the same bank. The alternate colours helps within the banks/ apps as well as withi…

Today? Not 23 years ago (approx) when they started scanning emails?