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Badland9085

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  • Platforms Systematically Removed a User Because He Made "Most Wanted CEO" Playing Cards

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  • Somewhat unfair judgement against emails IMO, especially cause it’s the “trust list” that’s in the control of a few, with no open manner to add more people to the trust list. The protocol isn’t at fault for failing to prevent problems; it’s the ability for corporations to gain significant market share without control, before they are then allowed to put barriers down to disallow or discourage interaction between those in and out, forcing those within to stay in, while those outside to give up on others in order to gain usability.

  • Ford CEO Praises His Chinese EV Sport Sedan, Says 'I Don't Want To Give It Up'

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  • Idk about pre-orders but I’d imagine it’s a combo of many things, from Xiaomi already having the finances, to tax breaks and subsidies from the CCP, and subsidies on the domestic consumer side to encourage adoption to further stabilize the industry, which further encourages investments.

  • Touchscreens Are Out, and Tactile Controls Are Back

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  • Definitely not within reach physically, but good to see what’s available out there. Thanks for replying!

  • Touchscreens Are Out, and Tactile Controls Are Back

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  • It did not occur to me that they’d do this with ebikes but now I’m concerned. Would be nice to know what you found for the day when I decide to get one.

  • Linus Torvalds reckons AI is ‘90% marketing and 10% reality’

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  • As someone who was working really hard trying to get my company to be able use some classical ML (with very limited amounts of data), with some knowledge on how AI works, and just generally want to do some cool math stuff at work, being asked incessantly to shove AI into any problem that our execs think are “good sells” and be pressured to think about how we can “use AI” was a terrible feel. They now think my work is insufficient and has been tightening the noose on my team.

  • Git grumpy: Torvalds complains of passive voice in merge commit messages

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  • Love a good commit message. I wish I could say what we perceive as “good” is instead thought to be “normal”, but we aren’t there yet I guess.

    If the word “imperative mood” is hard to grasp, this is what I do. I just finish this sentence in less than 50 - 75 words, length depending on consensus.

    This commit will …

    Add more details in the body if needed.

    This sort of style extends to PRs/MRs as well.

    This PR/MR will …

  • Smart TVs take snapshots of what you watch multiple times per second

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  • Imagine the amount of bandwidth and energy saved, if they didn’t do any of this bullshit.

    They are essentially using someone else’s money to get themselves more money. Fuck these people!

  • Software Engineering Documentation Best Practice?

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  • I’ve been referencing that Divio doc since 2021, possibly earlier in 2020. I even linked to the document in early 2022. It’s quite likely that it simply wasn’t crawled by the Web Archive before May this year.

  • Software Engineering Documentation Best Practice?

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  • That’s why reviewers should also watch out for comments to ensure their quality. Hence why I said it’s part of a programmer’s job, not some afterthought.

  • Software Engineering Documentation Best Practice?

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  • Comments get stale and over time transition from: accurate to outdated, to eventually flat-out lies.

    Sounds like some people aren’t doing their work enough then. Code comments are part of the work that a programmer should do, not an afterthought. Who else is gonna update that code if not the programmer? And if a programmer isn’t supposed to update their code and we can just all write clean code that would somehow make us all be better engineers (yeah, I use this title differently from programmers), then why are code comments even a thing?

    Self-documenting code is good and all, but so should there be good comments.

  • Software Engineering Documentation Best Practice?

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  • Software Engineering Documentation Best Practice?

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  • Software Engineering Documentation Best Practice?

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  • Hard disagree that documentation is a waste of time. I think you’re just failing to see and use documentation correctly.

    Tech documentation should never:

    • record implementation details; that’s what commits and PRs are for
    • be about the code, but about the solution, information, or provide guidance; use code comments when talking about code
    • be taken as 100% accurate or infallible, but the general direction or essence should still remain true (related to the 2nd point)
    • be expected to be up-to-date; readers should always look at the created / completed / last edited date and make a judgement how much salt to actually take from it

    Documentation can

    • be some kind of paper trail that shows how we got to where we are
    • provide guidelines for getting started on a project, or some part of a larger project, with more context with respect to the business, so that readers are equipped with sufficient context when diving into the code (READMEs can then just focus on setup and testing instructions)
    • go further into what goes around a solution, eg considered alternatives, what actually requires solving given a functional requirement (it’s not always the case that we can fit a solution within a sufficiently small ticket, so tickets might be too localized to give a bigger picture of how a problem is being solved)
    • record system architecture, with actual illustrations, which can be easier to grok than 50 Terraform files

    Writing these out is also good for people who don’t read code or don’t have the time to read code, eg your tech lead, your manager, Tech VP, etc, people who should have some idea of your system or solution, but not necessarily the implementation detail, so that they can do their work more effectively.

    There’s also a culture where a project, or a sufficiently complex problem, starts with a tech proposal, which would properly capture the problem and do solution planning. It’s easier and faster to change than a PR, and reviewers can read that for context. In any case, this democratizes knowledge, instead of creating more tribal knowledge.

  • YouTube has found a new way to load ads | AdGuard Blog

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  • It’s not possible for everyone to just tell if it’s supposed to be sarcasm. ADHD makes it hard. A bad day makes it hard. A tiring day makes it hard.

    The downside of the misunderstanding isn’t just downvotes. It’s possibly a proliferation of misinformation and an impression that there are people who DO think that way.

    Being not serious while saying something grim is not a globally understood culture either. It’s more common and acceptable in the Western world as a joke.

    So… call it accessibility, but it’s just more approachable for everyone to just put an “/s”.

  • Google Tries to Defend Its Web Environment Integrity as Critics Slam It as Dangerous

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  • They’re literally burning bridges after crossing them huh. Web scraping is illegal? Their fucking search engine was powered by a web scraper.

    WEI is plain anti-competition to me now. Most, if not all, of their stated reasons are now just facade to me.

    Fuck Google. I know this isn’t constructive or helpful, but fuck em.