locknitpicker

Are you familiar with the sunk cost fallacy?

> The issue is it had the range of a golf cart. So it basically ruled out 98% of the population that needs a car that can go on road trips. You're trying to use weasel words to try to hide the…

> if you put 50k in 8 years ago and obtain 50k now, I think you lost a lot of money. This is a textbook sunk cost fallacy.

> Put that on your resumé and you'll easily land a cushy job in Washington. I think you have it backwards. The entire tech bro scene reeks of fraud schemes, and the most successful ones seem t…

> For years, we've been told a lot of things that have never come to fruition. Sometimes I wonder if Musk's astronomical pay package is an engineered rug pull on Tesla's investors. I…

> Ok, but sometimes you just need a single line in a finally and writing a class is more annoying I don't think you understand. If you need to run cleanup code whenever you need to destroy a r…

> So inside a destructor throw has a radically different behaviour that makes it useless for communicating non-fatal errors It's weird how you tried to frame a core design feature of the most …

> The entire point of the article is that you cannot throw from a destructor. You need to read the article again because your assertion is patently false. You can throw and handle exceptions in des…

> So some kids would complain that C++ destructors RAII philosophy require creating a whole "class X{public:~X()}" which is sometimes inconvenient so it doesn't exactly equal "f…

> It's mostly built atop problem shifting. For example, Seattle fought to send their compost and build wind farms in eastern Washington - where it was in someone else's backyard. This is …

I feel this is a poor article whose main premise is patently false, and misrepresents the nature of a very crude mistake in cloud engineering: rolling out breaking changes. As the blogger failed to id…

> Are you saying that you can write tests at the same speed as AI can? I feel this is a gross mischaracterization of any user flow involving using LLMs to generate code. The hard part of generating…

> This means that it also frequently shows you videos outside of your "bubble" as a test to see if you're also interested in other topics. Namely far-right, xenophobic content, mixed…

> A framework is some kind of application scaffolding that normally calls you. This. A framework relies extensively on inversion of control. It provides the overall software architecture of an appl…

If type conversion and the new var declaration keywords are your top complains about a language, I'm sorry to say that you are at best grasping at straws to find some semblance of justification f…

> Not OP, but the case can be made that it's still the same very ugly language of 10 years ago, with few layers of sugar coating on top. Let's talk specifics. As it seems you have strong …

> Since hundreds of people were involved the most likely explanation is incompetence Hundreds of people might be involved, but the only key factor required for a single point of failure to propagat…

> C2Rust is not going to be very idiomatic. That's irrelevant when discussing migrating large volumes of code. The hard part is migrating the project to another tech stack and setup proper tes…

> Tyson is closing this meat packing facility because cattle herd sizes have shrunk. Why have they shrunk? Climate change. That is not what your source states. Here's a direct quote from the s…

> What can go wrong? Yikes.. The post is clearly aimed at self-promotion. The guy is basically referring to mundane things like using transpilers to generate Rust from C. Those have been around for…

> Europeans don't trust Chinese, then don't use Chinese infra; if the Europeans don't trust the US (anymore), then don't use US infra. I'm seeing the EU being singled out …

> Architect of the Ukraine crisis is Russian armed forces crossing the border and occupying the land, everything else is irrelevant. Russia's hostility towards Ukraine starts well before the 2…

> Here we go again. Statements with the single source in the head of the speaker. And it’s also not true. You're making the same sort of baseless claim you are criticising the blogger for maki…

> Maybe listing shouldn't be enabled even if all the files are public. I don't see why. Support for firmware upgrades literally involve querying available packages and downloading the lat…

> Anyone have any idea why the cables are arranged like this? I think that's just cables sagging, which is a requirement to accommodate thermal and seismic displacements.

> The tunnels are just for ease of maintenance. The fact that the tunnels are 50 meter underground leads me to wonder if their main requirement comes from national security needs.

> An 'open S3 bucket' sounds really bad. Only to gullible, clueless types. Full blown production SPAs are served straight from public access S3 buckets. The only hard requirement is that …

> Nobody tell them about Linux! The blogger will blow a gasket when they discover that the likes of GitHub provides access to both installers and software. A hacker's candy store!

> Highlighting (repeatedly) the ease and breadth of access is a basic writing technique to illustrate the weakness of a security system. It's a firmware distribution system. It's read-onl…

> There's nuance here. Is it not being maintained because it does what it is supposed to do and there aren't any issues with it? The day you find a software project still in use that is d…