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by jmull 3y ago
That's too bad. I was a minor supporter, in honor of my mother, who got started with coding around 1950. It's weird... when I was growing up, the only coders I knew were women -- my mother and a friend of mine whose mother was als
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by jmull 3y ago
It sets timers well (for me, at least)
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by jmull 3y ago
You're rejecting this article, and the entire publication because it doesn't confirm your current understanding? You're suggesting to switch away from common metrics because they don't provide the answer you expected? Th
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by jmull 3y ago
But isn't it just your opinion that a quality work of art should appear to have a certain consistent high level of care throughout? It seems possible, if not likely, these were unfinished pieces that were in-progress when the artist di
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by jmull 3y ago
This is a great argument against the kind of blog where you just drop your stream of consciousness into a publicly available document, which may be archived and searchable. Uptake on a site like HN may seem like a win now, but it also means
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by jmull 3y ago
They are essentially the same thing. Sometimes you have a last modified timestamp handy and sometimes you have a revision number handy. I would agree that you shouldn't be doing signifiant calculations -- like checksumming the contents
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by jmull 3y ago
I'm pretty bullish on this tech. A clean, low-friction separation of storage and compute for a top-tier database like Postgres is huge. I think it will take some time for the implications to sink in though, because it changes some assu
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by jmull 3y ago
It goes like this: (1) Abstractions are expensive. That's because, by their very nature/purpose, you build on top of them. Abstractions for code are very expensive because the code you build on top of them become tightly coupled t
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by jmull 3y ago
You could write your SQL in SQL.
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by jmull 3y ago
It seems like with kysely, you write your SQL in javascript/typescript? That's a big fat ugly anti-pattern, IMO.
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by jmull 3y ago
Can’t say I’ve heard this. Audible app over Bluetooth to my car has issues between chapters/tracks. But it’s probably fair to blame Audible’s software for not handling this edge case very well (since I don’t encounter the same when swi
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by jmull 3y ago
That’s true, though you have to engage with the behemoth to get to that point.
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by jmull 3y ago
> You have to understand the code at a level sufficient to make accurate annotations, which isn't that much easier That's not necessarily true though. Half decent C code already has a coherent memory management strategy. The pr
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by jmull 3y ago
The problem with black-and-white thinking is that it's too simplistic to apply to the great majority of real-world problems. Safe C provides an incremental migration path from unsafe C to safe C. And you don't need to completely r
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by jmull 3y ago
I guess it's fun to build things, but this mashup is pretty messy. If you like Svelte (I do) you're probably going to find sveltekit to be a lot simpler and more useful.
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by jmull 3y ago
> The only difference with AI, is that AI is immensely powerful. Now, I keep getting stuck on this. All of these models automate the creation of BS -- that is, stuff that kind of seems like it could be real but isn't. I have no doub
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by jmull 3y ago
Maybe it’s just a matter of it being difficult to list all the things they didn’t use. The Figma article itself is a little more clear on their goals… It’s not really just postgres compatibility they are after, but compatibility with the Am
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by jmull 3y ago
Gymnastics?
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by jmull 3y ago
I’ve got to say, this is pretty cringy and more than a little naive. Of course there are old people falling for scams — dementia is a lot more prevalent and they tend to have retirement accounts — but younger people are vulnerable too. Pig
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by jmull 3y ago
I don't think children's books are a good source of facts. Probably a bunch of reasons for this... They necessarily have to be greatly simplified. There may be a bit of an urge to jazz it up to better capture the imaginations of c
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by jmull 3y ago
Those are three independent questions. But I can answer them: > How was this not "equitable"? We could back up and debate why/whether we tax, and who should pay and how much, and based on what, but that's too much for
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by jmull 3y ago
One way to look at VR headsets is that it's a better computer display -- as large and immersive as you want, without physical limitation. People prefer retina displays and will pay for multi-monitor setups, so we know people value this
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by jmull 3y ago
> to write every line for basic stuff you've done 1000x before There are ways to avoid writing basic stuff you've done 1000x before that are better than LLMs though... Put it in a well-thought-out function or package or other f
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by jmull 3y ago
I think we’d like an equitable tax system. The news here is one way in which it isn’t, so we might want to do something about it. > it looks like it's working as intended. That seems rather unlikely.
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by jmull 3y ago
> So yes, the state stole the term But if you keep going back, you get to a time before the church controlled marriages in Europe. Generally, marriage is a cultural thing, and it tends to be religious at any point in time to the extent t
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by jmull 3y ago
It sounds like, perhaps, the moderators only label the content. Then it’s up to your own client (and how you configure it) to filter the content, based on those labels. If I’ve got that right, then a client could be created that, e.g., disp
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by jmull 3y ago
I'm kind of chuckling at this thread because you're working so hard to not understand. I think the previous poster could/should have said, "It is not a hierarchical file system and has no concept of directories.&quot
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by jmull 3y ago
Oh, come on. These word games are for casual fun and enjoyment. It's really not a big deal whether a particular word is included or not in the dictionary for a particular game. For Spelling Bee, the levels appear to be calculated based
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by jmull 3y ago
> It's what's more important? Doing fan service for fans who will revere your grocery list because it brings them joy? Or leaving behind a body of work you're really proud of and is widely respected? Since you'll be d
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by jmull 3y ago
Agreed. And Epic is an actively deceptive business partner that forms agreements with the intent to break them. Both bad, as I say.

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