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by arscan 7mo ago
My father was an unnamed DG marketing executive in the book, who joked that his greatest career regret was asking Kidder to be unnamed in case the book wasn’t any good (it won Kidder the Pulitzer). I’ve been meaning to go through his old no
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by arscan 8mo ago
This absolutely has been the case for me for the last few months. But what’s disheartening is that this signal will just be mimicked through simple prompting if too many people start tuning in to it. Or maybe that’s already happened?
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by arscan 8mo ago
Don't worry about the future Or worry, but know that worrying Is as effective as trying to solve an algebra equation by chewing Bubble gum The real troubles in your life Are apt to be things that never crossed your worried
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by arscan 8mo ago
Having testimonials attributed to Gemini 3 Pro and Claude 4.5 Opus is... interesting. I'm curious what prompt was used to get those quotes.
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by arscan 8mo ago
Structurally it’s about incentives not competency.
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by arscan 8mo ago
This is very similar to [1] (as discussed here [2]). It is a good message though, which is why I remember the earlier post at all. 1. https://strangestloop.io/essays/things-that-arent-doing-the-... 2. https:/&#x2
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by arscan 9mo ago
TIL about the blank cards! Really glad I bothered to post about my experience with the Yoto.
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by arscan 9mo ago
We have a yoto for our son, and its a great experience, but be prepared for pricing of content to match what we used to page for cds/tapes. e.g., the pout-pout fish card is $8 USD for 10 minutes of content [1]. I think that's ok,
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by arscan 9mo ago
It has something like that already[1]. I'm curious what's wrong with that. 1. https://github.com/kevinAlbs/SphericalSnake/blob/b907738476d...
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by arscan 9mo ago
> Try to find the most rewarding solution. This sentence gave me pause and I’ll be chewing it over in my mind for awhile, I think.
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by arscan 10mo ago
Yeah, I would do a lot with plain objects, and using closures and iifes to do encapsulation and what-not. It was ugly and a bit of a pain, but once you learned how it all worked it made sense and was doable. I felt that classes were a bit o
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by arscan 10mo ago
I think you may have inadvertently misled readers in a different way. I feel misled after not catching the errors myself, assuming it was broadly correct, and then coming across this observation here. Might be worth mentioning this is bette
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by arscan 10mo ago
> “But memorable names help with marketing!” > Sure, if you’re building a consumer product. Your HTTP client, cli utility helper, whatever library is not a consumer product. The people who will ever care about it just want to know wha
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by arscan 10mo ago
I haven’t done JavaScript in a long while, is using ‘class’ not a favored way of writing JS these days? I wrote JS heavily pre-class, and never really got comfortable using it before switching my focus to other languages.
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by arscan 10mo ago
> When it’s time to process your 20 different 3-second thoughts from throughout the day, is the easily distracted person actually going to sit down and work through all 20 of them at the end of the day without also getting distracted? I
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by arscan 10mo ago
In grad school 15+ years ago I took a ‘user-centered innovation’ class and I wrote a paper on the topic of Kali and its predecessor: how gamers, not the game devs, made games built for IPX work across the internet. What is neat is early col
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by arscan 10mo ago
I think this could be useful for the type of person that uses uses todo lists to help them tackle lots of small tasks that they intend to do immediately but somehow get distracted mid-action from and never finish (and then forget about alto
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by arscan 10mo ago
The Kali TCP/IP IPX bridge allowed you to play this multiplayer over the internet, and the style of game was tolerant to low bandwidth and high pings. Which made this one of the first games that really provided a glimpse of the future
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by arscan 10mo ago
> It's really easy to use LLMs to shift work onto other people. This is my biggest gripe with LLM use in practice.
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by arscan 10mo ago
In case you want to know what’s going on in the left side of that chart, they gave a log scale in appendix a. I was thinking it was silly to not just use that version on the top, but I guess log scales make big differences ’feel’ smaller.
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by arscan 11mo ago
Was that the 3x3 table method, or was that for earlier browsers?
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by arscan 11mo ago
I think an important thing to note is the MCP client is a distinct thing from the ‘LLM’ architecturally, though many LLM providers also have MCP client implementations (via their chat ui or desktop / cli implementations). In general, I
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by arscan 11mo ago
This is true, but sadly the customer isn’t always the user and thus nonsensical products (now powered by AI!) continue to sell instead of being displaced quickly by something better.
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by arscan 11mo ago
Even if it’s only 1 sentence per room (it’s not), that’s still 4000 sentences. I’d guess this is at least a few hundred pages of written work (without downloading it and just based on what you’ve shared). That seems pretty substantial to me
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by arscan 11mo ago
Love it! It really is a good first program to write as a kid (at least those from a certain generation). And my memory might be from our Apple 2gs and AppleScript, actually (hence my caveat in the comment). But I’m sure the program was just
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by arscan 11mo ago
Exactly, and in my sad and unfortunate case I had to support it because of that one stubborn client, even though the rest of the world moved on. Actually, it might have just been their CEO accessing the site from his home machine or somethi
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by arscan 11mo ago
The first program I ever wrote was a choose your own adventure, I think written on my family’s IBM PC jr in Basic. It’s pretty amazing how far a kid can get with GOTO statements and a lot of patience. But for some reason I couldn’t (or di
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by arscan 1y ago
I think my shirts just automatically get inside-outted in my washer/dryer? I certainly don’t put them in that way, and it seems like I spend a lot of righting them when putting away laundry.
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by arscan 1y ago
Netscape 4 was the bane of my existence, moreso than IE6 ever was, as an important client standardized internally on that forever so our entire platform had to be completely compatible with it. At least with IE you could do things in a user
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by arscan 1y ago
> The issue isn’t that the bathtub curve is wrong—it’s that it’s incomplete. Well, yeah. The bathtub curve is a simplified model that is ‘wrong’, but it is also a very useful concept regarding time to failure (with some pretty big and ob

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