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by brlewis 3y ago
Details: https://thekitepower.com/the-hawk/#space_requirements
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Tienes razon sobre el asunto de que uno puede escribir palabras mas facil en otras lenguas. Pero lo importante en este caso es que la gente encuentran lo que esperan. Si la mayoria de la gente buscan `} else {` sera mejor darles lo que espe
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There's an "intro" link to a video at the bottom of the site. Comments can also go on this essay: https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/f2CftRRndH97RpAwL/how-i-got-...
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The world's lack of good tools for assessing the truthfulness of arguments is my fault. Some things came up that stopped my work on the next iteration of https://howtruthful.com/ but only temporarily. Expect some big c
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Reading between the lines, I don't think this article is about a particular way of using emacs. I think it's about the psychological safety that comes from using a platform that won't pull the rug out from under you. A lot of
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I think Apple just hasn't realized yet what a great sales opportunity a UI for quota management is. There's no better place to sell more storage. That's what Google does. See https://one.google.com/storage an
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What do you mean by more forcefully confident? Do you mean pretending there's no uncertainty? That will only work as long as every result matches its probable prediction. One can be forcefully confident while acknowledging uncertainty.
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Note that this was written in 2016 in the context of a mysql-centric project. You will not find an "unchanging strong opinion that foreign keys should not be used" outside that context. I haven't kept up with mysql enough to
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Most assets have costs associated with their ownership. So one might temporarily think about ownership in terms of liability as a reminder that those costs exist. However, you should then go back to using "asset" and "liabili
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That's a sufficient test. It's the community's prerogative to keep it up to date later with further PRs. I don't expect anyone, whether a company or a volunteer, to do ongoing maintenance work on features that don't
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If you were advising an airplane manufacturer where production was tracked by weight, you might admonish them that they were putting airplane parts on the wrong side of the ledger. But later, after they changed their practices to stop encou
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>Isn't it more useful to think of code not as an asset but as a liability? No, it is not. For consistency, you'd have to start thinking of everything you own as a liability, and only use "asset" to refer to a problem
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by brlewis 3y ago
The best way to test this hypothesis would be to send a pull request that makes the self-hosting docs clearer. If they accept it then their business does not rely on self-hosting being hard.
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Is it as easy as you want it to be for JS yet? I would think so from your deno example.
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I just signed up. The front page seems to show lots of posts though I haven't followed anyone yet. Do most users avoid the front page? (I think your comment is on topic for a post about a moderation system.)
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In other words, don't stop reading this article until you get at least through the section with the heading "first month: ...".
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That's helpful. Thanks.
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Would you mind sharing examples of the kinds of things you mindmap? I made a tool for decisions/arguments which ended up incidentally serving as a non-graphical mind map, and I'm curious what people are looking for in this space.
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From the article, <Card> <Avatar /> </Card> This is talking declaratively at a high level about the kind of interface to render. Lots of component frameworks look like this example. Thinking &quot
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by brlewis 3y ago
Contrary to what the Dan Luu article says, I see a very specific detail from Bruce Tognazzini that takes the mystery out of the claim that $50MM in research says the mouse is faster. Once you go past the expired certificate warning you can
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Thanks for the interesting references. I think I have a better data model than those had, but it's cool that people have recognized before that there's a need for something like this.
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The problem that people make quick judgements based on appearance is not modern. I also would like to just make things functional and have people quickly see the value, but unfortunately we're stuck with the need to also make things lo
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The rationalization given in this comment for the layoffs is obviously false. Google had ways of getting rid of underperformers without massive layoffs that they have been using for many years. Google has ways of getting rid of projects tha
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My experience trying to market a UX designed for rational discussion is that you still need an engagement-focused part to attract users.
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The problem isn't that Twitter is split into small bites. Essays do that with paragraphs and sentences as well. It's that Twitter is not structured in a way conducive to conveying an argument.
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On twitter, the replies that deconstruct or fortify an argument are interspersed with a lot of junk. I've built https://en.howtruthful.com/ as a tool specifically for deconstructing and fortifying arguments. I see a lo
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Short, digestible content like tweets can be arranged into an ideas forest, but only if connected by lines of reasoning instead of being piled one on top of the other in reverse chronological order. I have a first implementation. Details at
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From the article, >As frustrating as coding can be, I am still in love with it. I love to see my code work, I love it when people can use it, play with it. I love building things, solving problems. I love making progress through difficul
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The linked tweet has a diagram where you can pretty quickly see that this isn't just about using wikidata as a training set. The paper linked from the tweet also gives a good summary on its first page.
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by brlewis 3y ago
I'd prefer to write extensions to my IDE using TypeScript rather than elisp, but my attempt in 2018 or so to move from emacs to vscode failed, despite there being extensions that made keymappings largely compatible. Emacs has a much mo

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