KingMob

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by KingMob 2y ago
I have no idea what proportion of Twitter's jobs were necessary or not, but it is DEFINITELY not fine. From images routinely failing to load, to the current mess of logins that is the dualistic nature of x.com vs twitter.com (where whi
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by KingMob 2y ago
Yes, but interviewers can never know the candidates' real underlying strength, only their perception of their strength.
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by KingMob 2y ago
> because they've had to work harder to get to the same place Which implies they're actually the stronger candidate.
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by KingMob 2y ago
I used to do MRI experiments in grad school for neuroscience. One time, I got curious, and did some back-of-the-envelope math on how much they cost. In NYC, an MRI machine drew as much energy in 20 minutes, as my apartment did in a month. B
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by KingMob 2y ago
I prefer sites follow my OS, and if I want to manually change light/dark mode, I do it at the OS level.
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by KingMob 2y ago
"Run fewer tests!", as the article mentions, is a great idea, but the existing ways of doing this are suboptimal. Failing fast usually stops at the first failed test, and provides a quick binary pass/fail signal (especially i
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by KingMob 2y ago
Wild to think the Confederacy and the Civil War killed the prospects of camels in Arizona.
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by KingMob 2y ago
Man, I used to use couchsurfing.org to get free places to crash in grad school.
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by KingMob 2y ago
> My main gripe with immutability is that making updated data requires building a full copy of the data again with the changes. That's not generally true. Many immutable languages are using "persistent" data structures, wh
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by KingMob 2y ago
That's true now, but not when they first took off.
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by KingMob 2y ago
I was thinking of a longer time frame, though. Also, Yale might not be representative overall. According to the census, from 2000-2018, the percentage of the population holding PhDs doubled : https://www.census.gov/library&
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by KingMob 2y ago
Bureaucracy has gone up, sure, but not nearly as much as the number of people seeking PhDs. That also used to be much less common back in the day.
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by KingMob 2y ago
As many as needed for the level of nesting? ...you do know no s-expression editor makes you count or type those out manually, right? It's all handled by paredit or parinfer, unless you're a masochist. It's just not something
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by KingMob 2y ago
This is a good line of thinking, and you're right that smaller entities get the benefit of software they couldn't otherwise afford. Of course, a more directly equitable arrangement would be a software co-operative. If prices are t
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by KingMob 2y ago
Crazy to think that 50 years ago, postdocs were rare.
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by KingMob 2y ago
> Corporations are simply a group of humans. This is incorrect, and it's obvious with even a little bit of reflection. Corporations are effectively unkillable, for starters. No corporate charter has been revoked since the 19th c. ii
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by KingMob 2y ago
...? Neither of the tools I listed require copy-pasting the resulting command. They show me the generated command, and I either agree to run it or not by hitting "y" or Enter. They both suck at adding the resulting command to hist
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by KingMob 2y ago
Not that I'm aware of. ClojureCLR was pretty much just made by Ramsey Nasser as a vehicle for his experimental video game work. I never heard of anyone else using it (though I'm sure somebody tried), so I'd bet against it hav
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by KingMob 2y ago
Hehe. Yeah, I can't think of another tool that's simultaneously popular enough, and painful enough, to warrant a site like https://ohshitgit.com
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by KingMob 2y ago
This smears out the definition of profit beyond usefulness. I can pretty much guarantee hunter-gatherers hunt to not starve, children play for sheer joy, and nobody's thinking of profit. There are better psychological/anthropologi
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by KingMob 2y ago
I'm sympathetic to some of what you're saying, and I believe the original hacker ethos spurred some of the original FS impulses, but... FOSS licenses don't, and can't , embody anarchism (or any socialism) because they m
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by KingMob 2y ago
I agree that copyleft is less fashionable these days, but I think big companies have figured out all the tricks they need. Case in point: Amazon offers a hosted Grafana service, which is AGPL. They may not be able to meaningfully change the
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by KingMob 2y ago
> What Free Software always was is an ethical movement—one which didn't need to prioritize income streams because the point wasn't sustainable development, it was user freedom. This actually illustrates the key flaw in Stallman
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by KingMob 2y ago
For anyone who wants a broader CLI tool, consider Willison's `llm` tool with the `cmd` plugin, or something like `shell_gpt`.
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by KingMob 2y ago
I got curious about why Forgejo split off from Gitea, and it seems like yet another case of broke FOSS creators/maintainers getting screwed from above (and maybe below too). From the Gitea incorporation announcement (below), it looks l
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by KingMob 2y ago
I suspect the reason is the same as the use of local git GUIs and TUIs; git has a terrible CLI, so everyone uses its plumbing, but not its porcelain.
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by KingMob 2y ago
Probably similar to JVM clojure. The .net VM is similar to the JVM in perf, but iirc, the clj startup time is more dominated by Clojure itself (like var initialization).
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by KingMob 2y ago
Why do you imagine the OP would push a failed experiment to a publicly available spot? They probably left it sitting in a local branch and went on with their day.
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by KingMob 2y ago
For sure. I live in Thailand, and it's super-dominant amongst East Asian tourists here.
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by KingMob 2y ago
Lol at grayver. I guess my beard now counts. In my corner of the woods back in the 90's, we also had the occasional "graver" (no y) who were mixing up rave and goth aesthetics.

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