codemac

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by codemac 2y ago
Markdown has lots of syntax from irc/email that folks have been using for decades. The popularity is also due this, it was partially a refinement rather than invented. This is also why the parsing ambiguity/backtracking ends up oc
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by codemac 2y ago
Yeah I didn't have good data sources, and took shortcuts on the math. I guess it just doesn't look bad to me in terms of their real estate, thanks for pointing me to these better data sources.
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by codemac 2y ago
At 2.7% that's 2.7% and .7% growth faster than wages. Let's look at the bay's wage growth[0]: 11% (or ~1%/yr) from 2010-2020, but they removed CPI-U inflation[1], so it's something higher (annual was ~1-3% in that t
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by codemac 2y ago
You can price this relatively quickly, and see that it's probably not worth it. ~1 week outage once every ~5 years, let's say you lose 100% of revenue that week, that's 0.38% of revenue. Now most likely they're not losin
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by codemac 2y ago
For comparison, 2012-2019 in SF was 88% growth over 7 years, or >9% year over year growth.
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by codemac 2y ago
This sounds silly. 70% is ~5.4% yearly, 40% is 3.4% growth yearly. Seems, fine? These are incredibly reasonable growth rates. Am I missing something?
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by codemac 2y ago
Any great alternative options? I have used this obsessively for many years, and removing the web version (and requiring device->device transitions) makes my phone a spof for this data I truly like to keep.
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by codemac 2y ago
No, the endmyopia stuff specifically rejects the bates methods (which include staring at the sun?? "palming"??). Mostly it focuses on learning to focus at the edge of what you currently can at a distance, and then as you improve g
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by codemac 2y ago
Take myopia into your own hands, is my best suggestion. Communities/movements like endmyopia (and many other forums) help understand what you can do. Unfortunately I haven't found an easy way to keep up with the exercises that rea
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by codemac 2y ago
This is specifically covered in cases like Midler v. Ford, and legally it matters what the use is for. If it's for parody/etc it's completely different from attempting to impersonate and convince customers it is someone els
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by codemac 2y ago
martin's beach :(
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by codemac 2y ago
Drives have warranties, after which the manufacturer doesn't make any claims about it's durability. This could put your fleet at wild and significant risk if things start hitting a wall and failing en masse. You may not be able to
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by codemac 3y ago
There's probably a financial argument here related to the same money invested, but we all know folks aren't investing in the difference - they're buying more and other junk.
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by codemac 3y ago
I wonder how many "minimalists" will go to a church of stuff. This is something I regularly confuse myself on. As I start to appreciate high quality things too much, a materialistic spiral begins. AT some point you're watchin
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by codemac 3y ago
If my actual doctor responded to my messages within some SLA (2 days?) then I'm more than happy to pay much more. Now a days what happens is I send a message with photos or many details, and some poor nurse who is assigned message tria
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by codemac 3y ago
As someone who moved from google3 -> fbcode in the last few years, I think there are weird upsides AND downsides to having async code littered through your C++ (aka co_yield, co_return, co_await, etc). The advantage, compared to the inte
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by codemac 3y ago
The Mochary Method I found is much better for folks managing other managers. If you manage individual contributors with a lot of these ideas (e.g. meetings start on time), you'll definitely have a hard time. His writing vs talking stuf
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by codemac 3y ago
It's great for historical research though. It's one of the few pieces of documentation that will live with the code forever. github and other forms of centralization are not open data formats that folks trivially backup/conve
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by codemac 3y ago
Same happened at Meta for the 2023 "layoff moments". The labor market is tough, the attrition you speak of did not happen at Meta. And that's for SWEs who have a lot of potential employers.
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by codemac 3y ago
> You don't actually need to automatically stop 12 year Olds from using your music in the background of their minecraft video to turn a profit. To clarify, whether or not you can as an organization turn a profit, is whether or not y
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by codemac 3y ago
I don't think that's reasonable. If you're a tiny rights holder, you may have produced a single song and are trying to make sure others pay you for use - but you may not be able to afford or understand what legal review you n
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by codemac 3y ago
Is fastmail in your mind a megacorp? Most things you said do not seem to relate to a small company with ~400 people according to linkedin.
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by codemac 3y ago
> [top down control] drives away the most capable, creative problem solvers [..] Eh, I think it's the lack of execution that drives them away, in fact if you're not executing many times it's because they're not even t
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by codemac 3y ago
This is moving the previous flyspray issue tracker to gitlab. It's not like they were on github before.
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by codemac 3y ago
There is some crazy stuff in these volunteer positions: https://www.volunteer.gov/s/volunteer-opportunity/a093d00000... Volunteers are expected to contribute a minimum of three 8-hour shifts per week (8:45AM
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by codemac 3y ago
> As a small nonprofit organization, we cannot afford to purchase all of the physical computers that are necessary to support everyone who relies on Signal while also placing them in independent data centers around the world. This is rea
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by codemac 3y ago
It's a classic "dev tooling" play that struggles in downturns. - Company wants to save money, tells team they're cancelling service that costs them $20k/month to observe their production env. - Dev team starts build
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by codemac 3y ago
It always cracks me up how Google is simultaneously the most web-based company in the world, but their internal political landscape was (Infra, Search, Ads) > everything else. This leads to infra swe writing stupid CLIs all day, rather t
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by codemac 3y ago
Somehow real estate gets away with it, and they have even more fungible contents!
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by codemac 3y ago
It's my hardcore held belief that the cloud industry could wildly be disrupted if it was easy enough to order 5 year capacity contracts. Then AWS / GCP etc would be left with just the elastic demand, rather than the inelastic prof

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