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Yes, or at least that’s the reason Jobs gave in the original Jan 2007 keynote: > We’re going to be shipping these in June. We’re announcing it today because with products like this…

Yeah, exactly. It seems like you understand just fine. You claimed that “literally no one” has a different review workflow than yours. I do, and my experience is that clear commits…

You might be surprised. Yours sounds like the attitude of someone who has not had the luxury of reviewing well-constructed commits. PRs with intentional commits permit both faster …

My wife took one look at this and said “It’s not Wordle if it’s all binary—it’s Digitle.”

I grew up about 3 minutes away from a big hardware store, doing projects all the time. This contributed to a very wrongheaded idea about how long projects take. When I moved into m…

You’ve just introduced me to a good poem. Thanks!

Super impressive. Can’t agree more with the author that GPS is a stunningly clever engineering achievement. For those interested in the story of the development of GPS, I found “GP…

I wrote a thing for this back when you could download the whole hash database as a single torrent, but I haven’t checked it since they moved over to the PwnedPasswordsDownloader sy…

I don’t know that much about materials science. Why is a “titanium hemisphere bonded to a carbon fiber cylinder” “such a fundamentally compromised design” in this application? I im…

Why would shipping a good GPU be a prerequisite to shipping a quantum processor?

Always neat to discover that multiple high-quality tools you discovered separately are all written by the same person. I use both bat and hyperfine regularly and had no idea. Now, …

pv is invaluable but my issue with it is it’s only useful if you think to include it before you run the command. Usually the thought doesn’t occur to me until I have some runaway c…

Heh, that gives “2.49 US dollars,” before the expected 907.18 grams.

Have you read a lot of biology papers? Are they all about operating microscopes?

Really? I think it’s in there: > Amazon seems invincible. … If [Toys R Us] couldn’t compete with Amazon, how could B&N hope to do any better? > Daunt started giving more power to t…

I think your comment actually highlights the key insight. For a long time, the fact that the bookstore was the _only_ place to “get books” occluded the fact that it was the _best_ …