Linus explained in that Git tag message that he “did what I preach” and used modern LLM tools to make sense of patches that were hard for him to follow.

It’s already too late. He’s gone down the rabbit hole.

Fuck the corpo dems, but if you’re an establishment liberal then you aren’t embarrassed about this at all.

Well yeah. That’s the point I failed to make.

Quaint to think he was “too old” back in 2016, though.

Yeah, Bernie would have been bad for business for corpo dems, but the real reason inner party members picked HRC was to get her either up or out, then everyone in the Democratic party moves up one level.

Whether HRC won or lost, everyone below her in the pyramid would win.

That’s not great, but if that’s the worst he ever did I can live with that.

Don’t forget, Microsoft is now cloud first, mobile first.

God forbid drivers pay for their drive.

Eat a dick, Donald.

“This is just the example and the consequence of what occurs when you hire individuals who don’t have the character, the moral judgment, or the ability to actually do the job of law enforcement,”

The agents who shot Rene Good and Alex Pretti had around 10 years of experience.

Sick of this “it’s the newbies” lie.

The incident was a reminder of how powerful these agents are.

“Powerful” or stupid”?

Timing.

was struck by a vehicle

Was no one driving the vehicle? Why the passive voice?

The driver who tried to run the pedestrian over?

He said he loved us, though. 😥

Bullshit. Like cops care about about stolen cars and if they did, that’s not how you catch a car thief.

As the author says, a good car thief throws away the plate. What’s Flock going to do about that?

Raiding chop shops is how you stop car theft.

And why isn’t Flock then designed around such use cases — “stolen car spotted at location X”? Why are they able to retrace any car’s every movement back 90 days (or more)? Why did the forensics done on a stolen Flock camera show it highlighting faces as regions of interest?

Why are they using it to stalk (sometimes not even actual) romantic partners?

https://cybernews.com/privacy/hackers-flock-teardown-encryption-key-secrets/ :

The investigation found that the recovered software explicitly detects people, alongside vehicles, bicycles, and license plates.

Flock Safety insists that its plate readers do not track people, despite a growing number of reports that suggest otherwise.

When the cameras detects a person, the software records their position in the images and how confident it is that it has spotted a human.

Wired extracted the camera’s computer vision models and tested them independently, successfully detecting people, including a selfie of one of its reporters.

Analysis of more than 27,000 short video clips recovered from the device found people in 11 clips, all of them on motorcycles.

The low number of humans in this instance was attributed to the fact that the camera was positioned above a roadway with limited pedestrians.

😄

I wrote code for FDA Class III medical devices. Dozens of engineers, plus a controls team, plus a design verification team, plus a regulatory team. At a real company, not some hopeful startup.

Real engineers don’t look at comments, they look at code.

And unit tests.

And SITL tests.

And requirements, which are called-out in the tests.

And FMEAs.

Keep your comments. They do more harm than good.

Roustabout rambler.

Why do you need more code? This has comments. It’s perfectly clear.

The other comment I constantly see is the function header that’s obviously copy-pasted from another function and literally nothing changed to reflect the function it’s meant to document. Not the return type, not the parameters, not even the function name.

Or the “helpful” ones that were once true but no longer are due to subsequent changes, which waste more of your time than if they never existed.

Comments are a smell.