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brown9-2··on Git rebase -i is not that scary
tags and branches are both just refs to the commit and can be used interchangeably for something like this. tags are not immutable, just in convention.
brown9-2··on Claude Code uses Bun written in Rust now
Is it important to be idiomatic if the project meets its goals around memory safety?
brown9-2··on GitHub CLI now collects pseudoanonymous telemetry
What’s confusing about this is that every gh command is just a wrapper around their API.
brown9-2··on We do not think Anthropic should be designated as a supply chain risk
not to mention that the government is already bound against using things it buys for unlawful uses. Its a totally redundant clause in a contract that OpenAI is touting to confuse people.
brown9-2··on Rob Pike goes nuclear over GenAI
I don’t think they’re affiliated with agentvillage.org
brown9-2··on IBM to acquire Confluent
not for much longer
brown9-2··on RCE Vulnerability in React and Next.js
so any package could declare some modules as “use server” and they’d be callable, whether the RSC server owner wanted them to or not? That seems less than ideal.
brown9-2··on Advice for new principal tech ICs (i.e., notes to myself)
Amazon skipping “staff” and jumping straight to “principal” seems like such title inflation
brown9-2··on Unlocking free WiFi on British Airways
TLS might encrypt the contents but it doesn’t encrypt the destination or source IP (how could it?)
brown9-2··on GCP Outage
perhaps Lovable uses GCP somewhere in their stack?
brown9-2··on Tj-actions/changed-files GitHub Action Compromised – used by over 23K repos
Renovate sending PRs to projects to upgrade their action version is unrelated to the original comment having a spoofed author of Renovate
brown9-2··on Monorepo – Our Experience
fsmonitor and untrackedCache doesn’t help?
brown9-2··on A ChatGPT mistake cost us $10k
looking at the query logs for the nighttime period should have made the bug fairly obvious
brown9-2··on Leaked OpenAI documents reveal aggressive tactics toward former employees
Because this isn’t something instituted by the head of HR alone.
brown9-2··on Statement from Scarlett Johansson on the OpenAI "Sky" voice
Some people are just addicted to posting
brown9-2··on Executing Cron Scripts Reliably at Scale
> we implemented logic to prevent the node from going down at the top of a minute when possible since — given the nature of cron — that is when it is likely that scripts will need to be scheduled to run

Why not smear the start time of the jobs across seconds of that minute to avoid any thundering herd problems? How much functionality relies on a script being invoked at exactly the :00 mark? And if the functionality depends on that exact timing, doesn’t it suggest something is fragile and could be redesigned to be more resilient?

brown9-2··on Good DevEx increases productivity. Here is the data
This seems like a tautology because what we think of as a good “experience” is something that lets us get our work done quickly. No one ever said a tool had great devex but was hard to get stuff done with.
brown9-2··on Apple: The only big tech giant going against the job cuts tide
Are you saying that Google or Meta are not “established”?
brown9-2··on Spotify reducing employee base by about 6%
Why does every thread about a consumer app company like this turn into off-topic feedback about the product?
brown9-2··on Shopify tells employees to just say no to meetings
I’ve worked at companies where they’ve done a “spring cleaning” like this, I guess no one thought to turn it into a branding pitch and call up the media though
brown9-2··on Java 20: A Sneak Peek on the Panama FFM API
The commitment from OpenJDK to continue to support the LTS release for a number of years longer than the non-LTS releases is pretty significant to a lot of companies using Java.
brown9-2··on Patreon Lays off 17% of Staff
Patreon probably feared pressure from the Apple App Store.
brown9-2··on Gravity Payments CEO Dan Price resigns
pretty weird to call rape a “flaw”
brown9-2··on Alex Jones must pay $50m in punitive damages for Sandy Hook hoax claim
it’s a civil case and not one brought by the government.
brown9-2··on Alex Jones must pay $50m in punitive damages for Sandy Hook hoax claim
how is tax money used in a defamation case?
brown9-2··on Alex Jones must pay $50m in punitive damages for Sandy Hook hoax claim
> What damages were actually done here? $50m for "emotional distress" is ridiculous in any context.

Let me guess: you don’t have kids

brown9-2··on Notice of termination of Twitter merger agreement
This seems like a great example of selection bias if there are blockbuster acquisitions every year.
brown9-2··on Driverless robotaxi fleet paralyzed for hours in San Francisco
It also shows how none of our governments seem to care to prevent companies from testing dangerous products on the street with other unwilling drivers
brown9-2··on Ranked-Choice Voting Is More Democratic, Not Less
Also need to get rid of the filibuster and the Electoral College, which are both anti-democratic.

Then possibly abolish the Senate too for the same reason.

brown9-2··on Ask HN: Is Apple down?
the domain name developer.apple.com resolves through a series of CNAMEs to Apple's CDN (applimg.com), which if it was down would explain other things like iMessage also being unavailable.
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