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No, but it would add to build time and cost. And generally be one more thing to think about for the designer/builder and we know how that goes.

I think most residential homes in the US aren’t the work of architects these days, but designers. The difference being credentials, not diligence/skill. Either way I suspect they aren’t optimizin…

Yep. This kind of forethought is rare in home design, but magical when present. It doesn’t sell, though (not like the latest color or cabinets do). I put thought into long term maintenance and upgrade…

I have, yes. What’s really important is the way members of the early team compliment each other. We’re all mediocre; some are just more willing to admit it and seek about those with the ability to mak…

That doesn't sound like an issue with semver (or pragmatic). There is no versioning convention that will prevent people from being people. A rigid, automated (magical) versioning _system_ might…

My approach to inbound-email triggered workflow using SES, which is working great for my needs: https://github.com/mlhpdx/email-delivery It’s industrial strength in some respects…

It’s more than that. If you spend a couple or more years learning to maintain those systems, where else will you work? Will you find a co-founder or investor for a COBOL based system when you go “entr…

I learned COBOL from curiosity (never using it professionally) in around 2010. It’s simple enough to read and use, but without having seen these legacy systems I don’t know what I don’t know. This is …

I have to agree this a a great tool. I had low expectations, but I found it easy to use and the AI diagram generator actually worked on my experiments.

Nice. This would have been very helpful when I was building an e-discovery document processing engine. Back then we could get text out (OCR, so kind of) but it was a bear to present. Markdown would ha…

My built-in refrigerator was slowly dying. Weak beeping, occasionally power cycling - and getting worse as the days went on. No longer under warranty, and no replacement parts being made. Replacing th…

It's a lagging indicator - based on past manufacturing, past purchases, past support practices. This is unescapable, but when I buy cars (and stocks) the past is not a reliable indicator of futu…

I hope folks understand what this means - there will be an IEEE standard that makes using Wi-Fi sensing, to some degree, hardware agnostic and thereby drives it into mainstream.

I’m perennially baffled by CR’s ratings. They are a lagging indicator at best, and skewed/biased at worst. Does anyone actually use this information any more?

Including a secret key in a plaintext configuration file is really not something to do. Alternatives: - use the default local environment variables AWS_* - run it in AWS and use ambient permissions (i…

> I think it's about escaping local minima? Yes. It’s also been said (not often enough) “if we don’t compete with ourselves someone else will”. Getting out of one’s own head (and repo) is gold…

An argument could be made for calling it “compression of the string encoding”. Since HTTP is string oriented, that makes some sense as an optimization of sorts, perhaps.

Exactly as I do as a human when I build such walls (several of them in my life). It’s a very difficult spatial problem to fit the stones into a pretty, stable structure. No doubt something large memor…

One of my favorites.

People generally travel at daylight hours, so it’s actually about a third of that. And, worse, people generally travel at peak hours. Again, reality.

Seems like opinions about opinions, or so goes my opinion.

Think about what that means as to a practical limit, today. How many cars per day can make that trip assuming they have to recharge once along the way? It’s far from a solved problem even on that rout…

Foiling sailboats deal with pretty substantial wave action, including open ocean storms. It’s all in the design. What’s really shocking to me is how slow this ferry is compared with those foiling sail…

Modeling compile-time units was one of the memes of c++ 11. One of many examples: https://benjaminjurke.com/content/articles/2015/compile-time... …

Neither. SAM and vanilla CloudFormation are my choice. Don’t get in the way, less fussy and are easier to maintain in the long term.

Okay, so at what value will the Unix timestamp equal the human population? I should start a pool…

I don’t believe the author is advocating for single file systems, but I don’t want to speak for them.