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by caseyohara 11mo ago
This is where static site generators can be a good option. I’m in the same boat. I don’t have any appetite for self hosting and maintaining some internet-facing application with a web server and a database and a million dependencies in betw
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by caseyohara 11mo ago
MDW immediately came to mind as an airport closely surrounded by neighborhoods. I've always wondered what it's like to live in one of those neighborhoods. Is it a perpetual nuisance or do you get used to it?
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by caseyohara 1y ago
The M1 chip and Rosetta 2 were introduced in 2020. macOS 28 will be released in 2027. 7 years seems like plenty of time for software vendors to make the necessary updates. If Apple never discontinues Rosetta support, vendors will never upda
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by caseyohara 1y ago
Nope. That's the "vibe" part of Vibe Coding™. > The developer does not review or edit the code, but solely uses tools and execution results to evaluate it and asks the LLM for improvements. Unlike traditional AI-assisted c
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by caseyohara 1y ago
Yes, it has. In both breadth and depth. People paying attention know this. Even within techno (my favorite genre), which is already a quite narrow genre in terms of sounds, the variety of novel sounds birthing new techno sub-genres over the
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by caseyohara 1y ago
Is he? I use Ruby and Rails, but I don't pay much attention to DHH so this is news to me. Would you mind pointing me to a source for this?
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by caseyohara 1y ago
> I like the wide shot from the mountaintop better because it's lively and has people in it Agreed. And strongly related to your other comment about selfies/bugs/flowers/boring landscapes… One of the best pieces of ad
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by caseyohara 1y ago
> we use it to detect whether a device is a foldable I’m curious what you do with this information. Can you share?
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by caseyohara 1y ago
I don’t see how? You said: “Around the xp times, unit tests were not per-method.” Beck said: “Unit tests are usually individual methods”
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by caseyohara 1y ago
That’s not really true. “Unit tests are small tests, each one exercising a little piece of functionality. The units tested are usually individual methods, but sometimes clusters of methods or even whole objects.” Extreme Programming Explain
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by caseyohara 1y ago
If you repeat this process until all ambiguities in the spec are eliminated, aren't you essentially left with code? Or at least something that looks more like code than plain English?
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by caseyohara 1y ago
183M passengers / 52 weeks = 3.52M passengers per week, does it not?
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by caseyohara 1y ago
It's just like the headline that was going around a few years ago: "Studies show that women who own horses live 15 years longer than those who don’t". It's not surprising there's a strong correlation between "r
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by caseyohara 1y ago
> LLMs are not search engines, and I'm not gaining any followers or customers in any meaningful way because an LLM indexes my site. Counterpoint: my wife owns an accounting firm and publishes a lot of highly valuable informational c
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by caseyohara 1y ago
Sure, but JSON.parse returns a Hash, which is key-value pairs. The method argument is about the return value, not the input value, so it is more like "Parse this JSON, and symbolize the keys in the resulting Hash before returning it to
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by caseyohara 1y ago
Honestly, it’s a genius marketing tactic. Despite the artificial scarcity, the company increases sales while not diluting the brand’s prestige. If everyone was able to afford a Rolex or a 911, they wouldn’t be cool anymore because their una
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by caseyohara 1y ago
> A 5% increase in supply annually indefinitely would crash the housing market there Only if population is held constant. Housing supply is inelastic, but housing demand is somewhat elastic. As seen in Denver, an increase in housing supp
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by caseyohara 1y ago
Also common in certain parts of the watch and jewelry markets. If you go to the Rolex subreddit, it's full of people getting waitlisted for watches they want to buy and excitedly posting when they finally "get the call" from
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by caseyohara 1y ago
Biosecurity/agrosecurity. Some snails are highly invasive and destructive to crops so they are banned or tightly regulated by the USDA.
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by caseyohara 1y ago
How will this work for users that depend on the software, and businesses that depend on the revenue from those users?
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by caseyohara 1y ago
> mind-altering drugs like Adderall This is strange to me. You could give me 100 chances to guess which “mind-altering drug” you are thinking of and Adderall wouldn’t cross my mind. Amphetamine is a stimulant; it’s plainly not mind-alter
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by caseyohara 1y ago
Reddit also has that annoying pop-up when you screenshot something. “Sending this post to someone? It looks better when you share it.” Perhaps they mean it looks better for Reddit’s smarmy user engagement metrics.
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by caseyohara 1y ago
> I know, we can vibe away all the boilerplate required for Rails apps. But how much fun is that? How much do you enjoy setting up RSpec, again, in your new Rails app? How tired are you of changing the “front end solution” every few year
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by caseyohara 1y ago
> rather than cut and pasting stuff into your project, type it in by hand This type of mechanical copying is probably very important for learning and staying familiar with what it is doing. Just last night I had ChatGPT help me with some
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by caseyohara 1y ago
What don't you understand? It defies conventional color science and is steeped in the esoteric knowledge of the early 20th century. It is a very nice palette generator, but I really dislike all the talk of magic/mysticism/sor
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by caseyohara 1y ago
Code reviews for 10 lines of code: 100 suggestions Code reviews for 1000 lines of code: LGTM Omnibus bill packages get the same LGTM treatment where legislators don’t even read the whole thing.
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by caseyohara 1y ago
Cool article. I assume these depth maps are used for the depth of field background blurring / faux bokeh in "Portrait" mode photos. I always thought it was interesting you can change the focal point and control the depth of f
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by caseyohara 1y ago
Dont use soap on my hands. Water is enough normally.
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by caseyohara 1y ago
One that I run into most often: - A Formula 1 wheel when all you need is a bicycle wheel, but the person in charge of choosing wheels chooses it on the basis of “if we want to be as good as Formula 1, then we need to use the same wheels as
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by caseyohara 1y ago
I've been working on the same product for ~13 years and I can confidently say the most important thing to ensure the longevity and long-term maintainability of a codebase is aggressive minimization of dependencies. Engineering is all a

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