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by bgribble 3y ago
In my anecdotal experience, there is a sizable chunk of people who stayed within a couple of hours drive of the city but moved farther out to save money. Towns up the Hudson Valley, Westchester, "Greater Woodstock", Long Island, C
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by bgribble 3y ago
I was lucky enough to work in a small eng team with 1 full-time dedicated QA person. One of the very few coworkers from my long career that I have really tried hard to poach away from whatever they were doing after our shared workplace wen
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by bgribble 3y ago
So given a start state and a library of valid transitions, it's easy to create a (target, path, destination) tuple that's valid (if you don't care what the destination is). It's easy to check if a (target, path, destinat
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by bgribble 3y ago
I may have misunderstood, but I did not read this as saying "S3 suspend works". I read it as "'Modern suspend' works, so I don't have to keep trying to get S3 suspend working". That is basically the opposi
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by bgribble 3y ago
Over the past couple of years the MTA's real-time data has gotten much, much better. Most stations have screens showing when the next train(s) are arriving, including signs outside the station near entrances. (now are they always worki
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by bgribble 3y ago
The one python pattern I used to use metaclasses for (registry types that keep an index of all their subclasses, very useful for DSL type tasks) is easier with __init_subclass__ and is somewhat more readable. So I haven't used metaclas
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by bgribble 3y ago
It makes sense to me. We tax companies on the money they make in excess of what they needed to spend to operate, and deciding not to make a donation would have no impact on their income. I would not expect it to be considered an operating e
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by bgribble 3y ago
I have even smart managers look me in the eye and say things like "can we parallelize parts of this? let's map out the dependencies." EVERY EXTRA PERSON YOU ADD MAKES IT TAKE LONGER. The fastest delivery is a solo developer t
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by bgribble 3y ago
As a developer I hate "precise" and "complete" requirements. Usually these extremely detailed roadmaps are just fairy tales. They indicate a management and product mindset that thinks you can pre-chew a developer's
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by bgribble 3y ago
You have to be a "personal accounting hobbyist" to really make your ledger match up with reality. If you have even moderately complex finances, you will have to take input from several different sources, do a lot of preening of tr
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by bgribble 3y ago
The yearning in this essay for an era of wise craftsman-philosophers building architectural monuments for the ages is just fantasy. It never was and never will be. I remember great pieces of software from before the Internet era. The gramma
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by bgribble 3y ago
The hype gets pushed down from the C-suite because prospects are always asking "are you doing anything with ${latest}?" and the salesdroid has to answer "of course! we'll be showing a teaser in the next couple of months&
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by bgribble 3y ago
> first read the error message clearly and try understand it, Derail, but this right here is the key to debugging superpowers. I can't even count the number of times I have amazed juniors with my genius when all I did is read them t
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by bgribble 3y ago
Just my take, but I think that if you care how you scored or what the scoring criteria are you are missing the point. This "quiz" is just a guided meditation on what LLMs are better and worse at and how that interacts with our exp
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by bgribble 3y ago
And 1 millisecond at the speed of sound ≈ 1 foot as well
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by bgribble 3y ago
I have this dream scenario where they discover that the gentle swirling of a cotton swab in the ear canal stimulates the vagus nerve and has these tremendous health benefits, allowing the sanctimonious anti-cotton-swab-in-the-ear brigade to
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by bgribble 3y ago
I have 2 kids. Commuting took a huge fraction of the available time I could be spending with them and for them -- asleep 8, working 8, kids sleep a couple hours longer than I do, so absolute max of 6 hours on a workday I could spend doing e
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by bgribble 3y ago
My kid just graduated from a NYC high school that had a complete ban on phones in school. The kids checked in their phones at the front desk on the way in and got them back when leaving. It was by no means watertight -- many (most?) kids ha
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by bgribble 3y ago
I like some aspects of it, mostly the ability to say, when someone asks for something to be done Right Now, "here are the things I'm committed to for the next two weeks. Which of them should I not do to make room for this new prio
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by bgribble 3y ago
> you know when you’re trying to use a decorative stud to hold up part of your house "You" might know it in "your" creations, but in my career I am much more often working and reworking in other people's creation
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by bgribble 3y ago
My gen Z kids use it to mean something significantly worse than "average". If something is "mid", it's really pretty gross or unappealing.
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by bgribble 3y ago
Plug for one of the best algorithm textbooks, Skiena's "The Algorithm Design Manual". It clearly motivates algorithms with specific problems that needed them and how a good algorithm improves over a naive approach in real-wor
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by bgribble 3y ago
As a developer, the "one big bulletin board" visual model that Figma promotes is one of the worst steps backwards in UX I have ever had to deal with. I am constantly zooming in and out and scrolling around trying to find anything.
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by bgribble 3y ago
I find that the numbers are really helpful when trying to find related items. Things that are topically connected sort together and can be filtered by common criteria. I use SimpleNote a lot for JD content and put the category in the title
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by bgribble 3y ago
For me, having to produce my journals was a reminder that holding on to my notes means that I might need to give a deposition or testify about them. Engaging with the court system in any way is just not something I care to do if I can avoid
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by bgribble 3y ago
yw, I think I originally came across it on HN :) It's not perfect, but it's pretty solid. The one way my personal system diverges from the original is that I have a 3-digit prefix before the 2-digit category ID. 001 is my personal
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by bgribble 3y ago
I went to school as an EE and learned in college to keep written, dated lab notes in a notebook without removable pages (to be more credible as evidence). I did this for years in my earlier career... there's something really nice about
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by bgribble 3y ago
The Simula One ( https://simulavr.com ) has been targeting similar productivity use cases for a while. I've been following it from a distance; I have to wear reading glasses for computer work now, and I would love to be able
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by bgribble 3y ago
Very familiar-looking to anyone who has been following the modular synthesizer renaissance. Modular synths are basically analog computers, just not well-optimized for precision in most cases. All the basic building blocks of THAT are availa
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by bgribble 3y ago
I know anecdotes aren't data, but I would not be surprised if this was hitting close to the truth. I had a friend who had RA starting in her teens and was on very heavy medication for it, with no real hope of improvement. In her mid-20

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