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by dexwiz 4y ago
Money was a technology long before crypto. Those in power have been using their control over money to leverage control over the physical world for millennia. In modern times this control has belonged to national governments, but historicall
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by dexwiz 4y ago
People seem to forget about Instagram and Whatsapp when talking about Meta/FB. Both are acquisitions that kept FB relevant for a new generation. They still have a huge amount of market capital. Even if they don't develop the Metav
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by dexwiz 4y ago
There was a shareholder call a few years ago where Zuck remarked that major technological shifts occur when screens change: Movies > TV > Monitors > Phone Screens. He sees VR as the next screen, and the metaverse as the content for
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by dexwiz 4y ago
I have used a few SSO providers and never had this. I usually log into the portal once and then everything else resolve via redirects without interaction the rest of the day. Maybe I have to click confirm. This sounds like bad configuration
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by dexwiz 4y ago
55 votes and no comments. Looks like a lot of people are interested in WASM but no one has anything to say about it.
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by dexwiz 4y ago
I don't know you, but solely from this post I am going to go with "likely overconfident."
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by dexwiz 4y ago
I think this approach is really common for programmers who aren't programmers first. REPL and Excel both really encourage this style due to their near instant feedback loops.
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by dexwiz 4y ago
I have a parallel term I use, jiggle programmers. They can jiggle code around until it works, often working off existing code. They may become obsessed with refactoring because it's the only kind of programming they really understand.
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by dexwiz 4y ago
“Heat” from the sun that we feel is mostly IR/Visible light. Mix of stuff happens if we reflect it with white surfaces. Some of it does go back into space. Some of it will get reflected by the atmosphere back towards the ground. IR lig
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by dexwiz 4y ago
I considered moving to Portland in late 2020, glad I did not.
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by dexwiz 4y ago
Oh yeah the Midwest is full of cults. There are a ton of radical and fundamentalist Christian offshoots. The only difference between many religions and cults is time. West Coast cults have their own particular flavor though, like the Fellow
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by dexwiz 4y ago
I wouldn’t be surprised to learn this is a common occurrence across tech. Coming from the Midwest, the West Coast seems full of cults. Talking to people, it doesn’t take long to find someone who was raised in a cult, or has family members i
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by dexwiz 4y ago
If your runtime is in any sort of framework, step debugging often drops you into framework code that you never look at that exists between your logic. This is my biggest hang up when trying to step debug beyond a single method or class.
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by dexwiz 4y ago
The issue with JavaScript debugging is you are often using an ad hoc pipeline of transpilers. So even if you pause at a debugger Keyword, the code may look completely different. It takes work to get source maps to work correctly.
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by dexwiz 4y ago
Cars are likely a family’s largest purchase behind real estate. If you are going to sell anything, then sell the most expensive item that EVERYONE buys.
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by dexwiz 5y ago
Half lives are a poor term for this; you are really looking for reaction rates, which are dynamic systems. Methane doesn't just disappear, it reacts with something else. A radioactive isotope's decay is relatively self contained,
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by dexwiz 5y ago
For a more modern approach try the Intl.DateTimeFormat package. https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Refe...
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by dexwiz 5y ago
Staging environments should be separate from production environments. If the Beta is expected to persist data in the long term, then it's not staging. Staging environments should be nukable. You don't want a messy Beta release to
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by dexwiz 5y ago
This is nice, until its not. I have spent a fair amount of time over the last several years trying to make node act like the browser, or vice versa. It's doubly confusing to juniors who don't understand the difference between a la
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Ask HN: What Happened to NFTs?
9 points by dexwiz 5y ago|10 comments
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by dexwiz 5y ago
This would never work. If someone checked out a file, locked it, and then went on vacation, this would block everyone else. Imagine if some breaking bug was in the checked out file, now you have to find some admin to remove the lock. You co
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by dexwiz 5y ago
Either get a second remote job and put in minimal effort (sketchy but people do it) or invest in yourself. As a programmer, you probably have some of the best ROI for self improvement compared to most professions.
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by dexwiz 5y ago
Games. Some other Industries specific software that needs to do local computation. Technology is cyclic and right now we have cycled back to the era of mainframes and terminals. There is very little software that must be on the edge. So, by
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by dexwiz 5y ago
Rational people aren’t the ones who start wars. People who grab and claw for power and climbed their way into leadership start wars. I wish the world was lead by rational people, but I don’t think it is.
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This tech will be the end of MAD and the start of WW3. The only thing holding back current super powers from direct confrontation are ICBMs and MAD. Once they can be reliably shot down via lasers, then full scale war is much more likely. I
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by dexwiz 5y ago
So is this still a form of Interferometertry where differences from multiple signals are combined or something else?
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by dexwiz 5y ago
I agree. In another forum someone was asking what level of competency you should be at with a language to put on the resume. Most responses were related to the language itself, but I argued it was more about the knowledge around the languag
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by dexwiz 5y ago
This why I evaluate future coworkers (interviewer or interviewee) on the speed at which we can align mental models. I have worked with some great engineers with whom I felt like bashing my skull in trying to get them on the same page, and s
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by dexwiz 5y ago
I think my comment still stands. Without extra configuration, there is no way to type the characters directly from an English Keyboard. And most users don't have that configuration setup. Even if you can type in romaji, it still requir
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by dexwiz 5y ago
I find it ironic to read an English blog post deriding something for being inaccessible hosted on a domain containing Katakana, something most English keyboards would not be able to type. I cannot tell if the author is Japanese, but I am no

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