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by davemp 3y ago
The bar for novel/non-obvious seems really low if this patent has been successfully defended.
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by davemp 3y ago
Unctuous: [0] > 1: having, revealing, or marked by a smug, ingratiating, and false earnestness or spirituality > 2 > a: FATTY, OILY > b: smooth and greasy in texture or appearance > 3: PLASTIC I’m aware of the definition.
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by davemp 3y ago
For some reason I can’t get over the word “juxtaposition”. Whenever I come across the word, it’s a pretty strong signal that a writer/speaker is simply trying too hard. Similar to the abuse of the word “unctuous” by food writers, it’s
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by davemp 3y ago
> Even just paying multiple times more for reliability in the forms of quality components is a hard sale. Hard to justify 2-4 the cost when a consumer has no idea if it will last 2-4 times as long (or the warranty will be honored).
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by davemp 3y ago
> I would happily pay several times the price of regular appliances . . . if they were . . . fully open source PCB/firmware/schematics/etc . . . How willing would you be to pay 1-2 factors less for the Shenzhen clone that
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by davemp 4y ago
From my at a glance knowledge of the space, complex CNC setups can have NP path routing problems to go from a model to the actual job. So I wouldn’t be surprised if the tools are underdeveloped. You’re only selling a couple of these machine
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by davemp 4y ago
Apparently this is a controversial opinion based on the position of the comment, but I feel like it's a painful truth. Spending double digit hours to polish up an insightful or useful article then posting it publicly to the internet fe
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by davemp 4y ago
> First, it really depends what you're deserializing with. There is a lot of code out there that just does JSON.parse and then starts accessing the data and then you have an "undefined" get passed deep into the call stack
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by davemp 4y ago
I don’t write many APIs but every JSON schema I’ve created had been automatically generated by openapi tools. Even then I’ve found schemas of very little use, because everything gets validated on deserialization anyways. Client side validat
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by davemp 4y ago
Afaik ST's main feature is lower latency than VSCode
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by davemp 4y ago
This seems somewhat cherry picked, and lacking real insight. Sure we can agree on the obvious conclusions that mass production is going to try for mass appeal and thus “saminess”. But my house certainly isn’t white with wood tones. That’s b
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by davemp 4y ago
Penmanship != Cursive, Cursive may be dead, but for good reason. We don’t need to draw out huge chunks of text quickly anymore. If you don’t need to hand write blisteringly fast, printed letters are imminently more legible/consistent.
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by davemp 4y ago
I’m left handed as well. I had so much trouble with the penciled, 3 ring binders, and spiral notebooks that were foisted on me. After I switched to pens, loose paper/engineering pads, and manila folders, writing became much more enjoya
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by davemp 4y ago
Unfortunate acronym choice considering the term HVM is already used to refer to Hardware assisted Virtual Machines. [0] [0]: https://wiki.xenproject.org/wiki/Xen_Project_Software_Overvi...
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by davemp 4y ago
That is pretty slick. Not having to deal with file permissions when limited access to collaborators sounds nice. Can't say I haven't messed that up before.
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by davemp 4y ago
> I have a vps with bare git repos, pushing via ssh. A selection of these has hooks set up to mirror all pushes onto github/gitlab/$platform, but these are write-only. I like it, self-hosting bare git repos has been pretty pain
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by davemp 4y ago
Now's a good opportunity to ask about alternative Git hosts. What other services do HNers use? I've been unwilling to host any personal projects on GH after Copilot launched and it because clear that GH/MS doesn't really
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by davemp 4y ago
> It is very likely a gain. Distributing python has to be some of the worst experiences I’ve had in the field.
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by davemp 4y ago
This seems like a harmful way of thinking about people and development. There's only a limited amount of time in life to gain experience. A 15yr old's brain is quite literally not fully developed yet, expecting someone to have cho
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by davemp 4y ago
What’s the point of getting into good shape if we don’t actually have to do physical labor? Why learn arithmetic when we have computers in our pockets? Realizing your full potential as a human will never be a waste of time.
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by davemp 4y ago
> The things you mentioned (taking on board feedback, testing across devices, iterating on solutions) doesn't seem very far away at all. This is a very bold claim IMO. Modeling/understanding interactions in a complex system of
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by davemp 4y ago
> But a lot of intelligent people define their intelligence by how well their left brain half works and uncomfortable with how good Chatgpt is at those tasks. I think 'left brain' work also has a lot more predictability (knowin
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by davemp 4y ago
I feel like this is the real disconnect. I wonder how much of the current situation can be attributed to malfeasance in commercial architecture. A huge amount of office layouts are simply inhumane. Take this floor plan [0] I found by search
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by davemp 4y ago
> When reached for comment the task force told TND that "no final recommendations or financial reparations have been finalized or presented yet to the California Legislature." Which makes this article basically just rage bait.
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by davemp 4y ago
The improvements in home construction have diminishing returns. For example my county now requires residential fire sprinkler systems. Such systems aren’t cheap but also don’t provide any real payoff to homeowner on average. Improved insula
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by davemp 4y ago
Agreed. Zombies usually require a lot of suspension of disbelief and the humans to make frustrating mistakes for the zombies to do anything meaningful. Also my wife would absolutely not watch the show if there were zombie suspense scattered
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by davemp 4y ago
I did a similar thing recently taking ~6wks to get a big renovation project underway. It wasn’t really ‘relaxing’ but it was a great way to get a lot of TODO monkeys off my back and gave me more of an appreciation for different types of lab
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by davemp 4y ago
Slightly off topic but do unlimited PTO plans compensate employees if they don’t take a certain threshold of time off? If not, unlimited PTO just sounds like a scheme to penny pinch employees.
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by davemp 4y ago
Sure Google is a lot more than search at this point, so it's not the right mission. Though, I would say "organizing the world's information" is at least one of the right missions for the company.
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by davemp 4y ago
It certainly feels like there are some regulatory loopholes/oversights being abused. Maybe just make it illegal (or actually just enforce existing laws) to link to websites that violate copyright laws (from pages with monetization) and

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