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by jeffparsons 2y ago
I'm working on an ungodly pile of hacks ( https://github.com/jeffparsons/hope ) to help with this. Coming Soon™: S3 backend and better tests.
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by jeffparsons 2y ago
I applied this rule to tape measures, because I found I never had one when I needed one, e.g., out in the car. So my new rule became: if you can't easily find a tape measure when you need one, buy another one at your earliest convenien
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by jeffparsons 2y ago
> My pet frustration in Ruby is `.slice` behavior. I would argue that any input that doesn't have exactly one obviously correct output should result in an exception being raised. But Ruby often shies away from doing that. My interpr
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by jeffparsons 2y ago
Ruby's Range class has plenty of bugs to offer if you use it with anything except numbers, especially if you use any of its more "exotic" features. I guess this isn't super constructive, but to me the whole thing smells
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by jeffparsons 2y ago
This is solvable. If a trust owns the property, default to the highest tax rate. The trustee is then responsible for providing proof of the beneficial owner(s) if they want the "discount" rate.
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by jeffparsons 2y ago
So Google is presenting summary information in a way that very much implies comprehension, but without any comprehension of context — i.e. a name collision is enough to throw them off and result in unrelated pictures and bio being smashed t
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by jeffparsons 2y ago
To make your point even more explicit: The kind of imprisonment that Assange was subjected to is unambiguously torture, and was unambiguously administered for the purpose of revenge. There is no natural "need" for the conditions h
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by jeffparsons 2y ago
As an Australian, I would be blown away if our government ever tried to stand against the USA in that way. We rely too much on our alliance for defence; there's no way Australia can stand on its own militarily. So there's a lot we
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by jeffparsons 2y ago
> I've run into cases far more often where I need to maintain insertion order than sort order, but I'm not confident about whether this is due more to the type of stuff I work on or if it's just a more common requirement i
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by jeffparsons 2y ago
I recently assembled two non-IKEA flat-packed items from two different vendors. One left out details in the diagrams in each step that they had deemed irrelevant to that step. This apparent attempt at simplifying the instructions stumped me
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by jeffparsons 2y ago
And if you want to further minimise distortion, you could group the triangular faces of an icosahedron into 10 rhombuses, each covered by one square texture. It's more math, though, and usually not worth it unless you're already p
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by jeffparsons 2y ago
> pretty much irrelevant for statically linked WASM apps One benefit off the top of my head is the extra isolation between component instances within this statically linked app: you can be shielded from many of the ways libwhatever might
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by jeffparsons 2y ago
Lynk Global will competing against Starlink — which is already manufacturing and operating at scale, and is vertically integrated with their launch provider... which will soon be lofting _much_ larger and more capable satellites on their ne
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by jeffparsons 2y ago
> The key difference between coroutines and effect handlers is that coroutines yield control to their caller, but effectful expressions yield control to their handler. The difference of affordance this implies is the materially significa
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by jeffparsons 3y ago
Are you talking about the developers who willingly contributed code under the BSD licence? The same BSD licence that says that it's completely fine for the company to do this? It's such a strange pattern that plays out again and a
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by jeffparsons 3y ago
> It hits hard, but it stays lighthearted enough to make you feel good about it. That wasn't my experience of it. It's a brilliant show, to be sure, but at some point I felt the bleakness, particularly around Bojack's inab
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by jeffparsons 3y ago
I honestly think it would be better if they didn't have the option to "forgive the debt" — at least without following up by eliminating the trap that created said debt. How often is one of these accidental debts created? How
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by jeffparsons 3y ago
IANAL, but if this happened to me I would be gathering as many examples as I could of this having happened to other people. The angle being: Google knows this is a huge issue. Effectively, they know that they have (presumably accidentally)
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by jeffparsons 3y ago
Warning: most cloud providers (Google, Amazon, Microsoft) require you to accept unlimited liability to use their services. If you're running a business and you have lawyers, then fair enough — just play the game. But for individuals, i
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by jeffparsons 3y ago
Worse than subtle formatting changes was some kind of corruption that could slowly swallow bits of your document without you noticing. Sometimes going back before the corruption had visible effects was not good enough to stop it from manife
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by jeffparsons 3y ago
How recently have you tried. Obviously YMMV, but all mine already are. Proton is a thing of beauty.
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by jeffparsons 3y ago
Ah, I see. I read "ground station" as hardware on the ground on Mars, as opposed to on the helicopter itself.
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by jeffparsons 3y ago
Wow, I somehow never imagined that even NASA's technology choices would be influenced by "all the data stuff being for Python". But I guess if it's all sandboxed and any errors are reversible... then why not? It all make
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by jeffparsons 3y ago
They are. Political parties do something similar before putting you on a ticket: they require you to declare any dirt on yourself that could possibly be revealed at a later date, even if only one other person in the world knows about it. Th
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by jeffparsons 3y ago
Okay, let's ditch the wires and put a battery pack in each trailer skate. If that limits range too much, we can figure out some kind of clever charging or fast battery swap solution. (None of the reasons for the failure of battery swap
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by jeffparsons 3y ago
Yes, I like trains, too. Largely copied from my reply to a similar comment: Trains requires long-term planning and alignment of a lot more people and organisations, all of whom have their own messy incentives. They're a political quagm
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by jeffparsons 3y ago
I take your point, but that requires long-term planning and alignment of a lot more people and organisations, all of whom have their own messy incentives. I'm trying to think of solutions that can be mostly built by the private sector
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by jeffparsons 3y ago
I didn't expect fully autonomous trucking to be here yet. What I did expect, however, is semi-autonomous many-trailer trucks/convoys, because it's a much simpler technical problem that still offers enormous efficiency gains.
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by jeffparsons 3y ago
If YouTube outright prevents access from browsers that block ads, then suddenly a huge number of the most tech-savvy viewers will be motivated to seek/develop/fund better ad blockers and/or alternative ways to access videos.
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by jeffparsons 3y ago
At least Walter, and presumably others in the D leadership, are active here. There's a good chance they will see your comments. This is just a reminder that they are human, too, they care a lot about D, and in my experience they are ba

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