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Bless you, was very much not what I was expecting from the title.

It also has 0 reflection of load. Weren't you limited to a single private repo before Microsoft took over?

I don't think so. Even before Microsoft acquired GitHub, you could have as many private repos as you wanted, but you couldn't have more than 3 collaborators. This change happened back in 2019:

https://github.blog/news-insights/product-news/new-year-new-...


Now you done it! Yeah, one of the difficult things is being able to see both sides. At the end of the day, I happen to write code because that's how I can best accomplish the things I need to do with the minimum of effort. While I do take pride in elegance and quality of code, it is always a means to an end. When I start gold plating, I try to remind myself of the adage I learned in a marketing class: No one ever needed a drill, they needed the ability to make holes.

It is strange, but not really upsetting to me, that I am not particularly anal about the code Claude is generating for me anymore but that could also be a function of how low stakes the projects are or the fact nothing has exploded yet.


Pro tip: you’re supposed to use a revolver.

Juggle five guns after loading one.


Hang on, without a dog in this fight, have I asked the people who trained their whole lives to drive cool cars if this particular cool car, which they were not involved in designing or building, is safe to drive? Is that what you are asking?

They asked if the astronauts "want to risk it", not if it was actually safe. Those are very different questions. The astronauts are, in fact, the world's leading experts on whether or not they personally want to risk it, so it's not entirely unreasonable to think that they could answer that question.

It just depends on whether you think that the fact that they accept the risks is reason enough to let them fly a potentially-dangerous spacecraft.


I know we all have a lot of respect for astronauts, but the fact is that they blindly trust whoever tells them "it's safe enough" that it is, actually, safe enough.

Artemis II doesn't need astronauts to do its flights. Astronauts are trained to survive in a spaceship that does not need them to do anything at all. That it is their dream to survive in such a spaceship does not say at all that they have any valid idea of how much risk they are taking.

We can say "maybe the astronauts would accept to fly knowing that they have a probability of 1/30 of dying" all we want, but that doesn't answer the question here, which is: what is the probability that they die?

The article says "we don't really know: the first test flight was very concerning, and we used the exact same methods to prepare the second flight, so we won't really know how unsafe it is until we try it".

Sure, they have made tests on the ground. But the first flight proves that those tests are not enough, otherwise Artemis I wouldn't have had those issues in the first place.


This is a perfect way to put it.

Artemis II is not safe, at least by the standards we apply to things. It's the third flight of a capsule, on the second flight of the rocket, and the first flight of things like the life support system.

At the end of the day, one of the reasons astronauts are respected is they understand those risks, and go into space anyway. That doesn't mean we shouldn't try to minimize risks - but at some point the risk becomes acceptable, and the cost of reducing it too great.

To paraphrase a quote from Star Trek - risk is their business.


Taking a related quote from Dollhouse: "That is their business, but that is not their purpose."

Agreed. I was relieved to see this wasn’t written by Cam Skatteboro.

Yeah, I thought I was on a sports site. Cam thinks CTE isn't real and is "all in your head." Technically correct about the all in your head part.

That is some impressive willful ignorance. “If it was anybody else threatening to beat this guy up for what he was saying, you’d probably praise them. But a cop does it one time and …”

Which is fine, but the vast majority of the things that get presented aren’t bothering to benchmark against my use (for a whole lotta mes). They come from someone scratching an itch and solving it for a target audience of one and then extrapolating and bolting on some benchmarks. And at the sizes you’re talking about, how many tooling authors have the computing power on hand to test that?

Sadly that wasn’t true in the past either for the majority of acts. The labels made money from both parts back then.

We need to have a talk about your pieces of flair.

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