allyourhorses

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by allyourhorses 5y ago
Prior to this model, protein folding hadn't seen significant advancements in a decade or more. Worrying about the lack of tests in a first of its kind model is very much akin to complaining about the choice of font in a user manual for
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by allyourhorses 5y ago
Parent comment is classical old guard mentality Googler who thinks if something sounds big and impressive it automatically is big and impressive. It was a marketing trick that weirdly infected employees throughout the org, glad to see here
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by allyourhorses 5y ago
> However, it was also an experiment from day 1, not "the next big thing" Not sure I understand that distinction. If I label all my projects as experiments, do I also get to escape culpability for their failure while loading o
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by allyourhorses 5y ago
> Do you really want to spend that limited bandwidth on your favicon that you might have already sent to the user before, maybe even in the same browsing session? That's a really going point, but if the site's coming down over
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by allyourhorses 5y ago
re: cacheability of favicons, this is basically a non-issue as the bandwidth-delay product of even a 10mbit/50ms connection is already 62 kB. Anything below this size on such a connection is likely to render faster than a separate requ
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by allyourhorses 5y ago
> At the time I left, out of ~150k employees, only ~300 had worked there longer than me. This one really stuck out for me, I don't think that stat has ever been public before. This probably means most (if not all) of the folk who b
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by allyourhorses 5y ago
I can see how they ended up with an attribute that did not duplicate a potentially private URL. Consider downloading from an Intranet and copying to a USB pen that is then handed over to a customer It also freezes in place the network polic
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by allyourhorses 5y ago
(1990)
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by allyourhorses 5y ago
For the future, and as a Windows/OSX-specific hack, there are HFS/NTFS extended attributes attached to any downloaded file indicating the domain/URL it came from. You could introspect this and refuse to run the installer with
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by allyourhorses 5y ago
Because it let me replace Ansible playbooks with a sensibly designed YAML syntax usually needing 40% the number of lines, and got my deploys down to a roughly constant 6 seconds regardless of the size of the application. Kubernetes let me f
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by allyourhorses 5y ago
https://caniuse.com/urlsearchparams
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by allyourhorses 5y ago
Presumably they're at least 15 years away from integrating their email after the merger, going by typical dinosaur corp schedules
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by allyourhorses 5y ago
Serious question for fashionistas.. which of the modern frameworks integrate 'properly' with Closure Compiler? Not just minification, but structured so the compilation/code removal/constant replacement/inlining&#x2F
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by allyourhorses 5y ago
Selling is a horrible misnomer, the process is entirely about understanding that you have something the other party might want, and communicating this effectively. You could take a shit hot salesperson and give them a garbage product, and f
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by allyourhorses 5y ago
This gave me a giggle, perfect sentiment IMHO. Discord is basically saying "fuck you" at least 4 times each time you login, and the only appropriate response absolutely should be "no, fuck you"
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by allyourhorses 5y ago
ZH is largely critical of crypto
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by allyourhorses 5y ago
> Fully private. No profiles. > Brave Search doesn't track you or your queries. Ever. It's impossible for us to share, sell, or lose your data, because we don't collect it in the first place So eh, Brave's search i
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by allyourhorses 5y ago
Came here to ask this. Most obvious guess as to where the app's bible texts come from. Would much prefer to see this as a new UI for Crosswire than an independent effort. I know tons of people using Crosswire
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by allyourhorses 5y ago
Based on the principles in the blog post alone ( https://brave.com/brave-search-beta/ ), this will obviously be my new default search until it's proven sufficiently unusable. DDG's usability has always been a
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by allyourhorses 5y ago
The certificate expires after 1 hour, so this is still an online process.
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by allyourhorses 5y ago
Windows 3.1 had something like 5 built-in widgets. CTL3D.DLL (dating myself here!) IIRC added a bunch more. IMHO somewhere between CTL3D and XP was when design topped out. I still love elements of 7 and 10, but honestly would have been tota
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by allyourhorses 5y ago
Moral: the UX "sector" needs to shrink by about 98%, and what remains should be contractors or agencies
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by allyourhorses 5y ago
This is beta hedging, it works on the assumption that when SPY performs positively, your risky basket will outperform SPY, but if there is some systemic risk-off event, your SPY short will at least dampen if not fully cover any losses made
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by allyourhorses 5y ago
Easily solved by a user configurable staleness value with some reasonable default. Google don't crawl the entire web in response to every query because for the vast majority of queries it's unnecessary. For those where it might be
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by allyourhorses 5y ago
It knew which queries to run before I clicked, because those queries are baked in. Why did I have to wait for the app to do something it knew it had to do if someone clicked? Of course we can't make e.g. protein folding an instantaneou
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by allyourhorses 5y ago
Thanks for replying. Precompute whatever you can I guess, but I'm guessing the app has parameterized queries and stuff like that which are hard to precompute. In that case even a cache or LRU list is fine, say precomputing the handful
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by allyourhorses 5y ago
Clicked into one of the demos, was greeted by around 10 progress spinners, possibly more. This instantly reminded me of some combination of Google Cloud's deeply mediocre console and waiting for a Jira page to render. I'd simply n
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by allyourhorses 5y ago
This is some of the disastrous Android rewrite leaking out into desktop, it's no small issue. Check out the Play Store reviews for evidence by now Mozilla's primary mission appears to be self-destruction
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by allyourhorses 5y ago
Because they retain oversized permanent UX teams with insufficient work to go around. The result is endless user punishment. Mozilla could improve their browser and save money in one simple step
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by allyourhorses 5y ago
The solution at this point is Microsoft Edge. RIP Firefox, 2004-2021. The new UI on desktop AND Android is a total disaster. You won't be missed

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