warrenm

sounds akin to how the transporter works in Star Trek

more or less how time travel in _Looper_ worked, iirc

I would argue time only 'exists' as a convenient way to describe our lives

(Incidentally, the Bible describes a singular Being Whom exists outside time.)

Of course you can "change the past" ... except you already did

That is - essentially - how 2002's _The Time Machine_ showed travel: Alexander's machine was 'stationary' on the earth, but time passed around him in a massively accelerated manner

Somewhat related - https://riscv.org/blog/2025/07/risc-v-upstreaming/

Alternative link: https://archive.is/E6AyR

It may have been how you manipulated your prompt ... word order and format seems to matter a lot in how well these LLMs can answer

>The people running these companies literally talk about the danger that the things they are building might take over the world and kill every human on the planet. GPT-5, meanwhile, still can’t tell you how many b’s there are in the word “blueberry.”

Interesting idea - would like it more if the colorscheme did not look like it was dimmed for nighttime reading even when my screen is at full brightness

Alternative link: https://archive.is/BTmDZ

"could boost its carbon pricing revenues from aviation by up to tenfold if it eliminates key exemptions and fully applies its emissions rules to the sector"

More likely, fewer people will fly - making any potential tax revenue increase close to nil

How much "maintenance" could be required, given how long it has been past manufacture?

People are still running enough SPARC64 for it to be worthy of updates?

this took a "study" to figure out?

It's the "envelope stuffing" 'business' of the 80s informercials updated

Or the "how to make a course" 'courses' of the 2010s

Or the "how to make a blog" 'blogs' of the 2000s

As they say, what's new is old again

Admittedly it has been a while since I used "retro" hardware (back when it was barely out of date) ... but any time I had a program listing I could type in, it was already explained in whatever book/magazine published it

First problem - Cloudflare

Wonder how much of that is related to location-specific results?

when I lived in Singapore several years ago, local Google results would often be wildly different 'normal' google.com results

Alternative link - https://archive.is/fGLLO

It was how I did it in the first place - made sense to me to break it up initially, so I did :)

>The idea that you can write one sentence and get a masterpiece of software that meets your needs is delusional and I’m shocked that it gets as much currency as it does here.

Remember Z language? Or UML? Languages that were supposed to be able to generate a perfect piece of software based on a perfect spec?

Yeah ... those went nowhere :)

No - aaS is not going anywhere ... for precisely the reasons you already articulated: "I have 0 desire nor inclination to replace any of the software I currently pay for either personally or through my startup"

Businesses should outsource [almost] every non-core functionality to someone else

Unless it becomes so business-critical that it absolutely positively MUST be done in-house, go to a reliable vendor and pay them for their expertise

Programmers already* do this by using libraries when they write software (yeah, you learned how to build a graph data structure and implement a binary search tree in your second or third degree year, but you have never done it since - because the versions that exist in either language-supplied or community-based libraries are just plain better)

The days of "do it all yourself" are - blessedly - decades behind us now

Use the best* tools for the job, and worry about delivering your product/service to your customers

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* "best" may vary over time - cost, language, availability, etc are all factors in determining this for you

Everyone has "experience" - so first let me fix your [semi]broken premise

I know you meant "directly-related experience" - but having unrelated/indirectly-related experience can, at times, be a phenomenal addition to a given team

I care far more about behavior, attitude, personality, and how eager/able you are to learn than any specific related experience

Show me how you think

Show me how you solve problems

Show me how you address 'problem people' (customers, coworkers, etc)

Show me how you interact with people you just met (me and the rest of the interview team)

I have seen many people from indirect or [apparently] unrelated previous career fields make a jump very successfully - it may be "harder" for them than someone who is already 'on the track', so to speak, but they have been great examples of Osterhout's adage, "a little bit of slope makes up for a lot of y-intercept"[0] :: by jumping in and demonstrating their willingness to learn (loads of questions, creating metaphors and analogies to previous work / different fields, etc), a motivated individual can become a top-performer (and bring the whole team up by sharing from their background new/different ways of thinking or approaching problems, issues, and challenges

One more thing: do NOT lie to me - be honest with not only me, but yourself in the whole process

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[0] https://briankeng.com/2015/07/a-little-bit-of-slope/

Use your registrar or hosting provider for public DNS

Keep it as simple as possible

If something is a "series" type post, I might break it up - for example, over a dozen years ago I wrote a series on storage (specifically focused on the product I then delivered services around, but it has broader application) - and then created a landing page for that series a few years later (https://antipaucity.com/2021/08/13/storage-series/#.YRaG1u0p...)

I also posted the Sun Tzu's `Art of War` as a series of posts

And a few other things along those lines

If it "makes sense" to break up, I will

Otherwise, I go with whatever length the post wants to be

no

Features are just checkboxes on a list

"Allows image posting" is a feature

"Creates envy among those who missed a party" is solving a problem

maybe "karma farming" is not the best wording ... more like "folks are in front of their screens all day, so share everything they see"

Might consider something like a CZUR https://shop.czur.com/

(no affiliation - have had them recommended on a couple subs on reddit)

honestly, I hate the format printed, too - but ... c'est la vie