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That’s the exact opposite of the work schedule I’d want if we were doing seasonal variations in working hours.

As opposed to the status quo, where the swatters are exploiting the police's behavior to commit crimes against the person?

He didn't quit/get fired/etc. His badge switched from saying Red Hat to saying IBM as part of an internal step towards integrating RH into IBM.

Do I understand correctly that GitHub currently doesn't support SHA-256 repos at all, so the author faked a screenshot of what the create repository UI would look like if they choose a really stupid way to add support for SHA-256 repos, and then proclaimed it an unsolveable problem? Selecting the repository format based on the first thing pushed to it is really not a crazy idea.

The submodule problem is real, but the forge problem is entirely just "if forges implement support in a way that makes it painful it will be painful", and that's true of literally every feature that requires forge support.

Because people get drugged and assaulted at Anthrocon a lot less often?

Apple does not ship any version of gmake. The only included make is BSD make.

Which is to say that it’s a very burdensome process if you think you should be able to go to Walmart, exchange cash for goods, and walk out with a gun, but pretty simple by the standards of regulated goods. The basic knowledge test is very basic, so the pain points are just that sometimes background checks are incorrect, the waiting period can be inconvenient, and just the general annoyances of government bureaucracy.

Apple has had various forms of iCloud sync that theoretically compete with firebase but are really awful for the entire life of firebase.

Biden was not the president in 2020.

You can literally just go read it. They’re very explicit about both their goals and how they intended to achieve them.

Posts which appear to be thoughtfully constructed while actually just being entirely incorrect about the relevant facts are the most important to downvote, to signal to uninformed readers that they should perhaps not trust the post overly much.

The previous CEO immediately returned as interim CEO, so they sort of did have someone ready.

Yes, obviously anyone running with --dangerously-skip-permissions without putting significant effort into sandboxing is behaving negligently.

As was sort of offhandedly mentioned in the article, all pre-LLM research into what results in students actually learning the material (as a distinct thing from passing the class) has landed pretty solidly on the side of frequent, low-stakes exams having better outcomes than rare high-stakes exams. The best students learn the material regardless of how you evaluate them; some weaker students will benefit from more frequent nudges to keep up rather than trying to cram at the end, some students simply won't realize they're falling behind without regular feedback, and some students successfully cram at the end and pass the class without retaining much of the material. The final group often expresses a preference for the one-exam-at-the-end model despite being disserved by it if the goal is to learn and not merely pass.

Yeah, I'm definitely not clear on what you're trying to mean. How about you actually state your point rather than vaguely alluding to something?

To the best of my knowledge zero of the people passionate about programming that I know have spent a meaningful portion of their career at non-tech companies. Internships or first jobs out of college are common, but the passionate people end up going somewhere where the thing they're working on is more than an incidental cost center for their employer.

What does EEE even mean in the context of a proprietary service that Microsoft owns? That is a strategy for killing open standards, which Github never was. It could be a thing for git itself, but Microsoft doesn't even have a git competitor.

Yes? My main experience with menus with pictures is Chinese restaurants where they took a poorly staged and lit photo of the actual dish. Sometimes the real thing ends up looking better than the picture.

If you're in a room with a TV then literally yes, there's a good chance there's an abusive bot in the room.

I think the prison looks better from the outside, but if you asked me which building I wanted to spend time in I'd pick the school without hesitation (assuming they were both being repurposed for the same non-school/prison use).

There is a clear preference for other people to build in traditional styles, but as soon as you have to care about more than what the facade looks like from the outside people choose the uglier functional option.

I don't think a single building in those postcards is beautiful. Most of them are incredibly forgettable run down old buildings.

Poorly. How fucked up it was that we expected people to be on a plane out of the country the day they were fired was a recurring discussion. In practice no one actually did and there was a de facto grace period, but what people got away with was wildly inconsistent and how long you could spend in the country after getting fired was effectively random. Codifying the grace period made the whole process much more humane and predictable with no downside.

Yes, 27 is the final Rosetta version. The warnings are worded in a way that makes sense if you already know that but are easy to misunderstand if you don’t. I think they initially didn’t want to commit to the next version being called macOS 28. The final 27 release has started explicitly saying it’s going away in 28 which makes it a lot more straightforward.

Starcraft 64 is infamously terrible and is evidence that RTS games don't work on consoles.

Having your seed round funded by YC is what being a "YC company" means. That is exactly what people are referring to every time they say that phrase.

Sometimes you actually are holding it wrong. It's pretty reasonable to think that Fable isn't worth the massive increase in cost, but if you think it outright doesn't have any benefits over Opus 4.8 then your workflow is probably not making good use of the tools.

I have no idea what you could consider a spoiler for a three minute trailer that's nothing but vibes.

The unfortunate part is that he became someone you’re happy to see out. I think he’s absolutely become a net negative for Wordpress, but that wasn’t always the case.

"Make the Add to Cart button blue" is fine as a first step. When that doesn't have the desired result, I would simply revert the change, start a new session, and do something like "Give the Add to Cart button its own theme separate from the default button theme. Make the color for this new theme blue.". If this gives almost the correct result (e.g. it's not the shade of blue I want) I'd do a followup like "change the Add to Cart theme from #00FF00 to #16b8c4" with no implication that the previous step was wrong. If it's wildly incorrect I'd start over and try to specify in more detail about what exactly should happen.

If I don't understand why changing one button changed them all, I would use an entirely separate session to ask questions about how the site theming works. The fact that the site has a bunch of weird coupling between themes is useful information, and if I don't know how to resolve that I'd ask Claude for ideas about how to safely eliminate the coupling, and once it proposes a reasonable idea tell it to implement that.

The two big things here I'd never do is use emotional languages in prompts, and I'd never tell Claude to revert changes and try again. Once the incorrect change is in the context it's poisoning all of your future results.

Yeah, if this is how people interact with claude I’m not surprised they’re having a bad time in ways that I don’t. Asking it why it did something or getting combative is a waste of time.