atherton94027

Pascal had pointers? They could be `nil` too https://www.freepascal.org/docs-html/ref/refse15.html

How are you going to build sum types in a way where you can interact with assembly or machine code? The CPU doesn't know about that stuff

Genuinely curious, how would you handle cases where a value is unset without NULL? This is a legitimate case that happens a lot in eg data modeling

tbqh the airbnb owners are also outsourcing the externalities of short term rentals to make a quick buck. It's outsourcing all the way down

Middle-management as we knew it at the turn of the 2010s is probably gone forever. You don't need to coordinate many many teams as you used to. Same as huge frontend team with dedicated support for graphql, etc. AI made most of that redundant.

By extension we're going to need a lot less middle managers as coordination problems decrease.

As for the point I think you're trying to make, the problem with middle management and other chokepoints in general (like PM teams) is that often they become an antipattern. They soak in all the information and then dole it out parsimoniously, so the typical experience as an IC is to be barely able to see the full picture

Not at all — they're working on cheaper cars that they're testing in SF, and they will probably only roll out Waymo to the wealthiest markets in the US. Think airport rides to JFK instead of a taxi that works anywhere in the country. They will be very profitable.

This applies to newspapers too — if you compare the print version to the online version of a newspaper you notice that there's a lot more attention paid to the paper version. Whereas the online version has all kinds of aggressive banners and ads.

I think it's a generational thing, for a lot of publishers the internet is this newfangled thing

This is the redis guy you're replying to, I doubt he's on Claude's payroll

I'm answering the claim about Artemis being more dangerous than the space shuttle. Obviously landing on the moon is a lot riskier.

Ah I appreciate the answer — I'll do that next time. Thank you for moderating btw, you've been doing a great job!

This was the farthest humans ever travelled from earth, even farther than apollo 13. Intuitively the farther you go the higher the risks are

@dang is it something on your radar? Lots of people do this on Reddit and it makes some threads unusable.

Sorry I didn't see your reply, what was it about?

You must be German — the French state is a lot more top down than Germany with its regions, so generally these kinds of mandates get applied broadly

It really depends, support is usually the first thing companies adjust when they want to improve their margins.

Even when you're paying millions to AWS you have to get through their first line of support and they will ask silly questions until you can convince them to escalate.

Well the people who get laid off also have feelings, not sure why we should care more about the ceo's feelings so much that we shouldn't criticize them

Canada has the same rates of gun ownership as America and you don't see cops come up with guns blazing like they do here

> I'm not even looking very hard but have had 4 interviews in the last month.

Did you get any offers yet? It seems the issue is not lack of interviews but lack of offers. Many companies are looking for a goldilocks candidate and are happy to pass on anything that doesn't match their ideal candidate

Sorry I'm not sure I understand your point

I mean it's a repo with 1 very active contributor (https://github.com/blacksky-algorithms/rsky/graphs/contribut...), I get that they decided to skip on that

Not really? Iirc `HttpUrlConnection` has been around since the 90s?

sic transit gloria mundi..

> If it's something else, I'm sorry I just don't understand.

I'm trying to explain to you that you're speaking very authoritatively about how things were done 30 years ago but things have changed since then, Gmail won't even send a message non-delivery notification to non-DKIM hosts.

Same thing with the g-msgid I'm telling you about – google documented it explicitly as a unique identifier, see here for example: https://developers.google.com/workspace/gmail/imap/imap-exte...

So yeah, things changed.

Well, gmail does not manage usenet groups and mailing lists. Delivery status notifications are considered best effort so it wouldn't make sense to block messages for that case.

Additionally, Gmail adds its own message identifier on every message (g-msgid) because it knows that message ids can not be trusted to be unique.

Finally just calling me ignorant is the cherry on top – please try to keep things civil on here.

How is not having a message-id a security risk? It seems that Gmail is being pedantic for no reason

I mean your argument is basically saying "in the future Linux will have ads, there's a race to the bottom with operating systems, just look at windows". Tough to justify this train of thought with open weight models

Presumably sharding is a lot easier than trying to debug lockups in individual postgres thread? It's well known, we've been doing it for at least 30+ years as an industry.

I'm a bit confused here, do they have a single database they're writing to? Wouldn't it be easier and more reliable to shard the data per customer?

The best products like Microsoft Teams? Let's be honest, a lot of the software they've replaced has a checkered past

Yeah I agree with you on that, I'm just curious about the systems programming use case as in my experience you have to think deep about interactions and working with an agent blunts that