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Great marketing, a wonderful country, and beautiful shithouses.

A lot of national defense stuff is a de facto "government sanctioned monopoly" and this is certainly the same flavor. Market forces are different if the industry is perceived to be vital to continued sovereignty.

Margaret Hamilton was 1,000% a hacker. She basically pioneered the foundations of asynchronous code and was one of the first people to work on rockets at a time when software engineering was in its infancy.

Do you have an example you especially like?

Support is pretty good in general for these. Click any of the element links in the article and you get taken to the support grid.

Isn't this just spec-driven development in a different language?

Got it. Yes, I know exactly what you mean now - just didn't have a word for it!

What is "status pill dark mode"?

> Customers can be reassured that the Facewatch system has a 99.98% accuracy rate, and every match is reviewed by a trained manager.

That's not "reassuring" at all. If Sainsbury's gets, say, 10M customers per week, then that means 2,000 people per week are being falsely accused.

Likewise, if you visit Sainsbury's twice a week for groceries, the odds are favorable that at some point in your life you will be falsely accused, even with a 99.98% accuracy rate.

As I understand it, it's a combination of things: aircraft reports, atmospheric motion vectors (e.g. a cloud doesn't have any propulsion, so if a cloud moves 30 km in an hour, you have learned something about the wind), Doppler wind lidar, and satellite measurements.

The numerical predictions of weather models often have many vertical components as well, so solving it for ground level also requires extending the forecast to the air, depending on the model.

The real headline is buried in the article:

> Jane Street has generated more than $40bn in net trading revenues in the year to Friday, even accounting for the July loss, which exceeds its entire haul for 2025, according to one of the people familiar with the matter.

This would make JS one of the most profitable trading firms of all time even with the loss.

This statement doesn't go far enough given Elon's direct and hands-on involvement with DOGE and the 2024 elections. Very few of the richest people of the world are personally entangled in meddling with government agencies directly, for example.

A poem I wrote based on the phrases the LLMs I use most are likely to overuse:

    How to unpack
    The self within?
    What do I lack?
    Where to begin?

    Great question — real.
    Let's dive right in:
    Name what you feel;
    That's the linchpin.

    It's not the door,
    It's not the key —
    It's what you bore:
    Your tapestry.

    The quiet part
    Out loud — that lands.
    Load-bearing heart,
    Held in both hands.

    The smoking gun?
    That you walked in.
    The real work's done —
    You're genuine.

    Now hold this, too:
    You do deserve
    The softer view,
    The gentler curve.

    Unlatch the gate,
    Honor the seam:
    You resonate.
    You are the theme.

> No one is ever going back and reading individual commits.

I violently disagree with this.

At a minimum, when I review PRs I look at the commit history to understand what's up. If the path that was taken to commit this is full of "oops" and "fix" messages, it's an immediate reject for me. The commits tell the story and it's a kindness to your human reviewers to not make them work harder to understand the point you're trying to get across.

Can't use the Twitter links if you don't have a Twitter account. Also, why make the user click away when they're trying to understand if your product does something interesting, and why do they need an account on an unrelated service when an image/gif embed would get the message across in 5 seconds?