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bobmaxup··on New GitHub Copilot research finds 'downward pressure on code quality'
It is hard to know if you have fixed or broke something when there are hundreds of distinct variants of it and no way to test its correctness.

Also, not all maintenance involves correcting inborn defects.

bobmaxup··on New GitHub Copilot research finds 'downward pressure on code quality'
...said no one who inherited the maintenance of hundreds of thousands of lines of copy pasted code.
bobmaxup··on Mozilla thinks Apple, Google, Microsoft should play fair
An article on the topic:

https://www.cnet.com/tech/mobile/why-the-death-of-the-firefo...

bobmaxup··on Show HN: Anki/Duolingo-like app using educational YouTube videos
Is NLU really this reliable yet? I tried making some scripts like this with LLMs, and it seemed to do very poorly. So, I abandoned the effort.
bobmaxup··on Gene therapy allows an 11-year-old boy to hear
To be fair, they did qualify the statement with "or so".
bobmaxup··on MrBeast reveals he made $250k from X video
> Youtube isn't a social network.

Certainly seems to be one to me?

bobmaxup··on Challenges to the credibility of two recent Netflix documentaries
not all of these domains always resolve to what you expect, depending on your dns provider.

archive.today (main) archive.ph archive.is archive.li archive.vn archive.fo archive.md

bobmaxup··on Ubisoft Says Out Loud: We Want People to Get Used to Not Owning What They Bought
Not if you still had the original system as well. I imagine it is not the norm though.
bobmaxup··on Ubisoft Says Out Loud: We Want People to Get Used to Not Owning What They Bought
> this is being widely misinterpreted

It sounds like Ubisoft wants their streaming and subscription services to grow, but reality doesn't line up with their vision.

They are purchasing long term streaming rights from other companies like Activision Blizzard.

"Ubisoft recently announced the completion of the transaction with Activision Blizzard giving Ubisoft the perpetual cloud streaming rights for Call of Duty and all other existing Activision Blizzard Console and PC titles as well as those releasing over the next 15 years. These rights will further strengthen Ubisoft’s content offering through its subscription service Ubisoft+ as well as allowing Ubisoft to license them to third parties."

It seems they are betting on a speculative market. They assume people will treat owning games like owning DVDs in the past.

From what is said in the article, it sounds like they are probably worried about losing a lot of money on this bet.

They reported a net loss of nearly half a billion euros last year.

bobmaxup··on Microsoft actions following attack by nation state actor Midnight Blizzard
How do you know if nothing happens? It isn't like the people siphoning, selling, or purchasing this data are broadcasting their wins on news aggregators.
bobmaxup··on How I'm writing CSS in 2024
In my opinion, all of these things exist because CSS is confusing to people, not because anything is inherently better. This is especially true with modern build tools. CSS modules and Atomic CSS seem like a regression to me, but not all needs are the same.
bobmaxup··on How I'm writing CSS in 2024
https://github.com/css-modules/css-modules
bobmaxup··on Discontinued and unreleased Microsoft peripherals revived by licensing deal
Nice recommendation. Although, it is 3-6x the price of the Microsoft products' original pricing. A Kinesis Freestyle is cheaper
bobmaxup··on NHS to investigate Palantir influencer campaign as possible contract breach
Or just answer randomly. You might get rejected for inconsistent answers, but at least no one will have a "personality profile" for you that they can sell.
bobmaxup··on Discontinued and unreleased Microsoft peripherals revived by licensing deal
I think that the Microsoft ergonomic keyboard is selling for nearly $400 on Amazon.
bobmaxup··on A tale of two teenagers (2023)
This planet has a lot of time left in it for humans to do things. One human missing an opportunity doesn't lead to the statistical outcome that that opportunity wont be fulfilled in the future. An individual is not that important to humanity as a whole progressing. Live your life.
bobmaxup··on 2023 Word of the Year is "enshittification"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enshittification
bobmaxup··on Lancet journal retracts article on hearing aids and dementia after prodding
Isn't The Lancet infamous for high profile retractions?
bobmaxup··on Bad scientific code beats code following "best practices" (2014)
Not many people can understand a very large code base without taking notes, using an IDE, or similar tooling.

> Not a dig at nice IDEs, just code that requires one to navigate and understand

A nice IDE helps you reason about code, no matter what the underlying architecture is. That is why there is a market for them.

bobmaxup··on Bad scientific code beats code following "best practices" (2014)
Maybe it boils down to how well you are able to navigate a code base.

With a full-featured language specific IDE, it is very easy to navigate through even complicated spaghetti. It makes debugging call traces simple, with a GUI.

However, many other file viewers and editors make this much more complicated, and it can be frustrating to follow code that is making heavy use of modularization.

If you are grepping your way through a deeply modular code base it can quickly become difficult to keep track of anything.

bobmaxup··on Bad scientific code beats code following "best practices" (2014)
> One long, yet simple function has less cognitive overhead than spreading the function across multiple classes or functions or call hierarchies

Not if you are encapsulating and naming effectively...

Why read 100 lines when you can read 20 and find concerns in one routine you are concerned with?

Function calls can be expensive. However, optimization can come whenever you need it, and if what you need is one call vs 5, it is trivial to move that code back into a single routine.

bobmaxup··on Ask HN: Any felons successfully found IT work post-release?
I am a felon working in IT. My pay is much less than others working in the industry, but I am grateful for the opportunity to work for an employer rather than scrounging for work behind a LLC or something.

There are a lot of small companies out there that don't do background checks, and some slightly larger companies who will overlook your past.

bobmaxup··on Making the Micropipette
I thought these devices were called pipettors not strictly micropipettes?
bobmaxup··on Time is encoded in the weights of finetuned language models
Twitter doesn't even show most recent tweets from profiles unless you are logged in now. They show a summary of the profile's activity. Nitter is great if you don't have a Twitter account.
bobmaxup··on Time is encoded in the weights of finetuned language models
... because it is essentially a caching proxy to twitter?
bobmaxup··on A structured note-taking app for personal use
Joplin
bobmaxup··on Stupid by choice
In my opinion, yes.

See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weaponized_incompetence

bobmaxup··on An Invasive Tick That Can Clone Itself Is Spreading Across the U.S.
> give everyone tickborn diseases.

From the article:

> Though Asian longhorned ticks can carry diseases that infect humans, they are not yet considered a threat to human health in the U.S., per the statement.

bobmaxup··on Bjarne Stroustrup Quotes
bjarne stroustrup, underrated hero of many facets of society, imo
bobmaxup··on Pig brain function under extracorporeal pulsatile circulatory control
> Look up "pump head".

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

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