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Comment · 10 months ago
I read the article as saying it ignores all upper-bounds, and 4.0 is just an example. I could be wrong though - it seems ambiguous to me.

But if we accept that it currently ignores any upper-bounds checks greater than v3, that's interesting. Does that imply that once Python 4 is available, uv will slow down due to needing to actually run those checks?

Comment · 1 year ago
He's calculating EV above cost. If you look at the calculation, the first term is -1000 to account for the initial investment. So the final value is tell you that you got back the initial money plus 900 more.
Comment · 1 year ago
Nothing wrong with sticking a summary up top, and then laying out the arguments below.
Comment · 1 year ago
I feel like the process of editing my own stuff is at least as important as getting it down. That's when I go back through it and realize all the conclusions I leapt to, things I didn't thoroughly consider, and other flaws. I think people really undervalue writing as a focus tool. But maybe that's just me, YMMV.

I think the same thing about a lot of code, too. Sometimes you really are just hammering out boilerplate. But a lot of times even writing test code is a great opportunity to realize the main code could be improved. But the LLM probably won't tell you that.

Comment · 1 year ago
Comment · 2 years ago
I feel like PassKeys and browser-integrated password managers both solve this problem better already. And yeah they're extra things to do, but so is this.
Comment · 2 years ago
There are recycling pilot projects out there, but yeah it's a problem.

Do you also wonder how we'll get rid of used coal power plants, massive piles of toxic fly ash, and tons of pollutants from natural gas plants? Because so far the answer is not good.

Comment · 2 years ago
> I wouldn't say the planet "barely" supported life before the oxygenation event. Otherwise we wouldn't have as much fossil evidence as we have.

I believe you're talking about Earth, and the person you're responding to was talking about Mars. At least I don't think Mars had an oxygenation event or fossils?

Comment · 2 years ago
Definitely a thing. Just yesterday I was annoyed by my auto mechanic's credit card fee, and said they should've told me up front.

She pointed out it was on a sign on the counter that I was looking at that moment, and had also been there when I dropped the car off the day before.

Comment · 2 years ago
Isn't the local equivalent of Reddit just NextDoor? Which seems to mostly be worse, from what I can tell.
Comment · 2 years ago
If I understood the article correctly, you can get a feed that isn't moderated by their team. So I'm not sure what your complaint is? That other people can get moderation if they choose to?
Comment · 2 years ago
Since they're mostly not public, I'd say probably very few.

From TFA:

> To make things even more complex, many of these large companies are not traded publicly on the stock market, meaning their total number of holdings is not easily available to the public. Because Invitation Homes is publicly traded

Comment · 2 years ago
I think you're missing that person's point though. This evolution implied in the thread was:

1. Write "logging" data (observability, whatever) 2. Someone else starts using that to drive behavior 3. Change your logging, because it's just logging right? And stuff breaks.

To state it another way, anything you're emitting, _even internal logging_, is part of your API/contract, and therefore can't be changed carelessly. That problem is the same no matter what technology you use.

Comment · 2 years ago
Maybe yours is set up for WiFi calling?
Comment · 2 years ago
If your management is waving off the waste of something so immediately convertible into dollars as their (probably) highly-paid engineers' time, then they're idiots.

Usually the hard part is collecting the numbers and defending their validity.

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