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by kedean 3y ago
There's a weird phenomenon I've started noticing when watching streaming shows where I keep thinking a commercial break would be nice. Even on shows built for streaming. It's not that I want the ads so much as I want a short
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by kedean 3y ago
I only agree with this for a request/response application. I disagree for fully automated applications, for example message-driven ones. Logging key steps is important for situations where you need that post-mortem information after a
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by kedean 3y ago
> Startups' job isn't to fix a broken market An aside...why are we still referring to Uber and Lyft as startups? They are 14 and 11 year old, extremely well established, multinational companies. They are no longer the little gu
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by kedean 3y ago
It's permeating into HN too, since so many people starting abandoning reddit. I've noticed a distinct shift during the last few months, that very distinctly started in mid June. It's gradually becoming a less positive place,
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by kedean 3y ago
My interpretation is that the name is the name. If you can't properly name, say, a class, then you don't truly understand it and don't have real power over it. And that's dangerous. Once you have full understanding of th
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by kedean 3y ago
More than not having patience for the glossy websites anymore, I find myself trusting them less too. If I visit a company website and it's covered in pictures, big shiny buttons, flashy menus, and those damn "helper" bots, th
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by kedean 3y ago
On the other hand, his picture and actual name appear in articles like this one that will show up in a background search.
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by kedean 3y ago
Just regarding your overall concern around maps and cellular service, Google Maps lets you download maps within very custom sized tiles for offline use. I'm partial to using them when hiking, so I can orient myself in areas where the a
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by kedean 3y ago
If you both spend more than half your liquidity without consulting your committed life partner, there's bigger issues at hand.
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by kedean 3y ago
Most of these can be lumped under "I don't like vertical integration". Which to be fair, neither do I, but it's a bit of a misuse of the term to call most of these dark patterns. They mostly fall into the category of thi
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by kedean 3y ago
Supercomputing environments I've encountered are still timesharing-based, because by definition they are too expensive to be single-user. My old university still operates a cluster-based system that you can submit jobs to, with "h
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by kedean 3y ago
My employer had a program where you could put in a request and get a free yubikey. Turns out they basically only work with Chrome (no Firefox, no terminal-based auth), so none of my team actually ever uses theirs because it's not reall
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by kedean 3y ago
If it's not actually possible to simulate a system within the confines of physics, does it being deterministic actually matter outside of thought experiments? I feel like a random system and a deterministic system which cannot be simul
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by kedean 3y ago
> I think there'd be a revolt if we tried to ban alcohol on screen completely Several categories of show would basically cease to exist, which is an interesting thought experiment. I really think ads are the better target. It's
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by kedean 3y ago
The search feature could also famously use an upgrade.
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by kedean 3y ago
> If it was it wouldn't be preaching to the choir. I'm not so sure it is. I think the target audience here are people who have already been desiring to break the cycle and might be currently more receptive to long-form content.
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by kedean 3y ago
Facebook groups have them as well.
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by kedean 3y ago
They were referencing reddit's slogan, although I don't know if they still use it anywhere.
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by kedean 3y ago
You're neglecting the tools and bots that use the API, which are heavily utilized by most mod teams. One of the pillars of reddit is unpaid moderators, and if the tools that make that job doable on the scale of reddit stop working, the
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by kedean 3y ago
Discord kind of does this, at least on mobile. It'll ping you the first few messages to a channel/convo, and if you ignore those it stops sending them until you open them.
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by kedean 3y ago
>Being controllable by one guy who does dumb stuff on a whim? The entire twitterverse has been complaining loudly about how terrible twitter is for years before Musk considered buying it. The problems are inherent to the product-space, n
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by kedean 4y ago
I dunno about that in this case. The "confidently incorrect" problem seems inherent to the underlying algorithm to me. If it were solved, I suspect that would be a paradigm shift of the sort that happens on the years scale at best
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by kedean 4y ago
You're supporting their point. You can't go to ChatGPT for knowledge you don't already have because it will confidently spout garbage, which is what was being suggested "whats new in java X". If you can build that b
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by kedean 4y ago
AAA is generally a budgetary designation. Minecraft was built as an indie game, then bought by a massive studio. It doesn't become AAA because of who owns it.
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by kedean 4y ago
Ignoring user experience, I would argue that this is actually an implicit half-open interval. You aren't really saying "give me flights from feb 24 to feb 24", you're saying "give me flights ON feb 24", which c
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by kedean 4y ago
The whole thing is wonky as hell on mobile. The title looks somehow italicized, but in slightly different ways depending on the browser choice.
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by kedean 4y ago
For anyone fiction-inclined, The Silver Oar by Howard Breslin is the first thing that the opening part of this article reminded me of. It focuses on an accused pirate on the run in the New England colonies, and his ongoing relationship with
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by kedean 4y ago
It's very helpful for understanding the software many of us use on a daily basis though, which is extremely important. That sort of knowledge helps you evaluate when different solutions are appropriate, what their shortcomings and stre
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by kedean 4y ago
Many databases can be distributed horizontally if you put in the extra work, would that not solve the problems you're describing? MariaDB supports at least two forms of replication (one master/replica and one multi-master), for ex
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by kedean 4y ago
> roughly the same Except now you have a 6 year gap on your resume to explain and probably a 6 year degradation of skills unless you're really disciplined.

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