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New comment by __abc in "U.S. government will decide who gets to use GPT-5.6"

__abc — Fri, 26 Jun 2026 20:27:59 +0000

what's weird, is my employees abroad (outside the US) have access to Anthropic Fable .... so what exactly did we prevent by limiting United States citizens from having access ....

New comment by __abc in "Why Twilio Segment moved from microservices back to a monolith"

__abc — Sun, 14 Dec 2025 03:41:53 +0000

Fair point.

New comment by __abc in "Why Twilio Segment moved from microservices back to a monolith"

__abc — Sun, 14 Dec 2025 01:59:31 +0000

I wasn't taking into account velocity of fleet-wide rollout, as I agree, you can migrate over time however. however, I was focusing on the idea that anytime of fleet wide rollout for a specific change was somehow "bad."

New comment by __abc in "Why Twilio Segment moved from microservices back to a monolith"

__abc — Sun, 14 Dec 2025 01:53:22 +0000

This right here. WTF do you do when you need to upgrade your underlying runtime such as Python, Ruby, whatever ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ you gotta go service by service.

New comment by __abc in "Why Twilio Segment moved from microservices back to a monolith"

__abc — Sun, 14 Dec 2025 01:51:01 +0000

So you should re-write your logging code on each and every one of your 140+ services vs. leverage a shared module?

New comment by __abc in "What makes a good engineer also makes a good engineering organization (2024)"

__abc — Wed, 21 May 2025 13:09:09 +0000

Weird, maybe it's because I'm mostly gray haired at this point, but I find myself referring to my profession as "Computer Science" more and more as time passes.

New comment by __abc in "We fell out of love with Next.js and back in love with Ruby on Rails"

__abc — Sat, 03 May 2025 20:29:37 +0000

If you truly need for MVC to manage all things state, component communications, and complex IxD in the front-end, sure, but not every app has that level of front-end complexity to warrant a SPA, in my opinion.

New comment by __abc in "Cormac McCarthy has died"

__abc — Tue, 13 Jun 2023 20:54:55 +0000

Fudge, I loved that guy and his work. I still remember how fun it was to binge The Road in a single day. I don't think I left my couch from the early morning on through to the late evening. Such a compelling and gripping writer.

New comment by __abc in "The case for expanding rather than eliminating gifted education programs (2021)"

__abc — Wed, 08 Jun 2022 17:57:50 +0000

I moved my family as the town I lived in did exactly this. They also removed support programs for those falling behind vs racing ahead. All under the equity banner.

The New town we moved to is great. Oldest kid in accelerated programs, accelerating. Younger kid got the support she needed to catch up. :chefs_kiss:

Taking a step back, I don’t know how ‘equity’ got twisted into creating a lowering tide for all vs. a rising tide for all. So confusing.

New comment by __abc in "Radar data confirms: USS Omaha was surrounded by swarm of UFOs"

__abc — Fri, 28 May 2021 14:57:08 +0000

my kids ask me if I believe and I tell them I used to. However, given the HDR phone in everyones pocket for a decade+ and no photos of a ghost, alien, saucer, cryptid ????? I am now a non believer.

New comment by __abc in "Rookie coding mistake prior to Gab hack came from site’s CTO"

__abc — Wed, 03 Mar 2021 02:47:54 +0000

Oooooof. Rails (which I think they may be using) makes sanitization fairly easy.

New comment by __abc in "Smashing the Stack for Fun and Profit (1996)"

__abc — Mon, 25 Jan 2021 22:37:00 +0000

Being totally immature here, but "Smashing the stack for fun and profit" would make a great book title for the Chaturbate memoir.

New comment by __abc in "Cypress: Fast, easy, and reliable testing for anything that runs in a browser"

__abc — Fri, 11 Dec 2020 03:51:01 +0000

I am so excited for this

New comment by __abc in "Cyberpunk 2077 runs on Linux through the Proton compatibility layer"

__abc — Thu, 10 Dec 2020 03:47:13 +0000

If they are like me, I've never even heard of Geforce prior to your comment ... but am very aware of Stadia ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

New comment by __abc in "Growl in Retirement"

__abc — Sat, 28 Nov 2020 23:04:58 +0000

RIP old friend ...

New comment by __abc in "TailwindCSS v2.0"

__abc — Wed, 18 Nov 2020 20:09:54 +0000

Please, tell me more :)

New comment by __abc in "How to Run a Live Coding Stream on Twitch Using OBS"

__abc — Tue, 14 Jul 2020 20:21:11 +0000

I’d watch this, FWIW. The exploration is where the fun/hate/elation/ and excitement occur. ️

New comment by __abc in "Beyond Meat: Scaling ethical consumerism"

__abc — Wed, 10 Jun 2020 02:03:05 +0000

So I Believe I understand where you are going with the kids comment. At some point as a species we need to procreate, so what method / system would you recommend?

New comment by __abc in "Boeing cutting more than 12,000 U.S. jobs with thousands more planned"

__abc — Wed, 27 May 2020 18:02:58 +0000

Ah, thanks. See, too cynical :)

New comment by __abc in "Boeing cutting more than 12,000 U.S. jobs with thousands more planned"

__abc — Wed, 27 May 2020 16:50:17 +0000

I'm too lazy to look this up, and probably a bit too cynical, but how much stimulus money did they receive?