heleninboodler

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by heleninboodler 2y ago
There were a lot of aspects of this talk that I thought were really great. The willingness to try something unscripted, diving into the code repo live (e.g. to show where fuzzing is used), and the discussions of the reasoning behind the de
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by heleninboodler 2y ago
The copy on the homepage is very dramatic and reads as if Bandcamp has already turned against all its artists. It's been over a year since the second sale if I am calculating the dates correctly. Has Bandcamp changed at all?
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by heleninboodler 2y ago
Not endorsing the view, but that's how some people think. It would actually be incredibly interesting if he decided to commit political suicide by having Trump killed and spurring congress into amending the constitution to explicitly
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by heleninboodler 2y ago
Can't help but wondering if Joe is contemplating Seal Team Six's summer plans right about now.
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by heleninboodler 2y ago
The median employee also isn't the guy who's going to make a killing by being an instrumental early employee at startup. It's apples and oranges. I'd argue that the person who is versatile and productive enough to help
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by heleninboodler 2y ago
> I don't get the hand-wringing when it comes to reasonably priced services. For me, it has nothing to do with the price and everything to do with the fact that I don't want a service dependency for my most critical passwords.
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by heleninboodler 2y ago
You're getting a lot of glib answers, but in all seriousness, this is one of the amazing things about tom7 videos. It sometimes starts by appearing to be about nonsense or triviality, but as he weaves all these weird stories, they sta
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by heleninboodler 2y ago
Call me crazy, but it's almost as if these should be guidelines considered by a thinking person, with experience to help inform them, rather than hard-and-fast rules that must be applied to everything.
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by heleninboodler 2y ago
> Why wall of death? I think that's just what the cylindrical room is often called when it's used for motorcycles. The paper repeatedly references it, abbreviated "WoD." I don't think there's any death inv
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by heleninboodler 3y ago
Yes, exactly.
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by heleninboodler 3y ago
Fun fact, the quartz is used to make the big crucibles where the silicon wafers crystallize by starting from a seed in the center which is slowly drawn upward. My grandmother was a quartz salesperson for GE for decades (they sourced their
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by heleninboodler 3y ago
> not only infinite ones I don't think this really has much to do with the "infinite" nature of the canvas. Individual instances of infinite canvases have a finite size. :)
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by heleninboodler 3y ago
My very first thought about this format was that someone is definitely going to pervert it to be used as a graphics format, and for that it's woefully inadequate. I decided to hold my tongue since it's not the creators' faul
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by heleninboodler 3y ago
Suggestion: add some metadata at the top level, including a bounding box that includes all nodes so that you can encapsulate a canvas and include it within another context before having created all the elements within it. It's redunda
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by heleninboodler 3y ago
You mean just for fun? I'm having a hard time imagining real value in doing something like karma-farming on HN. Not to mention, that would be more like anti-karma-farming.
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by heleninboodler 3y ago
Nope, it "just worked." I ended up vastly preferring a mouse, though, so I didn't stick with it long term.
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by heleninboodler 3y ago
> There is no way I'm going to suffer the ergonomic hell that is a laptop for a second longer than I absolutely have to I agree with this, but intentionally choosing a trackpad to put on your desk is just accepting a portion of this
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by heleninboodler 3y ago
I've connected an Apple Magic Trackpad (external bluetooth trackpad that sits on your desk) to an ubuntu machine and it's wonderful. There are still some software things to solve to get the acceleration perfect and things like sc
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by heleninboodler 3y ago
This is a fascinating comment to me. I understand not really feeling jazz, but it doesn't even sound like a song to you? My only suggestion is to jump into the middle of a few songs and try to hear the rhythm and song structure. T
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by heleninboodler 3y ago
I think there are several other tracks on the album tied for this same distinction. :)
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by heleninboodler 3y ago
> they had to make sure their site layout worked on WebTV They weren't big enough to benefit from the fact that one of the components of WebTV's architecture was an entire "page patching" database and proxy that would
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by heleninboodler 3y ago
Andy Rubin was also a very early WebTVer; probably one of the first two or three employees, and was there through the Microsoft acquisition.
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by heleninboodler 3y ago
The other two I checked were *.wordpress.com and *.bandcamp.com, both well known TLDs with user-generated subdomains. Neither is there.
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by heleninboodler 3y ago
How current is this? It doesn't actually have *.blogger.com in it, nor the other two examples I checked.
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by heleninboodler 3y ago
It's usually a little of both. Sometimes it's a little messy but before you get full understanding, it appears a lot messier. But having the experience of coming across code that I think sucks until I fully understand it and rec
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by heleninboodler 3y ago
There's mess and there's "override $PATH in 50 files" mess. "The old code is a mess" is a really easy conclusion to come to when trying to grok a complicated codebase, and it's not always correct.
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by heleninboodler 3y ago
> The initial door reveal is misdirection by an informed host, such that it has no effect on the odds, which are always, players choice of door is 1/3 Yes, exactly. Which means when you switch, the host is effectively allowing you
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by heleninboodler 3y ago
Note also that a dedicated email service like Fastmail has a lot fewer ways you can accidentally violate TOS than, say, GMail. Your google account can get TOS'd for activity on YouTube, Drive, Chat, Photos, Docs, Blogger, etc. When w
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by heleninboodler 3y ago
It's a lot easier to see the 2/3 nature if you imagine that instead of revealing the goat and then asking if you want to switch, Monty said "you've chosen this door that has a 1/3 chance. I'm offering you to s
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by heleninboodler 3y ago
> had a car stolen and they (insurance) treat you like absolute trash when it happens. You've said this twice, but what does it mean? I have had my car stolen twice and the insurance company didn't give me any trouble at all

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