john-tells-all

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by john-tells-all 3mo ago
Wife and I adore the podcast. Will be sending money. We love you guys.
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by john-tells-all 3mo ago
There's a big difference between a _puzzle_ and a _mystery_. In a puzzle, the goal state is known, and as more pieces - data - appears, the goal gets closer. You know how far you are from the goal. A mystery is worse. With each additio
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by john-tells-all 4mo ago
The Los Angles Public Library lends an amazing variety of tools -- https://lacountylibrary.org/tools/ - glue gun - Crikut cutter - pots and pans - tape measure - bike repair kit - bolt cutters - musical instruments &lt
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by john-tells-all 4mo ago
I adore programming books... for a specific use case. If I want to learn a lot about a subject, nothing is better than a book: - it was edited, so ideas and text are consistent - the examples worked (at some point in time) - the author ha
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by john-tells-all 5mo ago
Adore Vaporwave! Recommendations: - 夢愛 by Telepath / Virtual Dream Plaza. Beautiful mysterious drone, incredibly buoyant and great to go to sleep to. I've listened to this dozens of times and never gets old. - Birth of a New Day b
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by john-tells-all 5mo ago
Git's data structure is shockingly simple. Here's an article with diagrams on the four basic data types. Also shows why "HEAD" is different from a "commit". https://eagain.net/articles/git-
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by john-tells-all 6mo ago
My friends subscribe to one service per month. They watch everything they want, and when they run out, they cancel the service and subscribe to another one. When they want to watch something on another service, they add it to a shared sprea
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by john-tells-all 6mo ago
My wife and I realized we were spending too much _time_ just watching shows we didn't really like. So we paused on ALL paid streaming services. The "effort" it takes to a watch a movie on Kanopy, and the fact a movie is only
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by john-tells-all 6mo ago
Kanopy has a wonderful selection, and ironically its website UI is better than Netflix et al. Watching movies and other shows without commercials is such a treat! I haven't tried audiobooks nor ebooks on Hoopla but look forward to it.
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by john-tells-all 7mo ago
I'd love to have a global "toggle Teams mute" button.
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by john-tells-all 7mo ago
Thanks! The album is Fuji Grid TV https://vaporwave.wiki/wiki/Vektroid#fuji_grid_tv (TIL Vaporwave has a wiki. We live in awesome times.)
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by john-tells-all 7mo ago
Yes. And, a bad test -- that passes because it's defined to pass -- is _much worse_ than no test at all. It makes you think an edge case is "covered" with a meaningful check. Worse: once you have one "bad apple" in
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by john-tells-all 8mo ago
Patriot is brilliant. Very surreal with pitch-black humor and rare horror. And piping! Lovely piping.
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by john-tells-all 9mo ago
Same. I like the idea of my money going to the artists. And, you can "buy the catalog", give an artist $150 or so to get ALL their music. I have a couple composers who I adore so that was a no-brainer. If I was going to pay them f
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by john-tells-all 9mo ago
- find "my people": creatives; also reconnect with tech friends - participate in local tech scene; give talks - publish ideas to help people - cook a lot of food. Yum!
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by john-tells-all 9mo ago
I'd be curious how this compares to the straight Linux kernel, as well as other kernels. Even basic metrics like KLOC would be interesting. If no one gets to it, I'll drink a pot or three of coffee and publish it myself.
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by john-tells-all 10mo ago
Simon's blog is stellar, and he posts on many tech topics in addition to AI. His "Today I Learned" series is an extremely useful selection of small learnings: https://til.simonwillison.net/
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by john-tells-all 10mo ago
Strong recommend! Julia's posts are always really engaging and educational. She also publishes a number of technical topics as ZINES. I bought her "Oh Shit, Git!" zine and learned a ton of useful info, despite having decades
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by john-tells-all 11mo ago
Switch Angel has dozens of Strudel music videos on Youtube, including a few with no voiceover. Super entertaining!
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by john-tells-all 1y ago
This is literally comic. The plot of the live action comic book movie "Danger: Diabolik" [1] has a segment where the a country's tax records are destroyed, thus making it impossible for the government to collect taxes from it
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by john-tells-all 1y ago
I've paid for Feedly for years and use it daily. One section is "Hacker News People". When I find someone on HN who writes well, I subscribe to their comments in a RSS feed, so I can read everything they write. Very often the
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by john-tells-all 1y ago
I thought I could program in any language. But: that Cobol project makes Assembly language look clean and elegant. I applaud Jms Dnns! This project really makes you think.
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by john-tells-all 1y ago
The Life Scientific is a wonderful and engaging podcast. The episodes delve into a scientist's field of study, but really bring out their human side. Hobbies, interests; scientists are people too :)
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by john-tells-all 1y ago
I read this book many years ago and it made a big impression on me. His view is that normal, rational, intelligent people... can have fictional stories in their heads about how things work. It takes energy and focus and research to fix thes
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by john-tells-all 1y ago
It's a thinking challenge, not an AI challenge. A while back, a junior asked me a question. They wanted to do X, they had code, with error Y. So they searched for it, got a page on Stack Overflow, pasted "the answer", then go
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by john-tells-all 1y ago
I had the identical reactions, and like you it doesn't make a lot of sense. Java: "stiff", awkward, verbose. Gets the job done but ugh. C#: "soft", flexible, has possibilities Although to be fair I programming in Ja
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by john-tells-all 1y ago
As a counterpoint, I find coding assignments refreshing: - I always learn new things - learn and experiment new ways of doing a task - get to see how a different team thinks about projects During the walk through, I can demonstrate my organ
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by john-tells-all 1y ago
`In Our Time` is a joy! Very fast intellectual conversation on relevant topics by academics in the field. Their enthusiasm is infectious.
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by john-tells-all 1y ago
Strong agree Breathe in: ONE. Breathe out: TWO. Next: THREE... reset at 10. If you find yourself breathing in on an even number, or out on an odd number, you've gotten lost. No problem, just reset to 1. Got to ten? You win! Also, reset
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by john-tells-all 1y ago
Purchased the author's `Scheme 9 from Empty Space` book and loved it. Lots of very well-commented and explained code, on how to build a language up from the beginning. So much fun. https://t3x.org/s9book/index.h

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