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by fwlr 4y ago
Counterpoint: Carmack worked at Meta on the Oculus, he had as much visibility as it’s possible to have on the problems, their fixes, and whether the fixes would break things. He doesn’t spell it out in the tweet but the kinds of issues he t
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by fwlr 4y ago
Not true! There’s the indirect mechanism you might be referring to when you say “both can be used for energy”: adipose tissue releases triglycerides, liver extracts glucose from triglycerides, muscle tissue stores glucose as glycogen. And t
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by fwlr 4y ago
I would caution against relying too much on the physics of “calories in, calories out”. While it is iron-clad and incontrovertibly true that it is physically impossible to increase in mass if you consume fewer calories than you expend, “cal
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by fwlr 4y ago
This one tells a story > Create portfolio.fuck.html (about 12 hours ago) > Update portfolio.fuck.html (about 12 hours ago) > Update portfolio.fuck.html (about 12 hours ago) > Update portfolio.fuck.html (about 12 hours ago) >
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by fwlr 4y ago
Wikipedia claims Congress has passed over 30,000 statues in its time. That is however many millions of words worth of edifice and cruft surrounding the Constitution and subtly altering its meaning and influence over time. (That’s the mechan
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by fwlr 4y ago
The web is sorely lacking a thorough “Best Practices for Reporting Errors to Users” reference document. Nielsen Norman Group has a decent short page with some suggestions https://www.nngroup.com/articles/error-message-
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by fwlr 4y ago
The article is a response to Australian government plans to build 10,000km of new high voltage cable, and quotes the 1km Essen superconductor cable as costing $20m. So that’s $200 billion, then?
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by fwlr 4y ago
One of the biggest embarrassments for OpenAI/Microsoft/Google has been their AI chatbots having infinite confidence in every word they say. Certainly all three corporations are right now working on ways to give their LLMs some abi
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by fwlr 4y ago
It would be nice to to have something like caniuse.com or dpi.lv, but for “usable storage space on device”. I doubt it would shame most manufacturers into actually providing what they advertise, but it might just create enough visibility fo
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by fwlr 4y ago
“Going forward, Akamai’s rent-a-server cloud services will be called Linode” would have been a better solution, yeah. So the way you say “Amazon EC2” or “Amazon AWS”, you’d say “Akamai Linode”. The only downside is that inevitably people wo
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by fwlr 4y ago
According to BP (pdf https://www.bp.com/content/dam/bp/country-sites/en_au/austra... ) stored fuel whether petrol or diesel has a shelf life of about one year. If no new ICE cars are sold in Europe p
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by fwlr 4y ago
From a quick review of the games listed on https://games.skillz.com/popular there are a few that are purely luck-based (Blackout Bingo, Bingo Cash), most that have a very small skill or strategy cap before they’re luck-domi
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by fwlr 4y ago
I did not say we should feel bad for Russian soldiers dying (though we should), and I definitely did not say we should not feel bad for Ukrainian children dying (we definitely should). I said we should not celebrate videos of Russian soldie
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by fwlr 4y ago
“Not for military use” is a perfectly fine condition for an ISP to impose on their services. There is a tendency recently to view Ukrainian victory over Russia as some kind of overriding moral imperative, so much so that other morals are be
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by fwlr 4y ago
>”Hire people who share your values/goals and let them get on with things" is hardly a novel insight. Right, because it’s not the same thing. If you hear “hire people who share your values/goals and let them get on with th
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by fwlr 4y ago
In no particular order of importance, and likely in far too much detail: You Need More Lumens ( https://meaningness.com/sad-light-lumens ) prompted me to put lots of really strong LED lights in my living and working spaces. S
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by fwlr 4y ago
> The rules would essentially require all new residential construction to have electric water heaters by 2027 and heat pumps instead of furnaces by 2029. Not to be overly snide, but does the Bay Area even do any “new residential construc
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by fwlr 4y ago
This post links to an article, “People can read their manager’s mind”, which is truly a gem. It argues that employees have the time and the incentive to figure out what their manager truly values, and the employees will then pay lip service
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by fwlr 4y ago
David Chapman (the author of this) has had a large influence on my thinking, right up there with Thomas Sowell, Robert Kegan, Sarah Perry, and Douglas Hofstadter. His thesis here is fully opposed to my beliefs. He makes a distinction, betwe
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by fwlr 4y ago
Assuming this is real (there seems to be some doubt about that over on Reddit), I wonder if it’s an unintended side-effect of something Microsoft did to harden the Bing chatbot against prompt injection. I know ChatGPT is extraordinarily “gu
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by fwlr 4y ago
Lifting gasses provide two things: lift (of course), but also structural integrity: their desire to expand reinforces the structure containing them. Vacuum provides slightly more lift than helium but also provides negative structural integr
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by fwlr 4y ago
I remember good times reading bash.org’s QDB. A discord/IRC/chat log is a comfortable way of consuming information! Collect answers from discord and publish them in a style similar to QDB and that’s 80-95% of the issue you describ
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by fwlr 4y ago
Trunk-based development reminds me of Agile Development: the drawbacks mostly accrue to the developers while the benefits mostly accrue to the managers.
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by fwlr 4y ago
Seems like we’re mostly finished with denial and we’ve moved on to anger. After that comes bargaining, then depression, then acceptance. (Whether for good reasons, evil reasons, or stupid reasons, the public trust in “public health” has bee
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by fwlr 4y ago
I transitioned from oh-my-zsh to prezto a few years back and really liked it. Equal or better in every way, sometimes much better (speed and customization in particular, prezto is fast and guides you to customize in maintainable ways)
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by fwlr 4y ago
No, I believe managers do useful work. What I mean is that knowledge workers have discovered they have the capability to do their job just as effectively when remote, while managers have simultaneously discovered they don’t have the capabil
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The cynical answer to that question is ”you don’t need to be in the office to do your work, but your manager does need you in the office to do his work”.
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I’m not too surprised to find that my intuition and copyright/patent law differ
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I guess I’ve always looked at it as “once you publish your data publicly hoping for others to read it, it stops being ‘your data’ and becomes ‘content, made by you’ and you have less rights over it”. It’s only with these recent reactions to
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by fwlr 4y ago
A comment on that post: “I’m the original author of this code, though I no longer maintain it. ”Just want to give folks a heads-up that we’ve been in discussion with various parties about this for some time now, as we agree the negative eff

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