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by halfcat 3y ago
Cal Newport talks about a middle level: - Write for yourself - Write for editing - Write for the audience He recommends writing for editing, for an editor to approve or reject, as a strategy to improve one’s writing. Writing for yourself ha
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by halfcat 3y ago
> we can't make a market Bingo. It takes a buyer and a seller to close a deal. Supply going the wrong way with layoffs, demand going the wrong way with interest rates. Like a traffic jam, takes time to unwind the backlog.
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by halfcat 3y ago
The main difference is there’s at least 1 company using FastUI /s (but only half)
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by halfcat 3y ago
> why would I want to make a forum post asking for help, only to get a single response hours later, when I can chat with other users in real-time on Discord I’ve never had questions of any substance solved in Discord (or any chat), excep
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by halfcat 3y ago
Ah, brings back memories of chess programming where this stuff was discussed often. See [1] for more of this. I always found Kogge Stone [2] pretty cool, a kind of bit-twiddling flood-fill. [1] https://www.chessprogramming.org&#x
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by halfcat 3y ago
There’s a difference between completing 80% of the work, and ruling out 80% of the options. We could rule out 80% of the options and still have 99% of the work yet to be completed. Like if we’re looking for a bacteria on the land surface of
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by halfcat 3y ago
Django has all that built in: auth, users, CRUD. It comes with a built in admin portal that lets you work with all your data in list views and detail views, with sorting, filtering, and searching. For a lot of scenarios you can get away wit
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by halfcat 3y ago
> It's made me suspicious of pretty much anyone selling their insights and made it hard to determine which are of actual value. My experience from going down this road with trading financial markets, where there’s as much snake oil
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by halfcat 3y ago
Not to mention, for the vast majority of human existence, one’s survival depended on not being ostracized from the group. It’s very much hard-wired into us.
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by halfcat 3y ago
We’ve used this [1] library before and were able to customize it pretty heavily. [1] https://github.com/neuronetio/gantt-schedule-timeline-calend...
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by halfcat 3y ago
> Simple deployments, version management, rollbacks, etc... There is nothing quite like it. We do all of this with Azure
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by halfcat 3y ago
Wait until they hear about upgrading the FW on the FW! [1] [1] firewall
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by halfcat 3y ago
I’ve always heard it expressed as: * Carbs should have a ceiling * Protein should have a floor * Fat is a lever to adjust based on your goal (lower for weight loss, increase for weight gain) But there are still edge cases, like if you get z
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by halfcat 3y ago
> Usually you will want richer event (higher level information) than the raw structure of a single table. JSONB fields in Postgres are pretty awesome for this. You can query the JSON fields, index them, and all that. Is that what you mea
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by halfcat 3y ago
Also Azure is adding SQL Server trigger support https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/azure-functions/func...
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by halfcat 3y ago
> I have never found an easier way to get a docker container running in the cloud We started using Azure Container Apps (ACA) and it seems simple enough. Create ACA, point to GitHub repo, it runs. Push an update to GitHub and it redeploy
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by halfcat 3y ago
At what point does one outgrow Postgres for the data?
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by halfcat 3y ago
To me it’s somewhat analogous to exercise, eating well, and sleeping well. The benefits are “small” in one sense, but highly leveraged in another sense. I don’t necessarily feel that I get a lot out of any single session, aside from a menta
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by halfcat 3y ago
To you, what does it mean to “not work”? Or what would it mean for it to “work”? I’ve meditated on and off, and find it sometimes helpful, but I can’t conceive of what it would mean for it to work, or not work.
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by halfcat 3y ago
Maybe that’s it. I untick all of the boxes during install and use a local account instead of a Microsoft account.
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by halfcat 3y ago
> laden with ads, "Rewards" Points Serious question: Where do you see ads? I’ve used Windows 11 since it came out, and have never experienced a single advertisement.
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by halfcat 3y ago
Wildly speculative unfounded thought experiment plot twist based on no evidence: Neanderthals were the superior species and hunted humans into hiding. A global cataclysm occurred, devastating the food supply available to Neanderthals who re
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by halfcat 3y ago
Thank you. Do you see the difficulty in implementing the data structure to handle this? Or in the decision about what to do about it? Or about how to automate resolution? Let’s take git as an example. If we both push changes to our branch,
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by halfcat 3y ago
Conflicts themselves are not hard: Keep a directed acyclic graph of immutable records. Changes to a record point to the parent/prior record. Two users update the same record, now you have a tree. The challenge is interpreting what that
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by halfcat 3y ago
Yes, 1Password etc can scan the QR code and generate OTP codes. For shared accounts this is often critical, where say, IT staff need to have 2FA access to manage some line of business cloud app, but you don’t want to setup 20 named users in
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by halfcat 3y ago
You’re right that these should, ideally, be separated. It’s a trade off of practicality, in that both in one place is still (usually) an improvement for less technically inclined users who will do well to just use the password manager.
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by halfcat 3y ago
Disagree on “host your own”. Use a business cloud instead of a consumer one if you’re worried about reliability of backups. I’ll use Microsoft as an example since that’s what I’m familiar with: - Users store personal files in OneDrive (stor
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by halfcat 3y ago
It’s not a preference to be micromanaged. It’s a preference to not execute two different skill sets when you lack one of them. That’s stressful. You might be a good developer, but not great at talking to users and figuring out the priority
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by halfcat 3y ago
Also isn’t the DNA they have just from a tie left on the plane? Meaning, the “chain of custody” of DNA isn’t very solid, i.e. it could be anyone’s DNA?
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by halfcat 3y ago
There are dozens of people who have either claimed to be DB Cooper, or have been accused of being DB Cooper by long time, well-meaning investigators who are each “quite sure” they have identified the real DB Cooper.

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