caditinpiscinam

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by caditinpiscinam 8mo ago
Wealth should be a source of power and agency, not an excuse for getting dogwalked. On the bright side, given that kids and houses and spouses are all becoming luxury items, there may be fewer people in the future who have to make that choi
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by caditinpiscinam 9mo ago
For those wondering why having a browser based slicer is useful: teaching. The site mentions this, but I'll add my own experience that having good in-browser software like this is incredibly useful when you have a classroom full of stu
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by caditinpiscinam 9mo ago
What we really need is an updated Turing test: "can a project manager tell the difference between a junior dev working remotely vs Claude Code hooked up to a Slack account?"
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by caditinpiscinam 9mo ago
Doesn't the existence of consumer products like ChatGPT indicate that LLMs aren't able to do human-level work? If OpenAI really had a digital workforce with the capabilities of ~100k programmers/scientists/writers/l
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by caditinpiscinam 10mo ago
> A vanishingly tiny number of people own almost all the wealth in the system I'm not sure this is true. Based on a couple articles I found, this is what the current situation looks like in USA: a) Billionaires, (of whom there are a
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by caditinpiscinam 10mo ago
That "less commitment" argument assumes that renters are content to be paying higher-than-mortgage costs for a property they'll never own. If they are, then it's true that the rental system is benefiting them. If they&#x
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by caditinpiscinam 1y ago
Cities are banning face coverings too. https://www.inquirer.com/news/philadelphia-ski-mask-ban-bala... At this rate they should just make everyone wear a big QR code containing our names and social security numbers on
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by caditinpiscinam 1y ago
As a fellow linux users and 3D printing newbie: - Tinkercad (browser) fun and great for very simple projects. Like the MS Paint of 3D. - OnShape (browser) seemingly pretty powerful, but not the easiest to learn in my experience, and has som
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by caditinpiscinam 2y ago
If explicitly marking expensive IO operations using async is a feature, then why don't languages with async make their "print" functions asynchronous?
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by caditinpiscinam 2y ago
I've faced way more danger and discomfort from crazy drivers on the road than crazy people on a bus.
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by caditinpiscinam 3y ago
"a most delicious, nourishing, and wholesome food"
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by caditinpiscinam 3y ago
How many web apps from 15 years ago still work? Flash, Java applets, browser specific hacks, fingerprinting, cross-origin shenanigans... all locked down or eliminated. The internet evolves by breaking APIs.
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by caditinpiscinam 3y ago
The key to what I'm envisioning is that it wouldn't break a site like ESPN entirely -- it would just break the SPA behavior by making links behave like links. The end result is that the site would be more usable, not less. For sit
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by caditinpiscinam 3y ago
That makes sense for an audio-player application -- something like Spotify where the user expects playback to continue when navigating pages. Even so, I rely on the fact that Spotify links are actual links, so that I can open multiple tabs
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by caditinpiscinam 3y ago
They could get rid of links, but that would break search engine indexing. This wouldn't be an issue for legitimate SPAs like Gmail, but would be disastrous for content-based sites. More likely is that they'd keep <a> element
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by caditinpiscinam 3y ago
Because most SPAs that I interact with (like ESPN) have no business being SPAs (in the sense of hijacking navigation). The main motivation behind constructing them that way seems to be to circumvent UX safeguards.
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by caditinpiscinam 3y ago
Firefox's default "allow autoplay after interaction" policy doesn't help much in the case of SPAs. Go to a site like ESPN and autoplay will be blocked on the first "page" you visit, but navigating to any subseq
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by caditinpiscinam 3y ago
I wonder what the people who were forcibly sterilized after Buck v Bell thought of Brandeis' philosophy.
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by caditinpiscinam 3y ago
I think programming languages are more like spoken languages than we give them credit for. Their design is more intentional, but the processes by which they spread, compete, and evolve is similarly difficult to pin down.
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by caditinpiscinam 3y ago
On the other hand, the banking infrastructure in many countries wouldn't work without COBOL, scientific research wouldn't work without MATLAB, and healthcare wouldn't work without MUMPS. Many languages and paradigms, good and
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by caditinpiscinam 3y ago
Reminds me of Ian Gibbons, the Theranos scientist who spoke up about the company's practices. He took his life shortly before he was set to be deposed in one of the lawsuits. According to John Carreyrou's book, the company hired l
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by caditinpiscinam 3y ago
How did they get the incandescent bulb on the receiving end to switch on and off fast enough to avoid blurring the picture?
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by caditinpiscinam 3y ago
A couple other good ones: How Differential Steering Works (1937) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yYAw79386WI Flak (1943) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H8zPNMqVi2E
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by caditinpiscinam 3y ago
My gripe with most takes on the affirmative action debate is that they completely ignore this issue (in spite of the Berkeley case-study). It's trivial to take a set of admissions data and partition it by race to reveal a "racial
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by caditinpiscinam 3y ago
> MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexico’s president said Friday the country’s minimum wage will rise by 20% in 2024, to the equivalent of about $14.25 per day. > About one-third of Mexico’s registered workers report earning the minimum wage, whic
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by caditinpiscinam 3y ago
Hacker news meetups?
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by caditinpiscinam 3y ago
I disagree that people only want to be affirmed -- people are constantly getting into debates and arguments on the internet
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by caditinpiscinam 3y ago
> Relational databases are graphs where the nodes are records and the edges are foreign keys I disagree with the premise of the article: programming languages do have strong and mature support for graphs in the form of relational datab
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by caditinpiscinam 3y ago
> No, not at all, it doesn't make any sense. I expressed it in pretty simple terms. You can disagree with my opinion, but if you don't understand it at all then I'm not sure what else there is for me to do.
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by caditinpiscinam 3y ago
> would your answer change based on how I answer? Yes. I have a ton of bias around this issue, and I would imagine most people who care about it (in whatever way) do as well. I think it's much more productive to be attentive to thos

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