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by m12k 4y ago
Exactly. The sane use-case for UML is as a visual aid to help one human to communicate something they know about some code to another human being. It's a visual summary of something. For this purpose "boxes and circles with lines
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by m12k 4y ago
I believe the latest term is "product led growth"
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by m12k 4y ago
Another pitfall I ran into recently with a workflow I've been working on [1]: Checks and CI that are made with GitHub Actions are reported to the new Checks API, while some (all?) external services report to their old Statuses API. Thi
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by m12k 4y ago
Rails (6.1), Postgres, Redis, Sidekiq Hosted on Heroku, using Sentry for error tracking, New Relic for performance monitoring, Sendgrid for email. Recently ditched Google Analytics in favor of Plausible for general analytics and Ahoy (Rails
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by m12k 4y ago
Have you tried the Wolfram Alpha iOS app? It's my go-to simply because it lets me enter the whole formula, parentheses and all, instead of having to chop it up. But it also pretty-prints the input after you enter it.
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by m12k 4y ago
I ran into an annoying limitation of number inputs. I want to create an input where users can step up or down by 0.5 at a time. And I want to make it so that if the number starts out as something that does not divide by 0.5, clicking the st
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by m12k 4y ago
Money laundering cash at scale is much, much, much harder than money laundering crypto.
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by m12k 4y ago
It's kind of amazing to me that we've reached the point where using open source is not a matter of idealism, but rather risk management to guard against the threat of product regressions due to consumer-hostile takeovers.
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by m12k 4y ago
I'm a crypto skeptic, but I have to admit, one of the cool things about crypto-currencies is that they come with their own built-in bug bounty. If there's a bug, it will most certainly be found.
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by m12k 4y ago
All these power hungry beasts coming out of Intel and NVIDIA feel quite out of sync with the zeitgeist in a world that's worried about the power bill - especially when the M1/M2 is there to provide contrast. I'm getting Penti
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by m12k 4y ago
> I understand competition is good in situations But also, consolidation at a given layer of an ecosystem allows that layer to be treated as a foundation so the next layer on top of it can be where the competition happens instead
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> the complexity and nuance that goes into running a business Unfortunately one of the side effects of having something so important also be so complex, hard to reason about, and hard to prove causation for, is that there are a lot of em
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by m12k 4y ago
That bar chart looks like something out of "How to Lie with Statistics". Going from $26 to $52 - doubling is a nice and significant result, there's no reason to fiddle with the Y axis to make it look like a 6x instead.
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by m12k 4y ago
I'm sorry to say, that's nowhere near a medium stance or ask.
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I think this can be seen a bit like the invention of an "index fund" for art. Active investors are still needed to generate the market signals that an ETF can aggregate, but for the majority of people an ETF is preferable to the c
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by m12k 4y ago
Right, and to be clear, I was answering that this specific regulatory strategy (forcing ISPs and telcos to let their competitors use their infrastructure with specific terms, including a cap on the profit margin they can charge for this) is
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by m12k 4y ago
It's the reason telcos and ISPs in Denmark offer high-speed, affordable services. If the naturally occurring circumstances aren't conducive to a competitive market, using regulation to ensure those circumstances do occur seems lik
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by m12k 4y ago
Does it ever happen that a company manages to grow that big and not become something like that?
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by m12k 4y ago
It also helps you brainhack yourself into learning more thing, and being more open to other people's perspectives. Not all of these will be valuable, but some of them will be, immensely so. If you have success based solely on your own
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by m12k 4y ago
One the the core issues with capitalism IMO is that it struggles to function as a meritocracy, because the reward for having merit - money - is itself an effective substitute for merit.
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by m12k 4y ago
He could also very well have lost his wallet, no?
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by m12k 4y ago
Functionality that has no visual component is invisible to the point that it might as well not exist for 99% of users. Apple has done a lot to teach the built-in functionality like this (e.g. the swipe from top/bottom gestures). But a
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by m12k 4y ago
I use OneTab for this. It feels like the browser equivalent of just sweeping all the papers on your desk into a drawer
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by m12k 4y ago
As William Gibson put it "The future is already here – it's just not evenly distributed"
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by m12k 4y ago
I think it's more likely that Unity will end up in a situation similar to Apple during the period where they messed up the Mac Pro and Macbook Pro - not losing huge sales, but the creative trendsetters that used to be their biggest eva
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by m12k 4y ago
Great, now I want to play Return of the Obra Dinn again
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by m12k 4y ago
From the article: "Just as converting chemical energy in the form of fuel into electricity endures 45-75% thermodynamic losses, converting electricity back into chemical fuels loses 60-70% of the energy in the process. Converting solar
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by m12k 4y ago
The Bag. Also known as a Multiset. I can't believe it took me so many years to learn the name of the most basic data structure imaginable - it basically makes no promises whatsoever about the structure. Think of it like a Set that allo
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by m12k 4y ago
I've always had this hunch that the Bluetooth protocol is somewhat underspecified - if you just implement the spec, you're going to have something that mostly works in the happy case, but you gotta do a bunch more to make it work
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by m12k 4y ago
Think of the loss as a form of payment. What it buys you is experience. So whenever you lose, ask yourself what experience that just bought you? What improvement does it allow you to bring into your future games? If your mindset is to becom

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