TehShrike

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by TehShrike 2y ago
Yeah, probably. What I mean to imply is that it is an issue that is naturally fixed by improved development, and that fixing does require development skill, but the organization can hamstring their developers to prevent them fixing the issu
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by TehShrike 2y ago
Another way to say: for most software jobs, customer-facing downtime is downstream of a development skill issue that can+should be fixed. Some (many?) employers make this difficult, and you should try to leave them.
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by TehShrike 2y ago
If you work a job where having one of these incidents once a year or more is "normal" then the dev team needs to devote most of its time to fixing that, or you need to change employers.
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by TehShrike 2y ago
Some blogs only make themselves accessible via email. This service is a way to get those blog posts in your feed reader.
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by TehShrike 2y ago
I agree with the article, but I think there's a greater principle here that it misses – UI that obscures other UI is bad UX. It's a lazy cop-out to avoid having to figure out how to integrate important elements into the design of
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by TehShrike 2y ago
For sure. Ideally you should be able to talk with them at depth about schema design.
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by TehShrike 2y ago
I'm not sure they necessarily need to know it cold at the start, but they do need to have access to someone who knows the business cold, and they need to care a lot and be willing to dive into the business details.
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by TehShrike 2y ago
If it gave them enough extra data to sell, yes? I don't think Sony or Samsung would be paying consumer prices for cheap low-end cell chips or bulk low-bandwidth data plans.
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by TehShrike 2y ago
I'll echo what other people are saying, that you should just not connect the smart tv to your wifi, but I am nervous about smart TVs that ship with cell chips to connect to the manufacturer's servers when people don't hook th
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by TehShrike 2y ago
I find that most developers' "good enough" is very poor
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by TehShrike 2y ago
I wonder if it would feel less annoying if the majority of the text was a bit higher contrast
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by TehShrike 2y ago
> worked with groups spearheading a campaign to pass so-called “anti-BDS” state laws What kind of groups did they work with? What kind of work did they do with them? For all I know they're funneling money to non-profits owned by f
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by TehShrike 2y ago
I read about half the article before giving up, but is there any information what Israeli officials actually did to shape US discourse? Besides having meetings.
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by TehShrike 2y ago
I particularly liked this part: > Knowing very little about USB audio processing, but having cut my teeth in college on 8-bit 8051 processors, I knew what kind of functions tended to be slow. I did a Ctrl+F for “%” and found a 16-bit mod
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by TehShrike 2y ago
It seems like the main source is a documentary-type video about the study, rather than any of the published follow-ups with the kids. A summary of a summary. You can find the follow-up papers here: https://my.vanderbilt.edu&#x2F
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by TehShrike 2y ago
I'm curious to see the output. Most of the time I specifically avoid using the SDK published by the API provider because it's thousands of lines of code when all I need is ten lines wrapping fetch.
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by TehShrike 2y ago
I've seen codebases that were consistent in e.g. copy/pasting a meaningless comment into the top of every file. This did not make the team better at shipping something useful. Consistency is bullshit if it doesn't help you sh
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by TehShrike 2y ago
I agree. "Shipping" means "shipping over time", i.e. maintaining for 10+ years
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by TehShrike 2y ago
What did you remember about the birth of your sister?
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by TehShrike 2y ago
Yeah, they were mostly for eggs and pest control, most of them lived 2+ years. They didn't make the best meat to be honest
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by TehShrike 2y ago
We raised chickens when I was a kid. They had a pretty good life, plenty of room to roam plus I fed them every day. When their time came, we gave them a quick painless death. No regrets
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by TehShrike 2y ago
"consistency" isn't beneficial unless it makes you better at shipping something useful
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by TehShrike 2y ago
I've observed this as well. People who believe in evolution can't seem to stop themselves from using "intelligent design" language to anthropomorphize evolution.
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by TehShrike 3y ago
> One way to enhance the usability of unique identifiers is by making them easily copyable. No matter what your identifiers look like, if you want them to be easily copyable you should add `user-select: all` to the element containing the
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Fertility Roundup #3(thezvi.substack.com)
2 points by TehShrike 3y ago|0 comments
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by TehShrike 3y ago
I'm currently paying Raindrop.io 28$/year. I would easily pay 100$/year for a good bookmarking service that archives the pages that I bookmark (which Raindrop is doing well for me right now).
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by TehShrike 3y ago
How is it significantly different than what happens when banks invest money that is left in checking/savings accounts?
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by TehShrike 3y ago
How would that be different from the people who buy the S&P500 instead of spending their money and generating economic activity?
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by TehShrike 3y ago
I don't know why you wouldn't ascribe the last decade of China's fist-tightening to Xi, unless you think that all autocrats must inevitably behave so. Xi could have left the country quasi-free, but he didn't. If you&#x2
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by TehShrike 3y ago
> In August, a man rode a Jet Ski, loaded with extra fuel, nearly two hundred miles to South Korea. According to rights activists, he had served time in prison for wearing a T-shirt that called China’s leader “Xitler.” Badass. I hope he

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