errantmind

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by errantmind 4y ago
You ever just put a show on or pick up a book spontaneously, without really having a particular show or book in mind before you started? This is kind of like that, call it 'directed spontaneity'. You open the app to see interestin
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by errantmind 4y ago
Right, but it was never meant to specialize in user-directed filtering and discovery to the level you are describing. To your second point, every social context that gets 'cool' eventually gets LCDed into mediocrity (even HN). You
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by errantmind 4y ago
Isolated hashtags on IG were often not useful for finding specific content. To find what you want you'd need an interface to a page that showed posts across multiple hashtags which they didn't provide. For example, posts that cont
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by errantmind 4y ago
Would have been great if the acquisitions of Instagram and WhatsApp were also blocked, they were both anticompetitive and quickly degenerated in quality post-acquisition
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by errantmind 4y ago
Instagram's tagging system was actually really effective at categorizing content and discovery because each hashtag was treated as a node in a (giant) graph, where each node has multiple properties, including post count (number of post
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by errantmind 4y ago
Absolute free speech platforms don't work for the majority of people because they have no way of constraining participants to the Overton Window. It may be hard to understand for some, but there are topics that make people highly uncom
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by errantmind 4y ago
Thanks, just installed it and it has what I need in a weather app
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by errantmind 4y ago
Yes, non-notability decreases SNR because it ends up crowding articles into disambiguation pages which makes it more difficult to traverse related articles on the site. It is generally preferable not to stumble across non-notable articles w
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by errantmind 4y ago
SNR is important for information sources. If people don't meet the notability standards of Wikipedia they need to be removed.
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by errantmind 4y ago
> Older people in this category are now reluctant to say that they have accrued some useful knowledge to share and wisdom to impart > Other cultures figured out that older people are generally wiser. The more days you live, the more t
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by errantmind 4y ago
I know it is harsh to say, but whoever approved this should probably be sacked. This is really obviously a poor decision with respect to preserving/growing the userbase and will actually decrease privacy overall when fewer people are u
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by errantmind 4y ago
Apple has finally lost touch, it was bound to happen eventually. Ads will seriously hurt their reputation as a premium product. The ads will metastasize and spread from product to product, tainting everything they touch. This will make a go
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by errantmind 4y ago
> When healthcare CEO Martin Shkreli increased the cost of his company’s antiparasitic drug by 5,455 percent (from $13.50 to $750 per pill) in 2015, many were outraged. But Oshmyansky acted, because that’s what he does. I guess Shkreli w
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by errantmind 4y ago
Software patents, and patents in general, are a plague on the industry and should be abolished due to a lack of empirical evidence to justify their existence. As a thought experiment they make sense, but thought experiments often diverge fr
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by errantmind 4y ago
I commented on the github issue a while back as I was frustrated with this. I originally looked forward to splitting my projects between Zig and Rust depending on the project parameters, but because of this one seemingly small issue I will
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by errantmind 4y ago
This is affiliate blogspam. Why is this on HN?
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by errantmind 4y ago
This is the final form of rent-seeking.
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by errantmind 4y ago
There was nothing slow about society in that period.
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by errantmind 4y ago
Keeps the fan clean and extends its life.
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by errantmind 4y ago
Thinking app ideas are worth anything is naive. The nuance encountered while 'executing' dwarfs their significance. Anyone who has built anything knows this. The faster we collectively realize this, the faster we'll be able t
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by errantmind 4y ago
The mean is attracted to quality, but doesn't 'get it', and drags it down. So you end up with regression to the mean. It happens to everything 'cool' everywhere, all the time. When a community is young and niche, it
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by errantmind 4y ago
Who said anything about rolling your own? I'm talking about writing your data models directly to disk, the serialization and deserialization are done for you with a simple annotation. And in most applications you don't ever have t
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by errantmind 4y ago
It is too late for that.
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by errantmind 4y ago
Just wait until (some) devs realize they don't even need sqlite, and can serialize their data directly to binary flat files with simple locking synchronization for backups. I'm half joking but I've witnessed many devs use dat
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by errantmind 4y ago
For most applications, developing quickly is more valuable than correctness. That is why formal methods will likely never have widespread adoption. As for law, a judge always makes the final decision and they are not a formal method. It doe
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by errantmind 4y ago
It won't even do that. I live in Houston and there is no amount of security footage that will get HPD to investigate a crime if they aren't inclined. This has been proven to me on multiple occasions.
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by errantmind 4y ago
I think the acronym gained prominence before Microsoft's recent 'commitment' to open source. Netflix also seemed to be doing really interesting things scaling out 'disruption' to video delivery at the time. It stuck
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Because sellers cannot always raise prices to cover the fee increase. Demand is varying degrees of elastic
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by errantmind 5y ago
Live below your means and you will rarely, if ever, have financial issues. This requires a different perspective on 'having money'. For this you have to ditch the idea of signalling your wealth to your friends and colleagues and,
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by errantmind 5y ago
While a part of me would be pleased if social media companies went to oblivion, practically, I don't think large states can operate totally truthfully without collapse. Running a state is sometimes messy and most people have a very sim

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