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New comment by rileymat2 in "Solid and Clean Code never felt solid or clean to me"

rileymat2 — Thu, 02 Jul 2026 13:27:17 +0000

Pretty much every item besides the Open Closed Principle which deals with deals with future changes touch on being able to snap pieces that know as little as possible about each other together to create the final product while being robust to change in the underlying pieces.

This comes out in the practical world in being able to make Java libraries that don't need to be recompiled or redistributed because of changes to other parts.

New comment by rileymat2 in "Solid and Clean Code never felt solid or clean to me"

rileymat2 — Thu, 02 Jul 2026 12:41:23 +0000

This sort of object oriented programming was doomed to fail because it requires thoughtful world building and not a direct assault on the ticket you were assigned.

It you look at most of SOLID it is about building little pieces that eventually will fit together and rules to avoid incompatibilities when the world you built comes together.

New comment by rileymat2 in "Tech giants lose $2T in SpaceX's IPO month"

rileymat2 — Wed, 01 Jul 2026 18:33:20 +0000

They are still above a ridiculously high IPO price. It's hard to see it as not a success.

New comment by rileymat2 in "30-year sentence for transporting zines is a five-alarm fire for free speech"

rileymat2 — Tue, 30 Jun 2026 03:00:02 +0000

Shouldn't the punishment for obstruction, in many cases, be higher than the base offense to prevent that as a default strategy to beat the base offense? Granted, not that much higher, but there is some logic to it being a greater offense.

New comment by rileymat2 in "US Supreme Court rules geofence warrants require constitutional protections"

rileymat2 — Mon, 29 Jun 2026 23:49:28 +0000

We do have semiprivate places in public, for example bathrooms, based on an expectation of privacy. There is no reason that expectation cannot be changed or extended in ways.

New comment by rileymat2 in "Ford AI hiccups push carmaker to rehire ‘gray beard’ inspectors"

rileymat2 — Sun, 28 Jun 2026 21:14:18 +0000

It makes sense if ruining lives is good for the company, firing and layoffs that are /necessary/ are hard for anyone with empathy. They should be rewarded for doing that.

New comment by rileymat2 in "Ford AI hiccups push carmaker to rehire ‘gray beard’ inspectors"

rileymat2 — Sun, 28 Jun 2026 21:12:52 +0000

That’s very appealing, the problem is the prompts control the results to such a degree, the person composing the prompts are the executives and at that point, you have not done anything.

New comment by rileymat2 in "Zombie unicorns are haunting Silicon Valley"

rileymat2 — Thu, 25 Jun 2026 11:31:19 +0000

> The most valuable company in the world hasnt shown a dime in profit.

NVidia is quite profitable (it may not be enough to justify its current market cap), so is Aramco. Which is the most valuable in the world is up to you.

New comment by rileymat2 in "Anthropic says Alibaba illicitly extracted Claude AI model capabilities"

rileymat2 — Thu, 25 Jun 2026 11:06:10 +0000

This is a bit of a trick question. The law is explicitly written to make this illegal. If it was not explicit, it most likely would be legal by time shifting precedent.

https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/2319B

New comment by rileymat2 in "Anthropic says Alibaba illicitly extracted Claude AI model capabilities"

rileymat2 — Thu, 25 Jun 2026 03:26:14 +0000

They could run their service at a profit?

New comment by rileymat2 in "Anthropic says Alibaba illicitly extracted Claude AI model capabilities"

rileymat2 — Thu, 25 Jun 2026 03:24:05 +0000

In international trade, isn’t this called dumping which gets major political pushback?

New comment by rileymat2 in "The new HTTP QUERY method explained"

rileymat2 — Tue, 23 Jun 2026 10:31:38 +0000

I think a lot of people don’t know the http/1.x protocol from url (header) to body is a stream of text* separated by \r\n.

* the body may be compressed.

New comment by rileymat2 in "What happens to an economy when it's too hot to work?"

rileymat2 — Sun, 14 Jun 2026 01:13:44 +0000

I can't see the methodology, but it would shock me if they did not take into account the local high based on the time of year.

Edit: In the methodology section it is not clear whether they used one average or average for the date.

New comment by rileymat2 in "US Government directive to suspend access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5"

rileymat2 — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 03:15:29 +0000

They are not exporting the models, they are exporting very speech like output.

New comment by rileymat2 in "Statement on US government directive to suspend access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5"

rileymat2 — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 02:05:18 +0000

I am a bit surprised they can’t make serious free speech arguments.

New comment by rileymat2 in "Faking keyword arguments to functions in C++"

rileymat2 — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 04:07:33 +0000

Python calls them keyword arguments.

New comment by rileymat2 in "Apple reveals new AI architecture built around Google Gemini models"

rileymat2 — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 20:20:42 +0000

I may be jaded, but I do not trust Google for product offering stability. Obviously, Apple is a way bigger fish.

New comment by rileymat2 in "SpaceX, Other Mega IPOs Denied Fast Index Entry by S&P"

rileymat2 — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 05:20:55 +0000

What is it a benchmark for? All investable public stocks or the economy writ large?

New comment by rileymat2 in "American capitalism has taken an apocalyptic turn"

rileymat2 — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 04:28:38 +0000

It’s a rather public example but DOGE did immense damage and was facilitated by the ability to leverage wealth into power. There is a dangerous feedback cycle.

New comment by rileymat2 in "Stop Ruining It"

rileymat2 — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 13:50:29 +0000

https://www.reuters.com/article/business/pg-says-cut-digital...

> The consumer goods conglomerate said it cut digital spending by more $100 million between April and June of 2017 and continued with the cuts at the same rate for the rest of the year.

>P&G, however, has not cut overall media spending. Funds have been reinvested to increase media reach, including in areas such as TV, audio and ecommerce media, a company spokeswoman told Reuters.

Looks like they still spent it in marketing and advertising just not digital spending. Also for sticky old well known consumer goods I’d wager sales drop slowly.