dkarl

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by dkarl 4y ago
> Anger narrows your focus of attention on what you consider to be the 'threat' or 'obstacle', and anyone who's done technical work knows that the solution is often found by divergent thinking. This is an interes
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by dkarl 4y ago
Heck yeah. It's like pasta primavera and pasta bolognese. If you want one, you're not going to be happy with the other.
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by dkarl 4y ago
I love a good veggie patty burger. I also like the Impossible burger. I'd love to see both on a menu so I can choose the one I want. And heck I'll eat a meatburger on special occasions as well. There are a couple of local restaura
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by dkarl 4y ago
There's one complaint here that seems valid: > gives us a false sense of confidence in how much we know about the biological world A false sense of confidence could make people vulnerable to bold false claims, which might lead to po
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by dkarl 4y ago
I think what makes it not fun for me is seeing users screwed by things that shouldn't happen. Things we should have done right the first time. Things that can only happen because of bad technology choices. Things that take hours to fix
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by dkarl 4y ago
Yep. It's hard to be romantic when you're trying to get a fix out for customers that really need it, but the fix has to paper over years of ahem diverse approaches to data modeling, the tests you write to help you uncover unknow
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by dkarl 4y ago
I also think it was somewhat appropriate not to have a concrete idea of the future early in the pandemic. We didn't know what was coming. Lots of speculation turned out to be false. One scenario that was suggested very early on was a l
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by dkarl 4y ago
You have to ask what motivates the refactoring. It should speed up work in that part of the codebase, either by making the change faster or by reducing the time needed for follow-on bug fixes (which in my opinion is the same thing.) What&#x
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by dkarl 4y ago
> If you never have to come back to “fix it”, was it actually wrong to begin with? A dead simple and effective heuristic is to improve code a little bit each time you touch it. The code you touch a lot gets love and ends up nicely design
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by dkarl 4y ago
> And it has been quite surprising to discover that, behind the curtains, Airbus employees are much less corporate than we might think. It's depressing that this is surprising, and even more depressing that it gives him optimism abo
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by dkarl 4y ago
Hypocrites. Like a friend of mine who drives an electric car and takes 30+ flights per year including multiple trips across the Atlantic, entirely for pleasure, since selling his business and entering partial retirement. He's a bit of
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by dkarl 4y ago
Missing the "previous discussions" links showing it was posted in 2012, 2015, 2017, 2018, and twice in 2020.
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by dkarl 4y ago
Chromecast has somehow become ubiquitous without attracting much attention. I think even among the iPhone and Mac users I know, more of them use Chromecast than Apple TV, since they're so small and cheap. I bought one so I could cast a
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by dkarl 4y ago
> I've always been amazed at how US sporting events involve a lot of alcohol but rarely have significant conflicts I think there's a different cultural attitude towards fighting here. Fighting with fists is something boys do th
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by dkarl 4y ago
When my wife makes apple pie, she alternates Granny Smith slices with slices of a sweeter apple (I don't remember which.) It works well for my taste.
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by dkarl 4y ago
> RTFM or even WTFYV (watch the f**g youtube video) For anyone wondering, a great FV if you feel like you are using git without understanding the fundamentals is Git For Ages 4 and Up [0]. [0] https://www.youtube.com/watc
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by dkarl 4y ago
There's a lot of truth to this. Every company I worked at before git, branching was an advanced operation and merging was a wizard operation. You'd have a few senior developers (not even all the senior developers) who were confide
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by dkarl 4y ago
I'm using Obsidian and Inkdrop now. I need to download Simplenote. I'm also putatively trying Joplin and Notion, but they seem to be losing out; I need to try harder with them for a bit and then drop them if they don't catch
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by dkarl 4y ago
I agree and disagree. I agree with you because I think they ruined a perfectly good product by trying to turn it into a "collaboration tool" that they could sell big corporate contracts for. On the other hand, I think collaborativ
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by dkarl 4y ago
I loved the integration among all my devices as well. I think that's table stakes for note-taking apps. So often I jot something down at my computer and then walk out the door with only my phone. However, their constant UI changes were
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by dkarl 4y ago
> It's common to say something like "If you aren't changing jobs every 2-4 years you are leaving a ton of money on the table", that's mostly true but one other big benefit of moving companies is you get to expose
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by dkarl 4y ago
> it's presented more as mathematics than as computer science: you can work through the whole thing with pen and paper There's so much in software development that is shallow if you understand the motivation, or a key bit of co
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by dkarl 4y ago
I'm not a fan of crypto, but when I read things like this, I have mixed feelings. Porn showing homosexual acts is illegal in some countries. Abortion is becoming illegal in many parts of the US. It's a conflict that isn't goi
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by dkarl 4y ago
I think the parallel is that people don't click on a link to send an email to someone for the first time. They copy and paste an email address into the "To" field of their email client. Same thing with getting someone's
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by dkarl 4y ago
> I tell you that, equally, the world is full of situations where you get 0% of the payoff unless you've done 100% of the work. It depends on your perspective. For a lot of those 100% situations, you could think up some high-effort,
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by dkarl 4y ago
They aren't going to learn that in a day or a week or a month. Maybe a year if they're extremely bright or are in a perfect environment for figuring it out, but most people take years. This article is a few minutes out of that hyp
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by dkarl 4y ago
I don't think every article has to "teach the controversy." This is an article for programmers who don't know the upsides of types. What's more, for a programmer who doesn't get the value of types, the major do
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by dkarl 4y ago
I think it was designed as a low-level browser standard, not an authoring language. It is supposed to provide a stable, standardized target for authoring languages to compile to. Think of it as WASM for math markup. It makes sense if langua
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> as if this wasn't the whole point to begin with. The upper class owns journalism and this state of affairs was very much the goal There's more to it than that. Intellectuals look at the parallels between race and class and se
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What confused me about "remember shit that you are interested in" is that I use several different kinds of apps for that already. Google, Pocket, a note-taking app, a list app. Heck, Anki fits the description as well. I watched t

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