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Aren't all of these industries where the top workers get fat plates and others are pushing hard to get there?

smackmybishopon jj – the CLI for Jujutsu

I suggested that since you seemed really concerned about editing the commit that you just told it to edit. Use 'edit' all you want if your goal is to edit commits, otherwise 'new' does what it seems like you're expecting...

smackmybishopon jj – the CLI for Jujutsu

Just don't ever use `edit`, use `new` instead; then your changes are tracked without making a mess. I think that's much nicer than juggling stashes in git.

smackmybishopon Types as Interfaces

Everything has been `optional` for about a decade.

> The option to set a field to required is absent in proto3 and strongly discouraged in proto2.

https://protobuf.dev/overview/#syntax

smackmybishopon The Coming Technological Singularity (1993)

Did you check the date of the article you're complaining about?

smackmybishopon Haskell is not category theory

They actually do. The type constructor maps types to types (which are Hask objects), and `fmap` maps the functions (which are the morphisms).

smackmybishopon LeanQt – GUI is here, Widgets are near

I suspect they're referring to VPRI's STEPS research, not Smalltalk. (And it was a target of 20k, not 10k.)

smackmybishopon The GNU Name System

Zooko's Triangle might be a factor here. Sounds like they chose 'distributed' over 'human-meaningful.'

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zooko%27s_triangle

smackmybishopon Amazon Sends ‘Vote No’ Instructions to Unionizing Employees

https://observer.com/2020/04/amazon-whole-foods-anti-union-t...

> Data collected in the heat map suggest that stores with low racial and ethnic diversity, especially those located in poor communities, are more likely to unionize.

smackmybishopon Judge refuses to reinstate Parler after Amazon shut it down

AWS is neither free nor ad-supported.

smackmybishopon Anthony Levandowski ordered to pay $179M to Google

Neither, and it was hundreds of millions.

https://www.cnbc.com/2017/04/03/waymos-uber-lawsuit-reveals-...

smackmybishopon Singapore to become first country banning ads on sugary drinks

Just to be clear, I'm against universal healthcare for this reason.

I think we should pay for the consequences of our own choices, and agree the government is terrible at deciding what's unhealthy.

smackmybishopon Singapore to become first country banning ads on sugary drinks

There's a point there that I don't think gets enough discussion:

As healthcare becomes increasingly socialized, personal unhealthy choices become an attack on society at large.

Why wouldn't we ban sugary drinks altogether? Motorcycle riding even with a helmet? Maybe get rid of pasta. It's not clear to me where we should stop, if medical costs to society are a valid justification for reducing personal freedom...

smackmybishopon Why GitHub used Haskell for Semantic

Probably because async/await IS a monad. Avoiding that infection just takes some design experience.

smackmybishopon Reasons to turn down the transmit power of your Wi-Fi (2017)

Your wife is wrong, it means "before."

smackmybishopon All images of the Facebook ads Russians purchased during the election

I'm fascinated to know how you think that's in opposition to "winner take all."

smackmybishopon How to automate Google related tasks

Google Apps Script has been around since 2009...

smackmybishopon Bitcoin about to cross $11,000

If this is failure, I'd love to see success...

smackmybishopon Verizon closes $4.5B acquisition of Yahoo, Marissa Mayer resigns

How many if you spell it right?

smackmybishopon Offline First – A Better HTML5 User Experience

That case would probably need server synchronization to confirm, but other cases can be handled with operational transformations.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operational_transformation

smackmybishopon A giant pyramid hidden inside a mountain

It's just CSS.

smackmybishopon End to End Learning for Self-Driving Cars [pdf]

That's the first Terminator. Terminator 2 would be:

It would never leave him, and it would never hurt him, never shout at him, or get drunk and hit him, or say it was too busy to spend time with him. It would always be there. And it would die, to protect him.

smackmybishopon White House Doesn't Want You to Know the TPP's Effects on U.S. Copyright Laws

Why would this surprise you after ACTA?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-Counterfeiting_Trade_Agree...

smackmybishopon Modern C [pdf]

It only claims that for unsigned integers, which is true. It also correctly says that signed overflow is undefined.

smackmybishopon Microsoft Changes Tack, Making Office Suite Free on Mobile

Microsoft never really held the low end, because that was instead held by Works, WordPad, or Word?

What?

smackmybishopon Former Google corporate attorney becomes Deputy Director of US Patent Office

Good luck in your endeavor!

smackmybishopon Why does NASA use gold foil on equipment and gold-coated visors?

Gold has a much higher resistance than copper.