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arwhatever··on GitHub Copilot X – Sign up for technical preview
I believe that they tended to hand it out for free or very inexpensive to students, substantial trial offerings to new/small businesses, etc.
arwhatever··on Build full “product skills” and you'll probably be fine
Also, much like that law of bureaucracy stating how work expands to fill the time available, every employer I’ve worked for has been able to envision and request vastly more software functionality than any dev team has been able to produce, which might not extrapolate forever, but has sustained the field so far.

On the other hand, people are much more finite in the amount of food that they require

arwhatever··on GraphQL vs. REST APIs: a complete guide
Do teams tend to use GraphQL Schema to synchronize syntactic expectations between FE and BE?

My experience in doing so is limited, but I do know that this synchronization tends to be difficult and really like the idea of an explicit contract-based synchronization strategy.

It seems like a very big potential benefit but again, I don’t have enough direct experience doing too so be willing to put much stake in defending it.

arwhatever··on Effects of Latent Toxoplasmosis on Political Beliefs and Values
Good to keep in mind, and I shouldn’t be overly harsh.

I considered the possibility and discarded it, given that the word choices so strongly resemble poorly-spoken native English speakers whom I have personally known. But I could have confirmed by looking.

arwhatever··on Effects of Latent Toxoplasmosis on Political Beliefs and Values
Extremely poor wording in the first page or so:

> This study showed Toxoplasma-infected and Toxoplasma-free participants of our cross-sectional study differed in three of four factors of PI34, scoring higher in Tribalism and lower in Cultural liberalism and Anti-Authoritarianism.

- Is the author referring to the infected or to the free group here?

> The stress-coping hypothesis suggests that many toxoplasmosis-associated changes, e.g., higher extroversion in infected women and lower in men, or lower suspiciousness of infected women and higher in suspiciousness of infected men (all in comparison to non-infected peers) can be interpreted as gender-dependent stress coping reaction.

- Using “among infected men/women” in place of “of” would add a lot of clarity here.

I believe I’ll stop reading the article.

arwhatever··on FCC Considering Banning Transfer of Online Consent Forms
At Getty Images there was a meme printout of an angry cat someone put on the wall in the brake with a caption “I haz a disappoint in you,” I think pertaining to leaving the coffee pot empty.

Someone came along and added a note “do you have appropriate permission to reproduce this image?” And if I recall, both parts stayed up indefinitely.

arwhatever··on Hobby Club’s Missing Balloon Feared Shot Down by USAF
Would actually be quite impressive if it’s confirmed that NORAD is able to track and target a balloon/payload weighing between 11 grams-6 lbs, and flying between 30k-40k feet altitude.
arwhatever··on Best and worst decisions I’ve made
When I was in elementary school we were shown training materials which recommended that we brush there times a day.

When we would ask the teacher how we should arrange to do so as young school students, the response was always something like, “Suppose we change the subject …”

arwhatever··on The audacity of Apple Podcasts
I’ve used the Apple podcasts app to pre-download content for offline listening, only to drive out to the middle of nowhere with no data service only to have the app refuse to load.

It would be much less aggravating to have an app which crashes on launch and never gives the appearance of doing anything, whatsoever.

arwhatever··on Stanford's “Elimination of Harmful Language” Initiative
We need a better standard of evidence for harmful language than someone's claim at offense.

I have no doubt that you could find an actual victim/target/member of a marginalized group to claim to be bothered by any of these phrases in the first person. But I'm also certain that members of such groups enjoy telling other people what to do just as much (on average) as all of humankind at large, which is to say a lot, and so a better standard of evidence is needed.

I've struggled to envision what such evidence would look like, but I think it will have to be someone who is better at devising experiments than me.

arwhatever··on The Twitter Files, Part Six
The phone companies give federal agencies their very own server rooms!
arwhatever··on The distinction between free speech as a legal right and cultural value
That’s all fine as long as I get to decide what is considered I democratic or misanthropic. :-)
arwhatever··on The distinction between free speech as a legal right and cultural value
Article asserts that censorship attempts by the Weimar Republic against the Nazi party empowered the Nazis, and gives examples.

But I am not a historian and cannot reconcile the articles content with what you’re stating here.

https://www.thefire.org/news/blogs/eternally-radical-idea/wo...

arwhatever··on The persistent and pervasive impact of bullying in childhood and adolescence
Anecdote to go with everyone else's: punching a bully in the nose in the 9th grade wound up bringing about an immediate, universal and permanent end to anyone bullying me in school.
arwhatever··on Mom handcuffed, jailed for 8-year-old son walking half a mile
I’ve noticed this same similarity.

Writing code to affect millions of people’s data, or controlling millions of people’s actions they can perform with software, has a lot in common with passing legislation that will affect millions of people, in terms of the edge cases and unintended consequences that you must consider beforehand.

Not to mention the potential for malicious actors.

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arwhatever··on The type system is a programmer's best friend
Understanding existing code is a big benefit of static types as well.

I’m sure one could argue that member names should obviate the need for type annotations.

There’s also the distinct possibility that my preceding ~15 years of statically-typed software development have affected how I think about software development in some way. (wink)

But I am finding type annotations internet useful while working on a huge application that is about 2 years into adding a gradual typing system, enough so that I usually take time whenever I enter a new code area to add annotations to everything, just to understand what’s going on.

My perception is that I invest time to build understanding of the types, and then document what I’ve learned in the form of these type annotations so that future maintainers then gain a quicker understanding without having to do the initial research.

At least my non-statistically-significantly-sized team agrees.

arwhatever··on Extracting Zooming Shots from 600 Hrs of Police Helicopter Surveillance Footage
Agreed - police should be compelled to ensure the same level of diligence with their body cams as I'm sure they do to ensuring their sidearm is loaded at the start of the shift.
arwhatever··on Ask HN: Is anyone else trying to opt out of Equifax WorkNumber?
Can a TWN data sharing opt out be undermined by signing a background check agreement?
arwhatever··on Private Prisons Are Behind the Push for Homeless Criminalization
“One of the great mistakes is to judge policies and programs by their intentions rather than their results.”

― Milton Friedman

arwhatever··on Ask HN: What's Your Biggest Regret?
Same here. I have screw ups, definitely some big ones, but I don’t understand regret as a concept.
arwhatever··on Offline map test on Apple Watch Ultra for hiking
Hopefully it works better than podcasts on iOS when you go out of your way to download your content in advance for offline consumption.
arwhatever··on Why adults still dream about school
I frequently still have dreams of it being discovered that I missed a portion of high school aha I am required to go back to finish.

I also spent about a decade in the U.S. Air Force, and even though I’ve been out 15 years now I still dream that I’ve forgotten my uniform hat, and separately that I get called back in and am fearful because I still have only the previous generation of uniform style, which was phased out years ago.

arwhatever··on Senior engineers are living in the future
Senior Engineers can also give the impression of wizardry by writing shitty code that only they understand.
arwhatever··on FTC proposes rule to ban junk fees, bait-and-switch tactics plaguing car buyers
A common complaint is that these (U.S) regulatory agencies are too removed from the legislative/democratic process.

But a quick search for “FTC” suggests this might be an agency I’m interested in supporting.

But how does one go about doing so? How does one go about providing some sort of support to a one-or-more level removed regulatory agency?

arwhatever··on Microservices – Please, Don’t (2016)
Just me, or does the definition of “Bounded Context” read similarly to typical recommended architectural boundaries for microservices?
arwhatever··on Edge Case Poisoning (2020)
Based on experience, I suspect this might be more of an issue using programming languages with more expressive type systems, when to leverage the type system to model edge cases exhaustively.

Weaken the type system, reduce the automated test coverage, and you are likely to find that edge cases are addressed on more of a "who's currently yelling at us about what feature isn't working" basis, which will ultimately mean that fewer edge cases get addressed or are more likely to persist as undetected bugs, which could be either desirable or undesirable, depending on your domain.

arwhatever··on Observations from our Joe Rogan Experience experience
This episode was phenomenal and I don’t even recall anything Joe said or whether he even spoke at all.

I could say this episode alone hooked me on the whole world of podcasting in general.

arwhatever··on Mikhail Gorbachev has died
Werner Herzog’s interview/documentary with him just a couple of years ago was very interesting, and I recommend watching.
arwhatever··on A list of developer questions to ask prospective employers
The team you describe exudes some hardcore woodcutter vibes.
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