cglan

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by cglan 2y ago
I think at some point Go is just going to have to either be a very flawed language, or make some very big breaking changes. Between union types being difficult to do properly, and sum types being subject to infinite arguments on GitHub. I g
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by cglan 2y ago
Super true. One of the best tests of this is setting up a new laptop. Some of the best experiences are when you get a new laptop, and just clone the codebase and everything works as it did before, no special magic. Golang with vendored depe
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by cglan 2y ago
I’ve switched over to devbox, which is a thin, easy to use wrapper around Nix on osx. Haven’t had to install brew yet. Brew was simple in theory but I always ran into so many issues like this, or just various packages polluting everything.
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by cglan 2y ago
cars have made us much less fit though...
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by cglan 2y ago
It definitely fulfills the same itch as painting or photography for me weirdly. But that goes away the more “corporate” and tedious it is. But luckily my job gives me a lot of leeway. It can be and largely is a creative field I’d say. There
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by cglan 2y ago
I agree. I think cloudformation could be there, but it would need a lot more work and support. The documentation is sort of poor, and iterating and developing on it is a huge pain. Terraform is better, but I still find developing on it a re
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by cglan 2y ago
Soundhound has always been better than Shazam. It can even pick up people singing and extremely quiet songs
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by cglan 2y ago
k
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by cglan 2y ago
I felt like I was committing heresy when I told my friends that the vision pro was unlikely to succeed or at least succeed culturally. I'm sure it will pick up some niches just like the meta headset. The reality is, this is a covid pro
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by cglan 2y ago
Popular or not, all this has taught me is that NYC, and with that most of America has no vision for any future. If after 10 years and millions in setup just to get congestion pricing in place, it falls thru because of the whims of a governo
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by cglan 2y ago
We got so much for "free" during low interest rates, now we're finding out what all the nice tech stuff really costs. We're gonna see most tech products get enshittified, especially ones with high switching costs
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by cglan 3y ago
I've replaced brew with devbox which is a wrapper around nix. It's really great, and I very rarely have to break the abstraction. Very excited for future advances in this area as nix itself is a nightmare but the idea is amazing.
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by cglan 3y ago
I disagree with this. I think one of the issues I’m running into is that it’s clear to me that there won’t always be something to read in the future. I remember Digg, and other forums. And when it failed there was Reddit for niche topics. A
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by cglan 3y ago
how would that help if there's no supply?
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by cglan 3y ago
pretty much every country follows the US in terms of not building housing. In europe, they block for historical reasons (aka not killing the vibe of the cute towns and stuff)
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by cglan 3y ago
Housing surplus != housing surplus in liveable areas, or at least areas with work
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by cglan 3y ago
i mean 30 year fixed mortgages aren't the only thing. I just pointed it as example. The insane keys to power we've given homeowners to essentially fight back against any kind of building in the form of environmental reviews, and c
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by cglan 3y ago
simply build only happens with relaxed zoning, and relaxed zoning will result in building vertically or at least, mixed use. The current way of building is a result of stupid policies to protect homeownership as an investment among other th
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by cglan 3y ago
This is basically the late stage of us continually not building enough housing for years and years. I'm not sure how anyone thought this would turn out differently. As long as housing is an "investment", which in turn means t
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by cglan 3y ago
Sorry, we definitely have different definitions of townhomes. Where I am from (NYC) a townhouse is typically a 2/3 story build, narrow. With 2/3 units or sometimes split down the middle giving you 4 or 6 units or as high as 12 usu
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by cglan 3y ago
Definitely not against this, since any housing is good, and I hate letting perfect be the enemy of good, but not sure why we are so intent on scaling the concept of a single family home down to 200sqft. Townhouses in NYC have existed for ov
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by cglan 3y ago
most of nyc outside Manhattan is 2 story townhouses
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by cglan 3y ago
I live in NYC. The problem is that there’s literally 0 housing. That’s it. Literally so many people want to move here, but you look on all of streeteasy on a given day and there’s like 500 apartments. In a city of millions. Sure you can pay
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by cglan 3y ago
You're once again taking a western/American view. Israeli jews largely look exactly the same as the Palestinians in gaza because guess what? Many come genetically from the same place. Gaza Lets also not pretend that 141sq miles is
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by cglan 3y ago
isnt this just massive overhiring due to free money during the pandemic? Not sure this is an example of needing fewer and fewer stuff. Spotify is just not profitable except barely like 1 quarter
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by cglan 3y ago
Maybe I’m in the minority. I’m definitely extremely impressed with GPT4, but coding to me was never really the point of software development. While GPT4 is incredible, it fails OFTEN. And it fails in ways that aren’t very clear. And it fail
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by cglan 3y ago
How on earth is this ever going to be economically feasible. Wouldn’t it be more economically viable to literally just bury paper in the ground, or like simply not use the carbon in the first place?
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by cglan 3y ago
Making code that works on all primitives and accounting for nulls/empty each time is way more difficult than using a type system. That’s the same argument people always use. “If you account for every case and also have 30 billion unit
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by cglan 3y ago
Are there any home solutions to wifi sensing/location sensing at home for diy iot purposes?
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by cglan 3y ago
The problem is, after people like Robert Moses didn’t stupid stuff with their power, we’ve spread the keys to getting anything done to too many people. Fixing Penn station is pretty straightforward, but politically there basically needs to

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