oldsecondhand

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Comment · 13 days ago
Google sold search appliances between 2002-2016, the replaced it with Google Cloud Search.
Comment · 13 days ago
Eating your own dogfood has always been a milestone of maturity.
Comment · 13 days ago
The issue is that it's hard to predict how certain features will be misused and even harder to remove a harmful feature from a language. That's why Java goes slow. (Although I think there's too much pussyfooting around string interpolation. But I also think too much type inference makes the code harder to read.)
Comment · 17 days ago
> If anything, they generally want more.

As long as they wake up ...

Comment · 1 month ago
Even the $20 tier of ChatGPT has privacy settings that forbid using the user's data to be used for training. The question is, whether this setting is respected.
Comment · 1 month ago
For someone just starting to learn CS, it should not matter whether they're on PDP-11 or x64 or ARM. You can't start teaching with pipelining and speculative branch execution. So C is good choice because there is a simple CPU architecture that it maps to well.
Comment · 3 months ago
What designing cards taught me about B2B sales ...
Comment · 3 months ago
tl;dr: author "discovers" hypertext
Comment · 3 months ago
Yep, putting a DRM free version in escrow should be a legal requirement.
Comment · 3 months ago
However in the EU end users have the right to resell that license.
Comment · 3 months ago
Me neither on Chrome on Win10. "WEBGPU initialization failed".
Comment · 5 months ago
It's easy to make a chessbot that only makes valid moves. Making a chessbot that plays optimally is hard.

But OP wasn't talking about solving optimalization problems, but understanding the rules of a business domain.

Comment · 5 months ago
That wouldn't solve the core issue: if Claude makes a mistake during the MCP generaration, it would poison further agentic use.

It's adding another failure point to the process for no gain.

Comment · 5 months ago
"Graeber wrote about this astutely in his original 2013 Bullshit Jobs essay"

I wouldn't take his word too seriously. According to him, corporate lawyers, administrative assistants and compliance officers shouldn't exist.

Comment · 5 months ago
Helped or overworked?

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