LeonB

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by LeonB 2y ago
From the “useless web” links provided above, I learned: > The project was built and launched as part of Netlify’s Dusty Domains project, where for each project built and launched on an old domain money was donated to charity! Ultimately
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by LeonB 2y ago
There was a 1D Wolfenstein that was entirely played in the url bar, and yet made perfect sense and was quite playable.
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by LeonB 2y ago
Are you a libra? This sounds like something a libra might would say! /s “Repeatable identifiable categories of dubious usefulness” Yep, there’s a lot of this in modern science. “Is this method of classification useful? wrong question
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by LeonB 2y ago
I wish the heading (at HN) included “n=14”.
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by LeonB 2y ago
> I’ve been learning guitar over the past couple of years and I still struggle with many aspects (with good rhythm and timing being the most difficult). Same, same and same, here. Good luck to you!
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by LeonB 2y ago
The book “Peak” - and other works by that author detail studies related to this. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peak:_Secrets_from_the_New_S... > The book was written partly as a response to the misrepresented but
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by LeonB 2y ago
Here is a different video by the same person (the `robWords` channel) “How to translate French words WITHOUT KNOWING FRENCH (3 clever tricks)” https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=3BGaA3PC9tQ I learned a lot from this and continue
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by LeonB 2y ago
I think it’s the other way around — the book is from ~ 1985 while the Roger Waters albums is ~ 1992.
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by LeonB 2y ago
> (theoretically at least) The “at least” is unwarranted, and even the “theoretically” is being far too kind. Of course if you allow a monopoly to develop they will protect their own interests to the exclusion of others, and use their po
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by LeonB 2y ago
> being able to buy 0.001% of a billboard ^^ this is possible because the ads are delivered digitally, not because of any magic power google has. Even if every website was its own independent advertising space (an extreme opposite), they
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by LeonB 2y ago
As Douglas Adams said “Time is an illusion, lunchtime doubly so.”
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by LeonB 2y ago
Well, Sylvester (see footnote), or Euclid, whatever your name is, I think you get what I’m saying. Footnote: on rereading your message, the sequence 2,3,7,43,1807 jumped out at me as being “Sylvester’s sequence” — sometimes called Euclid nu
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by LeonB 2y ago
I read your comment and thought, “that’s quite a simplistic thing to say, hardly worth making such a comment.” But I re-read it and thought, “then again the commenter is saying ‘good’ not ‘great’… perhaps they are admitting to more nuance?”
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by LeonB 2y ago
I didn’t want to comment until I’d seen the video — I’ve seen it now and I think it’s really interesting, and brings in a lot of relevant points. Personally, I would be quite adamant that the reason the word “chord” is chosen there — is for
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by LeonB 2y ago
Good point about disproving your answer (before seeing the alleged real answer). The ability to quickly verify/disprove the answer is a separate and useful skill all by itself, that isn’t explicitly taught. Troubleshooting/problem
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by LeonB 2y ago
Same! I couldn’t get it to work because that sailboat was in the way.
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by LeonB 2y ago
Once an activity has become a “competitive sport” it has a way of prioritising “measurable” over meaningful or enjoyable. When you develop a critical eye for this aspect of sport, the Olympics stop being enjoyable and become an utter horror
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by LeonB 2y ago
> If you don't trust that the settings on your computer work what in gods name are you using windows for Most people don’t get any choice at all about what operating system they use. And those that do get a choice have extremely lim
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by LeonB 2y ago
I think the song TUSA, in which Ginger Baker describes the process of making Tea is also a required reference for any articles on the topic. - https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=DTuXBoA688Y
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by LeonB 2y ago
I think this is a confusion between “marginal” and “by and large”. If I go to a coach to help me with running faster their advice won’t be “completely wrong” — it will be “by and large” correct. But there are still opportunities for “margin
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by LeonB 2y ago
Yeh. Linq to sql was a much more lightweight extension than EF, and was killed due to internal warring at MS. Database people were investing a lot of time and energy on doing things “properly” with EF, and this scrappy little useful tool, l
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by LeonB 2y ago
Sorry for focusing on the money aspect. I agree with a lot of your bullet points, particularly your characterisation of faang, but the overall message that a single software developer can’t make much impact is needlessly negative. Compared
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by LeonB 2y ago
If your goal is to make a lot of money and to influence a lot of people — you are guaranteed to be unhappy. If you make a lot more money than others, you’ll still make a lot less than some . No amount can fulfil that “goal” because it’s no
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by LeonB 2y ago
Studies are easiest to perform on topics with easy to measure results. But in most any field, if you’re genuinely interested in the field, you will be aware of people who you consider to be better than you. Even if it’s a highly subjective
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by LeonB 2y ago
This is a really good question and I’m not qualified to answer it, other than to say “it can be done!” Alan Kay is an example of someone who has a great intuition for answering this kind of question. My general opinion is that a great coach
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by LeonB 2y ago
(Minor correction, the plugin is called ‘dark night’)
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by LeonB 2y ago
I’m not sure if that’s fixed, it seems pretty much “by design”, with the way the editor (in the browser) selects the “current query” for you.
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by LeonB 2y ago
Good question, I don’t know i’ve only used it for querying. For SQL to Have a good/improved syntax for insert/update/delete/merge would be very nice (in theory)
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by LeonB 2y ago
I don’t think the formulas are rendered in reader view. (iOS Safari) In the browser (iOS Safari) I use an extension (dark reader) to give it a dark theme, and the formulas render just fine there.
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by LeonB 2y ago
Yeh, when I saw the example above I thought it was KQL. But they do sort of acknowledge it in the paper. Eg on the first page it says: > …we present a solution – adding pipe-structured data flow syntax to SQL. This makes SQL more flexibl

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