Bjartr

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by Bjartr 10mo ago
> The fundamental thing in question here is what makes Beauty beautiful GUIs are tools first and art second. Any GUI that looks good, but gets in the way, or fails to make the task at hand easy is not a good GUI. The books and research a
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by Bjartr 10mo ago
These are not contradictory statements. Linux can be a contender and not currently be in the lead.
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by Bjartr 10mo ago
It is text that describes a plausible/likely thought process that conditions future generation by it's presence in the context.
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by Bjartr 10mo ago
But why would you want to violate the docs on something as fundamental as malloc? Why risk relying on implementation specific quirks in the first place?
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by Bjartr 10mo ago
I'm curious too. I find it an occasionally useful feature, but how often I use it goes down as my ability to construct better find-replace/apply-action regex goes up.
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by Bjartr 10mo ago
> charging for it should help make sure it continues to work It's there a particular reason you're extending the benefit of the doubt here? This seems like the classic playbook of making something free, waiting for people to de
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by Bjartr 10mo ago
> not strictly legally required moderation Ah, so this is a way to make us "need" to enshrine moderation opinion into legislation in order to have nice things
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by Bjartr 10mo ago
Consider that every time you start a session with Claude Code. It's effectively a new engineer. The system doesn't learn like a real person does, so for it to improve over time you need to manually record the insights that for a n
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by Bjartr 10mo ago
I found this article pretty interesting to think about. The ideas it discusses are adjacent to a lot of what I sometimes struggle with in communication. Meta note: my description was accidentally a great example of what I mean > Adjacent
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by Bjartr 10mo ago
Unless, as a local looking for new spots to try, your first step is going to Google Map and searching "restaurants". I'm certainly guilty of this sometimes.
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by Bjartr 10mo ago
Neat, I got a shout-out. Always happy to share the random stuff I remember exists!
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by Bjartr 10mo ago
For comparison, here's the frontpage from ten years ago https://news.ycombinator.com/front?day=2015-12-09
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by Bjartr 10mo ago
Because you live in a world where other people exist, and how they go about existing can impact you negatively, both directly and indirectly. The fewer people living in and dealing with poverty, the better off the everyone else is.
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by Bjartr 11mo ago
When you make a plan, you have the least information you will ever have about the goal/problem.
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by Bjartr 11mo ago
I wonder how many things like this technically exist but which simply don't have the necessary circumstances to exist on earth near humans by complete chance.
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by Bjartr 11mo ago
I think the implication is we already handle these events well enough pre-ai, and that the events are not necessarily more disruptive just because an ai was used to trigger them. Implicit in this though is the assumption that the increase i
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by Bjartr 11mo ago
The use of the word "literally" to be used as emphasis started in the 1700s, and people have been complaining about it since at least 1909 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Literally#As_an_intensifier
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by Bjartr 11mo ago
> Someone who thought webvan was a great lesson in hubris could not have built an Instacart, right? Not at all. The mistake to learn from in Webvan's case was expanding too quickly and investing in expensive infrastructure all befor
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by Bjartr 11mo ago
This micro payments for content idea has been tried a few times, with slight variations. No-one has cracked the problem yet. But maybe one day
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by Bjartr 11mo ago
People here are interested in reading about it. Is there a reason you think it shouldn't?
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by Bjartr 11mo ago
If they don't affect the rich, why have the rock didn't so much time, effort, and money eroding such taxes over decades?
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by Bjartr 11mo ago
IIRC, the value of randomness went even further than that. I think it was in the allocation of land for rice paddies. I-ching was used to decide if any given farmer's land was to be used that year or something like that. The benefit wa
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by Bjartr 11mo ago
That's oversimplified beyond the point of usefulness. Tribalism and the soldier mindset are very strong and override rationality on topics that are linked to one's identity. In general, for many, the easiest path to feeling good a
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by Bjartr 11mo ago
The opinion is that the title should be something different than the author wrote for the page.
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by Bjartr 11mo ago
Merriam-Webster defines editorialized as "to introduce opinion into the reporting of facts" It was the submitter's opinion that "gamified" was an accurate description for this page instead of using the actual title
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by Bjartr 1y ago
Advice is situational. Some people need to hear "don't give up" and some people need to hear "move on".
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by Bjartr 1y ago
No. What's mandated by law is to not track users for reasons not core to delivering your service OR disclose that you are doing so.
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by Bjartr 1y ago
No, it's saying "let's build a web service" and starting with a framework that just lets you write your endpoints. This is about something higher level than the nuts and bolts. Both are worth learning. The fact you find
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by Bjartr 1y ago
That's why the saying I quoted had "the grace to accept the things I cannot change" It's not "accept things that are not upsetting"
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by Bjartr 1y ago
Or, to put it another way Have the grace to accept things I cannot change, the power to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference. An intelligent person usually knows a lot about a lot. The more things you know about, t

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