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by burke 5y ago
This is spot on, and I've found myself making the same argument recently about GitHub's Copilot. It's changing the way I write code in a way that I can already tell is allowing me to be much lazier than I've previously b
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by burke 5y ago
What I'm taking away from this thread is that even apart from aphantasia or its absence, there's probably a wide gradient or even multidimensional space of visualization capacities. If I try to "look" at an elephant in m
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by burke 5y ago
I’ll frequently do this when I start large refactors or implementations. I’ll build a big ugly branch that kind of works, then, when I have a better idea of where I’m headed, start from master again, building a chain of sometimes a dozen or
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by burke 5y ago
For that matter, the harm from excess sugars in just about any non-caffeinated, non-alcohol beverage almost certainly outweighs any harm from caffeine dependence.
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by burke 5y ago
The people who actually use neovim disagree with the first and last sentences in your comment.
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by burke 5y ago
I’ve never seen much point in trying to do better than .+@.+, unless you’re going to pull out the (gargantuan!) authoritative version for some reason.
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by burke 5y ago
Yep, it allows you to tag something a metres per second, but it doesn’t automatically make multiplying it by a duration yield a distance without writing any custom code. F# can do that, and it’s rather cool. There are dimensional analysis l
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by burke 5y ago
Tracking units is a thing that I rarely have a use for (as a non-engineer), but when I do, I’m totally mystified by how bad almost every language is at it. F# is the only actual programming language I found that even tries. It does a pretty
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by burke 5y ago
> All I implied is that your location data is being tracked and put into some database somewhere and you don't control it. This is patently wrong. Exposure Notification apps (those using the official APIs, anyway) have no access to
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by burke 5y ago
What are you even trying to draw attention to here? This appears to be using the EN framework, which suggests it wouldn't have been approved for distribution if it collected any personal data or location information. I get that you hav
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by burke 5y ago
In fact, Apple and Google won't accept apps that use both exposure notification and location APIs.
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by burke 5y ago
Alright. Clearly it’s not a consensus view then. Still, every time I’ve heard things like “Google have”, it’s been (ESL, or) British English speakers. I don’t think I’ve ever encountered it in American English.
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by burke 5y ago
This is a difference between British and North American English. Americans consider a company to be singular; Brits, plural.
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by burke 5y ago
Autopilot can be used just about anywhere that the car can confidently figure out where the centre and edge of the roads are. I’m not sure what usage is like on average but I use it quite often in town as well, though the driving feels more
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by burke 6y ago
I’m even more astonished by the dismissive, misspelled, and incorrect support response. * telling the customer they’re wrong... * incorrectly... * and with multiple typos. Yes, very cool.
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by burke 6y ago
Yeah, if you get a little USB extension cable or one of the Apple USB breakout dongles and plug that into the thunderbolt dock/hub, and plug the RF dongle into that, the problem goes away.
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by burke 6y ago
I remember hearing somewhere that helium will slowly leak through whatever vessel you try to contain it with. I wonder if that (is true, and if so whether it) imposes some kind of maximum life on these drives. Or maybe this is only hydrogen
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by burke 6y ago
This depends on what you’re measuring the efficiency with respect to though, right? Cost-wise, yeah, natural gas outperforms electricity everywhere I’m aware of. On a grid powered entirely by renewable energy though, there’s a meaningful se
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by burke 6y ago
Riffing on ceviche seems like a plausible path to something edible.
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by burke 6y ago
Right, no one ever has to do anything: there’s no such thing as absolute imperative; there’s always a consequence implied in the verb. So why do we even have this word? Maybe because eliding the consequence is useful?
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by burke 6y ago
It is in large part a tech problem though. The solution may or may not be more tech, but a huge part of the problem is the explosion of new tech uncoupled from any assessment of social good. I’d estimate a tech CEO understands the problem a
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by burke 6y ago
Phones provide communication over distances unlike what was previously available. This is something that society has kind of settled into at this point. Social media is new, and it provides communication fan-out unlike anything we've d
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by burke 6y ago
A salient difference is that Big Tech will at least pay lip service to the idea of moderation, when push comes to shove. Parler is founded on the idea of absolutely unmoderated speech. Even if they win this one, the writing is on the wall f
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by burke 6y ago
Unfortunately, they don’t seem to own tesla.co.il, which is an objectively great domain name.
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by burke 6y ago
In Canada, businesses are exempt from collecting GST/HST if the business makes under $X per year. This feels sensible and reduces paperwork and things to think about when starting up, but is a clear example of how AirBnB was skirting t
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by burke 6y ago
And this totally makes sense for people who are in known dangerous conditions and are relying on the mask operating at peak performance. Lots of people are in the situation of thinking of an N95 mask as an “upgrade” compared to a surgical o
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by burke 6y ago
Sure, ok. I can buy that this is not actually completely trivial, and that it's worth bringing code to solve this problem in from some other source. Still, it's a shame that the specifics of the way the JavaScript ecosystem has ev
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by burke 6y ago
In this analogy though, browsers really feel more analogous to roads and sites to cars to me, rather than the other way around, being the common infrastructure on which the other operates.
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by burke 6y ago
In my opinion, it’s solving the problem at the wrong level. If you, as a government, want to coerce someone into solving this problem, it should be forcing browser vendors to provide more visibility into and control over (especially third-p
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by burke 6y ago
It’s completely stupid that this kind of module gets used in the JavaScript ecosystem, but as the author points out, it’s not his fault, it’s downstream modules’ fault for actually using something so trivial. It’s deeply unfortunate that th

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