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New comment by Jcowell in "A new documentary about the history of forced psychiatric treatment in Spain"

Jcowell — Sun, 16 Nov 2025 19:20:20 +0000

> If the person they were quoting claimed to have been abducted by sasquatch, you could still make these two points. Would you still be arguing that it doesn't reflect poorly on the BBC to put that false claim into a headline?

No? That’s a very good headline for an article about someone who believes that they were abducted by a Sasquatch. It would be a missed opportunity for a newspaper to NOT do.

New comment by Jcowell in "Palantir Thinks College Might Be a Waste. So It's Hiring High-School Grads"

Jcowell — Sun, 02 Nov 2025 16:54:35 +0000

It would depend on the course load. Learning languages and how to use them can easily be encapsulated in capstone, software engineering projects, & internships. The goal of a CS degree, as opposed to a bootcamp, is for students to fully understand in intimate detail the background , history, ethics, & the 5 whys of the tool that they’re using. The way I would design a CS degree is:

1. for the first two years to be about general computing with an intro to programming via Java, Typescript, Python, & Go. 2. by the end of the 2nd year Data Structures and Algorithms should be mastered 3. Third year is for tracks , whether frontend, backend, full stack, Theory. 4. Fourth year is capstone project or internship

New comment by Jcowell in "Alphabet tops $100B quarterly revenue for first time, cloud grows 34%"

Jcowell — Thu, 30 Oct 2025 18:16:30 +0000

A company can be multiple things. Just like Apple is a Phone, Tablet, & General Computing Company

New comment by Jcowell in "Casey Muratori: I can always tell a good programmer in an interview"

Jcowell — Thu, 23 Oct 2025 13:31:47 +0000

Or they do enough programming from 9-5 that they don’t feel like doing anymore when they get home to their family? Programmers don’t have to do anything more then their paid to do

New comment by Jcowell in "AWS outage shows internet users 'at mercy' of too few providers, experts say"

Jcowell — Mon, 20 Oct 2025 18:20:06 +0000

Why is docker to blame?

New comment by Jcowell in "OpenAI Is Just Another Boring, Desperate AI Startup"

Jcowell — Fri, 03 Oct 2025 19:09:39 +0000

> Let's say Google release a new phone that is significantly cheaper and/or smarter than an Apple one. nobody would stick to apple.

This is not at all how the consumer phone market works. Price and “smarts” are not only factor that goes into phone decisions. There are ecosystem factors & messaging networks that add significant friction to switching. The deeper you are into one system the harder it is to switch.

New comment by Jcowell in "US cities pay too much for buses"

Jcowell — Fri, 26 Sep 2025 16:44:22 +0000

There’s a difference between spotting a bus at the stop and distance away and the actions you will take accordingly.

You want the bus to be identifiable as possible.

New comment by Jcowell in "The Theatre of Pull Requests and Code Review"

Jcowell — Thu, 25 Sep 2025 16:06:25 +0000

This seems like a bit of an over exaggeration. A pull request isn’t just a chunk of code thrown at people. it’s an entire process with a Title , description, pipeline checks that all come together to say I want this in another branch.

As the PR author it should be your job to: * Self Review the PR * Ensure you adhere/fulfill to all the expectations and requirements a PR should have before it’s pulled out of draft * That all pipeline test pass * That for a given request X there is test that validate X, Not X , and edge cases of X and are ran in the pipeline. * Has a clear description of what you’re changing/adding/removing, why, how, and the rollout plan , roll back plan , & the risk level.

The peer review process should make the reviewer engage in a rubber duck process to review their code , loop the team in for changes that can change their mental model of how a system they own works, and to catch things that we might not catch ourselves.

Not to the mention the security implications

New comment by Jcowell in "After getting Jimmy Kimmel suspended, FCC chair threatens ABC's The View"

Jcowell — Fri, 19 Sep 2025 22:42:00 +0000

> The sentence is convoluted but clearly implies that "this kid" was "one of the MAGA gang".

What? This is crazy “find the authors purpose” gymnastics. The quote does nothing to imply that the kids is Maga or not. It does however directly commentates on “Maga gang”’s actions to try to paint him as anyone other than someone who could be MAGA. Thats the entire point of what was said

New comment by Jcowell in "graduated but no jobs"

Jcowell — Mon, 15 Sep 2025 04:37:31 +0000

Don’t apply through linked in , apply directly via the company career site what apply materials are you submitting ? are you doing cover letters ?. As a grad how many new grads positions did you apply to?

New comment by Jcowell in "Poorest US workers hit hardest by slowing wage growth"

Jcowell — Mon, 04 Aug 2025 14:25:13 +0000

> But no one deserves anything, even clean air. People 100% deserve clean air?

New comment by Jcowell in "Proton joins suit against Apple for practices that harm developers and consumers"

Jcowell — Mon, 30 Jun 2025 23:41:47 +0000

> What Apple could have done, for sake of clarity, sanity, and good practice is to handle SMS using one app, and handle iMessage using another, separate app.

That sounds like a terrible user experience ?

New comment by Jcowell in "Elon Musk shut down internal Tesla analysis showing Robotaxi would lose money"

Jcowell — Thu, 17 Apr 2025 10:32:58 +0000

Hi! one of those people! Live in a city with adequate public transportation that I never learn to drive and would like not to for as long as possible. To get to places I pretty much use uber for places that would take a while to reach with public transportation.

New comment by Jcowell in "Congestion Pricing Is a Policy Miracle"

Jcowell — Sat, 22 Mar 2025 06:18:05 +0000

More likely* but not always.

New comment by Jcowell in "Congestion Pricing Is a Policy Miracle"

Jcowell — Sat, 22 Mar 2025 06:16:19 +0000

This is not true. Not all neighborhoods in the city (Basically harlem and up) have wealthy residents, and street parking is free. Anyone who lives in New York knows this.

New comment by Jcowell in "So, Russia no longer a cyber threat to America?"

Jcowell — Tue, 04 Mar 2025 13:22:43 +0000

Sure, but who, what body, would be established to do this and who would give the power to do so? With what oversight and with what enforcement?

New comment by Jcowell in "Mark Cuban offers to fund former 18f employees"

Jcowell — Sun, 02 Mar 2025 18:12:48 +0000

I think it’s true , it just that sometimes companies become the market

New comment by Jcowell in "DOGE's only public ledger is riddled with mistakes"

Jcowell — Sun, 23 Feb 2025 16:50:32 +0000

> A well designed oxygen machine has a battery and a fridge can tolerate a brief power outage.

Sure, but you would at least do the due diligence to confirm that the case for Mrs Shelby before you YOLO it and wish for the best with her life on the line.

New comment by Jcowell in "Google kills diversity hiring targets"

Jcowell — Fri, 07 Feb 2025 00:45:19 +0000

It seems silly to say this is the idea behind DEI rather than what folks may feel is the consequence (I neither don’t care if it is or isn’t”).

New comment by Jcowell in "Apple Invites"

Jcowell — Wed, 05 Feb 2025 01:58:48 +0000

I thought because of the EU they have to make these private APIs public?