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New comment by francoisdevlin in "The Waymo effect: how AI is quietly making research less collaborative"

francoisdevlin — Fri, 11 Sep 2026 12:56:24 +0000

Not the parent, but it's half joke half truth. Anyone who's done a lot of "first principles" work falls into this trap a bit, it's an issue across stem fields. Most grow out of it, or at least learn to qualify their statements for the audience.

New comment by francoisdevlin in "What's the largest software project AI can complete on its own?"

francoisdevlin — Mon, 03 Aug 2026 23:26:55 +0000

Wait, are you talking about llms or people?

New comment by francoisdevlin in "Emacs 31 is around the corner: The changes I'm daily driving"

francoisdevlin — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 16:26:31 +0000

I use vi because I'm not a savage

New comment by francoisdevlin in "Meta to start capturing employee mouse movements, keystrokes for AI training"

francoisdevlin — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 22:35:41 +0000

As an old hand that's managed many people, I can tell you this is true.

New comment by francoisdevlin in "No matter what they tell you, it's a people problem (2008)"

francoisdevlin — Mon, 24 Jun 2024 20:31:24 +0000

As a tech manager with twenty years experience, I can assure you, in fact, engineers are people. And they interact with those MBAs, project managers, etc. The really good product/project people understand this as well, and make a point of doing their very best to be effective when interacting with the engineering team. They know how expensive we are, and try to bring our our best.

To the point of this article, the best product people were in fact respected by the tech team, and it made all the difference.

New comment by francoisdevlin in "Enhancing Factorio with SAT solvers"

francoisdevlin — Wed, 14 Feb 2024 13:45:38 +0000

Dude, that is sick.

New comment by francoisdevlin in "Culture Change at Google"

francoisdevlin — Fri, 19 Jan 2024 12:27:50 +0000

As a father to both biological and adopted children, I couldn't agree more. I'm Dad to all of them.

New comment by francoisdevlin in "Unciv"

francoisdevlin — Mon, 27 Nov 2023 01:44:06 +0000

The strength of unciv is how close it comes to civ 5, and for that I loved it.

New comment by francoisdevlin in "Error correction and concealment in the Compact Disc system (1982) [pdf]"

francoisdevlin — Mon, 02 Oct 2023 23:26:47 +0000

I had a zip disk for all my work in college. It's completely impractical for anything these days, but it was so much fun. Having 100mb in your bag in the era of floppies made you feel like a king.

New comment by francoisdevlin in "Inflation Bites U.S. Engineering Salaries"

francoisdevlin — Wed, 27 Sep 2023 23:41:05 +0000

What makes you think the residuals would fare better than the options? The risk is about the same, yes?

New comment by francoisdevlin in "Factorio: Space Age"

francoisdevlin — Sat, 26 Aug 2023 00:17:05 +0000

There's a lot to belts

https://www.factorio.com/blog/post/fff-176

New comment by francoisdevlin in "Older mouse brains rejuvenated by protein found in young blood"

francoisdevlin — Fri, 18 Aug 2023 09:48:45 +0000

Not quite. It's simply an argument that the money will end up back in healthcare, just maybe further down the line, and maybe that's okay. Just remember that as everything else gets cheaper, the percentage that is spent on healthcare must increase.

New comment by francoisdevlin in "Older mouse brains rejuvenated by protein found in young blood"

francoisdevlin — Thu, 17 Aug 2023 17:06:05 +0000

Would it, or would it simply delay the bill? Every one of us must pay the final price at some point.

New comment by francoisdevlin in "Stop eliminating good candidates by asking them the wrong questions"

francoisdevlin — Sat, 03 Jun 2023 14:19:46 +0000

A data point - the capital one AWS breach ended up costing $270M[1]. While they weren't destroyed, it wasn't cheap either.

1. https://techmonitor.ai/technology/cybersecurity/capital-one-...

New comment by francoisdevlin in "“Considered Harmful” Essays Considered Harmful (2002)"

francoisdevlin — Thu, 11 May 2023 20:09:32 +0000

Smells like breakfast

New comment by francoisdevlin in "John Deere 'Kill Switch' renders stolen tractors useless (2022)"

francoisdevlin — Fri, 21 Apr 2023 04:50:34 +0000

That's a nice tractor you've got there. It'd be a shame if something happened to it.

Can I interest you in some protection... Err, 3 year service plan?

New comment by francoisdevlin in "Make JDK source code UTF-8"

francoisdevlin — Wed, 01 Mar 2023 01:40:21 +0000

I once wrote a math library with using the letters delta and epsilon. It was cute, but I had to copy/paste every time. Never, ever again.

New comment by francoisdevlin in "We Need Programming Mentors"

francoisdevlin — Sat, 11 Feb 2023 13:54:13 +0000

What do you recommend instead?

New comment by francoisdevlin in "Htmx in a Nutshell"

francoisdevlin — Wed, 14 Dec 2022 21:49:04 +0000

You need to start merchandising. Complexity very, very, bad.

New comment by francoisdevlin in "Htmx in a Nutshell"

francoisdevlin — Wed, 14 Dec 2022 19:32:52 +0000

GRUG? Is that you?