jrockway

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by jrockway 1y ago
Yeah, there is a lot of shadiness going on these days. I don't think tips should be requested in any sort of transaction where the employee gets paid more than minimum wage. Restaurants always had this weird system where you could av
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by jrockway 1y ago
It's worth finding an optometrist that you have a good rapport with for that reason. I got lucky and get along really well with the person that I see; the results are worth speaking up for. (I had two somewhat persistent problems befo
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by jrockway 1y ago
I clicked the Fast Company one because the quote seemed most fake to me and it was a real article. I learned that the underlying problem here is that eye charts only have like 10 letters on them, and this font attempts to guess the rest so
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by jrockway 1y ago
Yeah. I think it's important to think about whether or not you want millions of dollars of assets tied up in land that you can farm. For example, I don't know how to farm, and I don't wish my 401(k) was land and structures.
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by jrockway 1y ago
I don't think there is any danger to running more frequent longer trains. Ultimately you are constrained by the signalling system; nobody is suggesting "just disable the tripcocks and plow through red signals". Modern syste
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by jrockway 1y ago
I have. Emacs has never felt actively hostile to me. Rather (as I describe above), running Emacs with a window system has always felt a little jank... free OS or otherwise. (Honestly, Windows is where I've had the best experience.)
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by jrockway 1y ago
I think I will take some flak for this ... but honestly, I've always preferred running Emacs in my terminal. Weird things like this always happen when a windowing system gets involved (and I suppose, window system support was kind of
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by jrockway 1y ago
I mean, you can try it. I took a random photo in my library, my self and a friend taking a selfie at a museum. I added the blur and there is no way to make both of us sharp while having the background blurred. Our depths are that differe
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by jrockway 1y ago
The iPhone blurred background is completely synthetic. It uses multiple cameras to build a depth map of the scene, and then blurs whatever isn't at the depth of the subject of the photo. If you're asking "how do you do"
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by jrockway 1y ago
Comply in advance. It's the #1 way to make illegal laws work!
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by jrockway 1y ago
Another thing to think about is that this is just passthrough from an AI model. If it's illegal to make a website that spits out fake IDs, then OpenAI is illegal until they filter them.
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by jrockway 1y ago
This is so good. Not only does it get you past the verification screen, it infects the next generation of AI models with AI slop, and it adds MPs to a list of suspicious names that are likely fraud. That means that it ruins the Internet f
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by jrockway 1y ago
The goal of tests is not to prevent you from changing the behavior of your application. The goal is to preserve important behaviors. If you can't tell if a test is there to preserve existing happenstance behavior, or if it's ther
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by jrockway 1y ago
Yup. Working on a 10 year old codebase, I always wondered whether a test failing was "a long-standing bug was accidentally fixed" or "this behavior was added on purpose and customers rely on it". It can be about 50&#x2
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by jrockway 1y ago
I deny that it's a problem. Young men have invented some sense of how women should treat them, and women seem to disagree. The logical conclusion is that their theory is wrong, but this is the last place that demographic seems to wan
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by jrockway 1y ago
VPN ads do list actual use cases. The most popular one I've heard is geolocation-based pricing on airline tickets. (I still don't really know what people are actually using VPNs for.)
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by jrockway 1y ago
I mean, you can't get pregnant and your sex hormone gives you stronger muscles by default. This gives you a little bit more control over sexual interactions; fewer lasting consequences, more control over how situations go. I am not su
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by jrockway 1y ago
You sound bitter about women saying "yeah I'll give it a try, I guess" instead of just saying "no". That first date that probably won't be a second date is your chance to do your sales pitch. Overall, I think
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by jrockway 1y ago
In a world with 3D printers, everything can potentially exist.
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by jrockway 1y ago
I'm aware that nothing should automatically attempt this recovery, but asking the database to throw an error when it happens does not seem crazy to me. I mean, I get why it doesn't. I have worked on systems with "mount &#x2
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by jrockway 1y ago
I think it's kind of possible to partially apply the WAL manually. Imagine your frames are: 1) Insert new subscription for "foobar @ 123 Fake St." 2) Insert new subscription for "�#�#�xD�{.��t��3Axu:!" 3) Insert ne
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by jrockway 1y ago
Which lightbulbs include SQLite? I kind of want one.
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by jrockway 1y ago
NVMe drives do their own manipulation of the datastream. Wear leveling, GC, trying to avoid rewriting an entire block for your 1 bit change, etc. NVMe drives have CPUs and RAM for this purpose; they are full computers with a little bit of
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by jrockway 1y ago
I am not sure sync.Mutex fixes either of these problems. Press C-\ on a random Go server that's been up for a while and you'll probably find 3000 goroutines stuck on a Lock() call that's never going to return. At least you
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by jrockway 1y ago
The investors can invest in the healthcare industry. More consumers of healthcare = more money for them!
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by jrockway 1y ago
I mean, if people had quarantined then we wouldn't have had a pandemic.
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by jrockway 1y ago
I can kind of see why someone whose job it is to quarantine soil samples from other places on Earth would want to quarantine soil samples from another planet. Sort of.
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by jrockway 1y ago
It's honestly amazing. Love the "heartfelt apologies".
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by jrockway 1y ago
How is "the author" a hint that it's AI generated? It's a common speech pattern. There are probably thousands of comments on HN articles from before AI that use the term. I'm not even sure what you'd use ins
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by jrockway 1y ago
I think it just replaces something that's fairly easy (writing new code) with something that's more difficult (code review). The AI is pretty good at escaping guardrails, so I'm not really sure who should be blamed here. Peo

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