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by eloisius 5y ago
I'm also not a Luddite, so if it seems I'm making a vast anti-tech argument, I'm truly not. It's easy to get drawn into a futurism vs tradition argument, but I don't want to take either side in that debate. I love t
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by eloisius 5y ago
Screenshots of woodwork? Edit: sorry that was unreasonably snarky. I know you're looking for pictures. The CNC-milled kind that I am talking about are easy to find. Google image search 'curved handrail cnc.' I'm actually
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by eloisius 5y ago
I'd love to see a study done on this. What you you wrote made me think of Phaedrus slowly losing his mind trying to define quality in Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance. Quality goods are still available, even if they are burie
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by eloisius 5y ago
It may not spotlight the fact that lower prices facilitate accessibility, but I'm not oblivious to it. I definitely don't want to exchange cheap cotton knit t-shirts with hand-woven garments that cost me a month's labor or so
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by eloisius 5y ago
Same. I used to be absolutely starry eyed about the endless possibilities of digital tech. Now anytime I see computers getting involved where they previously were not, it's just a cost savings measure resulting in a severely inferior p
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by eloisius 5y ago
I'm probably way in over my head with making a good case for how this resembles dynamic languages, but what I had in mind was trait objects. You can box a struct and refer to it as a trait object (aka type erasure). Thereafter, the rec
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by eloisius 5y ago
Rust’s traits come to mind. If it quacks like an Iterable it’s an Interable
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by eloisius 5y ago
My dad was a stair builder his whole career until finally becoming a freelance carpenter after getting laid off. Stairs, like bricks, are probably another implement that us techies use daily with absolutely no appreciation for complexity an
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by eloisius 5y ago
Your life sounds really interesting. If you've written more about it somewhere, I'd love to read it.
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by eloisius 5y ago
SEEKING WORK | Taipei, Taiwan (GMT+8) | Remote OK Generalist engineer with 11 years of professional experience. I’ve worked at big and small companies, as CTO of a startup, and done lots of consulting. Most of that time was doing web stuff,
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by eloisius 5y ago
Did they have to write it in a google doc with no ability to compile and run their code?
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by eloisius 5y ago
Signing a peittion earned me so spam one time that it helped motivate me to move my email from gmail.com to my own domain, so I'd say it's not useless.
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by eloisius 5y ago
Same observation. I also smoked weed in my teens and early twenties and I remember it making some of the most banal horse shit ideas seem profound, or like I really understand how the universe clicked together. I bet hanging out with a bunc
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by eloisius 5y ago
Or it will at least become a cheap barometer used by journalists: Materials so offensive that they are automatically rejected by all major social networks.
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by eloisius 5y ago
A new vernacular to interface with tools that never reveal the actual state of a system under their control, and forbid you to directly influence it. You are granted the privilege to express your limited desires, from which the system will
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by eloisius 5y ago
Oh, then I stand corrected. The last time a vulnerability in Messages was making the rounds, I thought that I learned it was possible because Messages is part of the OS and not just a pre-installed app, though I can't remember where I
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by eloisius 5y ago
I'm not old enough to remember Gopher being "the internet" but I have browsed a few retro sites that still run it. I wouldn't mind seeing some slightly upgraded gopher-like protocol that allowed for embedding images and
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by eloisius 5y ago
Even harder to understand why it's so important for Messages to have special functionality so that has to be integrated with the OS instead of run in user space.
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by eloisius 5y ago
Yes, it's nice to have it _when you need it_, but consider all your other honest customers that years later discover your kill switches littered throughout the code they paid you to write. They'll have to pay some other developer
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by eloisius 5y ago
If by the place I work at you mean nowhere, yes I own a lot of equity there. But in my past employment and contracting relationships, equity or not, I can't imagine shipping code with kill switches or booby traps that weren't in t
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by eloisius 5y ago
So you wasted their time and money writing “traps” in the code? Sounds really unethical.
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by eloisius 5y ago
Well said. Try quitting work and indulging those activities for a while. I don't think of myself as a particularly boring person. I love bike touring, and I live in a foreign country with all kinds of interesting places, food and cultu
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by eloisius 5y ago
Wow, this post is an incredible example of gut-wrenching honesty about things working out differently than expected. I'm eight months into life without work right now, and can relate to a lot of this. I didn't make a plan to retir
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by eloisius 5y ago
So long as the "copilot" is a black box that no one can inspect, how is it substantially different than me creating a website with a link to download a licensing-stripped version of Microsoft office, but it only gives you a verbat
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by eloisius 5y ago
I just recently learned this, but in Taiwan it's a fineable offense to use your cellphone while walking on the street. It doesn't seem to be widely enforced, but I was very surprised that it's on the books at least.
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by eloisius 5y ago
Dear god I wish they would, or segregate notifications into channels that can be subscribed to, or require developers to submit a template for each notification[0], or let me match with a regex. Anything. Notifications should strictly be fo
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by eloisius 5y ago
He's the founder of the Center for Human Technology[1] [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tristan_Harris
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by eloisius 5y ago
Yeah, I guess I should state the obvious punchline in case anyone is dumb enough to follow the fringe diet advice they read on HN: Drinking bleach will kill you and thus purge you of all past trauma and negative emotions.
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by eloisius 5y ago
I posit that drinking a daily capful of bleach will purge you of past trauma and negative emotions. Your critique is irrelevant unless you try it.
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by eloisius 5y ago
This is clearly (at least to the Western sensibilities) a vast government overreach into private life, but can we marvel for a second at a company employing AI to curb addictive behavior towards its product? I definitely don't agree wi

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