RussianCow

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by RussianCow 9mo ago
I highly doubt it. Most people are in rooms with bad acoustics to begin with.
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by RussianCow 9mo ago
This is also true of heating and cooling, and I've never understood why we (in the US) build relatively dense housing communities but don't implement things like this. Having a separate air conditioner for each home, especially in
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by RussianCow 9mo ago
Not everyone lives in an area where they can afford not to have one, especially with climates changing and temperatures hitting higher/lower extremes.
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by RussianCow 9mo ago
Maybe your exercise can be to direct your thoughts elsewhere. Start with 5 minutes instead of 30 and actively try to think about something else when your thoughts become too negative. I can't guarantee it will help you but it's a
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by RussianCow 10mo ago
You say awesome, I say layers upon layers of opaque incantations I have to remember. Thank god for LLMs.
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by RussianCow 10mo ago
This was happening well before LLMs, though. If anything, I have hope that LLMs might break some people out of their echo chambers if they ask things like "do vaccines cause autism?"
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by RussianCow 10mo ago
The problem is human, not technical. Companies and managers need to start caring about the details instead of crossing items off a list. Until we see that culture shift in the industry, which might never happen, AI isn't going to help—
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by RussianCow 11mo ago
I think the point is that other languages make guarantees that ensure you don't have to do any runtime checking. In TypeScript, it's far too easy (and sometimes inevitable) to override the type checker, so some poor function fur
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by RussianCow 11mo ago
This. I use Linux as my primary OS (with KDE) and my main complaint, by far, is the email/calendar situation. Mail.app simultaneously just works and gets out of my way, and I haven't seen a Linux email client come close to repli
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by RussianCow 11mo ago
But way more difficult and with a much higher attack surface area. And also, it's not necessarily apples to apples. It would be nice to be able to drop a compiled WASM module into your codebase and use it from just about any language o
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by RussianCow 1y ago
Moreover, it's trivial to run several LLMs side-by-side for a while and measure the success of each, then migrate to the one that performs the best. And you can even migrate in-progress chats since all the context is passed on each cal
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by RussianCow 1y ago
The US average hasn't been that low in a few years; according to [0] it's 17.47¢/kWh, and significantly higher in some parts of the country (40+ in Hawaii). And the US has low energy costs relative to most of the rest of the
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by RussianCow 1y ago
The browser removes the friction of needing to install specialized software locally, which is HUGE when you want people to actually use your software. Figma would have been dead in the water if it wasn't stupidly simple to share a desi
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by RussianCow 1y ago
The same logic you used for runtimes also applies to libraries. Vulnerabilities are found in popular JS libraries all the time. The surface area is, of course, smaller than that of a runtime like Node.js, but there is still lots of potentia
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by RussianCow 1y ago
React was actually pretty simple in the early days. It's gotten significantly more complex because of hooks, suspense, SSR, and other features they've introduced more recently. But I would still take modern React over AngularJS 1
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by RussianCow 1y ago
This. React was incredibly innovative at a time where the alternatives were some combination of: * Two-way data binding spaghetti * Boilerplate-heavy reactivity * Opaque, framework-specific magic * Manual state updates/transitions Reac
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by RussianCow 1y ago
This has happened to me more times than I can count, and it's extremely frustrating because it teaches people the wrong lesson. The worst part is they often get defensive when you refuse to cooperate, which just makes the whole thing u
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by RussianCow 1y ago
Ironically, I used JetBrains products for years before switching to VS Code because the latter felt so much faster. So it definitely depends on what you're used to. Zed feels significantly faster than VS Code, but it also doesn't
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by RussianCow 1y ago
> but honestly I don’t see why providers don’t compete at all here Because the types of customers that make them the most money don't care about any of this stuff. They'll happily pay whatever AWS (or other cloud provider) char
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by RussianCow 1y ago
> Not to mention you'll have to be in the business of defining, updating and managing the schema, ensuring that upgrades to the db don't break the application servers, etc, etc. I have to do this already with practically all so
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by RussianCow 1y ago
You can do all of that without a proxy. Just store the current state in your database or a Redis instance.
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by RussianCow 1y ago
It's simpler than that. People often don't know what they want until they're actually presented with the buying decision. Economists call this stated vs revealed preferences and it's a well documented and understood phen
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by RussianCow 1y ago
Isn't Fastmail basically the only one? What other well known provider supports JMAP?
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by RussianCow 1y ago
> blaming the services for putting that term in the contract and obligating you to do it. I think you're vastly overestimating customers' willingness to listen and care about whose fault it is. In practice, if Netflix (or whate
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by RussianCow 1y ago
> I've noticed a notable performance penalty (around 10%, even higher on GPU heavy games) when running games with Proton, which is mainly why I haven't dropped Windows yet. I don't mean to dismiss your comment at all, but
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by RussianCow 1y ago
> This is how we should view optional services that require us to give our PII data in exchange for hours of attention-grabbing content. This is a nice fantasy, but realistically it means you shouldn't use probably 90% of services o
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by RussianCow 1y ago
> Blindly trusting these models without any verification will put innocent people in prison. I don't think anybody is suggesting this. But if the models can gleam information/insights that humans can't, that's still v
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by RussianCow 1y ago
The problem is that there are so many free fonts that most people take them for granted. And honestly, I don't blame most folks for thinking that way because there isn't a good reason for the average person to pay for a font. If
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by RussianCow 1y ago
[citation needed] In my experience, even simple CRUD apps generally have some domain-specific intricacies or edge cases that take some amount of experimentation to get right.
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by RussianCow 1y ago
LLMs are still very young. We'll get there in time. I don't see how it's any different than optimizing for new CPU/GPU architectures other than the fact that the latter is now a decades-old practice.

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