jon_richards

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by jon_richards 2y ago
My favorite analysis of lotr is this: > good does not need to destroy evil; good needs only to resist evil, and when it does that, evil destroys itself
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by jon_richards 2y ago
The killer app for markdown would be a collaborative editor that displays the raw markdown and formatted markdown side-by-side and makes both sides editable. Tech people can use `#` and `*` on one side for formatting, product people can u
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by jon_richards 2y ago
Is a bred in behavior to hunt vermin domestication or lack of domestication?
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by jon_richards 2y ago
Any sufficiently misunderstood algorithm is indistinguishable from AI.
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by jon_richards 2y ago
My favorite version: x = 0.999... x - x/10 = 0.9 x = 1
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by jon_richards 2y ago
Even less pretty for getattr. And then you have a rude awakening about the difference between the missing default behavior of these two functions.
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by jon_richards 2y ago
> Organization on song within album within artist within genre helped me remember and relate to it. I felt like I was in conversation with the artists. The podcast No Dogs in Space brought this back for me. They discuss the stories of di
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by jon_richards 2y ago
More like tree rebalancing.
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by jon_richards 2y ago
Awesome! Could you share? I also use react native.
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by jon_richards 2y ago
Not OP, but https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/api-management/restfu... The problem is that clients generally have a bunch of verbs they need to do. You have to design your objects and permissions just r
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by jon_richards 2y ago
The auto-generated SDKs are very useful here. An API customer doesn't have to learn protobuf or install any tooling. Plus they can fall back to JSON without any fuss. Connectrpc is much better at that than my envoy transcoder was. If y
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by jon_richards 2y ago
I've been having fun with connectrpc https://connectrpc.com/ It fixes a lot of the problematic stuff with grpc and I'm excited for webtransport to finally be accepted by safari so connectrpc can develop better str
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by jon_richards 2y ago
I think it's become an industry term. This isn't the first article or product I've seen using it to refer to a 3d printed object that reversibly transforms without mechanical input.
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by jon_richards 2y ago
Is there any link to “ace” meaning a tennis serve that the defending player fails to make any contact with? I could see the parallel with a “cheese” strategy being an unexpectedly fast attack.
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by jon_richards 2y ago
I like the theory of traffic that basically says traffic will always make the best mode of transportation as bad as the second best. The problem with buses is that car traffic can never be bad enough to make cars worse than buses. Buses are
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by jon_richards 2y ago
I’d say a cherry picked example is backed by random chance (possibly counter to the trend) while a poster child example has an explanation (not necessarily correct) for being the most sensitive to the variable being changed.
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by jon_richards 2y ago
Much of Europe seems to do fine orienting their consumption and recycling around glass (including wash+reuse). I was surprised I didn’t even see aluminum recycling because it was so rare to see a can.
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by jon_richards 2y ago
Unfortunately our DNA is also in excel. Several genes had to be renamed because they kept being identified as dates.
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by jon_richards 2y ago
Yeah. A round-trippable comment is just another text field. Leave that to the application. It’s unfortunate how many APIs are documented with a single json example, but annotating them with comments (and maybe types?) would help immensely.
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by jon_richards 2y ago
I believe there was a study that showed a mix of behaviors because populations with cooperative individuals out-compete in plentiful times and selfish individuals out-compete in scarce times. Hard to Google now because of selfish gene theor
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by jon_richards 2y ago
Isn’t the standard just to set the unchanged column to itself?
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by jon_richards 2y ago
Last major update broke all my vpns for a while. Really not fun having to switch to ssh bastions to do anything.
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by jon_richards 2y ago
I'm not surprised. There have been studies that show caterpillars retain memories through metamorphosis into a butterfly (a process that basically liquefies them).
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by jon_richards 2y ago
The classic example is Homer's "Wine-dark sea", but it gets a lot more complicated than that https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linguistic_relativity_and_the_...
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by jon_richards 2y ago
Not really what they're talking about https://stackoverflow.com/questions/97197/what-is-the-n1-sel...
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by jon_richards 2y ago
Lunar zenith isn’t midnight. It can happy at any time, including during the day.
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by jon_richards 2y ago
I often find the opposite. Documentation can be up to date, but AI suggests deprecated or removed functions because there’s more old code than new code. Pgx v5 is a particularly consistent example.
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by jon_richards 2y ago
That's not really my point. I think one thing that gets lost in the "everything has different levels of risk" discussion is that many risk/reward profiles are bad . Calling everything a tradeoff is misleading. Banks are
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by jon_richards 2y ago
Sure, there’s no free lunch, but there is the beat-you-up-and-take-your-lunch-money of not investing. Bonds may have gone down, but they still paid out. Unless people sold at a loss for liquidity or could’ve timed the market and bought lo
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by jon_richards 2y ago
I think it's much more productive to teach children 2x0 = 2x1 + 2x(-1) = 2-2 = 0 and 2xx0 = 2xx1 x 2xx(-1) = 2/2 = 1 Inverting the concept and having those patterns stem from a fundamental identity can wait unt

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