The land is owned by the city, that much is not in question.

If they signed the deed, they agreed to the condition that they would use it to build a park. If they didn't sign the deed, they never agreed to that condition.

> spelling out any additional agreements between the parties within the four corners of the deed itself can eliminate any doubt or ambiguity as to the content of those agreements.

The word "any" does some heavy lifting here, I'll admit.

> How can a grantor insure that the “as is” provision is unconditionally accepted by the grantee? The answer is to require that the grantee sign and acknowledge the deed

This quote is using as-is provisions since those are very common, but it seems like this doctrine applies to any condition in a deed.

Did a representative for the city ever sign the deed?

https://lonestarlandlaw.com/deeds-in-texas/

Maybe this isn't applicable to all software devs. If you make web apps, users actually see your UI, they click an icon or type in a URL and hit enter with the intent of using the thing you made. With firmware, that's not how it works.

When you hit the "mute" button on your laptop keyboard, it should just do it. The audio should turn off and the little LED should light up. If that fails, even once, the mirage is broken. The user is forced to think about the fallibility of firmware, which is a word they might not even know, and still struggle to conceptualize if they do. I think it also has a lasting effect on the way someone thinks about the pruduct: Is this going to work today? Why did that happen? Was that a virus? So on.

OTA firmware updates have the same problem. Most users don't know what the hell firmware is. All they know is their computer is showing a loading screen they've never seen before. It's unfamiliar and weird.

Like I said, I don't know if this mindset translates perfectly to other fields, but the priorities that fall out of my philosophy certainly apply. Reliability over everything, and get it right the first time.

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Hah! I wish this were true. The overwhelming majority of BLE widgets don't use resolvable random private addresses. They could, they just don't. A huge share of the industry is just copy-pasting Nordic sample code until they have a shippable product, and last I checked, exactly one (1) Nordic sample project enables RRPAs. Nordic treats it as an edge case, and everyone else follows along.

And that's besides the issue that the RRPA rotation algorithm is pretty contrived. I'd be shocked if some three-letter hasn't already built a tool for tracking devices that use it.

I wrote this in another thread recently: AI is a technology, not a product. Consumers don't care about technologies, they care about products.

This is pretty elementary stuff. SV has a propensity for conflating technology and products, I'll give you that, but Apple's product management has always been relatively good about this kind of thing.

Maybe words work better?

There were roughly 28 months' worth of tech job postings within the 15 month period from July 2021 to October 2022.

If you change the baseline to a rough average of the last 2 years, 0.66, that ratio becomes 42 months' worth of job postings within 15 months.

I'd be curious to see what the numbers look like as a percentage of the existing tech workforce. Like, if there are 100 workers and the number of job postings doubled from 5 to 10, that's a huge deal. But if there are 1000000 workers and the number of job postings doubled from 1 to 2, well that's not a huge deal.

Ticketmaster avoided the two-sided market problem until they reached scale. They were just a website where you buy tickets, an IT appliance for promoters.

But then Ticketmaster started buying out promoters, and that short circuited the entire system. Fans can't buy tickets from a different storefront because their favorite artists are only booking performances with ticketmaster-controlled venues. Top talent can't book high-grossing venues that aren't owned by ticketmaster, because Ticketmaster owns the promoters.

Scalpers are a symptom, the disease is consolidation of competitive markets by corporations. This kind of situation is precisely why antitrust law exists.

AI is a technology, not a product. Consumers don't care about technologies, they care about what the product does versus what they currently have.

I think Jobs was an asshole, but one good thing I can say about him is that he understood the difference between technology and products. Imagine if they had called it the "iPod HDD."

> Automatically determining a semantic version bump (based on the types of commits landed): This sounds nice, but the realities of software engineering often interfere significantly with the viability of accurately accomplishing this... imagine a situation where the breaking change you introduced was actually so breaking that you have to revert it... maybe the breakage is subtle and you don’t realise a change is a breaking change when you make the change. Only in retrospect realise that it’s breaking. You will incorrectly increment a minor/patch version when a major version bump is necessary...say you later add a commit which, in composition with a previously breaking commit, results in a diff which is not breaking. Similar to the revert situation, tooling would incorrectly identify a breaking change.

This is a problem with Semver, not conventional commits. You're liable to do this regardless of how your commits are formatted, which is one of several reasons why conventional commits are silly. But in this case, Semver itself drew semantic lines that aren't clear, and are easily broken.

I see a lot of comments saying things to this effect: "S&P 500 is just a metric/benchmark, not a fund, so it should consider the whole market even if that includes a newly-listed but very large company." And yeah, the S&P 500 is an index, not a fund.

But you know what is a fund? SPY, VOO, IVV, FXAIX, and loads of others. Regardless of what institution(s) manage your retirement accounts, you are almost certainly benefitting from the S&P 500 filtering out post-IPO fuckery.