dexwiz

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by dexwiz 1y ago
That's my point, it's still calling JS at the end of the day. Unless you have some computationally expensive functionality that needs optimization like a large Canvas or Excel-esque table, what's the advantage? Just avoiding
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by dexwiz 1y ago
This is the kind of stuff that keeps me up at night, along with the worry that its not keeping others up. Just because you aren't building a Therac-25, doesn't mean your mistakes cannot have material impact on people's lives.
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by dexwiz 1y ago
I'm always dubious on claims like these. JavaScript and the web platform are synonymous in discourse but much different in reality. Even with transpired languages or WASM, you still have to use the platform, but now in a non standard l
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by dexwiz 1y ago
Somehow it's even worse if it's unpaid. Sabbaticals and other unpaid leaves are usually a few weeks-months. Two weeks is well within PTO range.
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by dexwiz 1y ago
> While retirement typically occurs, after completing a career and saving and investing for it, a new trend is emerging among Gen Z career professionals called “micro-retirement.” Micro-retirements involve taking a one to two-week break
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by dexwiz 1y ago
How do you explain an octopus holding 8 cats, let alone keeping the octopodes alive for more than a day?
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by dexwiz 1y ago
Bad drivers are a poor example. Driving is an inherently social activity. It involves subconsciously predicting other people's behaviors. Each region has its own definition of what is the norm. This includes things like acceptable spee
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by dexwiz 1y ago
My theory is because of the hinge, which is a common point of failure on laptops. Either you are putting extra strain on it by having someone constantly touching the screen, and some users just mash their fingers into touch screens. Or user
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by dexwiz 1y ago
> Google’s own AI Overviews feature for Search has also repeatedly made mistakes, offering poor quality and inaccurate information at times. I see this quoted over and over, but I've literally never seen it myself. I never trust it
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by dexwiz 1y ago
Capsule design in general was a popular idea, but swapping isn't feasible compared to moving. You would still want to remove most items from a capsule when being lifted by crane. The one place you do see capsule architecture is cruise
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by dexwiz 1y ago
Information and electricity go in and information and heat go out, to be pedantic about a simplification.
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by dexwiz 1y ago
I had the same thought, but maybe that's the point. Tech can blow up our lives in very random, unexpected ways, and there is very little recourse to fix it. I can think of multiple instances where someone had their Gmail account closed
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by dexwiz 1y ago
I've been told that sometimes this is one of the nerve endings in your ear dying. Your brain doesn't know what to do with the signal and you interpret this as a steady tone for 10 seconds to a minute. I have taken pretty good care
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by dexwiz 1y ago
I wonder if this is a difference in mindset of OLAP vs OLTP. I have worked with OLAP teams where they were dropping millions of records, and the solution was usually just restream the data and shrug. But if any service backed by OLTP was dr
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by dexwiz 1y ago
So what are these businesses? How do you prevail when your competitor isn't playing the same game? Better mousetraps don't matter when someone else is selling 100x than you using VC powered marketing. DDH has a cult of personality
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by dexwiz 1y ago
Thick compared to Earth, but I think it has an especially thin crust.
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by dexwiz 1y ago
I think the break can be a reflection and note taking period. Unfocus a bit, but not too far.
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by dexwiz 1y ago
High 80s is doable with the best care in the world and no chronic health issues.
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by dexwiz 1y ago
| While second to Waymo, they still seemed already far ahead from others; maybe they were, say, 90% there. That is a strong claim. As someone who watched them drive around their neighborhood, you could easily tell Cruise was the worse drive
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by dexwiz 1y ago
Banks and real estate. Commercial real estate, not just the offices but the also the surrounding businesses, is a large portion of investment funds like pensions and mutual funds. Something like 15% of the overall investible market is comme
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by dexwiz 1y ago
I would look for dithering options if you can. On screens with limited colors, dithering is a great way to add a feeling of depth or shadows. You still see it in some pixel art. If you read dev logs for playdate games, a lot of devs use dit
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by dexwiz 2y ago
This is not about investment, it's about extortion. Bend the knee, or be destroyed. No US business sector can exist without foreign imports. It's a perfect lever to extract fealty from the corporate sector. They sell tariffs as al
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by dexwiz 2y ago
Of course the only me that exists is right now. In no feasible reality would I ever shake hands with me from yesterday or me in the vat. Nor would I ever shake hands with me in a robot, just a robot that thinks it's me. Even if those o
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by dexwiz 2y ago
I don't like teleportation that much either. But at least there is meat on the other end. Uploading is an entirely different mode of existence.
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by dexwiz 2y ago
I don't remember the part of that scenario where a scan is taken of the ship and uploaded to a server. I long ago accepted that my image of self is a sort of illusion. That things I consider other, like microbes in my gut, constitute a
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by dexwiz 2y ago
I dunno about you, but I don't care about a computer program that believes it's me living on after I die. You can wrap it with all the feel good trappings you want, that set of bits is not you. If anything, living a life in a way
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by dexwiz 2y ago
You can work with third party recruiters. They are incentivized to find you a good job as their payout is coupled to your salary and you staying there for at least a given time.
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by dexwiz 2y ago
I think most people over estimate the average persons intelligence. Complaints like this are as old as time if you read primary sources from past generations.
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by dexwiz 2y ago
Couple of reasons - Point schemes. Every card has some sort of points system that encourages use. The best programs are often tied to specific products like airlines. Sometimes there are multipliers on specific categories of use like gas or
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by dexwiz 2y ago
Does anyone actually do this? I've never considered this as a practical method, mostly due to context seeming like the worst version of global, unserializable, irreproducible state. How do you maintain a system that you cannot easily i

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