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Honestly, it's mostly just my impression of how things work after watching a lot of https://www.youtube.com/@ArvinHaddadOfficial 's mansion design reviews.
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Certainly, the truly rich person has never seen the main fridge their staff uses to store the ingredients for their meals. But said rich person has at least one more fridge: a relatively-small, usually very elegant (in-wall, glass-door) fri
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It's hard to make the right boots analogy (try it yourself if you think you can), but to speak of fridges — • The rich person's remodeller (or the developer of the house they buy) buys a commercial-kitchen prep fridge for the
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Tailscale is a system service / DevOps deploy-time architectural middleware tool for putting entire devices onto managed OS-level networks. Iroh is a development-time library for building software that forms open decentralized applicat
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> encase your metal box in concrete FYI, most safes already have a decently thick concrete layer — that’s most of why safes are heavy! (Or, I guess you could say, adding a concrete layer is cheaper than making the steel thicker.) But the
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> It's totally okay to change the contents of a patch series, because until it's merged, the history of the patch series is irrelevant as far as git is concerned. Under the original paradigm, the email list itself — and a (pret
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> Turns out CLI interfaces by themselves are (from a usability perspective) incomplete for the kind of collaboration git was designed to facilitate. git was designed to facilitate the collaboration scheme of the Linux Kernel Mailing Li
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The yearly cadence ensures that there's always a "this year's model" to upgrade corporations+institutions to in volume through the Apple Business Leasing program. That's also why Apple bothers to do the silent littl
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> You can tell someone their idea is substandard without inferring their stupid, which is generally taken to be an insult. Tact in communication does matter. I don't think anyone needs to say "that is just stupid" to get a
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> "Not now" says "I won't take no for an answer". They know. When a designer makes one of those prompts with only a "not now", they tend to mean a very specific thing, that is at the same time a subtle
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What maps app do you use on Android instead of Google Maps?
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> If apps are not allowed to be installed, app updates stop. I have to allow app installations, install updates, then block app installations again. Presumably this is because apps could add individual features parents don't approve
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> They could easily wait longer between releasing devices. They could, but then they wouldn't be a trillion dollar company. They'd be a mere $800bn company, at best. ;)
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> It just means that PayPal has the same problem and they are also incompetent Do you consider regular brick-and-mortar savings banks to be incompetent when they freeze someone's personal account for receiving business amounts of mo
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> it's the cheapest region In every SKU I've ever looked at / priced out, all of the AWS NA regions have ~equal pricing. What's cheaper specifically in us-east-1? > Europe-friendly Why not us-east-2? > Many Amaz
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My understanding: If you generate embeddings (of the query, and of the candidate documents) and compare them for similarity, you're essentially asking whether the documents "look like the question." If you get an LLM to evalu
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The other reason is that many of the companies that ship Electron apps are web-first companies. Slack, Discord, VSCode, Github, and Notion were all solely web apps at first — some for years — before any native app was released. To these com
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4. push Gatekeeper-blacklist entries for the broken (bundle ID, version) pairs of these apps (even if those are the current versions!) — such that when the user goes to open them, they just get a dialog reporting the app as being "not
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> because they could make this so annoying to do that nobody would try (for example, stripping symbols). Many of Apple's OS frameworks are managed code (ObjC/Swift); and in ObjC, calling across a library boundary is always done
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To be clear, Electron themselves fixed the bug quite quickly; but many Electron apps haven't pushed a version that vendors in the fixed version of the Electron runtime . (And shit like this is exactly why runtimes like the JVM or th
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The thing is, we've already had "working mockup generators" — a.k.a. prototyping tools — for decades now. If you come at the problem from the direction of "I draw a user interface; you guess what it's supposed to
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> I ask genuinely: what is the value -- in what way does it "fit" so well? So, the key here is simply the horizontal layout: roman-alphabet letters naturally sit as "siblings" on a horizontal line, and — at least on d
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> I'm not quite sure why you'd want to run Erlang on it, but the hardware exists. https://nerves-project.org/#features has a decent pitch for why. (Most of the features listed here aren't features of Nerve
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Huh, neat; I knew about aphasia (and specifically anomic aphasia) but had never heard of paraphasia.
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> So it's not really hallucinating - it correctly represents "seahorse emoji" internally, but that concept has no corresponding token. I wonder if the human brain (and specifically the striated neocortical parts, which do
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> try explaining why that isn’t technically possible in Python (at least during an interview) without using a third-party library. I'm actually vaguely surprised that Python doesn't have extended-grapheme-cluster segmentation
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> I see so much convoluted code with arr.reduce() or many chained arr.map().filter().filter().map(), that would just be so much simpler and easier to read if it was a classic for-loop. It's interesting; when I'm writing JS in a
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Or, if it's a group that goes out together often and doesn't vary their orders much (in terms of order-of-magnitude of spend), then this will sometimes evolve into a rotation on one person picking up the tab each time.
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I think they're talking about when merchants insist that you give them cash ("cash only"), not when buyers insist on giving cash. The usual assumption is that if e.g. a street-food cart is cash-only, it's not because t
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C++ is used in many non-low-level domains simply because of performance, due to the many kinds of zero-runtime-overhead abstractions it offers. There are e.g. popular game engines written in C++. LLVM is written in C++. Some DBMSes are writ

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