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by billti 5y ago
The ONLY card I have in Apple Pay is my Amazon Prime credit card. It’s the only credit card I have (other than my corp Amex, which is used once every few years for work). Every purchase gets you dollars on your Amazon account, so I actually
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by billti 5y ago
Indeed. For those unfamiliar, take a quick read of https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-specificatio... There are a few concepts to understand, but instrumenting it right from the start is valuable as it gro
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by billti 5y ago
This. I wrestled with the same topic a couple years ago. Not only which to use, but once you choose a “common” one (say OpenGL), then actually getting pixels in a window is still different across platforms (hence things like SDL and GLFW).
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by billti 5y ago
Writing one good set of docs that are suitable for all users (experts and newbies) is really hard. Structuring complex topics in a logical and progressive manner is also really hard. Having tried to write the docs on a few software projects
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by billti 5y ago
For AR they will need some ability to interpret the world around them, but high res photography isn’t the only way. Think Lidar and the like already used to get a spatial understanding, or the infrared dots used in some face/body recog
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by billti 5y ago
I memorized the ZX81 (and Spectrum) manuals back to front. Around age 11 I used to write out assembly long-hand and "poke" the OpCodes into memory to write programs and drivers. I really credit what has now been a long and happy c
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by billti 5y ago
Exactly. I haven't seen it as much now I'm in the U.S., but when I worked in Australia, it was very common for your 2 weeks of paid sick leave to be seen as "vacation". Most people who had sick leave left come December,
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by billti 5y ago
Looks very cool. When I've been working on native code on Windows, the WinDbg time-travel feature has been a magical experience that's saved countless hours ( https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-hardware&#
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by billti 5y ago
As someone who lives very comfortably on a software engineer’s salary at a big software company, I generally avoid trying to “work around” their business models. If I’m going to use the software/service, I’m happy to pay those engineer
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by billti 5y ago
I have YouTube premium and love it. I mostly watch it for music videos and technical talks, and love not having ads. Watch some kids shows too with the 5yo. I nearly always use the web site, even though I have the app on my phone. Full scre
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by billti 5y ago
Re: The title. The article gives the location of the airport several times, and it’s not Kabul. I believe the BBC article I read earlier said this airport is a couple hundred miles from Kabul.
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by billti 5y ago
> I really wonder what kind of advances we'll see in 200 more years and what kind of society they will enable. I _really_ hope I’m wrong, but I honesty think it’s probably a 50/50 chance we’ll make it that far. Besides what we’
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by billti 5y ago
It's a good way to force yourself to disconnect from work email and social media for a bit, but still be reachable. Leave the phone at home, and just wear the watch. You can still take a call or reply to a text from the wife in a pinch
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by billti 5y ago
Do we even have a total understanding of light, or electricity? (I may be wrong, but I thought there were still some pretty fundamental unknowns)
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by billti 5y ago
I'm currently listening to "Designing Data-Intensive Applications" [1] on my commute and it really does work well as an Audio Book (I can attest to the positive reviews). Highly recommended if you are dealing with any require
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by billti 5y ago
No. They’re hard work, and consume a lot of your time, but they’re awesome. Especially during the pandemic when we’re shut in the house so much of the time, they bring laughter, energy, and change to the house daily (my kids a young so deve
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by billti 5y ago
The landing page for it states the below, so hopefully not too much of an issue (though I guess some folks may find a 0.1% risk high). > GitHub Copilot is a code synthesizer, not a search engine: the vast majority of the code that it sug
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by billti 5y ago
I've considered stuff like this a lot lately, as there seems to be a lot of hypocrisy amongst commonly held positions (including mine). I find it odd that people who truly believe in evolution, and that humans are just smarter animals,
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by billti 5y ago
The article says Electron is a memory hog because it is based on Chromium, but so is WebView2! As it is based on the new Chromium version of Edge. It’s still not clear how the switch results in half the memory use then (though I’m happy to
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by billti 5y ago
As someone who has shipped some of the biggest products at one of the biggest companies, I don’t think software is “finished” in a manner we ascribe to most products. I do house projects and have built furniture, and when I “finish” those,
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by billti 5y ago
Not to be nit-picky, but I wonder if it shouldn't be "Practical Linux"? How many people work with Unix vs Linux these days? I would guess amongst the graduate demographic Linux is also probably a more recognizable and attract
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by billti 5y ago
Serious questions... I genuinely don't know... but I assume a country could block access to the "blockchain" of any crypto currency, just like some of them do with access to Twitter, Google, Facebook, Github, etc. Is there wa
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by billti 5y ago
I’ve spent the last couple weeks ripping out JWTs from a site and just using cookies for auth, being that the site and the REST APIs are all on the same domain & servers anyway, and doing all the OIDC/OAuth and refresh token handli
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by billti 6y ago
> we normally verify our educated guesses empirically Love that quote! That's going to be my standard comment from now on when I see a pull request that doesn't include any test cases :-)
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by billti 6y ago
Two quotes stood out to me: > What if software were built in the same way? What if the core parts of our business would be like streets, and all that newfangled stuff is something we could build on top, experiment, tear it down if it doe
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by billti 6y ago
Totally agree with this. A lot of details don’t make sense until you understand the big picture. Skim as much as you can, then (re)read that which helps get the next level of understanding, ... and repeat. It’s time consuming, and can feel
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by billti 6y ago
That's what I moved our stuff too, because it was just easier for a number of reasons (cookies and CORS stuff being amongst them). Any calls to other domains are done through the API hosting on the site domain. He does allude to that a
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by billti 6y ago
I think some of the best purchases I've made for my kids' development is Apple TV and YouTube Premium ($13/month for no ads is a great deal). My 4yo got into math heavily for a while, and shows like NumberBlocks were a big pa
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by billti 6y ago
Totally agree. I'm not religious at all, but at least being a "fundamentalist" seems intellectually honesty. If you believe your religious text is the true word of an all powerful God, surely it's infallible? What gives
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by billti 6y ago
I agree with this. As a manager I have a lot of meetings and few long stretches for 'deep work' in my day. Yet when I take on some work that truly absorbs me, I find the time for it. Non-essential meetings get postponed, email&#x2

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