NateEag

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   by NateEag 4y ago

   Sorry, I was really vague there. If you run syncthing on your mobile device, you could make edits to a local copy of your plain-text content, and have those edits auto-committed/rendered/synced when they hit a computer housing the
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   by NateEag 4y ago

   > Even with SSG set up, having to be on the computer to create a draft, or make a quick correction, is really a bother. I think you might be able to solve this with Syncthing and a watch process on your syncthing server. Commit and rende
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   by NateEag 4y ago

   John Taylor Gatto was an award-winning public schoolteacher who more-or-less agreed with this sentiment. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Taylor_Gatto
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   by NateEag 4y ago

   Some of us do, though. Vespucci is a really handy Android app for making contributions to OSM, but it's hard to use without knowing something about the tagging conventions.
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   by NateEag 4y ago

   This reminds me of Hamming's "You And Your Research" speech, specifically what he said about open vs closed doors: "If you work with the door closed, you won't be interrupted - you get your work done. You work with
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   by NateEag 4y ago

   this reminds me vaguely of the "soul growth" concept, the idea that the universe is a place for beings to grow by means of struggle and trial. Shows up in Christian Orthodox theology, IIRC.
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   by NateEag 4y ago

   If the government committed to the project being OSS, they might be able to recruit some reasonably skilled programmers.
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   by NateEag 4y ago

   I strongly disagree that there's a startup opportunity in Google's relatively poor search performance. Obsessive programmers like myself really want a search engine that does better and helps us find the weird corners of the web.
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   by NateEag 4y ago

   I think that they have no other option than to assume that human observations are at least reliable enough to work with, even if sometimes they go a little crazy. I think that's actually why they focus on reproducibility - that's
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    by NateEag 4y ago

    My impression has been that such people are precisely assuming that their sober perception is not reliable, and that's how they discount all reports and even personal experiences of the supernatural. As one who's had a few encount
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    by NateEag 4y ago

    > It's also probably not even going to be seeing a ghost or something that makes you drop an atheistic, nonspiritual worldview. I have seen testimonies from more than one skeptic / atheist who witnessed something they "hav
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    by NateEag 4y ago

    You, too, can be considered a bundle of cells. A bigger bundle, but still a bundle. Sure, you don't need a womb to survive, but you still need a pretty specialized environment. See all the concerns about global warming - mangle our en
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    by NateEag 4y ago

    For many, many parents, losing an unborn kid to a miscarriage is a tragedy, too. Not as hard as losing a one-year-old, I'm pretty sure, but also not just a blip.
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    by NateEag 4y ago

    Oh, gotcha. I've not used Terraform yet. Yes, if that's the case, then TXT records could easily be unsuitable. Depends exactly what metadata needs to be attached to your DNS records.
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    by NateEag 4y ago

    I guess that's not ideal, though I'm not clear what attack surface area is increased by storing creation/ deletion metadata in public. I guess it lets an attacker know that you're using Terraform, which might help them t
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    by NateEag 4y ago

    You can have multiple TXT records for a given domain name, so it would be possible to store an arbitrary amount of metadata for whatever systems you desire, and just loop through the TXT records to figure out which ones are for the current
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    by NateEag 4y ago

    That's what TXT records are for: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/TXT_record
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    by NateEag 4y ago

    They may not be meant to kill, but they are clearly designed to kill. They have the same essential design as most low-caliber rifles that are explicitly designed for hunting - i.e., designed for killing. That design came from centuries
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    by NateEag 4y ago

    > No, guns aren’t exclusively designed to kill. Um... I know you can shoot targets with them, but that doesn't seem like the principal use. What else do you think a gun is designed to do, beyond killing things?
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    by NateEag 4y ago

    Sure - you can't shoot people (with bullets) if you don't have a firearm. What gun control proponents miss about the US is that we literally have more guns than people. I don't know of a feasible way to take even a meaningfu
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    by NateEag 4y ago

    Almost the fundamental proposition of the USA's governmental system is that some options should never be on the table.
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    by NateEag 4y ago

    I've wanted something that merges the 3D martial arts combat of Bungie's old game Oni with the freerunning environmental exploration of Mirror's Edg3. Bonus points for multiplayer mode, hand-to-hand weapons, and just a little
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    by NateEag 4y ago

    To a certain extent, serverless actually delivers on the "No sysadmins required" promise that EC2 doesn't really enable (someone still has to manage your EC2 herd's configuration, even if you call that person a "dev
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    by NateEag 4y ago

    > It is still statistical. You still want to predict a distribution over expected next token. The fact that a process can be described statistically does not make the process itself statistical.
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    by NateEag 4y ago

    Yep, that all makes sense. FWIW, I agree we can do better than leetcode. I'm personally a fan of an approach I saw someone else describe here, where you literally have the candidate do a few-hours freelance gig for you, paid at a decen
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    by NateEag 4y ago

    I was more thinking of scripts, yeah, like you describe. Where I get hung up is, if I need to keep the traditional syntaxes in my head for scripting, why bother storing another one in my head for interactive use? ...that said, I do use ag a
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    by NateEag 4y ago

    > I've been 10 years in the industry. If recruiter tells me I need to prepare for an interview in ways other than looking back at the projects I've done, then the interview is not testing for what is important on the job. Some
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    by NateEag 4y ago

    I want to love fd - I'm a big believer in the idea that CLIs don't have to be scary, intimidating things (see normals using Slack with /commands and keyboard shortcuts), and find has a gigantic hairball of a UI. The thing i
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    by NateEag 4y ago

    Thank you for choosing to maintain your artistic integrity. You made a good choice and I'm glad to read your story.
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    by NateEag 4y ago

    Thanks for this. I really like that 1,000 weekends number - it's a clear, concrete reminder of the finite time I get with my kids.