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by halfcat 1y ago
People are generally decent at knowing something exists, but generally poor at knowing what it is. This is true for book reviews or UFOs/psychics/whatever. A reader can tell you the book wasn’t good and they’ll give a reason. Usua
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by halfcat 1y ago
> The particle generates the wave, but is also influenced by interacting with it. Oh wow. So the particle and wave are like a planet and its gravity (in a sort of loosely analogous way)?
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by halfcat 1y ago
> So how do you balance this? You don’t. The leader’s job is being available, a high speed router constantly context switching. The IC’s job is the opposite. Striving to be good at being available and not being available (what?) is like
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by halfcat 1y ago
From the readme: > ”Ever used asyncio and wished you hadn't? ” Yes, that’s me. I always found the yield-based approach to coroutines much easier to reason about. It’s just a generator function.
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by halfcat 1y ago
> Representing structured data as key/value pairs is a pattern I've only seen in Python Come on. We know you’ve seen JavaScript.
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by halfcat 1y ago
When the structure of your team makes it a problem. Conway’s law. If you have one person maintaining a CRUD app, splitting out DTOs and APIs and all of these abstractions are completely not needed. Usually, you don’t even know yet what the
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by halfcat 1y ago
> in low income neighborhoods, shootings go down by something like thirty percent in the vicinity of those scary vacant lots turned into pocket parks compared to similarly scary places that weren't fixed up > the importance of
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by halfcat 1y ago
Look for data-oriented design [0] (not to be confused with domain-driven design) in addition to ECS. [0] https://www.dataorienteddesign.com/dodbook/
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by halfcat 1y ago
Can you use the app to talk to someone at the door if it’s LAN only?
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by halfcat 1y ago
Easy fix. If you say, “Swiper, no swiping!” three times, he can’t take your stuff.
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by halfcat 1y ago
> Markets are moved by traders And traders are moved by the Federal Reserve’s interest rate decisions
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by halfcat 1y ago
> intelligence that understands project goals > adapts to changing conditions The real play here is starting a business that specializes in getting construction equipment unstuck from the mud.
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by halfcat 1y ago
I don’t know about varlock, but 1Password’s `op` CLI tool seems to hook the STDOUT pipe and find/replace any instances of the secrets with “concealed by 1Password”. It works even if I drop into a REPL and try every way I can think of t
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by halfcat 1y ago
Genetic programming models a natural process of evolution to do something useful, the same way machine learning models neurons to do something useful. But producing something useful is a totally different thing from producing resilience in
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by halfcat 1y ago
The line is: building an internal world model requires interfacing with the world, not a model of it, and subsequent failing (including death and survivorship over generations) and adaptation. Plus pattern matching. Current AI only does one
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by halfcat 1y ago
Does ImGui work on mobile? I’ve seen it run in web assembly on mobile but typically none of the keyboard inputs work (the mobile keyboard doesn’t pop up, so effectively it’s not usable, at least in that approach).
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by halfcat 1y ago
> What for? Support legacy CI/CD pipelines Yes. Azure, for instance, looks for requirements.txt if you deploy a web app to Azure App Service. If you’re doing a code-based deployment, it works really well. Push to GitHub, it deploy
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by halfcat 1y ago
On the flip side, I’ll pay $10/month for 10 streaming services I never use (and have forgotten about), but on a Saturday night if a movie isn’t available and I have to pay $3.99 to rent it I never pay that. Instead I’ll drive to the co
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by halfcat 1y ago
It’s almost as if intelligence requires embodiment in a physical world before it can gain tacit understanding and build a model of that environment, and that summarizing the embodiment of others isn’t sufficient.
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by halfcat 1y ago
> There isn’t a universally accepted way to do client discovery Someone should really create a protocol to transfer hyper text where clients could discover resources through embedded links in documents
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by halfcat 1y ago
So in this kind of simulation, as we look closer, uncertainty is reduced. But in our simulation (reality, or whatever), uncertainty increases the closer we look. Does that suggest we don’t live in a simulation? Or is “looking closer increas
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by halfcat 1y ago
> practically impossible because you need to keep all the layers in mind… > …with the MVC/MVVM approach. Every layer has a specific concern… Do we need to keep all the layers in mind, or not? Separation-of-concerns is not a v
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by halfcat 1y ago
Can you clarify what angle of the existing solution you don’t like? The example you give of the Unix pipeline is pretty similar to what we do with pandas pipeline chains. (pd.read_json(…) .join(pd.read_json(…)) .assign(
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by halfcat 2y ago
Notifications need to be off if you’re doing focused work, and good managers will not only know this, but support you in it, or even expect you to set this boundary in order to do your best work. Simplest version is to have agreed upon aven
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by halfcat 2y ago
> Unless you have no cash on hand and are operating soley off debt?? Bingo
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by halfcat 2y ago
Definitely possible. This is how chat bots worked on AOL in the 90’s, basically the FindWindow and FindWindowEx functions in the win32 API. Hasn’t changed much (if any) since then.
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by halfcat 2y ago
> I can't imagine windows intentionally keeps the plaintext password anywhere longer than it needs to be. Can’t tell if serious or not [1]. Also any program can read any saved password out of Windows Credential Manager. https:&#x
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by halfcat 2y ago
Weird to see “it’s like Vercel” as a virtue. The times for-profit dev tooling has worked, it’s almost always when the profit is a means to providing value (e.g. Jetbrains), but that’s very rare. For profit is generally a stronger signal o
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by halfcat 2y ago
> I believe we need is end-to-end bidirectional stream based data communication I suspect the generalized solution is much harder to achieve, and looks more like batch-based reconciliation of full snapshots than streaming or event-driv
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by halfcat 2y ago
You’re well supported by research on this [1]. TLDW: - More money leads to more output for physical tasks - More money leads to worse results for cognitive tasks What does move the needle: - Pay people enough so they’re not thinking abo

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