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‘Gate lice' beware: American Airlines is catching early boarders(washingtonpost.com)
2 points by aranchelk 2y ago|1 comments
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by aranchelk 2y ago
I imagine this situation is kind of unique. Once a company finds out the features they sell will be integrated into the 1st party platform, and they have a chance to get out of the business, and they know they’ve got competitors that Apple
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by aranchelk 2y ago
> the Everglades and its web of life as we know it have existed for five thousand years. Typo? Creationism? That seems like a very short period of time.
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by aranchelk 2y ago
As a just-in-time bordering on chronically late individual (typical engineer), sprinting on foot or bicycle to the doctor’s office has led to some unusually high reading.
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by aranchelk 2y ago
> 4WD drive means all tires spin at the exact same speed, no matter what. Make sure you only drive in a straight line.
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by aranchelk 2y ago
I started by reading those two, then made it through a chunk of 99 problems in Haskell — at some point I lost interest and felt ready to write applications. https://wiki.haskell.org/H-99:_Ninety-Nine_Haskell_Problems I like
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by aranchelk 2y ago
Plastic Part Design for Injection Molding 2E: An Introduction 2nd Edition
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by aranchelk 2y ago
For a business I had to learn how to design parts for mass production injection molded plastic. It’s simple in concept but the devil is in the details, of which there are a great many. I couldn’t find a general non-fiction book with the inf
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by aranchelk 2y ago
zfs create. All better.
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by aranchelk 2y ago
Nitpick time: > Modern composites, starting with Bakelite AFAIK Bakelite is a resin, not a composite. No mention of fiberglass, which had been used for many decades before carbon fiber went into widespread use. > composites—which are
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by aranchelk 2y ago
Not just that. When learning about the anisotropic nature of composites (different strengths in different directions) wood is a tangible example for anyone who’s done arts and crafts, woodworking, etc.
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by aranchelk 2y ago
I don’t regard efficiency as one obvious thing. Is it single threaded efficiency? Best hardware utilization? If it’s an application that’s guiding external resource utilization, should you even be limiting your efficiency measure to just yo
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by aranchelk 2y ago
> “how much CPU time do I have for running this code?” When someone asks me something like that, more likely phased like, “how quickly does this need to run”, “how fast does this page need to render”, etc., that’s the engineer I want to
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by aranchelk 2y ago
Assistive technology, I made a head-tracking mouse replacement. I’ve now used it almost every day at work for a decade. It’s open source but AFAIK no one else is using it: https://github.com/aranchelk/headmouse
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Whatever happened to Elm, anyway? (2023)(derw.substack.com)
1 points by aranchelk 2y ago|0 comments
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I learned Haskell in just 15 years(duckrabbit.tech)
307 points by aranchelk 2y ago|237 comments
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SF startup bosses illegally peddled $100M in Adderall, Feds say(sfstandard.com)
48 points by aranchelk 2y ago|23 comments
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by aranchelk 2y ago
From The Teaching of Buddha: Once there was a man on a long journey who came to a river. He said to himself: “This side of the river is very difficult and dangerous to walk on, and the other side seems easier and safer, but how shall I get
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by aranchelk 2y ago
> It's hard to know from an interview what the quality of your Haskell code is. Please explain.
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by aranchelk 2y ago
Definitely the same story for PureScript. I rarely reach for Haskell now because I know I can leverage virtually any library off of NPM.
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by aranchelk 2y ago
It may not be immediately obvious, but firing them asap is probably less disruptive for them: * They still have an up-to-date resume * They may still have warm leads for other jobs * Employment with you is probably short enough, they can ju
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by aranchelk 2y ago
> I feel that CFGs more naturally represent how we think Author could have replaced the “we” with “I” and made it into a mildly interesting diary entry.
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by aranchelk 2y ago
> Parrhasius, then invited Zeuxis to his studio to look at a painting hanging behind a curtain, but when Zeuxis went to pull it back, it was revealed to be a trick, and Parrhasius won the contest. What was the “trick”? In paraphrasing, t
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by aranchelk 2y ago
It’s called “Coffee Mod”? I would have gone with “Kapton Lake”.
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by aranchelk 2y ago
Even running in smaller environments: 1) You may not want your application servers having direct access to your auth service or auth database. You may not have the resources to control employee access to sensitive data when it’s shared acro
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by aranchelk 2y ago
I really was hanging in there until I saw “matter compilers”
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Mountain goats were flown to a new home. few survived(nbcnews.com)
1 points by aranchelk 2y ago|1 comments
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iPad Pro 13" Teardown and Apple Pencil Pro Destruction [video](youtube.com)
1 points by aranchelk 2y ago|0 comments
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MIT grads' $25M crypto crime puts spotlight on Ethereum front-running(fortune.com)
2 points by aranchelk 2y ago|0 comments
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by aranchelk 2y ago
Monorepo for client and services - enough code sharing that it would be pretty weird to separate them out.

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