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by erikw 3y ago
I liked his podcast Lexicon Valley so much that I went back and listened through every episode. It’s had a large impact on my thinking about language and empathy for communication. I went from thinking there was a “right” way to use langu
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by erikw 3y ago
I’ll echo this sentiment. While it may take a while to figure out how to do something initially, the great thing about NixOS is that you only have to figure out how to do it exactly once. As far as my main desktop OS, I figured out a config
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by erikw 4y ago
I reached out to Microsoft to try to buy the rights to it several years ago. They referred me to the original developer in Germany, but they either weren’t interested, or the ownership was too complicated. I’d love a modern version of Urban
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by erikw 4y ago
Anathem and The Baroque Cycle both took me two tries as well. The second half of Anathem is an action-adventure book mix of Zodiac and Seveneves, so it gets really engaging. The Baroque Cycle eventually sucked me in because I felt like I re
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Working with stacked branches in Git is easier with –update-refs(andrewlock.net)
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by erikw 5y ago
OnShape is definitely more limited, even compared to Fusion 360. However, I've moved to it as my main CAD tool, since it works on Linux and Fusion 360 licensing is so problematic. Fusion 360 also has a web interface, but it doesn'
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by erikw 5y ago
I really missed out back in the early 2000s when companies were throwing away their old plotters and replacing them with massive inkjet printers. I've since gotten into 3D printing as a hobby, and recently have been playing around with
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by erikw 5y ago
Sorry, I didn't intend to apply a causative relationship, and should have worded it better. What I mean is that the policies of modern Peronist ideology clearly aren't effective, but (outside of the failure of the centre-right Mac
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by erikw 5y ago
I was hoping for an in depth historical treatment of Argentina's fall from the club of wealthy nations, but this article feels much more shallow. It's immediately clear that the author is neither an economist nor sociologist, and
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by erikw 5y ago
Unfortunately if you have equity in the business, you'll get taxed. However, if you are only an employee, you get an exemption on something like $150,000 of income, housing, and other expenses. So as a US citizen, you can avoid taxes o
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by erikw 5y ago
I miss the excuse to ride my bike on a commute every morning, but I'm definitely not going back to an office anytime soon. Hopefully companies will become more open to remote working. There is supposedly a shortage of software develope
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by erikw 5y ago
I'd be interested to hear more about how you're using NixOS if it isn't something you've already written about. My guess is that you're mostly leveraging the declarative configuration and immutability for internal i
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by erikw 5y ago
NixOS is the perfect OS for embedded Linux use, and I'm surprised that it hasn't seen any commercial uptake. I hope that some company adopts it for an IoT product or something so that it gets some love. I've been messing arou
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by erikw 5y ago
The linked PDF doesn't seem to mention anything related specifically to C++. It says that it is possible for bit flips to affect software. They then suggest that Toyota should have used the following practices: • “Near-perfect” softwar
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by erikw 5y ago
I don't have the numbers, but I suspect the brain-drain is near total, and irreversible for a few generations. The last time I did a round of interviews, about two years ago with half a dozen companies in Chile, at least half of the se
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by erikw 5y ago
This looks like a really interesting take, in that it doesn't implement an i3 style bar, but rather keeps the native Windows taskbar interface. I'll be giving it a try when a binary release is available. I gave Workspacer a try, a
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by erikw 6y ago
SEEKING WORK | Chile (UTC-3, overlaps with US continental timezones) | Remote I work with my wife to help businesses sell online. I mostly do software development & ops, and she mostly does design, marketing, & Shopify. We both rece
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by erikw 6y ago
Interesting- they mention an example of adding a return type if you've "identified a slow part of your code". How would you identify that the complier is struggling in a particular area?
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by erikw 6y ago
Elm enforces this since 2014 at the package manager level. They are able to do this because since the language is pure, the compiler knows if a function's signature has changed. If you are changing implementation details that don'
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by erikw 6y ago
Many countries have a minimum salary limit which qualifies you (and potentially your family) to live there. For example, last I looked into it several years ago, Spain's minimum salary for a remote working visa was USD $36,000.
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by erikw 6y ago
What is the tooling and workflow you use for this? It's not something that had occurred to me, but now that you mention it, it seems like something I'd like to try. Edit: It looks like none of the major bundlers support this featu
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by erikw 6y ago
I don't think this is actually true. I have not been able to find any sources referencing an actual bug and patch. Toyota, NASA, and the NHTSA did not report any issues. Nevertheless, Toyota lost a jury trial with this rather hilarious
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by erikw 6y ago
Cool, it looks like this addresses one of the toughest parts of running a small ISP, which is a chicken-and-egg problem of having enough support operatives for your users, and enough user revenue to hire for support. Fortunately big ISPs ha
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by erikw 6y ago
It looks like you're in Ecuador, and that makes it a lot tougher. 1. Are you an agency or a solo developer? If it's just you or you and a friend or two, you might get a better response building up your personal brand rather than r
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by erikw 6y ago
For small businesses that are able to move online, there is no shortage of revenue available. In the article they mention a yoga studio owner closing up her shop. I agree that a yoga studio is pretty tough to move online. They also mention
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by erikw 6y ago
The linked Techcrunch article is pretty light on actual content. The actual Cloudflare blogpost describes what this product is: "We are extending our CPU limits to allow customers to bring all of their workloads onto Workers, no matter
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by erikw 6y ago
I enjoyed this podcast, but they seemed to imply that this economist invented the idea. A currency tied an inflation-sensitive basket of goods is an example of a "unit of account"[0], see for example the UF[1], which Chile has use
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by erikw 6y ago
Wow, this should at least provide for some very interesting natural sociological experiments. For context, I make less than this as a software developer in Chile, and still have no problems saving and living a comfortable lifestyle. This is
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by erikw 6y ago
I too am curious about the internal motivations of people who work for Facebook. Something I've noticed about myself is that I would be okay with working for a US defense contractor, ie a company which makes machines that literally kil
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by erikw 6y ago
Nix seems to be heading toward a critical mass in Germany. I use NixOS for my work computer, and couldn't imagine using any other OS. I keep a LinkedIn search open for nixos, and almost all of the hits are German. I'm interested i

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