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by dack 4y ago
I can't tell how certain we are of its size - it's so big that it makes me wonder whether the easiest explanation is that our methods were incorrect. For example, if we are measuring how light bends - how do we know there aren&#x2
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by dack 4y ago
it was definitely a great place to work in it's heyday 10+ years ago, as I believe most of the FAANG companies were. It was so nice back in the day having companies you knew would be great if you could just get into them. Are there an
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by dack 4y ago
I think AGI is going to be incredibly dangerous whether or not they open source their research.
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by dack 4y ago
I found that the missing piece for me was simply being kinder to myself when I slip up on some habit. Like, I tell myself "chill out - so you didn't go to the gym today. You're set back by one day. Just try it tomorrow."
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by dack 4y ago
how long have you been listening to it every day? I find that I do this with music but then burn out after a couple months and it doesn't hit the same unless I take a 5+ year break
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by dack 4y ago
Yeah I think the hype cycle with Clojure looks like this: Stage 1: Confused by parens/the lispiness. early uncertainty Stage 2: learn the REPL and library functions and fall in love. irrational exuberance Stage 3: build an unmaintainab
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by dack 4y ago
The cljs stack I hear about a lot (and use) is ShadowCLJS with reagent ( https://reagent-project.github.io/ ) and re-frame ( https://day8.github.io/re-frame/ ). ShadowCLJS is more of a build tool, but is r
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by dack 4y ago
I don't quite understand why a client can't do it's own backup... it's really not that much data i would think. you could sync it to google drive or equivalent, and while your posts may temporarily be unavailable if all
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by dack 4y ago
creating and transforming immutable data structures can be a big pain in some languages though, and that's it's own barrier. java is a good example but it's getting better with record types etc
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by dack 4y ago
also worth noting: once you ship for yourself, you can update the app to work for more users. but it at least already works for one!
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by dack 4y ago
When you first hear a term used, I think it's natural for people just try to figure out what it means in context without looking up the official definition (I've caught myself doing this subconsciously before). Imo a logical inter
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by dack 4y ago
architecture diagrams change very infrequently, and are most useful in a given context (ie tailored to a particular viewer or team). writing actual code to describe them feels like a solution in search of a problem.
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by dack 4y ago
he suggested generating plantuml diagrams from it, so you would use the image for onboarding. you'd only see the code if you were going to update the architecture
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by dack 4y ago
I really like your framing of it! To be fair though, I really haven't seen a change in the content on Twitter at all since Elon took over (modulo meta-discussion about Twitter itself). Time will tell I suppose
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by dack 4y ago
What do you think about giving individual users more power to moderate amongst themselves rather than having server admins do it? For example, a much more powerful "blocklist" type feature that you can share with others? So a coul
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by dack 4y ago
I agree with you that some users don't want to have to manually block specific accounts, but I don't agree that the network needs to decide. People already shared around "blocklists" for Twitter, and I understand there w
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by dack 4y ago
I think some users liked Twitter exactly the way it was, so yeah, there was no need to change anything. Other users were literally blacklisted, or blocked from search, or banned. Or they wanted to follow such people and couldn't. Yes,
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by dack 4y ago
what does "fresher" mean to you?
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by dack 4y ago
So happy for them! I hope they don't continue to work on the game forever because they feel bad for charging money. If it's genuinely what they want to keep doing, that's great, but they deserve to release more games (and cha
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by dack 4y ago
yeah, it's purely a business decision, but it sucks.
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by dack 4y ago
Yeah that's super helpful for NixOS configuration options. What trips me up more is configuring particular packages. Usually it's where I want to configure a particular version or github commit of a package for some reason (usuall
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by dack 4y ago
Sounds great! I currently run a NixOS desktop but I still struggle quite a bit with the documentation and discoverability of configuration/language. That's one of the biggest pain points in my eyes, so a UI like you have could rea
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by dack 4y ago
This looks really cool, but at first glance it seems like you really need to already know how to create nix flakes and what all the settings mean to use the site. I didn't sign up, but I watched your redis video ( https://www
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by dack 4y ago
agreed, I think this trap is related to fear of failure. if you're not telling people your plans because you're worried you won't finish, that might be bad. but then you don't want to take any credit for simply making me
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by dack 4y ago
To be fair, for a while they were ALSO working on their own graphical source editor that allowed for type-correct transformations and assisted refactorings. They put that on the back burner specifically because they are trying to focus on
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by dack 4y ago
I think it's signaling that it's probably modern, fast, and that the authors care about correctness. I think the customer has to have bought-in to the Rust hype for that to work, but since it's a developer tool, I can see ho
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by dack 4y ago
in lisp, you don't know what a given symbol means out of context (i.e. imports/macros in the environment). in unison, all functions are content-addressed so you can literally send code over the wire and dependencies are automatica
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by dack 4y ago
they mentioned using it to add types to a javascript project. i can see why you'd start by adding types to the files that are most used first
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by dack 4y ago
As funny as this post is to read, I don't want to see yet another developer say "complexity bad". I want to see a company deliver high-quality products with very few bugs at a fast cadence, and continue to make major changes
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by dack 5y ago
The wikis for the souls games are extremely useful and accurate - I've used them when I got stuck and it made the game even more fun! Are you actually talking about those wiki sites or different ones?

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