Swizec

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by Swizec 3y ago
Facebook had that 12+ hour outage last year. Meltdowns like this often lead to cascading failures followed by queues so full of stuff you immediately die when trying to come back. There’s bound to be lots of very stressed engineers at Squar
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by Swizec 3y ago
> He relishes the idea of me not reminding him, and even though it's just taking out the trash—he likes the idea of "owning" it Kudos to you. The worst part of owning chores like trash and dishwasher stuff as a teenager wa
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by Swizec 3y ago
If you go to so many meetings that you can't remember what happened, you need to stop hoarding your legos and focus. Let others take some of the responsibility. Delegate. But, like, actually delegate. Let others make decisions. Trust
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by Swizec 3y ago
Here's a couple articles from spending a few hours with LLMs. You can write programs in markdown, it's a lot like literate programming that Knuth envisioned. I've been using this technique a lot for side projects lately --&gt
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by Swizec 3y ago
> I would think this would make your writing more "boring“ As a fellow iA Writer enthusiast – it makes your writing less boring because it nudges you to get rid of filler. for example: “Usually you can just remove some words that
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by Swizec 3y ago
“this bottle of water is gluten free, vegan friendly, vegetarian, keto friendly, paleo friendly, lactose free, and has zero calories” Yeah no shit … reminds me of ye olde xkcd about asbestos-free cereal: https://xkcd.com/641
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by Swizec 3y ago
> But there is not such thing as a "cookie banner law" A law that leads to cookie banners -> cookie banner law. We all know exactly what I meant. But yes on my personal site I solved the problem by not tracking visitors beca
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by Swizec 3y ago
> I avoid to click anything about cookies' authorisation, i.e. if a page present that kind of requests I immediately close the page itself. At the and, I verified that cookies are presente on browser's storage I have recently
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by Swizec 3y ago
That’s the fun part! You don’t notice it’s a problem until you pair with someone who can’t type fast or makes a lot of typing errors and you want to bang your face through the screen because it’s so frustrating to watch them struggle. They
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by Swizec 3y ago
> I’m in software, like a lot of people here, so being able to type in speed is rarely the limiting factor I think of typing speed in coding the same way I think of cardio in boxing – it won’t win you the round, but the lack of it can ea
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by Swizec 3y ago
Obviously the universe is a giant computer. We’re calculating the question to 42. There’s a whole documentary about this!
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by Swizec 3y ago
Every flakey test is a production failure that really happens to some users sometimes. How often is just a matter of scale. A 1 in 10,000 failure can be a daily annoyance for your users even with just 100 daily active users who each make 10
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by Swizec 3y ago
I need straws to deal with American ice servings. Almost impossible to drink without a straw. Of course you don’t need straws at home unless you have special needs, because your glass is full of drink not ice with a splash of drink.
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by Swizec 3y ago
> I’m not even 35 and I’m still a tad shy of 20 years professional experience but I already feel like a greybeard 35 here, started coding when I was 9. Even got into web pre-jquery. Yes things take longer now. Yeah we need different ways
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by Swizec 3y ago
> hungry and tired people make more mistakes This is true. But even non hungry rested people make more mistakes when they underestimate a task. Which is what happens when you attempt a hard skill with a “eh this is the easy part” attitud
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by Swizec 3y ago
> then do something dumb for the easy part that follows. Happens all the time An old rule I learned doing extreme sports in high school: Never say "just one more". That's when you get hurt. I don't think you need ego
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by Swizec 3y ago
> I have to question how "surprising" the significance of dirt composition is It's surprising to people who have never thought about it before. So about 99.9% of the population. And if you disagree with that characterizati
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by Swizec 3y ago
Yep I disable notifications on all of those. Especially food delivery and taxicab apps where notifications would be super useful. App companies need to understand that my life does not revolve around their app. It’s a tool that I don’t wa
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by Swizec 3y ago
My policy since early high school has been "The best time to call is text me". Started using DnD with my first iPhone (v4). Best decision ever. Lately I've started fully disabling notifications on apps that abuse the privileg
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by Swizec 3y ago
I’m saying it is not a given that apartments are noisy and it’s not a given that houses are quiet. As you say, it depends on soundproofing not on the form of housing.
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by Swizec 3y ago
Modern buildings can be surprisingly sound proof. I’ve seen apartments where you close the window overlooking a busy street at rush hour and it’s complete silence inside. And I’ve lived in detached suburban houses where you can hear your ne
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by Swizec 3y ago
Nah detached houses with yards are the worst of both worlds. You get neither the easily accessible town/city experience nor enough land to do anything interesting with. But I’m probably biased because I grew up in a city and regularly
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by Swizec 3y ago
> Another nice trend is street level shops and restaurants mixed with housing above FYI this is how most non-american towns and cities have been designed for … ever? Go into any European old town center and it’s full of street level shop
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by Swizec 3y ago
> It also requires staring into a bright light, so don't do that. I have astigmatism. Most modern headlights produce lens flares when driving at night. Street and traffic lights also. Doesn’t need to be harmfully bright to flare, ju
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by Swizec 3y ago
Visual Thinking is a great book that goes more into this. Yes it’s a spectrum and different modes of thinking are better for different tasks. The author of Visual Thinking describes 3 types: linear language thinking, abstract visualizer thi
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by Swizec 3y ago
> it's pretty difficult to have a thought without using language You get to be today’s 10,000! (xkcd reference) Not everyone has an internal monologue ! 50% to 60% people experience their thoughts completely nonverbally. There isn’
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by Swizec 3y ago
> so long as you accept that you are only slightly reducing the chaos and randomness Life is not chess, it's poker. Gently putting your thumb on the scales is the best we can do. Certainty is an illusion, only probabilities are real
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by Swizec 3y ago
> It seems this is one of the situations where just focusing on the immediate area around you is faulty. I got to see two Cruises interact with emergency vehicles last week! It was fascinating. The ambulance was on a serious mission. Lig
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by Swizec 3y ago
> which rewards attention Hence my thought that this is a quirk of human nature. We give attention to the wrong things. All ad-based media suffers from this problem. Twitter’s algorithm is but a reflection of our revealed preferences. It
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by Swizec 3y ago
As a long-time enjoyer and early promoter of social media, I disagree with your translation. The real problem is that either due to algorithms or some inherent quirk of human nature, global public social media has become awful . Let me cha

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