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by katzgrau 5y ago
That would be the wise thing to do, but I'm sure there are some ways companies will eff it up anyway. Survival of the fittest I guess. Management may want some badge of honor for saving a budget line item. Or developers may want to emb
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by katzgrau 5y ago
I'm not sure I agree. For many, the substance one is addicted to generally starts out as something seen as fun and enjoyable. Take alcohol, the most widely celebrated addictive toxin in the world. Stick with it for a bit, integrate int
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by katzgrau 5y ago
It seems that the most telling factor is what percentage of the software is new code. Successive versions of a baseline like Android can solve a lot of problems, but how much new code is there sitting on top to achieve some new use case? Fo
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by katzgrau 5y ago
Oh God. It sounded just like one of my hopelessly-optimistic-about-all-things-futuristic friends. In my defense, in 2021, satire reads a lot like sincerity for a lot of topics.
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by katzgrau 5y ago
> Of course, nowadays, everything in your kitchen can be “smart,”and I highly recommend replacing all your old, non-communicative appliances with ones you can control from anywhere in the world Yeah I'm not so enthusiastic. I honest
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by katzgrau 5y ago
In addition to walking, I've noticed that walking in a fasted state (usually early in the morning) really gets the mind turning. It does take a little while to get that perfect pace sometimes. Also: hounds (in my case, a beagle) are ex
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by katzgrau 5y ago
> If the plan is to create policies based on "the science", then people will lie about what the science is in order to get their policies into play. Or, in my opinion, more frequently - sincerely adhere to, but not actually und
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by katzgrau 5y ago
Linear Algebra was another one I had a tough time with until I found the right "teacher." Gilbert Strang's MIT Open Courseware series to the rescue. He wrote the textbook I was using and was also pretty entertaining. My colle
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by katzgrau 5y ago
When learning Calc, I always appreciated anyone who could teach the main points without slipping into formal textbook descriptions and terminology. The more advanced one gets in Math, (eg, your teacher or professor with an advanced Math deg
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by katzgrau 5y ago
Tony Horton of P90x fame insists, "just press play" Basically, just get it started and see what happens. Even on the days I really don't feel like working out, just doing the bare minimum to get started will usually get me do
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by katzgrau 5y ago
> Besides migration, some theories of the time held that they turned into other kinds of birds, mice I'm guessing/hoping this was more folklore and not a serious theory :)
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by katzgrau 5y ago
Curious whether this was considered leading science or if most serious scientists questioned it at the time. I'm guessing this sort of thing also happens today under the label of science and will be HN fodder in about 100 years.
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by katzgrau 5y ago
That's not a problem specific to "nowadays." It's just a problem that emerges very quickly with scale. Once the craftsperson (developer/carpenter/artist/baker/etc) decides they want to grow the busine
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by katzgrau 5y ago
My best hack is a longer story that involved getting global access to the entire school district's network, which was a years-long exploit involving some clever brute forcing and some lucky finds along the way. My favorite was writing
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by katzgrau 5y ago
This is good advice and so is the more general idea behind it: if you aren't enjoying your current situation, find a new one. If you found yourself at a house party and you found a particular room annoying, depressing, boring, etc, you
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by katzgrau 5y ago
> Why don't we choose to use our rare skills for our own profit You certainly could, but if you're referring to building a business, you may find that it's actually a different skill set than being an engineer. I learned t
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by katzgrau 5y ago
So at that point you're basically a genie in a lamp?
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by katzgrau 5y ago
> The short of it is: nothing is good or bad Kicks off personal viewpoint with key element of Stoic thinking :)
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by katzgrau 5y ago
Ack, had me fooled. I wanted it to be true! But I don't agree with the comments suggesting that we need to be more skeptical - and that not as many people should have been fooled if they were. If an article/expert goes to great le
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by katzgrau 5y ago
Not totally surprising. A lot of things Google is officially opposed to concerning their "Better Ads Coalition" are things you routinely see in Google Search and Google Display Network. From the outside, Google looks more and more
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by katzgrau 5y ago
> You get to do performance work, they feel taken care of by an expert, their visitors have a better experience, everyone wins! Really though? It usually means: * The fixes can require non-trivial changes that take an unknown amount of t
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by katzgrau 5y ago
> Your score shot back down to 72, you know have new areas to investigate, super cool ! I generally do not find it "super cool" when I suddenly/unexpectedly have new areas to investigate. In most cases, the developer deali
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by katzgrau 5y ago
Say what you want about the miracle of TV listings - when you were 10 years old waiting to see what was on Nickelodeon, but the listings were slowly scrolling through the hundreds of channels available, it seemed like an eternity!
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by katzgrau 5y ago
> I think more people should be focusing their efforts on becoming better engineers for that middle class lifestyle That's a perfectly acceptable plan if it fits into your personal vision for yourself. Some people want to create thi
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by katzgrau 5y ago
Clearly OP's newsletter is a labor of love without much earning potential (or not much effort in that regard), otherwise delegating email delivery to a service like MailChimp is the wisest move. If you're a hacker trying to launch
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by katzgrau 5y ago
Dealing with the spammers and deliverability issues alone is enough to deter me, for one, from the business.
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by katzgrau 5y ago
Distracting from the main point, "let's just try something and hope nothing bad happens" (trial and error) is precisely the reason civilization made it this far :)
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by katzgrau 5y ago
Some of the metrics they judge are things that AMP basically implements for you, and are a pain to implement otherwise. Cumulative Layout Shift is one of those things. Content blocks on the page need to have a fixed height, not one that is
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by katzgrau 5y ago
Yeah the next issue will be obvious and have an easy solution. And the distinction between fixing a bug and breaking a feature will always be clear :) /s
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by katzgrau 5y ago
Yep, there also won't ever be a person who lives forever, since one can only observe someone who has lived for a finite amount of time. But whether it's good or bad is something that only an individual can determine. It's mor

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