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jpitz··on Waymo Premier
Not to mention how hostile Phoenix can be to walking.
jpitz··on Ask HN: What are tools you have made for yourself since the advent of AI?
Nothing says "I don't care about neurodivergence" more than someone complaining when I build tools and processes to help me interact with the world better.
jpitz··on 2026 HIPAA Security Rule Update
I'm not sure how meaningful it is to adopt some of the controls from HITRUST without any of the consequences.
jpitz··on Three Inverse Laws of AI
I'm gonna push the responsibility up a level in the ladder:

A competent adult using a tool ought to understand the inherent pitfalls of using that tool.

Chainsaws are dangerous, in obvious and non obvious ways. The tool can operate as designed and still amputate your foot.

jpitz··on Laws of Software Engineering
I think that if you continue along the logical progression of the parent poster, then maybe the smaller units of functionality would be represented by simple ranges of lines of text. Given that, deleting a single button would ideally mean a single contiguous deletion from a file, versus deleting many disparate lines.
jpitz··on Give Django your time and money, not your tokens
A decade or more of people copy-pasting rote solutions from StackOverflow only supports the notion that many people will forego comprehension to foster the illusion of competent productivity.

This ain't an AI problem, it's a people problem that's getting amplified by AI.

jpitz··on Just-bash: Bash for Agents
Just curious: why wouldn't you attack this with a jail?
jpitz··on Sandwich Bill of Materials
When the tokens are nice and lean.
jpitz··on FBI is investigating Minnesota Signal chats tracking ICE
Acting without due process is oppression.
jpitz··on Days since last GitHub incident
$Work pays for GitHub, so the implicit solution offered is "take my money and make your service reliable"
jpitz··on The future of Terraform CDK
The providers for tofu are by design the same as for terraform.

Also, for large providers like AWS, GCP, Azure, etc - these are often largely authored by the hyperscaler themselves, for better or worse.

jpitz··on Removing juries: 'A move towards an authoritarian state'
I don't think the boring reality of most jury trials would make for an interesting screenplay.
jpitz··on Ivy League psychologist: 'Bring your whole self to work' is bad advice
To every commenter offering incredulity or sarcasm at the apparent obviousness of this advice:

A great swath of us did not possess the social intelligence to arrive at this conclusion independently upon our arrival in the workforce. I didn't. I got lucky.

jpitz··on The first interstellar software update: The hack that saved Voyager 1 [video]
In my experience, pretty much anything relating to spaceflight is gonna be lumped under ITAR and restricted from general disclosure.
jpitz··on Are hard drives getting better?
The question is, do we have enough capacity to mine and refine them at a reasonable price? They're there, in the dirt for the taking.
jpitz··on Software update bricks some Jeep 4xe hybrids over the weekend
I owned a Jeep 4XE, and I was glad the day we sold it, and I'm doubly glad today. The electronics and software were crap, and the powertrain was simply insufficient. At one point, they issued a notice that amounted to 'it might catch on fire, keep it away from your house.'
jpitz··on Dgsh – Directed graph shell
Ok. thank you!
jpitz··on Dgsh – Directed graph shell
Do you mean to say that two non-dependant tasks in an Airflow DAG aren't able to concurrently execute? Thats not my experience. I'm also confused by the use of 'static' in this context.
jpitz··on Show HN: Envoy – Command Logger
Then you should look at https://atuin.sh/ although I am not certain about exit code.
jpitz··on Good system design
>You have two options: fail open and let the request through, or fail closed and block the request with a 429.

If the metaphor of a software circuit breaker is meant to emulate an electrical circuit breaker, then it seems to me that these two are inverted. Whenever a physical circuit breaker is open, it is not dangerous and not passing current.

jpitz··on Ask HN: What are your current programming pet peeves?
Like https://xon.sh/ ?
jpitz··on Mill: A better build tool for Java, Scala, and Kotlin
Which works fine.....until it doesn't. Many non-trivial builds require custom logic, and trying to do that in maven was painful the last time I tried it.
jpitz··on The Missing Manual for Signals: State Management for Python Developers
Are you talking about Airflow Datasets and data-aware scheduling?

https://airflow.apache.org/docs/apache-airflow/2.4.0/release...

Isn't that about as recently as Dagster?

jpitz··on You can't git clone a team
That response says more to me about the hiring organization, and not in a good light.
jpitz··on Turing-Drawings
Possible Snow Crash warning too, I guess?
jpitz··on Living in your programming environment [pdf]
Good ole M-x butterfly
jpitz··on Clean Code vs. A Philosophy Of Software Design
"Do One Thing" is to me maybe best understood in the context of the Single Layer Of Abstraction Principal - it has helped me numerous times to be very intentional about following SLAP in complex code, and Do One Thing seems to fall very naturally out of it.
jpitz··on PgAssistant: OSS tool to help devs understand and optimize PG performance
Greg Smith wrote a book about postgres high performance that does go into the internals a bit and how to analyze performance problems. If you want to be a DBA, this will probably wind up needing to be in your back pocket at some point.
jpitz··on Ask HN: What do you look for in a work monitor?
5120x1440p if it's the same monitor i have.
jpitz··on How Do You Like What You've Built?
My take from it was that the question prompted the change author to introspect his feelings about the change and revisit it, making it better.
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