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by jkubicek 3y ago
This is such a weird and misguided take. I use a lot of different social networks, I assume they all have character limits smaller than what Twitter allows today, but it clearly doesn't matter because nobody is hitting those limits. Pe
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by jkubicek 3y ago
Alternately: The more resources we can devote to managing counterproductive individuals more humanely, the richer we collectively become.
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Here's the study this article is based on: https://www.nber.org/system/files/working_papers/w26349/w263... Edited to include to a free link to the PDF
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by jkubicek 3y ago
> Which, like most things, is something that probably be left to the free market. Except Bitcoin mining is a perfect example of why these things should NOT be left to the free market.
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by jkubicek 3y ago
> The Vision Pro comes in at a stunning 3,386 PPI. Sweet jesus. I know that PPD is the actual important measurement here, but still, a display with 3K PPI is outrageous.
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by jkubicek 3y ago
Yeah, that's her dog's name. In addition to being a dog, he's also a published author: https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-dumb-delightful-world-of-pe...
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by jkubicek 3y ago
Jobs is still right! I switched to OS X in 2006 or so and have never enabled right-clicking on any of my mice (with the exception of the occasional game that requires a right-click action). For casual pointing, clicking, dragging, the one-b
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by jkubicek 3y ago
There are a significant number of canal systems to the east of the bay. I have no where boating is allowed, but the ones we frequently drive past are ~100 feet wide and extend at least out to Stockton and Sacramento. I have no clue if you c
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by jkubicek 3y ago
The "Navigable by canoe" filter seems to filter out everything, which is a bummer, because I've always wondered how far up into the Sierras I could drop a canoe and still be able to paddle back to the bay area.
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My family's pet name for this is "... but first, the perfect playlist!" It's tempting to promise yourself that you'll start on that project just as soon as you get your desk in order and organize your tools and crea
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by jkubicek 3y ago
The only reason I want user-replaceable parts is so that I can max out the storage and memory on a MacBook Pro for less than $2000. I have no desire or need to ever upgrade after that.
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by jkubicek 3y ago
True, but considering the popularity and age of The Matrix, I'm guessing most people assume the hot tech company is referencing techno futurist movie from the 90s and not a charlatan from the 70s.
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Researchers come up with better idea to prevent AirTag stalking(wired.com)
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The Feynman Point(en.wikipedia.org)
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by jkubicek 3y ago
literally
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Advertising content is speech
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by jkubicek 3y ago
Twitter can ban and throttle whoever it wants, they own the platform. What's __silly__ about the NYTimes being throttled on Twitter is how Musk champions his platform as a bastion of "free speech", while silencing those he di
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by jkubicek 3y ago
> If you do make a change to the code, then you are probably intending for it to do something different, so now you have to change the test accordingly. It usually just means you have to make the same change in 2 different spots for ever
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by jkubicek 3y ago
I see two advantages in creating tests to check output 1. You did the work to generate consistent output from the code as a whole, plus output intermediate steps. Writing those into a test lets future folks make use of the same tests.
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by jkubicek 3y ago
> In actual practice, about 99% of unit tests I see amount to "verifying that our code does what our code does" and are a useless waste of time and effort. If you rephrase this as, "verifying that our code does what it did
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by jkubicek 3y ago
No, I had them right. Watch means "turn the radio on", Warning means "go to the basement". I think the person I was responding to had them backwards; nobody is hiding in the basement for a tornado _warning_.
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by jkubicek 3y ago
> You can't go to the basement every time there's a tornado watch. You can, though. I grew up attending a summer camp in Iowa, and we did go to the basement anytime there's a _warning_. 24 hours a day, if there's a
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by jkubicek 3y ago
> People think the restrictions don't work, but they absolutely do It's wild to me that people make assertions like this. We can (and should) argue about the effectiveness of smoking restrictions on decreasing cancer and hear
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by jkubicek 3y ago
I should have said it explicitly, but there was an implicit "couldn't do themselves in a reasonable amount of time". If the rumors are true, Apple already has iMessage running on Android, they just haven't released it ye
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by jkubicek 3y ago
My day-job is Data Engineering. We've carefully built our ETL patterns/tools/data structures to be idempotent. It's amazing how freeing this is. Dealing with cascading failures, intermittent failures, delays, re-runs and
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by jkubicek 3y ago
I'm 0% confident in a surprise acquisition by Apple. Beeper doesn't seem to offer anything that Apple couldn't do themselves.
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by jkubicek 3y ago
Running the iMessage service for a billion iPhone users can't be cheap. Opening up the API and running it for the entire rest of the world for free is a non-starter. No company on earth is that generous, let alone Apple.
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by jkubicek 3y ago
Here's the original blog post on those shuffles[1]. Funny enough, I remember reading about this exact post in 2005, that photo of the four shuffles plugged into the USB hub hits my nostalgia buttons. [1]: https://wrightthisw
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by jkubicek 3y ago
If that's how much he earns, I'm not sure his point does stand. If he's making $350k from Spotify, I'm guessing he makes about that much from all the other streaming services combined. $700k in income from what is essent
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by jkubicek 3y ago
Why would that be great to anyone?

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