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exac··on Thomas Aquinas – The world is divine
This is the type of religious propaganda that would appear in a worksheet for children in a Catholic school. It doesn't belong here. There are no arguments here, just the presupposition of some deity.
exac··on Why Engineers Hate Their Managers (and What to Do About It)
Anecdotal, but every Engineering Manager I've had for the past 10 years has had a calendar I could see. One EM had anonymous event names on their calendar, but I think it might have been the default setting in AD.
exac··on Meta announces Oakley smart glasses
A lot of people spend hours consuming auto-playing short-form video content. I would guess the majority of young people, in the West.
exac··on Subtype Inference by Example
I would rather see the type annotations too. This whole essay has a flimsy premise.
exac··on A simple comma is going to cost Apple billions in Europe
Apple's interpretation of that sentence is the same as mine.
exac··on Dependency injection frameworks add confusion
Agreed. DI Containers / Injectors are so fundamental to writing software that will be testable, and makes it much easier to review code.
exac··on Material 3 Expressive
And they moved it closer to the keyboard, which is where the primary buttons should be on mobile anyways. Total incompetence.
exac··on AI Agents Must Follow the Law
If I set up an AI agent, and then die, who is responsible if it starts breaking the law and doing damage?
exac··on Stability by Design
Would you consider https://0ver.org/ instead?
exac··on What if we made advertising illegal?
I think everyone knows that, but the distinction is that the catalog is "pull" in the sense that if you decide to keep your catalog, the advertising is inside the catalog, and you have to physically retrieve your catalog and open it to find what you're looking for (when you're looking for it), instead of the "push" method of running advertisements in every news article and on every bus.
exac··on The Llama 4 herd
The same thing happened to "actually" in the 90's.
exac··on The highest-ranking personal blogs of Hacker News
It is easier to do a blameless incident response (or whatever you call it at your company) with the passive voice IMO.
exac··on An early look at cryptographic watermarks for AI-generated content
Regulation makes this worse. Imagine if every gen-AI media was required to have some signature. The bad actors won't use this signature. Or worse, they will add the signature to real media to cast doubt. Or both at the same time.

Also, how much gen AI is enough to require a watermark? If I generativley fill the part of my photo that I blurred with my thumb, should the entire photo be watermarked? Just the part that I filled in? What if I use a gen AI tool, but only apply a transformation that does not require gen AI (like adding a label on an image)?

Cryptographic watermarks for Gen AI or for non-Gen AI media is dangerous from a security standpoint.

exac··on Y Combinator urges the White House to support Europe's Digital Markets Act
To play devil's advocate, the common person accepts credit scores, and has no idea how they work. Should credit bureaus also be illegal? Or some medium whereby the credit companies _can_ collect the information, but can't sell it, or share analytics or even anonymized data?
exac··on Porkbun partners with Proton
Here is a news article: https://theintercept.com/2025/01/28/proton-mail-andy-yen-tru...
exac··on macOS Tips and Tricks (2022)
I'm a fan of learning the defaults and using them (verse having an environment that takes time to setup).

As others have said, CMD+Space is sufficient, just hide the dock.

exac··on IBM completes acquisition of HashiCorp
I think this is an interesting graph comparing web searches for "terraform alternative" and "opentofu". Notice the spike when the IBM rumors began, and the current spike now that the acquisition is complete?

https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=all&q=terrafor...

exac··on Long Term Software Development
> Ever tighter security standards. JavaScript over http is dying, for example.

Bert, I can assure you that this is not the case.

exac··on The affordable housing shortage is reshaping parts of rural America
Worldwide sure, but I'm not sure that that is the case in rural America though.
exac··on A ChatGPT clone, in 3000 bytes of C, backed by GPT-2 (2023)
Indeed, and the question is why do that? We can count LOCs just fine already.
exac··on Bankruptcy judge rejects sale of Infowars to The Onion
They could do an open run-off round of bids until they have two potential buyers, and then switch to secret ballot to get each party's highest bid I suppose?
exac··on Economics and Homemakers
Just FYI, "TheTrumpet" article linked to and used as corroborating evidence is a religious site.

The post links to a article that ends with this summary:

> God created the family to excel by taking advantage of specialization of labor between husband and wife.

> The Trumpet explains the real meaning behind world events. We are a news organization that connects world events with biblical prophecies.

Just because household labor is not taxed, does not mean it does not happen.

exac··on Amazon S3 now supports the ability to append data to an object
I wonder what the implications for all the s3-like APIs is going to be.
exac··on There's Almost No Gitlab
I really didn't realize that it has 25% the revenue of GitHub.

Ironically, GitLab auth is currently broken. I try to sign in via GitHub and am served a 422 Auth Error page. Perhaps they don't have many users that use GitHub to sign in, or perhaps the sign in page isn't tested? Whatever the case, the first button I press on their website being broken is exactly the same feeling I remember when I tried GitLab for the first time about 8 years ago.

exac··on There's Almost No Gitlab
He is talking about people self-hosting GitLab (so they aren't paying monthly fees to GitLab), and comparing the Engineering hours + server uptime costs + related costs to just paying for GitHub (which is cheaper).
exac··on Turkish language has a gossip tense
No, you are misunderstanding if you think that is a "gossip tense".
exac··on The Open Source AI Definition RC1 Is Available for Comments
> The aim of Open Source is not and has never been to enable reproducible software.

Okay, well just because you have the domain name "opensource.org" doesn't give you the ability to speak for the community, and the community's understanding of the term.

opensource.org is irrelevant.

exac··on Why the ISO format has to die
The installation guide has about 27,000 words. Doesn't sound too easy to me.
exac··on Jazz – Apps with Distributed State
On Firefox 131.0 I clicked through the tabs with the demo code, then pressed my mouse's "back" button and it didn't work. So I manually clicked the back button and it directed me back to this page.

Then I opened it again and clicked the back button and it didn't work again.

exac··on Git Bash is my preferred Windows shell
I just had an IDEA nx plugin crash my editor until it was removed because it can't handle WSL directories, so I would not say it can interact fine.
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