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by loosetypes 5y ago
In school a couple years back I spent fair amount of extracurricular time playing around with various lisps and frequenting related irc channels. Robert often went out of his way to answer my dumb questions and really helped me better unde
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by loosetypes 5y ago
Would it be hard to transition from that type of role back into a more product-engineering type position? Do you perceive there as being any stigma of engineering-adjacent roles?
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by loosetypes 5y ago
I don’t know if DO sells “gift cards”, but are “credits”different in practice? Iirc, at least in the US, gift cards cannot legally expire.
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by loosetypes 5y ago
This, among a few other nuggets of which I was unaware, are described in Snowden’s book Permanent Record (although briefly, it’s a biography first and foremost) which I enjoyed.
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by loosetypes 5y ago
Also not familiar but presumably a temporal aspect weighs in, so whether something is a meaningful edge isn’t strictly dependent only on the content within a specific frame?
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by loosetypes 5y ago
I thought it was fun for what it was, but that it was sold and pushed as something it wasn’t. And overall (just my opinion) lacking gravitas. For one it felt too easy. Some of this was likely console controller vs. mouse - and so maybe not
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by loosetypes 5y ago
Interesting, I played at launch so perhaps I ought to check it out again.
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by loosetypes 5y ago
I’m excited to see life in the Diablo franchise after (personal opinion) the abomination that was Diablo 3. But I’ve really lost trust in the company and have a hard time imagining Diablo 4 being much better than Diablo 3. Diablo 2 Resurrec
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by loosetypes 5y ago
Idk sometimes seems like YouTube’s just been breaking YouTube lately, even outside of Firefox. I think they must have recently changed playback sync to be cloud-first, as jumping back 10s in a video has recently been badly glitching for me
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by loosetypes 5y ago
Interesting, I find that there are plenty of resources but they don’t actually cover my pain points. There are plenty that teach elisp the language or that demonstrate consuming elisp packages, but it seems like not many in using elisp to m
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by loosetypes 5y ago
Structural editing of HTML and React’s JSX a la paredit.
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by loosetypes 5y ago
Presumably the area of WA where Microsoft resides.
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by loosetypes 5y ago
> Voice recognition on the other hand keeps getting better They might be getting better but I don’t think they’re anywhere near good enough to warrant how common they’ve become. At times I feel like they’re among the most inhumane techno
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by loosetypes 5y ago
How do you go about this? Or perhaps rather how do you manage multiple email inboxes? I’ve gone this route before but found it burdensome. Perhaps there’s tooling that makes it easier?
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by loosetypes 5y ago
Same with Uber promos infiltrating push notifications.
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by loosetypes 5y ago
Audible has been doing similarly recently and it’s quite frustrating. I understand everyone’s doing it and you as a company feel entitled to a slice of whatever podcast pie. What I don’t understand is how that can take focus when your audio
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by loosetypes 6y ago
> Like physicians, automobile mechanics, and attorneys, realtors know more about their area of expertise than the people paying them for advice. In the absence of properly structured incentives, experts can use their specialized knowledg
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by loosetypes 6y ago
I’d recommend the book Moneyland. The focus is more on international, rather than inter-state, arbitrage of legal systems by persons/corporations but is there really that much difference between the rationale for putting an HQ in Dubli
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by loosetypes 6y ago
Can anyone speak to their experience with hibernate on system 76 laptops?
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by loosetypes 6y ago
Very cool! Can I ask what data source you're using for book metadata?
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by loosetypes 6y ago
Really insightful, thank you
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by loosetypes 6y ago
I’d be interested in hearing those considerations.
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by loosetypes 6y ago
+1 among my favorite aspects in certain rts games. My favorite case is empire earth, where there’s randomness in resource clustering as well as natural terrain. Depending on your strategy/units (and your opponents’) it’s increasingly
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by loosetypes 6y ago
Masters of Doom described a similar sentiment circa ‘93 only now “tech” are the perpetrators.
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by loosetypes 6y ago
DDG: compared to Google, yes. How does the duckduckgo mobile browser compare to safari on iOS with regards to privacy though?
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by loosetypes 6y ago
Comment aside, I’d never seen the word impel before. Interesting. For anyone curious: https://www.grammarbook.com/blog/definitions/compel-vs-impel...
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by loosetypes 6y ago
Is there a good YouTube search out there? say you’re trying to find a ChrisStuckmann review for a particular movie. Sometimes even when you explicitly include a channel’s name in a search their magic excludes it from results. The same query
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by loosetypes 6y ago
That's the book from which the term endian comes, right? Worth a read?
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by loosetypes 6y ago
Interesting. How have you found the Google Books api so far?
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by loosetypes 6y ago
Even with their own frontend, creators' content is still hosted and served via YouTube just with an embedded video player, no? Are there any viable alternatives out there? Vimeo? I'm not particularly knowledgeable on video stream

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