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by danhite 9mo ago
43 mins long so here's my subjective short summary in case it's worth it for you: South Korea developed a widely popular "K-Drama" mini~series industry over decades of iteration, but wages for overworked writers were per
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Hypnosis with Aphantasia(aphantasia.com)
34 points by danhite 9mo ago|65 comments
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by danhite 9mo ago
Author's short personal account, basically solving the mindblind imagery/hypnosis fail with another level of indirection. Her subtitle: > Can aphantasics be hypnotized? My experience learning to be hypnotized with imagery-free
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by danhite 10mo ago
caveat emptor re long hashtag techniques on (ipad) safari ... you may think safari has no effective url limit (i.e. very high) but if you ever treat a url within the url bar as editable you are at risk to be silently truncated to 4096 bytes
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Chris Coyier: Mood Driven Development (2016)(css-tricks.com)
1 points by danhite 1y ago|1 comments
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by danhite 1y ago
"Mood Driven Development: Work on what you feel like working on."
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by danhite 1y ago
> The product quality matters, but it's table stakes. What matters is whether people know your brand exists and trust it enough to buy it. On a related note, my wife today suggested we buy a replacement Ninja toaster oven for just h
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by danhite 1y ago
> My favourite was an interview with Jerry Springer. He also had a theory of what's wrong in the current world and none of it had anything to do with what he did. FWIW, later in his life there are many findable examples of Jerry fin
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by danhite 1y ago
OP wrote: > He acknowledged that my way reduced the chance of failure without making the technical consequences of failure worse, but it was more important that we not be embarrassed. Now that I've been working for a decade, I have
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by danhite 1y ago
> there are so many links I have saved that it freezes If you are motivated enough to write Apple Shortcuts a useful trick for ~Find type actions that overload is to Filter them into reassemblable pieces eg action find items from reading
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by danhite 1y ago
OP describes this ^ long arduous process and then notes: > Your writing can only be as good as your taste. That is, using an LLM to help with "collecting these fragments and structuring them" might be okay--should the writer st
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by danhite 1y ago
This IRL now is very much in the spirit of Mark Stiegler's 1990 humorous thought piece takedown of the $ inefficiency of the B-2 ~stealth bomber by proposing ~everyone buys chances to down one by any means possible. There is a proper
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by danhite 1y ago
>> Well in fact we know (if P! = NP) that for any randomized ALG there's a good deterministic one > Oh, that's cool, do you have a reference for that? The OP article has such a reference, but theirs is paywalled, and perh
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by danhite 1y ago
> I’ve been in software for 20 years and it’s the first time I hear “back pressure”. Am I too old already? I first wrote code 50 years ago (I am 63yo) so yes, imo we are too old, but ... It is worth noting that systems concepts/te
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by danhite 1y ago
The article you cited was very informative. For example it reminds that standards & intermediaries you trust might still allow multiple unconcatenated XFF headers though and the XFF unpeel by right to left heuristic fails if you only lo
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by danhite 1y ago
thank you for your comment : > The article seems to forget the step of checking the real TCP connection remote address (from my skimming) as this alerted me when reading the article to see their very important, but not highlighted, cavea
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by danhite 1y ago
Your interesting comment immediately passed my test for "this was written by a human, not an AI" but got me to thinking about PARRY ... PARRY was written in 1972 by psychiatrist Kenneth Colby, then at Stanford University.
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by danhite 1y ago
> Outside of movies, people do not work out their thoughts on windowpanes or transparent “whiteboards” because of the exact same legibility issues. I knew a lovely man, a kind hearted engineer, Larry Weiss, for whom this was not true...
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by danhite 1y ago
> Coauthor here. > That’s how software feels today—-the “kitchen” is missing. I believe you'll want to read this essay which appeared in the Spring 1990 issue of Market Process, a publication of the Center for the Study of Market
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by danhite 1y ago
I appreciate your focus on the long run. Apple has a long history of focusing on the long run. So I am replying to tell you why you are right, given that I feel my single upvote wasn't thanks enough for your first hand take. I am not s
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by danhite 1y ago
for those of you using something like their technique of opacity animating a clip-path region from one look to another upon ~click ... if you wish to be visually kind to safari users you can eliminate the default gray selection indication f
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by danhite 1y ago
ah, limericks amore, so reflecting more mores ... Once a young techie in YC was asked: Start-ups all why seed? "To save the World of course --shopping cart before horse-- for growth at scale: launch high speed!"
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by danhite 1y ago
You've made an interesting point, but then, roughly in the ~theology of no-virtue-without-temptation we have this classic ~counterpoint ... Batman Begins - "It's not who I am underneath, but what I do that defines me."
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by danhite 2y ago
I found a very nicely done text file documenting the 6309 extensions that I am attempting to link to here in case other readers are like me in admiring the 6809 architecture and are curious about what got tweaked ... https://www
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by danhite 3y ago
FWIW decades ago I enjoyed "The Tao is Silent" by the late Raymond Smullyan. Having just scanned for modern reviews I suggest the following link may be helpful--here is an excerpt of their conclusion : "... All in all, The Ta
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by danhite 5y ago
in 2016 Casey Muratori wrote a few words about his old video "IMMEDIATE-MODE GRAPHICAL USER INTERFACES (2005)" -- apparently he'd been using the technique for years by then and had coined the, now commonly used, imgui acronym
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by danhite 5y ago
FWIW, this phenomenon is not new under the sun. I observe that we are experiencing a McLuhan Tetrad retrieval of it via our modern ~ Internet media artifact. For example, I experienced (preferentially) buying, in the 1970s, LotR paperbacks
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by danhite 7y ago
The project you remembered but couldn't locate is likely Prune within Limbo in the TCR (test && commit || revert) experimental development style by Kent Beck et al which you can review here: https://increment.com&#x
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by danhite 9y ago
It's a bizarre random ios Safari 11.3 bug, so nevermind
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Has example.com/test (et al) been hacked on http?
1 points by danhite 9y ago|1 comments

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