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by jes5199 6y ago
if you turn off Nagle's algorithm, it gets closer to this though
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by jes5199 6y ago
I recently saw this video of living neurons: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2TIK9oXc5Wo (I don't actually know the original source of this) and just looking at the way they dance around - they're in motion, they&
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by jes5199 6y ago
I _have_ used it - for example, Visa/Mastercard won't allow you to buy marijuana seeds, even in jurisdictions where it's legal, so crypto is great for that. But over the last few years, bitcoin has gotten _harder_ to use for
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by jes5199 6y ago
to me, though, javascript development has always felt like a chaotic tangle of duct tape, until I started working in React. somehow React feels like _writing software_ - building things in small pieces with well-defined inputs and outputs.
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by jes5199 6y ago
Lots of folks back East, they say, is leavin' home every day, Beatin' the hot old dusty way to the California line. 'Cross the desert sands they roll, gettin' out of that old dust bowl, They think they're goin'
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by jes5199 6y ago
I had the very last edition magsafe connector on my 2015ish macbook. And _that_ one had the infuriating problem that the charge port got so hot that it would melt the insulation right off of the wire! I replaced the charger every few months
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by jes5199 6y ago
someone told me that the way they learned to play the violin was that had to love being bad at it. Love the experience of _not_ being able to do it, of it not coming naturally, of trying and failing, of being overwhelmed by it, and of slowl
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by jes5199 6y ago
!?! I’ve been working in ruby for 15 years and I had never heard if the flip flop operator! Amazing. Thanks for the counter-example, I have learned something
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by jes5199 6y ago
it’s also a way that they can dismiss candidates without violating equal-opportunity laws. “Looked good on paper, but failed the polygraph” for any reason they want
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by jes5199 6y ago
not really. there’s some weird operator precedence, but it doesn’t have any multi-operator expressions
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by jes5199 7y ago
bet it still lags when you try to open the app menu
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by jes5199 7y ago
We're not talking to the same engineers. I hear about vast quantities of unmaintained code, still running, half-forgotten, across codebases in multiple languages, using ancient pre-AWS APIs
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by jes5199 7y ago
I have a friend who recently managed to spend 6 months without writing a single line of code, just getting shuffled from team to team (within Amazon retail), going to meetings, being reassigned, but not ever really being asked to do anythin
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by jes5199 7y ago
have you talked to engineers who actually work at Amazon? they aren’t exactly running a tight ship. Market forces can make up for having a dysfunctional culture. This is roughly analogous to the role of luck in personal success- people say
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by jes5199 7y ago
we still trust software too much. I suspect that most software-controlled experiments are going to have errors like this! we should require that every experiment has at least two clean-room implementations of its logic, and a battery of smo
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by jes5199 7y ago
a friend of mine recently asked a related question: what's the difference between a plaything and a tool? when do you play with tools versus when do you work with tools? what's the line there - and has anyone written philosophy ab
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by jes5199 7y ago
there is an assumption here that I want to challenge: that code can be correct. Code is _always_ a flawed approximation of an ideal system. You can move bugs around, but you cannot get rid of them: software _is_ bugs.
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by jes5199 7y ago
it’s exacerbated by the VC cycle. You could imagine a bootstrapped Patreon that wasn’t aiming for IPO, that could employ a handful of people no problem. You could even have the maintainers be listed as an “artist” on the platform
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by jes5199 7y ago
this is really cool! I've actually been wondering for a while what a language that's both Lisp and something concatinative would look like, but I keep getting tangled up without actually solving it. I'm going to study this on
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by jes5199 7y ago
Buy low, sell high.
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by jes5199 7y ago
seems like a good time to invest in electric cars
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by jes5199 7y ago
Oh, I met the Zume guy last year. His whole thing was to sell the idealized future without worrying about whether it was feasible in the present or even the medium term - if he could just convince people to keep funding it, he’d make it hap
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by jes5199 7y ago
I’ve got projects on both, but honestly the extra power of the ESP32 is sort of overwhelming. If I want to use DMA SPC on the 8266, there’s only one pin I can use. On the 32, I can choose between most of the pins, but certain choices will p
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by jes5199 7y ago
_wow_ those paintings are bland
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by jes5199 7y ago
etsy but expensive
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by jes5199 7y ago
I fucking hate schoolwork though, it always made me significantly more miserable than job-work ever did
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by jes5199 7y ago
yeah, the bias towards San Francisco got so strong that companies fight over every single college graduate that gets near there, inflating salaries to incredible levels, while tens of thousands of experienced engineers are underemployed in
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by jes5199 7y ago
oh huh it’s really happening. I’ve been trying to work out the effects of this for a while - bitcoin will always be more profitable than curtailment, but supply and demand should push the cost of bitcoin down below most other uses of electr
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by jes5199 7y ago
I still use GuitarTookit! Skeuomorphic design has fallen out of favor but I’m glad they haven’t changed it
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by jes5199 7y ago
we need to bring back anti-trust lawsuits.

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