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by eadmund 1y ago
> Keeping code in Dropbox kinda sucks even with 1 or .5 developers though. That said, yeah, a regular old git or (I assume, never used it) svn seems fine. What you do is store the git repo in Dropbox, and developers just use it as a remo
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by eadmund 1y ago
> a small team of ~1.5 full-time engineers Yes, with one and a half FTEs you should only have a single repo. My experience with Bazel has been extremely bad, but I don’t think that it should necessarily be avoided completely. It may act
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by eadmund 1y ago
> a union, trade organization, or government entity. Defined benefit plans work well when risk is spread, proper actuarial oversight is used Note that all three of those are subject to democratic capture, in which low-information voters
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by eadmund 1y ago
Be very very careful about what you wish for: your definition of who’s wronged whom and others’ definition of who’s wronged whom are going to vary, and often be in direct opposition.
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by eadmund 1y ago
> It also defends against random internet crazies who are mad at you because you scammed them. Or think you scammed them! Crazies gonna crazy. > how much attention of any sort does the average garage startup get? I think that anyon
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I imagine that most people hate random Internet crazies showing up at their homes. When one starts in a garage, one doesn’t have an office yet.
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by eadmund 1y ago
I desperately want real, thick scrollbars again. It is becoming close to impossible to use the mouse with browsers and websites. I do understand why designers don’t wish to clutter their pretty UIs with navigation elements, but surely th
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by eadmund 1y ago
> Go can decode numbers losslessly as strings: https://pkg.go.dev/encoding/json#Number Yup, and if you’re using JSON in Go you really do need to be using Number exclusively. Anything else will lead to pain. > I&
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by eadmund 1y ago
> Your example uses s-expressions, not canonical s-expressions. I’ve always used ‘canonical S-expressions’ to refer to Rivest’s S-expressions proposal: https://www.ietf.org/archive/id/draft-rivest-sexp-13.html ,
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> I feel like not understanding why JSON won out is being intentionally obtuse. I didn’t feel like my comment was the right place to shill for an alternative, but rather to complain about JSON. But since you raise it. > JSON can easi
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by eadmund 1y ago
Because canonical S-expressions don’t have numbers, just atoms (i.e., byte sequences) and lists. It is up to the using code to interpret "34" as the string "34" or the number 34 or the number 13,108 or the number 13,363
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by eadmund 1y ago
> So, yes, instead of saying that "e" equals "65537", you're saying that "e" equals "AQAB". Aren't you glad you did those extra steps? Oh JSON. For those unfamiliar with the reason here,
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by eadmund 1y ago
> At least it's not dead yet. It’s pining for the fjords!
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by eadmund 1y ago
> In what places do courts ignore or modify law to deliver the result they prefer? The United States. E.g. ‘the switch in time that saved nine,’ Wickard v. Filburn, Obergefell v. Hodges, Gonzales v. Raich and so forth.
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by eadmund 1y ago
Interestingly, HN now runs in Clarc, an Arc dialect written in Common Lisp: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41683969 So everyone reading HN is in a sense using Common Lisp!
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Greenspun's 10th rule and the sad state of software quality(gist.github.com)
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by eadmund 1y ago
My issue with Airbnb stays is privacy. I don’t trust that the vendors (they’re really not ‘hosts’ nowadays) have not placed cameras and microphones throughout the rooms. I do trust that most (not all!) hotel owners don’t.
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I can’t determine if seven permits in three months is good or bad, but it seems surprising. There’s certainly a ton of work they have in front of them, and no doubt it’s larger than they are typically scaled for. Could they pull in additio
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by eadmund 1y ago
> Today, almost 90% of Icelandic workers benefit from a reduced working week of 36 hours, compared with 40 hours previously, with no loss of pay. > Unlike some countries, such as Belgium, where the four-day week means that hours not w
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Los Angeles Post-Wildfire Permitting Process Dashboard(recovery.lacounty.gov)
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by eadmund 1y ago
> This is the price of a unified input bar. I never saw what was wrong with having a URL and a search box in the same bar. It was fine, and I knew that whatever I typed into the URL bar would be treated as a URL. Fast forward a few year
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by eadmund 1y ago
> the scientific opinion is that there are no safe amounts of alcohol consumption That is incorrect. For it to be true, a single drink in one’s life would be an unsafe amount — and that is clearly nonsense. Alcohol and tobacco have posi
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A pack of cigarettes a year isn’t going to have any appreciable harm. A cigar a month isn’t going to have any appreciable harm. A pipe every few days isn’t going to have any appreciable harm. But all of those will improve the quality of o
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by eadmund 1y ago
> Would you believe me and would you immediately start following the advice if I told you that the key to a healthy life is "Surround yourself with meaningful relationships, sleep well, eat well, exercise, don't drink alcohol,
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Meanwhile, those who are for socialism usually have an idealised version of it in their heads and those against it have some very specific issue in mind. People are funny.
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> That should be more offensive than cartoons. In a just world. If the complaint is true, then yes it is offensive and the results will be more serious than being required to refile the complaint without the watermark. The process of
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by eadmund 1y ago
> … their crawler kills your site and their LLM steals views by regurgitation answers based on your work How is that different from a human being reading my underwater basket weaving site and starting his own, ‘stealing’ ‘my’ views? Or
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by eadmund 1y ago
> I was trying to download some raw files from git repository and instead of data got bunch of html. After quick look it turned out to be Anubis HTML page. Yup. Anubis breaks the web. And it requires JavaScript, which also breaks the we
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by eadmund 1y ago
> With AI companies, the goal is to consume and replace. I don’t think that’s really true. The AI companies’ goal is to consume and create something else. > You won't get anything in return for providing content to AI companies.
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by eadmund 1y ago
> On the other it’s accumulating more and more with a few firms giving them exceptional power. I think that the next step will be for individual investors to instruct that their shares be voted according to certain guides. And then the

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