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by jes5199 7y ago
that feels, to me, like a real failure of our field. What other tool can you use every day for 30 years and still be a novice at?
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by jes5199 7y ago
you could probably get a lot more done on arduino by writing a tiny forth in arduino C and then writing your applications in _that_
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by jes5199 7y ago
Apple, Amazon, and Google are fundamentally opposed to a model that sells devices that don’t phone home - their whole purpose is to capture value by creating lock-in for surveillable hosted services
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by jes5199 7y ago
Calm Tech is one of those ideas that's been in floating around for decades but has never quite gotten the attention it deserves (... sort of a funny paradox, "pay attention to making tools you don't have to pay attention to&q
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by jes5199 7y ago
there are so many problems with our norms around social networks that I don't know where to start, but two of the worst for my brain are: 1) getting interrupted when I'm thinking about something else 2) the slot-machine-like inter
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by jes5199 7y ago
Bret Victor wrote an article about this a few years ago - a lot of it is still relevant: http://worrydream.com/ClimateChange/
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by jes5199 7y ago
last time I looked at OpenCyc's knowledge base, the information encoded was all strangely specific academic stuff - like very fine classifications and relationships between species of tapeworms and of fungus. There was very little dail
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by jes5199 7y ago
We don’t actually know that human minds can’t be in superposition
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by jes5199 7y ago
I've actually never been certain which thing it meant. I own some very old TVs that glow a sort of metallic gray color. Most TVs from the 70s and 80s have a sharp white-on-black snow pattern. In the 90s you got those weird solid blue s
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by jes5199 7y ago
an NDA doesn’t prevent you from taking credit for specific features
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by jes5199 7y ago
that word already means something, and it describes probably every computer you’ve used in your life. so... yes? but the era of microcomputers started in 1974
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by jes5199 7y ago
we'd all be better off if Google didn't exist, and you know it
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by jes5199 7y ago
it's literally the same idea
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by jes5199 7y ago
religion
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by jes5199 7y ago
biological life
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by jes5199 7y ago
The United States
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by jes5199 7y ago
The Internet
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by jes5199 7y ago
A large working system must evolve from a small working system. There's no way to start large.
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by jes5199 7y ago
I don’t get it. It seems to be a haml-like syntax for writing HTML, with a jquery-like set of canned js interactions? This is how we wrote apps in 2008
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by jes5199 7y ago
they swap places every five years or so
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by jes5199 7y ago
if I want to do object tracking for a low-grade version of this kind of thing, what’s the best off-the-shelf solution right now? Is it ARKit?
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by jes5199 7y ago
Yeah exactly. I want to see Dynamicland-style AR rooms based on this
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by jes5199 7y ago
I just think that React components are more readable and more maintainable than erb templates
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by jes5199 7y ago
neat! Of course, this makes me want to run React serverside...
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by jes5199 7y ago
I was going to recommend using a wacom tablet, but you do you
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by jes5199 7y ago
I’m using a full-size Ducky brand keyboard with Cherry MXs and it’s getting the job done. Admittedly it’s not quite as nice as some. Maybe you could get one of massdrop’s full-except-for-numberpad keyboards, and then get a separate USB numb
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by jes5199 7y ago
You still use a mouse?
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by jes5199 7y ago
The original sin here is home row touch typing. I type like I play the piano- my hands move up and down the scale. But split keyboards are an anathema for this.
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by jes5199 7y ago
in the age of slack, where managers about to instant message you any second, you don't really get control of your schedule
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by jes5199 7y ago
people who end up on opposite sides of this argument are usually talking about two different things: 1) Do we build exactly enough solar to meet our average power needs but have to build several-month-long battery storage capacity to bring

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