steve1977

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Comment · 3 hours ago
> Anecdotally, does this match anyone's actual experience?

Yes. In contrast to you, I really think many of my coworkers seem to get dumber by the day. Not all of them yet, fortunately, but many.

Comment · 3 hours ago
According to Claude.
Comment · 3 hours ago
Ha, finally me being poor pays off!
Comment · 4 hours ago
Well, we don't have to use the tools you mentioned.
Comment · 9 hours ago
Production scale is not production grade I guess...
Comment · 12 hours ago
Yes, but I think it also just shows the widespread ignorance and incompetence in many companies.

I'm not saying everything can be secured easily, but a lot of those leaks recently could have been prevented easily.

Comment · 2 days ago
This is certainly an interesting project. I have to ask though, why C++ and not Rust?
Comment · 2 days ago
But GNU Emacs was not the first incarnation. That was EMACS on some PDP system in the 70s and Richard Stallman was already involved in that. Gosling Emacs only came years later.
Comment · 5 days ago
Most software engineers are not in the same level as real engineers either, let's be honest here.
Comment · 6 days ago
Provocative of what? Thinking about the issues that Python has? Why would that be a problem?

It IS a mess and it's causing problems again and again in real life. And it is particularly bad with Python. I don't see why this should not be pointed out.

Comment · 7 days ago
Python certificate handling is a hot mess, even by Python standards.
Comment · 7 days ago
When did we start to shorten cyber security with just cyber? I see this quite often now and I think it's just stupid, it doesn't make sense.
Comment · 8 days ago
> Once the agents agreed on a protocol for encoding and decoding these signals

That the agents had a means to that seems to do a lot of work here.

Comment · 8 days ago
Apple has been propagating Swift for more than a decade now and at least in theory, it should be on par with Rust in terms of safety I'd say.
Comment · 10 days ago
Come to any rural and more or less mountainous region in Switzerland and you'll probably see more than 10 in every village ;)

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