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1141.
by ants_everywhere 3y ago
I thought you were joking, but Wikipedia does mention a tradition that Newton invented the cat flap. They call it an urban legend though.
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by ants_everywhere 3y ago
The wrong abstraction can completely destroy a startup. I've never seen duplicate code with that ability to cause damage. Or consider the centuries humans spent trying to make geocentric astronomical models work.
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by ants_everywhere 3y ago
The monorepo is essentially a single file system. Things like moving a file from one git submodule to another is more cumbersome than just `mv foo dir/bar`. That means your directory structure is in practice tightly coupled to the tree
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by ants_everywhere 3y ago
That's a Fred Brooks distinction, and not one that's (AFAIK) used outside of software consulting literature. In his essay, he basically uses "accidental complexity" to mean complexity from the past and "essential co
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by ants_everywhere 3y ago
"Conservation of complexity" is a useful concept in my experience. You can shuffle the complexity around, but usually you can't eliminate it. In practice, most software solutions I see that emphasize "simplicity" ar
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by ants_everywhere 3y ago
> if you need this book, you're going to be roadkill in math contests > I have not seen anyone including Polya successfully /teach/ this ability. This is a pretty wild take. For alternate takes, see John Horton Conway&#
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by ants_everywhere 3y ago
I'm curious if anyone has stories about making this work in the long run. It seems like such a natural division of labor that it appears everywhere. But I also feel like I've never seen a company explicitly optimize processes arou
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by ants_everywhere 3y ago
I think "time-lapse" might be the right metaphor. With time-lapse photography, we see snapshots of a continuous process taken at regular intervals. I'm not sure what it has to do with git. It seems like any version control sy
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by ants_everywhere 3y ago
> How would you feel if someone took ALL the books, repeatedly, and then sold them? Books are rivalrous and excludable goods. If you take all the books, then others can't enjoy them. Open source software is non-rivalrous and (mostly
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by ants_everywhere 3y ago
This is quality satire :) it also works somewhat for larger codebases, even non-crappy ones. > Arthur had a knack for working hard without learning transferrable skills. He will be dearly missed When I was at Google during the pandemic,
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by ants_everywhere 3y ago
Mark Wahlberg didn't blind that guy -- he lost his eye in Vietnam. Also he forgave Wahlberg. But Wahlberg believed he had blinded him, so it's basically the same story as the OP article. https://jezebel.com/mark-wa
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by ants_everywhere 3y ago
> Do you pay for ad-free experiences when available? Not OP, but I block ads for similar reasons. I do pay for ad-free experiences, but 1) often I'm shown ads anyway, and 2) there's typically no privacy-preserving way to pay. S
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by ants_everywhere 3y ago
I wouldn't be surprised if it is somewhere. Just have the smart card system use Cloud IAM for access control decisions.
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by ants_everywhere 3y ago
> absolute pedant who is looking to argue trivialities would bicker Well, yes it's a more than a little pedantic, but I think your statement may be too strong. For example, at least one member of the Nobel family has objected to usi
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by ants_everywhere 3y ago
I was curious so I looked it up. This site seems to have some technical details: > Some slot machines operate on downloadable software, which comes from a central server. In these cases, the casino doesn’t have to open a game and change
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by ants_everywhere 3y ago
There are lots of great answers from a problem solving perspective. But anxiety and paralysis are also psychological and shouldn't normally be involved in problem solving. Anxiety about problems often leads to rumination, which causes
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by ants_everywhere 3y ago
The two opposing voices is reminiscent of game theoretic proof methods. Terry Tao has a great answer on mathoverflow that puts it in personal terms about how he solves problems [0]: > One specific mental image that I can communicate easi
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by ants_everywhere 3y ago
I've been using IceCat recently as part of a video project I'm doing. I started using Guix just for fun and IceCat happens to be the version of Firefox they have available by default. It has some quirks but it's overall prett
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by ants_everywhere 3y ago
> what we have now is a very capable and convincing liar. I think things might get even wilder once companies start allowing advertisers to influence chat results like they do with search. Imagine a capable and convincing liar who has an
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by ants_everywhere 4y ago
> Of course the issue isn't reproducible; Google is trying to do the search based on their model of what you want back. There could also be other things that make it non-reproducible as well. It sometimes feels like search just retu