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Absolutely, at this rate most software would be complete in a few hours. I may lack imagination but wtf are you changing? Endlessly refactoring? That’s spinning your wheels renamed as productivity.

They kind of touch on this:

> Imagine a future where a handful of people can conduct scientific research and engineering tasks much more rapidly, and with higher quality, than massive teams of scientists and engineers do today. By automating the loops of discovery, the world will be able to make much more rapid advances across countless fields of science.

The problem is that for this to actually become true, compute needs to become commodity again, otherwise this capability will select for people and environments with oversized pockets.

The dystopia that PayPal is we’re cheering and paying trillionaires to bring forward faster. Can’t wait.

This is true to some extend, but you may confuse runaway technical arguments (Rust in Linux?) with spitting vitriol over somebody.

There’s a way to make a profile the default. I personally appreciate that it reverts back to it when turned off.

> I'm surprised they didn't eat it up until new releases when they often increase prices.

There may be an element here where announcing new hardware at a 30% higher price would largely make the latter the focus point, so instead they chose to take the hit of the price hikes separately.

> convincing someone that their excessive null checking is harmful is an uphill battle.

The argument that seems to hit home more often than not is that optionals effectively “fork” the state space, the possible states your program can be in. And the larger the state space is, the harder it is to reason about the code and maintain it. That’s actually part of what make undesirable states un-representable means.

You can quickly get the "lay of the land" and discover primary sources which you can study. Learning from the AI, I agree, is rife with landmines.

Exactly, plus you now have a new superpower with AI — the ability to dig into and ramp up expertise in mostly any domain. I’d say the article gets it backwards.

You’re right, I never noticed!

This actually also explains why I couldn’t change my default card the other day - I must have been in that screen that opens from the button shortcut.

Wait, what? Double-clicking will prompt for Face ID to open your default card for oayment, and from there you swipe down to see the stack — which I suppose is the screen you’re looking for.

Exactly. The principle to go by for estimates is finding a balance between time/scope/cost, and figuring out which aspects of the context affect which dimension is the first step.

I’ve no experience with Elastic but what they’re getting at I think is indexes in Elastic is actually your data because that’s all it does due to the purpose it was built for, whereas in Postgres indexes are, well, indexes — that is, derived data, not the source of truth.

Agreed. I think you may be too generous with hubris -- that requires agency, but it may just be incompetence. I don't generally like the "old days" argument, but this is consistent with overall trends -- it's frivolous.

What feels plausible to me is changing the underlying 19x19 px control would break layout of many existing apps, and the design team was hell bent that window corners had to be that round. I’d say it’s simply form over function, and that likely a meta-level argument about user empowerment or whatnot won.