abraxas

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by abraxas 6y ago
The cow farts are just a single issue with raising them for consumption. The bigger issue is a very poor calorie conversion. We have to use a lot more energy in food production when we consume beef rather than consuming the plant inputs dir
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by abraxas 6y ago
Prisma ORM. It's an ORM done right and makes storing in an RDBMS fun and convenient
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by abraxas 6y ago
The article doesn't delve into the problems for people who speak English as a foreign language. I believe there is a lot more discrimination going on there versus two different dialects of English spoken by native speakers.
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by abraxas 6y ago
I doubt that. People who are ultra rich use money as a proxy for power, influence and status. In a post scarcity world money likely won't be a great way to attain status so the hope is that status will be obtained through other means l
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by abraxas 6y ago
This is akin to everyone’s dream to start a cozy, atmospheric coffee shop. These types of coffee bars fold very quickly or at best give founders years of servitude below minimum wage. The reason is that the type of behaviour this kind of es
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by abraxas 6y ago
Yes, yes that is exactly what they will do. Shareholders and lobbyists be damned.
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by abraxas 6y ago
I used to have FU money. Now I don't. Well, not entirely true - I still do but the lifestyle creep has snuck up on me as I wasn't deliberate in my spending. Made a couple of bad decisions like building a second home in a country w
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by abraxas 6y ago
This was solved in 1995 with WikiWikiWeb. Not sure why the bi directional links did not become more of a standard.
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by abraxas 6y ago
Yes, the inflation of ratings has been ridiculous. It's meaningless even in supposedly heavily guarded services like Audible. Just about every audio book is 4.3 stars out of 5 or higher. I just use what's behind the fractional num
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by abraxas 6y ago
Yeah, the "everything service" mentality is getting a little out of hand. The most recent, egregious example I heard of is the "language server" in VS Code. What used to be a plugin/library functionality has now bee
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by abraxas 6y ago
Icons are a bad idea. Words for short commands work better. In the olden days some UIs let you hide icon images and display the alt text instead. Those were very good UIs.
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by abraxas 6y ago
The machines are from mediocristan while the lawyers are from extremistan[1][2] So yeah, your professor compared apples and oranges. 1. https://people.wou.edu/~shawd/mediocristan--extremistan.html 2. https:/&#x2F
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by abraxas 6y ago
Sure. Check out the tutorial that has remained pretty much the same since I used it to learn FLTK + GL 23 years ago: https://www.fltk.org/doc-1.3/fluid.html You pretty much draw the UI in fluid and fill out the callbac
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by abraxas 6y ago
Yeah, no. First, all those things sans high DPI functionality existed in 1998. Second, most of Electron apps don't benefit from these theoretical advancements. Preemptive multitasking existed in 1998 and worked every bit as well as it
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by abraxas 6y ago
I wrote 3D visualization apps in 1998 using FLTK and OpenGL and the (statically linked) binary was less than 20 MB. I think my desktop had all of 64MB of RAM. It was snappier than a modern TODO app on Electron and far, far easier to write.
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by abraxas 6y ago
I also took that course. It might be a bit due to my less than stellar math background but mostly due to the way Geoff explains stuff that I had a really hard time keeping up. I ended up giving up and not bothering with deep learning and ne
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by abraxas 6y ago
> No, big companies are not inherently evil. No they aren't. They are mostly amoral. Meaning they aren't inherently moral or immoral. They just act in accordance with their main directive which is to make the largest possible p
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by abraxas 6y ago
So, what are your experiences?
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by abraxas 6y ago
Yes, it's part this and part "let's get rid of the noisy neighbour issue by making everyone whisper" design philosphy. This just arrogantly pushes the scaling challenges back down to the customers who are then forced to
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by abraxas 6y ago
So does AWS. For just messaging there is SQS, SNS, Amazon MQ, Event Bridge, Kinesis, MSK and probably a couple more tied to product families like IoT and video streaming.
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by abraxas 6y ago
If I had a dime for every time I see a convoluted architecture in our code that only exists due to the arbitrary hard limits in AWS I'd be able to quit and never again worry about arbitrary AWS limits.
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by abraxas 6y ago
Yeah the best dice thrower, coin flipper on the block. Until he isn't.
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by abraxas 6y ago
Any reason you forged your own versus adopting Svelte or Alpine? As a fellow React hater I'd love your take on those lighter frameworks.
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by abraxas 6y ago
Typescript + NodeJS + React + Server Side Rendering yeah... I love my young colleagues, I really do. I enjoy their infectious enthusiasm and only quietly discreetly in the secrecy of my mind recall how we built strongly typed JSP sites that
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by abraxas 6y ago
Yeah, this is an excellent idea. The trouble with Netlify is that the moment you outgrow their walled garden you're destined to complect your architecture with other cloud services anyway. Might as well start off with a rich ecosystem
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by abraxas 6y ago
I have a nine year old who still gets tucked in every night and I spend half an hour by his bedside every night listening to audiobook stories or just talking about his day. He was never a good sleeper. Since birth he needed human contact t
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by abraxas 6y ago
Lots of people have anxiety about their head shape. I know I do. I'm not looking forward to the time when I have to buzz cut my hair. There is definitely a lot of flatness on the back of my head.
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by abraxas 6y ago
Reminds me of that time in the 90's when Matthew Smith of the Manic Miner/Jet Set Willy fame went "missing". Unfortunately his life story post JSW wasn't a happy one as he spent most years in the throes of drug addi
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by abraxas 6y ago
I think the focus on privacy might be the new face of Apple that will redefine it for the post Jobs era
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by abraxas 6y ago
it was easy to reason about. It was basically a canvas and UI components wired with callbacks. It didn't have the state management stuff of Redux but it was dead simple to reason about anyway despite everyone rolling out their own &quo

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