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by dgreensp 4y ago
I’m glad, actually! I had some more direct feedback that I didn’t submit. It wasn’t clear at first, for example, if it uses GraphQL or offers an alternative that is as powerful (the answer seems to be “GraphQL or TypeScript,” whatever tha
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by dgreensp 4y ago
In the 90s, as I remember it, Macs didn’t have anything called a directory, while Windows and Unix-based OSes had only directories (at least among geeks). I still use “directory” today if it’s in a Windows, Linux, or general context; “fold
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by dgreensp 4y ago
There’s already a lot of creative work that is somewhat superficial and unoriginal but serves its purpose, for better or worse. There are pop songs I like, for example, where the lyrics could have been written by an AI (but the production
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by dgreensp 4y ago
Sometimes I imagine what it would look like if an old-school piece of technology like Sqlite had a buzzy marketing homepage. "The power of SQL meets the simplicity of a file. In your pocket." And the entire page would be a doze
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by dgreensp 4y ago
Yup. And even as I read my own comment, I can hear someone saying, “The long-term thesis remains sound!” and “Lots of other funds had similar losses!” and “How were we supposed to know, it was a perfect storm!” Meanwhile building bubbles
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by dgreensp 4y ago
So am I reading this right: If I have $1m of Tesla stock, and I borrow $1m to buy crypto, that’s zero “net borrowing,” because the stock is “liquid” so I can just repay the loan at any time. Then they both go down by 50%. Now I need more
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by dgreensp 4y ago
An essay about academia (versus software engineering in industry) would probably make slightly different points. Academics definitely know their history. Also, when an actual disruptive new technology is first invented, jumping on it and
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by dgreensp 4y ago
The idea that producing and consuming “stuff” is the end-all-be-all (more important than whether people have any money, for example) has already received too much emphasis in the last fifty years. It’s like, as long as people are buying TVs
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by dgreensp 4y ago
Agreed. The author says some intelligent things about why software has gotten so low-quality, and the experience of developing software and using software has gotten so bad, but they think it is a good thing. Imagine interviewing for a job
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by dgreensp 4y ago
I like posts like this, because software with these properties does deserve to be roasted. It seems like no one can figure out or remember anymore what's wrong with it, though. It's a valid question. But a couple clarifications.
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by dgreensp 4y ago
I was developing in Java right up until Maven became popular. We used to just download jars. What would you say is the main difference with Maven/Java vs NPM? My recollection is that Java libraries were larger, higher-quality, more s
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by dgreensp 4y ago
Draw Things is only for iOS. You can try to run it on a Mac, but it crashes for me. Also CoreML on a Mac seems to require macOS 13, which is reportedly buggy. I was going to update and changed my mind after reading people's experienc
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by dgreensp 4y ago
From the marketing, it seems targeted at groups of high school students who all happen to have thousand-dollar Apple tablets. I’ve been using Macs since 1989, and I don’t get this. I’ll try it with my kids, though. We all have iPads. The
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by dgreensp 4y ago
As a parent, I find the first part relatable. Monster trucks are for boys or girls or whoever wants them IMO.
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by dgreensp 4y ago
Just because the US might be able to manufacture something high-tech again doesn’t mean the death of anything… like maybe globalization will get 5% less extreme, before turning around or doing whatever it does next? I don’t see how the e
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by dgreensp 4y ago
At the start of the article it cites Amazon’s “declining profits,” but later it says Amazon’s $386 billion a year in profits is growing at a slowing pace and might start growing by less than 20% year over year. What hardship.
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by dgreensp 4y ago
I agree, the writing is entertaining, but it doesn't stick to any particular points. If it did, there would be more accountability for the author to say things that lead to useful conclusions, I think. At times I found myself wonderi
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by dgreensp 4y ago
> We need a free speech culture to reap the benefits of free speech law No we don't. This essay is trying so hard to say that while de-platforming may not be government censorship, it's just as bad. But it's not. In Chi
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by dgreensp 4y ago
I think he got it well enough, it's just not his truth. Like if Watts says, "Life isn't a journey, it's a dance," one can hear that and say, "Ok, I get what you're going for, I've reflected on it deep
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by dgreensp 4y ago
Great. FYI, the issue with pyyaml was caused by the "--pre" flag. The reason installing it separately fixes the problem is because it installs it without the "--pre" flag, and then it is already installed when you inst
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by dgreensp 4y ago
Wow, I'm getting as low as 1.2 seconds per "step" (about a minute for a 512x512 image with default settings) on my 32 GB M1 laptop (2021, 16-inch).
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by dgreensp 4y ago
I'm working on getting this running. Instead of "venv/bin/activate" I had to run "source venv/bin/activate". And I got an error installing the requirements, fixed by running "pip install p
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by dgreensp 4y ago
I disagree, Microsoft Word on a Mac in the 90s was lightning fast and rock solid. Few apps start up instantly in 2022. Many require a good network connection and/or a half a gigabyte of RAM, for no good reason.
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by dgreensp 4y ago
Installing a gigabyte of NPM packages (or whatever is being said to be faster) a little bit faster and a little bit worse is not that interesting IMO. I actually use Deno right now because I only use a handful of third-party dependencies
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by dgreensp 4y ago
I've been needing to vent about this. I have two kids and we play Minecraft, Starcraft, and other Blizzard games and Steam games, on the LAN; we have several computers, both Macs and PCs, in the household. The amount of "updatin
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by dgreensp 4y ago
> Everyone I know is scheming for the future. They’ve got big goals and get up every day and work like mad to try to achieve them. > Like—say your startup goes public and you become a billionaire. What now? What will you buy, where wi
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by dgreensp 4y ago
Perhaps the author: posits skill when isn’t. Yeah, something seemed a little “off” about the writing style, in an unusual way. This is “real writing,” I take it?
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by dgreensp 4y ago
It's really true. Politically, I am a progressive (in US terms). The way these companies describe the problem and solution -- the model data reflects our culture back at us, so we are not giving anyone access to it -- is so nonsensic
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by dgreensp 4y ago
Incredible article! What strikes me about EA is the lack of values around family, community, or civics. If you value the life and happiness of every human on the planet equally, except maybe yourself, I’d venture to say you are not ok. Yo
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by dgreensp 4y ago
I skimmed the article, but what makes Android not sufficient to interact with Muse? I haven’t tried Muse, but I’ve thought plenty about building a local-first notebook app for thinking. Something about pen input or UI jank? Muse seems le

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