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by adamesque 3y ago
Regulation isn’t perfect but it can do a lot to prevent the worst outcomes.
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by adamesque 3y ago
He used to be but I think he left to do this EpicWeb thing.
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by adamesque 3y ago
Yeah, Nick Lutsko is super super funny and a very talented musician. That’s hard to replicate.
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by adamesque 3y ago
I’m in a very similar position and it has been very challenging finding good resources — most feel like the “now draw the rest of the owl” meme after explaining how the pieces move. I’ve been enjoying the Dr Wolf app, which mixes lessons, a
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by adamesque 3y ago
The reason Vercel was selected for this privilege is pretty simple, to my understanding: they volunteered and committed engineering resources to partner with the React team to work through a pretty major and experimental new API with a lot
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by adamesque 3y ago
Oof. I tried to make it through the first season and don’t think I’d put “new ideas” near the top of my list of descriptors. But I get that many people are enjoying it.
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by adamesque 3y ago
I’m curious what part of Silo reminds you of B5?
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by adamesque 3y ago
“Tech” is very broad but it’s still a field where the impact of a single individual’s effort scales disproportionately, because for the most part it’s all 1s and 0s over a wire. That’s fundamentally why tech salaries are high imo.
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by adamesque 3y ago
We absolutely do not. We have a responsibility to seek out the truth and act in the interest of the common good. Quite often this means NOT strongly or blindly advocating our own opinions when our knowledge is incomplete or motivated by sel
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by adamesque 3y ago
Humans also typically pay up-front for the content that inspires them and assimilate it over the long course of their natural lives, and are constrained in overall output. Mechanizing that process so that it can be wielded at scale and auto
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by adamesque 3y ago
It’s actually usually the paying customers asking via support to be added to the holdback, improved experience or no. This is more true for larger flags that substantially change the experience and may not implement niche or edge-case funct
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by adamesque 3y ago
As a long(ish)time Mimestream beta user (1.5 years) I paid up for a year pretty much instantly. I totally get why some folks are unhappy with how quickly they're expiring the beta builds (and with how little formal notice), and think t
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by adamesque 3y ago
It’s really tempting to see the success of something you don’t understand or value as “marketing” or “mass psychology” but I suspect that path doesn’t usually lead to any interesting or useful insight.
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by adamesque 4y ago
https://percy.io/ , https://www.chromatic.com/features/test A few off the top of my head. Many e2e testing tools can capture and compare screenshots but I think to be maximally effective (and minimally
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by adamesque 4y ago
I think people are increasingly uncomfortable seeing the price for strategic errors not being paid at all by the people responsible for those errors. It's tricky because I don't necessarily think the CEO should be fired, but it fe
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by adamesque 4y ago
I'm vaccinated and boosted (but never got the Omicron booster this fall). On day 6 of my first COVID-positive infection and while I never lost my sense of smell, I had a super high fever (104ºF-ish) and awful headache for 2-3 days, and
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by adamesque 4y ago
On day 6 of my first time.
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by adamesque 4y ago
They do explicitly discuss how the feature might work on other platforms (aka Mac OS and Linux), and have published a spec, which is also an interesting read: https://wicg.github.io/window-controls-overlay/
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by adamesque 4y ago
Context is so important. If the expected response to "what would it take to get this done twice/10x as quickly" is "We shall work twice/10x hours or add equivalent headcount", then you have a serious context pr
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by adamesque 4y ago
This is kind of a wild take. Estimates should be reviewed like anything else on a team, and if the estimate doesn’t fit the timeline, the team should try to either split up / parallelize the work, drop scope, or look for a creative sol
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by adamesque 4y ago
My favorite way for a core loop to become richer over time is when the loop has a very high skill ceiling the player can move through in a semi-controlled way. For multiplayer games, this means good matchmaking, but for other games this is
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by adamesque 4y ago
As pointed out in other comments, this article doesn't discuss the fundamental prerequisite for replayability, which is to build a core loop that is fun and rewarding. The fact that there are so many definitions of "rewarding&quot
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by adamesque 4y ago
Parent says that California is their home state. Some people are okay with leaving home but many, many people like to stay close, even if that happens to be a HCOL place. I dunno, a little sympathy goes a long way.
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by adamesque 4y ago
Sparklehorse's Mark Linkous permanently damaged his legs and almost died after passing out / ODing overnight with his legs folded beneath him. https://pitchfork.com/features/article/9745-the-sad-and-beau.
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by adamesque 4y ago
> In the original 1937 edition of "The Hobbit" Gollum was genuinely willing to bet his ring on the riddle game, the deal being that Bilbo would receive a "present" if he won. Gollum in fact was dismayed when he couldn
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by adamesque 4y ago
This isn't quite the right analogy; it's not the difference between a fancy tool you can't service yourself and a simple tool you can. It's like a world where everyone uses a particular kind of tool that works well and i
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by adamesque 4y ago
I believe Sourcegraph uses Comby under the hood to an extent for structural matching as well!
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by adamesque 4y ago
I mean, if that's not evidence he deeply understands Twitter then I'm not sure what is.
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by adamesque 5y ago
My early pandemic project was to record live covers & re-arrangements of the entire Pet Sounds album on instagram, and when I got to God Only Knows I was stunned. I’d learned the verse & chorus chord progressions and things were goi
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by adamesque 5y ago
Objectives and Key Results. The things you choose to optimize for during any given planning period.

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