joshgrib

9 ms·

31.
by joshgrib 5y ago
Not sure if this is exactly what you mean, and haven't fully dove into it, but if anyone is looking for a "programming based" accounting solution this one if very cool - https://hledger.org Simple input format tha
32.
by joshgrib 5y ago
Can someone give a solid and succinct review of doing this as a side-job? What was 1) the hourly pay, 2) language(s) you reviewed, and 3) how was the work?
33.
by joshgrib 5y ago
I agree with your analysis that this is a core issue, but something that bothers me with these discussions is: > If you are a major power with the capability to make 100K+ killer drones "The major power" is the people that make
34.
by joshgrib 5y ago
Subsidizing a bad thing so more people can do it doesn't make it a good thing. I also eat meat, but the main argument here is "let's have meat prices more accurately reflect the cost and let the market adjust accordingly&quot
35.
by joshgrib 5y ago
I was a fan for a while until I learned all this other stuff about him https://blog.wesleyac.com/posts/robert-martin - this is a good article > While Martin advocates for a small, dogmatic, and incorrect set of tech
36.
by joshgrib 5y ago
Seconding this as a great time to use/try TDD! Every problem comes with a small sample input and output, so you get a test case for free
37.
by joshgrib 5y ago
I think they're expensive exactly for that reason - people have to factor in the risk that someone would be totally legally justified to come and take all their stuff tomorrow. Those are also actual products with a true value to people
38.
by joshgrib 5y ago
This is an important point - I think a lot of us tech people like to think "no it only exists on the internet the govt can't touch it! It's like international waters!", but then you have countries that can completely res
39.
by joshgrib 5y ago
I like the look for the web, I think it'd be really cool if there was a "publish to markdown" option. It could even include CSS at the bottom so it would render the same way it does now, but then the docs in github would rend
40.
by joshgrib 5y ago
I've been a fan of Svelte and Vercel for a while so it's cool to see Rich working with them, and for Svelte to get more support. Very excited to see what comes of this!
41.
by joshgrib 5y ago
How are the motivations and risks different? The motivation seems like "country wants more information to use against people" and the risk is that they do it. At least in recent history (~50 yrs) the US has done way more damage gl
42.
by joshgrib 5y ago
I think you can both say you'd rather live in the US, and at the same time our intelligence agencies do just as much (if not more) damage worldwide. For example if you live in South America the US is a much bigger risk to you than othe
43.
by joshgrib 5y ago
A lot of people are saying you need to install the extension, but they do have a link describing how to get around that and just use the search https://youdotcom.notion.site/Setting-You-com-as-your-defaul... You can do htt
44.
by joshgrib 5y ago
I think what's going on is slightly different and adds value to the conversion - as far as I've seen the speaker is acknowledging an objective truth about something that has historically or otherwise been seen more subjectively. T
45.
by joshgrib 5y ago
You can do this in VSCode with glob patterns to limit the search directory, e.g. "Find 'foobar' within './path/to/deep/directory/*/*.txt'"
46.
by joshgrib 5y ago
I just wanted to add that reality being a non-discrete geometric thing is still an assumption - we don't know for sure that it isn't discrete and a lot of quantum stuff points more toward a discrete reality than a continuous one.
47.
by joshgrib 5y ago
I definitely overall agree, but on StackOverflow they aren't just fake internet points - they give you real privileges on the site
48.
by joshgrib 5y ago
Yeah this seems like a dream world, if you're a publicly traded company you have a legal obligation to pay people as little as you can, and with most companies in general the founder/owner feels like they're entitled to as mu
49.
by joshgrib 5y ago
Requiring people to buy a special car/system to be able to drive doesn't seem like an incentive - it seems similar to the interlock system we currently require drunk drivers to purchase to be able to drive. If anything a driver mo
50.
by joshgrib 5y ago
I know someone who does this and also argues at the same time that diesel engines are better for the environment, I'm pretty sure based on the efficiency but ignoring the exhaust
51.
by joshgrib 5y ago
Yeah that's definitely one of the holes, I think it would have to be as condos that are for sale - and not solely as units to rent. Not a foolproof plan, but we could at least make it a law for normal single-family housing as a start a
52.
by joshgrib 5y ago
I think a good (or at least simple) solution for this problem is to increase taxes on non-primary residences, as a simple case the tax rate could be: 20% + 10%/extra house So if you own 9 houses you're paying 100% in taxes, making
53.
by joshgrib 5y ago
Does social distancing somehow increase the risk of getting the Delta? I did some searching and couldn't find anything to back that up, if a certain state was better at social distancing the first time it seems like they probably would
54.
by joshgrib 5y ago
> Unknowingly prisoners of their own egotism, they feel insecure, lonely, and deprived of the naive, simple, and unsophisticated enjoyment of life. Man can find meaning in life, short and perilous as it is, only through devoting himself
55.
by joshgrib 5y ago
I did an internship at a fortune 100 shipping company and can confirm they were very much still using z/OS and REXX. It's similar to all the COBOL code - it's working and not worth the risk/cost of a migration
56.
by joshgrib 5y ago
> 23. In general, tampering with brains, minds, emotions, and personalities is way more fraught on every possible level of ethics and difficulty, than tampering with bodies and environments. Always ask what you can do by messing with th
57.
by joshgrib 5y ago
I was thinking this was a data structure, but based on the patent it's actually more a user interface design to explore data > What is claimed is: > 1. A method for visualizing data on a display, comprising: > ... In other wor
58.
by joshgrib 5y ago
It's probably fair to say most "outside" candidates would be less corrupt than someone entrenched in the existing political structure. But also anecdotally, in the US the more moderate liberal part of the left doesn't ca
59.
by joshgrib 6y ago
https://github.com/jdan/cleaver Here's a similar project that I've used in the past and liked a lot