gushogg-blake

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by gushogg-blake 11mo ago
More detail: one of the amounts in May was £170.68. The amount yesterday was £24.51. Also: if the amount requested had been my exact balance, I don't see any reason why it wouldn't have succeeded. I have successfully paid them twi
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Ask HN: Have I found a bug in the debit card network?
2 points by gushogg-blake 11mo ago|9 comments
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by gushogg-blake 2y ago
Yeah, having dedicated operators for going the other way just fit my mental model better for the types of tasks I had in mind for it.
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by gushogg-blake 2y ago
I think calculators should have "into" and "from" so you can do division and subtraction on the previous result without retyping it. I made a demo: https://fluent-calc.vercel.app/ Also supports saving a
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by gushogg-blake 2y ago
Gus Hogg-Blake Generalist full-stack developer with experience at Chess.com, Financial Times, Cambridge University and various startups. Wrote my own code editor with multi-language syntax highlighting, including the complete text editing c
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by gushogg-blake 2y ago
I did some work on structural editing a while back, using Tree-sitter to get the AST (abstract syntax tree, the parse tree used for structural edits). I now use the editor as my daily driver but don't use or feel the need for structura
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by gushogg-blake 2y ago
The fact that Christians generally don't like to vote (which I wasn't aware of until just now) is relevant to the question of why he said "we'll fix it so good, you won't have to vote".
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by gushogg-blake 2y ago
I agree that he probably wasn't talking about getting rid of voting altogether, but I'm still not sure on the logic of him getting the government into such good shape that Christians wouldn't need to vote anymore -- surely it
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by gushogg-blake 2y ago
https://x.com/Acyn/status/1817007890496102490 According to Snopes[0] he claims he was urging Christians specifically (who don't usually vote in high numbers) to vote "just this time", then they woul
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by gushogg-blake 2y ago
Can you be more specific? I wasn't sure if I'd got the idea across there but maybe it seems narcissistic/sycophantic anyway. I'm not married to the idea at all, but it is something that's occurred to me. Also not su
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I'm Looking for Meaningful Work(gushoggblake.substack.com)
1 points by gushogg-blake 2y ago|2 comments
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by gushogg-blake 2y ago
No I guess there must be some people for whom it isn't obvious. I was kind of assuming the intended audience for the advice was people who are interested enough in diet to look at a book on nutrition, for example, not people who just e
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by gushogg-blake 2y ago
This advice has always come off as paternalistic to me, like the emphasis is on people just not being able to control themselves or something. The first part is obvious. The second part smuggles in a fundamentally incorrect take on the &quo
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by gushogg-blake 2y ago
This is just wrong as far as I know. How are you defining complete nutrition and where did you get the idea that you can get it from an all-plant diet but not an all-meat one?
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by gushogg-blake 2y ago
It's not insane if it works.
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by gushogg-blake 2y ago
I've advocated something similar. Don't just describe the tool at a high level (people often seem to go into marketing mode) - tell the story of what problem it was designed to solve and the trade offs you made along the way. Make
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by gushogg-blake 2y ago
No, there is actually a fascial connection that runs all the way from the tongue to the big toe I think. The idea is that tension or misconfiguration at one end of this connection could affect the other end. So in this case, maybe modern na
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by gushogg-blake 2y ago
(The relationship with tongue posture is possibly two-way - lack of chewing and/or proper tongue posture causes the upper jaw to develop narrower, which eventually prevents the tongue from adopting its ideal position suctioned to the r
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by gushogg-blake 2y ago
Haha, yeah I can see why it would sound like that if you haven't experienced similar issues. I would disagree on 99% of people not having tongue posture issues though. If you look at the structure of a lot of modern people's faces
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by gushogg-blake 2y ago
Thanks for the comments. I wasn't expecting this to get on the front page (although that is why I posted it, obviously) and kind of wish I'd spent more time thinking about what I actually wanted to say first. If I'm 100% hone
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by gushogg-blake 2y ago
It certainly wasn't meant to be dismissive, can see how it would come across like that though. I kind of rushed this post out, and really should have stopped to think more about what I wanted to say and how - wasn't expecting it t
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by gushogg-blake 2y ago
I had a similar-ish realisation recently when writing a business plan - having the ability to program felt like a massive advantage (for e.g. writing a dynamic cashflow forecast) but programming wasn't the main goal.
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by gushogg-blake 2y ago
I think it applies to an extreme degree in programming - but probably in eng. & STEM fields generally as well. Something about having to care a lot about very small details, and especially when the big picture is not something you parti
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by gushogg-blake 2y ago
To be honest I've just never really liked programming for work, and have felt kind of trapped in it as my only source of good money for a few years. So there's probably some bitterness there that I don't mean to offend anyone
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by gushogg-blake 2y ago
That has certainly been a major aspect of it in the past - feeling like I don't have enough autonomy to decide on the best approaches etc - but I think now I probably have too much of a high-level "what are we actually doing here?
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by gushogg-blake 2y ago
Yeah, I think there's this idea of programming as something you 1) know how to do and then 2) can just sit at a computer and do some typing, and it happens. It's hard for outsiders to understand just how dependent it is on being e
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by gushogg-blake 2y ago
I've often thought we're doing something fundamentally wrong by treating programming like any other office job, or even like a "production" type job like manufacturing. It's of course nothing like that - as you say,
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by gushogg-blake 2y ago
Yeah this sounds a lot like me. I find it hard to imagine what kind of personality _could_ tolerate a software job. Maybe some people are more amenable to accepting the company's mission as part of their identity, and can therefore fin
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by gushogg-blake 2y ago
Yeah, it's probably a personality thing in large part. I find that the sense of my creative energy being wasted on something pointless disagrees with me so much that I'd rather do almost anything else (I actually find jobs to be a
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by gushogg-blake 2y ago
Yeah, true. I learnt to avoid those pretty quickly thanks to my fairly disagreeable and risk-tolerant nature. Still had some not very good experiences though.

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