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In Scotland, they close an issue by taking a vote of "OK", "Broken", or "Not Proven". I believe they also have attorneys. Perhaps that's how Apple could make bug-tracking more effe…

> In 56% of eval cases, the skill was never invoked. The agent had access to the documentation but didn't use it. The agent passes the Turing test...

Frequently use both `github.com` and self-hosted Gitlab. IMHO, it's just... different. Self-hosted Gitlab periodically blocks access for auto-upgrades. Github.com upgrades are usua…

Same basic question -- at the price of $100k/ea, it does seem cheaper to build-out more satellite offices. But there's a parallel push around taxing American firms using foreign la…

I enjoy this metaphor of the cow and the papier-mâché. Presumably, there is a farmer who raised the cow, then purchased the papier-mâché, then scrounged for a palette of paints, an…

Yes. But look at the bottom. There's an image with the PR review screen. There's one change: * Normally, the big green button says "Merge pull request" * Now, the big green button …

One should make a distinction between: * The general idea of mixing together filesystems+folders to achieve re-use/sharing/caching. * The "Dockerfile" approach to this - with its l…

The whinging hits everyone. Look at any HN story involving the Bay Area, and you'll see a dozen subthreads about how it's a post-apocalyptic hellscape. (But it's home, you know.) S…

I can’t wait to watch Integration Test Email #2 at the same time next week.

> What are we ejecting? Ourselves, it seems. A Javascript framework is like a jet, and we are the human payload. You can stay in the jet, zooming over the constantly changing lands…

In case anyone is interested in that recall effort: https://www.recallsfschoolboard.org/

In fairness, it does give choices -- https://www.php.net/manual/en/spl.datastructures.php

Right, sprinkling #if's across a dozen downstream codebases sucks. Consider an analogy to shell-scripting -- there are different shells ("bash", "dash", "zsh") which have substanti…

Yeah, in the long run, breaking compatibility is totally understandable for a fork. And generally... power-to-them in publishing a free/open/quality SSL implementation. But... the …

I can't speak to MDN's tooling or culture, but... it sounds like the transition that many FOSS projects made from wiki-workflow docs (Confluence/Mediawiki/etc) to PR-workflow docs …

I don't buy it. "Worker rights" and "unions" aren't the drivers of globalization or deindustrialization. Let's make an example. Suppose a "rational investor" in a globalized market…

Oooh, I see how I misinterpreted! Thank you for clarifying. Cheers.

> This guy is apparently "alt-right"... Yeah, no. I mean, I don't know this guy from Bob, but the above has neither citation nor argument, and everything I've seen disagrees with t…

A thought experiment... which probably doesn't change the big picture... but it's interesting... Suppose the initial implementation chose an ill-suited/fast/cheap hash (like MD5). …

This comment confuses me. It makes it sound like some authoritative figure came in and said, "Nix shall not support OS X because Apple is evil." But to my eye, this is not at all b…

Yeah, this comment https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21612033 links to an article on the Register which gives a lot more substance to the concerns/reactions. That deeper story h…

I think it's fair to see private equity as red-flag, and I feel ideologically aligned with the folks raising the alarm here. OTOH, the concerns raised include a lot of speculation …

The same concern definitely crossed my mind as a reader, but I think the coloring of the critique should be less #000000 and more #888888. A lot depends on the technical goals of t…

"Semantic" looks pretty neat. Are there are previous threads or announcements about Github's goal in developing it (i.e. services for which they plan to use it)?