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by beachy 3y ago
Domain is up for grabs still!
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by beachy 3y ago
> He remarked that high-density UIs confuse and overwhelm most people Not buying it. Most people can deal just fine with spreadsheets, which are the epitome of high density UI. What people don't deal with well are badly designed UIs
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by beachy 3y ago
Also known as a "Barnes dance" crossing (in NZ at least)
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by beachy 3y ago
4 tables, each with 1k rows and one of them with a 1K text column in it, joined together to give a cartesion product, will give you a petabyte of data. So it doesn't sound impossible (just absurd).
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by beachy 3y ago
> Please be aware of imitators, as the use of jaws with an engraving vise may infringe any patent that issues from my pending patent applications. Don't really know much about this area, but this comes across as aggressive, overreac
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by beachy 3y ago
Relevant Fred Brooks quote: > An architect’s first work is apt to be spare and clean. He knows he doesn’t know what he’s doing, so he does it carefully and with great restraint. As he designs the first work, frill after frill and embelli
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by beachy 3y ago
What with Google and now GPT, it's critical that your framework is well talked about on the internet. Otherwise searching "show me some code to do XYZ using the frankenframework" will come up empty and then it's game ove
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by beachy 3y ago
I think the point is that gold and fine art have value (someone will pay money for them, possibly illegaly) whether or not the regime approves. Whereas real estate has no value if the state says that it now belongs to someone else.
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by beachy 3y ago
> if you want a long-lasting career in AI you need to work on the actual AI stuff, not just using the AI stuff. Back in the day, when those new fangled relationship database things came on the scene, do you think people would have been w
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by beachy 3y ago
It's a bit of a trope, but real success often comes giving customers not what they want, but what they need. As another poster noted, just chasing market fashions is a crap existence, better left to soulless corps that can burn workers
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by beachy 3y ago
> modern forum software like Discourse is pure agony to set up and maintain if you don't know what you are doing I'd like to know more about why Discourse is this way. Why the fark can't I just docker compose it up and run
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by beachy 3y ago
We had the opposite effect in NZ. Putting an $8K subsidy on EVs sold for <= $80K caused manufacturers to drop their prices so as to be inside the subsidy range. It seems to have worked very well, looks like they got the numbers right. I
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by beachy 3y ago
Yep, I hope some solid information about their risk assessment process comes out.
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by beachy 3y ago
Yep, a helicopter pilot used to doing real risk assessments.
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by beachy 3y ago
A few weeks ago there was a tragic caving accident at a local school here where a boy drowned when the outdoor adventure group entered the caves even as flood waters were rising from a storm. I told my 10 year old son that one day his life
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by beachy 3y ago
> Redundancy plans become easier, not harder, with consumer-grade hardware that can be swapped out during failure. True enough on the surface. Not in a mini sub. They couldn't carry spares of everything.
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by beachy 3y ago
If things at your startup have been run equitably, then after 6 years you should have some equity that's all yours. That makes it fine to quit. You'll stop getting salary, but that equity is your stake in the future as things unfo
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by beachy 3y ago
Keycloak is awesome. It does 10 x what you likely need, but when some enterprise customer asks you to for support for their baroque idp setup or for their crazy password complexity requirements, with Keycloak you can always Just Say Yes.
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by beachy 3y ago
Looking forward to Auckland coming online, which should be the opposite to most of these factors, and will make game streaming bearable (for me)
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by beachy 3y ago
Nail on the head. The web is a swamp of hot garbage, in large part thanks to Google SEO incentives. If Google hadn't poisoned the well, and if searching pulled up good content instead of ads designed to look like search results, and se
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by beachy 3y ago
> If we only look at routes and hope to spend, on average, one day per screen, that's 700+ days of writing docs, which is a considerable amount of work. It sounds like you're thinking about the really boring kind of documentat
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by beachy 3y ago
Certainly writing is a skill that many programmers are not good at. However IMO an easy trap to fall into is to start documenting without a bigger understanding of the audience and the purpose of the doc. A good way to start is to identify
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by beachy 3y ago
All the stats that we self-interested humans care about anyway. The stats on the planet we live in are bad and getting worse. There is 30% more carbon dioxide in the air now than when I was born. All the improvements in gender equality mean
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by beachy 3y ago
That's one philosophy. Another is that if your bike is for exercise, and you spend your time chugging up hills, then it doesn't matter if it's not built from the latest, lightest titanium alloy. The heavier the better in fact
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by beachy 3y ago
When I worked as a mainframe engineer at IBM last century, the dress code was strictly suit and tie, and I carried my tools in a toolcase disguised as a briefcase. It was quite the nightmare climbing inside a 3890 check sorter with suit and
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by beachy 3y ago
I wonder if there will be an answer for this. I've spent the last 35 odd years of my working life peering at screens, from teensy phosphor numbers to decent wide screens. I've had issues with OOS but never with my eyes. I have nev
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by beachy 3y ago
> My guess Reddit also noticed most people using Apollo doesn’t create content, so Apollo users are just extracting value from Reddit. You don't have to create content to create value. You can also promote the platform and grow loya
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by beachy 3y ago
The article has done its job if you come away with "honeycomb query" ringing in your ears.
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by beachy 3y ago
If the catalog was at the start of the tape, how would you expand it when adding more files to the tape? And if the catalog was at the end of the tape, how would you add more files at all?
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by beachy 3y ago
I was sitting at JFK back in the day waiting for my flight back to London. Over the speakers came an announcement: "if anyone is prepared to give up their seat on [my London flight] we'll fly them back tomorrow on Concorde and put

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