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by bichiliad 3y ago
This site gets better and better. Beyond even the mapping of genres, the write-ups for each genre are gold. Read the one for "Noise" if you're looking for somewhere fun to start.
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by bichiliad 3y ago
The fact that this exists has rekindled my hope for new, mass-manufactured 35mm cameras. There are plenty of good used ones around, but repairs can be so expensive (if you can find someone willing to service your camera).
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by bichiliad 3y ago
I'm reading "The Creative Act" by Rick Rubin. It's been such a wonderful perspective shift on what it means to be creative, and it includes a ton of lovely insights on the process of being creative itself. I can't r
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by bichiliad 3y ago
I'm working on an app called ScreenHint. It lets you take a screenshot of a bit of your screen, which then floats there above your other windows until you dismiss it. It's essentially a clone of the sadly-abandoned Snappy, if you&
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by bichiliad 3y ago
You can find a ton of much worse examples than the US, but the US is just vastly far behind Europe (i.e. Spain, to which OP was comparing the US to). Plus, it's worth mentioning that while Tokyo has a lot of mixed-traffic streets, the
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by bichiliad 3y ago
I live in NYC, and there are a whole lot of layers to this onion. I'm advocating for safety improvements on a local road that people get hurt and killed on pretty regularly[1]. The DOT has a well-designed change that they've been
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by bichiliad 3y ago
I'm treating them as one and the same here. My point is more that it's not endemic of public transit itself, but the way it's implemented (and supported and funded).
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by bichiliad 3y ago
> Public transportation is also not an option due to how inconvenient it is due to how infrequently it would run, and the cost of missed or missing buses/trains, which again, run infrequently due to lack of density of people. I thin
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by bichiliad 3y ago
I came here to say the exact same thing. My professor wasn't a bad professor per se, but I found Strang's lectures to be much more easy to understand.
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by bichiliad 3y ago
I thought it was a riff on Block List by RXKNephew, to be honest.
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by bichiliad 3y ago
I think the Tulip Mania, if that's what you're referring to, was a speculation bubble, whereas a recession is widespread by definition.
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by bichiliad 4y ago
I had to run some long speaker cable around my living room, and this guide really made it so much easier to keep things neat. I'm glad to see it reposted again.
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by bichiliad 4y ago
Very excited to see an Elektron post on here!
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by bichiliad 4y ago
There's always a lot, but a few things really helped me this past year (all less than $200): - I got one of those Stagg kettles[0]. I make a lot of pour-overs, and a nice kettle neck gave me a lot more control than I expected. Coffee t
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by bichiliad 4y ago
Solar leases are the problematic ones (where you pay a percent of the energy you generated). It sounds like a good deal, but the rates increase yearly and the compounded cost doesn't end up being worth it. The author was cash-flow posi
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by bichiliad 4y ago
If you're curious about learning more about PSR as it was intended to be implemented, I can't recommend Justin Roczniak's writing (and podcasting) around it. He wrote essentially the same article for the New York Times not to
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by bichiliad 4y ago
To clarify a bit here, "unintended" meaning the amount of people, not that people left at all. They had to start incentivizing people to stay, they talked about attrition frequently, etc.
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by bichiliad 4y ago
When there were layoffs at Etsy back in 2017, one of the unintended consequences were that a lot more people quit voluntarily afterwards. Attrition was a lot higher than expected. I have to believe that the people who remain are not all goi
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by bichiliad 4y ago
This is a good question. I had a hard time drawing a line between perfect type contracts and dealing with JavaScript's idiosyncrasies. There is a lot of behavior in JS that is very hard to produce strong, reliable types for. If someone
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by bichiliad 4y ago
> How is it not a problem for you that you make a change in a .ts file and then you are immediately in a world of uncertainty: Is the typecheck already complete? No clear progress on this. You're right in saying that having a clean
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by bichiliad 4y ago
I don't think that's an integrated feature of Webpack, though. It is a feature of TypeScript's own compiler (`tsc`), but that's about it. Nothing about Webpack supports typechecking (or TypeScript) natively.
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by bichiliad 4y ago
Another thing worth pointing out is that pretty much every editor that ha a TypeScript plugin uses TypeScript's language server to power it. The language server and the compiler are contained within the same binary (or at least they we
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by bichiliad 4y ago
Thank you for ts-loader!
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by bichiliad 4y ago
Running the typechecker independently of the bundler is really common in TypeScript. Typechecking takes time, and blocking on it to transpile and bundle your JS doesn't really add any benefit. Most build systems run the checker in para
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by bichiliad 4y ago
I interviewed somewhere a few months ago that asked me to reimplement something they'd built already, trying to be as pixel-accurate as possible. They paid me really well for my time (~$2k), they time-boxed it, they gave me a copy of t
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by bichiliad 4y ago
I'm reading a really good book on the history of steam power called "Fossil Capital"[0]. The thesis so far seems to be that access to — and need for — more portable energy like fossil fuels drove the ability to expand. This i
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by bichiliad 4y ago
If you're going down the rabbit hole of writing complex types, check out Dan Vanderkam's "The Display of Types" post[0]. It goes into how types show up in editors and error messages and such, and has a bunch of tricks fo
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by bichiliad 4y ago
A friend mentioned charging for it in the appstore but leaving the open-source project freely available. That way, people can pay for convenience of installation, but they still have a way to access the app freely if they want.
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by bichiliad 4y ago
Not a bad idea, thank you — Github Sponsors is something I use to send other projects money already, but I hadn't thought about it for this app.
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Ask HN: How do you monetize your open-source side projects?
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