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by hinkley 8mo ago
By far my favorite feature of lodash is the sortby function, in which instead of providing a custom comparator as most std libraries’ sort() function offers, provides a way to substitute a simpler object for the comparator to chew on. If yo
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by hinkley 8mo ago
> Legend says it only happens in obscure, low-level systems, but I'm here to refute the legend. In a somewhat self-deprecating, but also an “anyone can do this if they have the will” fashion, I tend to say my real skill in performan
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by hinkley 8mo ago
Then this is an era of snake oil because customers aren’t going to put up with that shit for long.
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by hinkley 8mo ago
Africa is experimenting with something fairly reminiscent to this. Not sure about the content, but this one has the best pictures: https://www.upworthy.com/forgotten-half-moon-water-harvestin... I'm just not sure if th
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by hinkley 8mo ago
Do you know if cloudfront has anything like this?
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by hinkley 8mo ago
Apple has a different relationship with the Paradox of Choice than most companies. The price stability makes it a bad idea generally to buy the old model right when the new one comes out. And not chasing inflation numbers I think is also pa
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by hinkley 8mo ago
Welcome to being old. Inflation is cumulatively 40% since 2013.
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by hinkley 8mo ago
I drank enough for three people in college. My lifetime average is probably still in the margin of error.
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by hinkley 8mo ago
That's going to be a problem for the education market though.
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by hinkley 8mo ago
I swear to god every time I go to Gruber's website he's narrowed the text another ten pixels.
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by hinkley 8mo ago
I can't recall the last time I did the Dew. Should I turn myself in to a reeducation camp?
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by hinkley 8mo ago
I wonder how much that functions as an age gate since kids usually don't have credit cards?
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by hinkley 8mo ago
Verified entities defecting by using AI to generate their content for them will break this.
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by hinkley 8mo ago
I’m wondering if the recent improvements in sending objects through sendMessage in v8 and Bun change the math here enough to be good enough. SendMessage itself is frustratingly dumb. You have excessively bit fiddly or obnoxiously slow as yo
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by hinkley 8mo ago
Gretchen. Stop trying to make DOMless WASM happen. It’s not going to happen.
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by hinkley 8mo ago
Do LLMs have a way to look at or consider dependent variables? Seems like that could end up as a situation where a fractional number of bits or bytes per parameter might make sense. Particularly with adverbs and adjectives, negators.
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by hinkley 8mo ago
Back in 2000 I worked for a company that was trying to turn something like this into the foundation for a search engine. Essentially instead of having a bunch of search engines and AI spamming your site, the idea was that they would get a f
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by hinkley 8mo ago
Wait, hold on. Are you trying to tell me that a Large LANGUAGE Model is better at text than at pictures? What are you going to tell me next? That the sidewalk is hot on a sunny day?
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by hinkley 8mo ago
Accidentally mutating an input is always a 'fun' way to trigger spooky action at a distance.
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by hinkley 8mo ago
suggestion: TeDD talk.
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by hinkley 8mo ago
BDD helps with this as it can allow you to get the setup out of the tests making it even cheaper for someone to yeet a defunct test.
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by hinkley 8mo ago
My best unit tests are 3 lines, one of them whitespace, and they assert one single thing that's in the requirements. These are the only tests I've witnessed people delete outright when the requirements change. Anything more comple
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by hinkley 8mo ago
It's also delusional.
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by hinkley 8mo ago
Hurry up and wait.
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by hinkley 8mo ago
The better to make paperclips, my dear!
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by hinkley 8mo ago
Testing is hard. No, testing is fucking hard. I've had more mentors in testing than any other two disciplines combined. And I still look at my own tests and make faces. But to a man everyone who has claimed testing is not hard has wr
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by hinkley 8mo ago
Hah! That's probably why I can never find it. Norvig's solution is a work of art. When people ask me for examples of intrinsic versus accidental complexity, his sudoku solver is the best one I have. My only note is that he gives u
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by hinkley 8mo ago
There is supposedly a famous video series of Uncle Bob trying and failing to solve sudoku with TDD. He did not read any guides on solving it and tried from first principles instead, and bounced off of it. It’s clear to me that if you don’t
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by hinkley 8mo ago
3^5 is 243 so one could also call an optional Boolean 1/5th of a byte, though 1/4 is so much simpler to read and write.
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by hinkley 8mo ago
What ends up happening is that your most fundamental features end up rotting because manual testing has biases. Chief among them is probably Recency Bias. It is in fact super easy to break a launch feature if it’s not gating any of the feat

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