bobmaxup

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.

...said no one who inherited the maintenance of hundreds of thousands of lines of copy pasted code.

An article on the topic:

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

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.

To be fair, they did qualify the statement with "or so".

> Youtube isn't a social network.

Certainly seems to be one to me?

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

Not if you still had the original system as well. I imagine it is not the norm though.

> 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.

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.

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.

Nice recommendation. Although, it is 3-6x the price of the Microsoft products' original pricing. A Kinesis Freestyle is cheaper

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.

I think that the Microsoft ergonomic keyboard is selling for nearly $400 on Amazon.

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.

Isn't The Lancet infamous for high profile retractions?

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.

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.

> 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.

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.

I thought these devices were called pipettors not strictly micropipettes?

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.

... because it is essentially a caching proxy to twitter?

Joplin

In my opinion, yes.

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

> 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.

bjarne stroustrup, underrated hero of many facets of society, imo