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The best example of managing expectations of all time is in the Time Zone Database documentation:

> The tz database predicts future timestamps, and current predictions will be incorrect after future governments change the rules.


General-purpose deduplication sounds good in theory but tends not to work out in practice. IPFS uses a rolling hash with variable-sized pieces, in an attempt to deduplicate data rysnc-style. However, in practice, it doesn't actually make a difference, and adds complexity for no reason.


This is stupid good advice. I use quicksilver as a launcher, and by putting bookmarks in a folder, I can index them and launch them like any other app or document on disk. Thanks for writing this up!


I definitely don't think Just will ever unseat Make. Just doesn't have file-based dependencies, so it's not a build system, just a command runner.

As far as unseating Make as a command runner, I think that might just take Just being available in more places, since one of the main advantages of Make that many users cite is that it's available everywhere. Just is already available in a lot of package repos, but not all of them. Finally packaging Just for Debian[0] would help a lot.

[0] https://github.com/casey/just/issues/429


This is the canonical video on the subject: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TmVMh-nT200


One time me and a friend having an animated conversation on the 7th floor of Soda hall at Berkeley and William Kahan came out and gave us a coupon for Sizzlers. I think that was his way of telling us to get the fuck out.


It's usually actually bread baking, not painting, in my experience.


Misread the title as "Which John von Neumann Died at Los Alamos?" and now I really want to read that article.


Don't let the article put you off, the paper, no paywall, is much better and much more concrete:

https://academic.oup.com/ajcn/advance-article/doi/10.1093/aj...


Thanks, agreed the paper is miles better than the article! And to be honest an easier read... I almost wish it were the post instead.


If this law comes into effect, consumers will pay the increased cost of delivery of 7 years of software updates when they purchase new phones.

Smartphone makers don't sell new phones with a higher price tag and the guarantee of 7 years of software updates, likely because consumers would prefer a lower price and no guarantee.

Thus, the law would effectively force people to buy something that they don't want.


You forgot to account for much higher resale values. After 2 years, you can resell your phone to someone who can still get 5 years out of it.


The fact that consumers don't want phones with 7 years of guaranteed updates (if they did, they would be willing to pay more for them, and smartphone makers would happily oblige) means that the impact on resale values would likely be small, or that consumers are unlikely to try to resell their phones.


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