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by alex-moon 1y ago
It's amazing to see this on the front page of HN as it came up in a discussion with my partner early in our relationship. I was saying something about how a lot of people don't understand the robustness of peer review and replicat
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by alex-moon 1y ago
Big big fan of dwm, but this wasn't mature when I tried it. I switched to Hyprland and I have to say it has many improvements over dwm.
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by alex-moon 1y ago
Since no-one else has mentioned it so far, I wanted to say I appreciated the big warning at the top. As someone who has struggled with (and overcome!) alcohol dependency in the past, having a big reminder that literally says "You shoul
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by alex-moon 1y ago
I think this is a really good way to think of it actually. My business partner and I often have this back and forth: "Do you want this done the right way or the fast way?" Most often we do a "happy medium" between the tw
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by alex-moon 1y ago
I live in Newcastle and it's great to see Newcastle Uni in the news. Bobby McFarland is an international authority on paediatric neurology and of course mitochondrial medicine - he is also a truly lovely guy and intimidatingly smart. E
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by alex-moon 1y ago
Woah thanks for all the comments everyone! To answer a recurring question: this is to prevent things from being called from bemenu (and its ilk) - definitely could have made that clearer in the README. Hopefully that clears up a lot of thin
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When is tech not hype? Tulips, toilets, trains and tabs(ajmoon.com)
68 points by alex-moon 1y ago|55 comments
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Self-imposed ban – a lightweight bash script to block commands(github.com)
34 points by alex-moon 1y ago|36 comments
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by alex-moon 1y ago
Here's the thing: I don't think ChatGPT per se was the impetus to develop this new feature. The impetus was learning that your customers desire it. ChatGPT is operating as the kind of "market research" tool here, albeit
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by alex-moon 1y ago
I'm a sucker for these kinds of discussions. Evolution is way messier than you think it is, and evolutionary biologists get really heated about clades vs grades and so on and so forth. For fun, spend some time on the r/evolution a
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by alex-moon 1y ago
I'm inclined to agree on Blockchain myself. I'd happily be proven wrong, I just think there was no conceivable "ecosystem" that would make it useful.
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by alex-moon 1y ago
I always say this whenever anyone asks about whether something is "just hype". One day I will write a blog post on it. Long story short: every piece of new tech is "just hype" until the surrounding ecosystem is built for
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SDMAs: Be playing browser games at work(ajmoon.com)
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by alex-moon 1y ago
The wall is training data. An AI can't produce its own training data because an AI can't be smarter than its own training data. This is a well known regression problem and one I personally believe is not solvable. (A softer assert
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by alex-moon 1y ago
Hence "community energy" - you do it with your neighbours - this model has worked in Scotland before - https://www.resilience.org/stories/2019-07-16/rebel-cities-t... - here is one from earlier this year
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by alex-moon 1y ago
Having done some work around net zero policy I am increasingly convinced that this is the way forward, and indeed that this will be the way things are done normally maybe 10-20 years from now. The concept is called "distributed generat
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by alex-moon 2y ago
> The UI is ugly, to say the least. I actually quite like it. Really clean, easy to see all the important elements. Lovely clear legible monospace serif font.
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by alex-moon 2y ago
I've been watching this dev build in "public" (on Discord) for nearly a year now and it's great to see the final product finally launch. If you've played Slow Roads before, and enjoyed the concept, you might like th
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Slow Roads 2.0(slowroads.io)
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by alex-moon 2y ago
It's got to the point where I now don't buy anything off Amazon because I believe that if I give them any CC details they will try and charge me for AWS services I'm not using. You think I'm joking.
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by alex-moon 2y ago
Honestly working as a back-end Web dev is kind of a dream job just because you have these stack apps that are super fast, super stable and do exactly what they say they do. Nginx and PostgreSQL are typical examples, and I consider Redis one
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by alex-moon 2y ago
I love this video for a number of reasons besides just general coolness. Specifically, the problem of the excess voltage caused by the oxide "skin" - and its solution (whack some fat resistors in there) - demonstrates a few really
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by alex-moon 2y ago
A friend of a friend is a forensic linguist. It's her party trick! When she meets someone for the first time she'll chat to them for a bit then suddenly say where they're from. She can often get it down to the individual subu
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by alex-moon 2y ago
The idea of software being eternal is rubbish, not least because software isn't its code but its "identity" which comes down entirely to the actual use of language (including all the branding and marketing, all the live demos
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by alex-moon 2y ago
This was also the premise of the 2013 film Gravity starring Sandra Bullock and George Clooney. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gravity_(2013_film)#Plot
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by alex-moon 2y ago
To be fair to the author, I actually think desktop icons is a problem that no desktop manager has ever solved, and I think the reason is because it's not solvable in a user friendly way. The problem is that desktop icon arrangement can
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by alex-moon 2y ago
Oh wow I get it now - this is the proto-yo-yo. When I was a teenager a toy called the "yoho diabolo" had its moment in the sun as the must-have of the day. Of course, diabolos are much older than that - "yoho" was presum
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by alex-moon 2y ago
Except when doing personal projects for fun! Indeed, this is imho the number one reason (tied with a couple of others e.g. mental health) to do personal coding projects in the first place: it is a safe space to give those shiny new tech toy
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by alex-moon 2y ago
The title is deliberately provocative but if I'm reading this article right it seems to push an argument that I've made for ages in the context of my own business, and which I think - as the article itself suggests - actually repr
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by alex-moon 2y ago
As someone with a Philosophy BA and a keen but very amateur interest in copyright law, this development fascinates me and I desperately want to understand it. Can anyone give me an example of where this fallacy would lead to unfairly issuin

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