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by macNchz 3y ago
I can’t speak to Godot specifically, but a recent switch from Nvidia to AMD on my Ubuntu machine magically fixed a whole bunch of random jankiness that I wouldn’t otherwise have assumed was directly related to the GPU. Beforehand I would ha
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by macNchz 3y ago
Whenever this sort of topic comes up I am reminded of this moment in 2010 where a blog post about Facebook briefly ranked higher than Facebook’s own login page, generating thousands of angry comments from users complaining about “the new Fa
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by macNchz 3y ago
> One does not … “acquire STDs” AIDS stands for “acquired immunodeficiency syndrome”.
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by macNchz 3y ago
Yeah I think it's helpful to recognize that this isn't always obvious to people, even folks who seem like they'd instinctively do so–I had a similar experience a year or two into being a professional programmer, despite being
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by macNchz 3y ago
This is something I've wondered about when it comes to no-steering-wheel type self driving cars...I'd hate to get caught in a snowstorm in the middle of nowhere and have my car just decide for me that it was too dangerous to proce
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by macNchz 3y ago
Interviewing candidates in a startup context I try to answer questions as openly and honestly as possible–I want both parties in the conversation to be on the same page and know what they're getting into. I don't think anyone bene
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by macNchz 3y ago
I’ve never run video ads on Google, but I have run a lot of search ads, and if the 3rd party sites where they show the videos are anything like the “search partners” network, you’re correct, the sites are total trash. Several years ago I lo
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by macNchz 3y ago
Reddit’s mobile web experience really embraces this–even as a logged in user there is a frequent “Use our app!” popup that has been made progressively more obnoxious. Once upon a time there was a preference option to disable the popup, thou
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by macNchz 3y ago
When I went through it a few years ago, the buttons and explanations were very clearly written in such a way as to make it appear that immediate cancellation would strip access to benefits immediately, without any mention of the possibility
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by macNchz 3y ago
I feel much the same way about having been given my own computer with internet when I was about the same age in the late 90s. Following developments in VR/AR for a while, I've felt like we've been in a "business computer
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by macNchz 3y ago
The increased “jitter” in shipping times was one of the things that prompted me to cancel Prime a few years ago. Even in NYC my perception was that the standard deviation of transit times had increased significantly. The other components to
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by macNchz 3y ago
Redis is simply more useful if you're not pushing max throughput using it purely as a cache. It has really useful support for a variety of data structures and operations, and I'd guess that Memcached's (previous) 1mb limit pe
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by macNchz 3y ago
> If I'm running nginx on Debian I have to worry about Debian and Debian's version of nginx. This is kind of a funny example to me because it’s one of the reasons I liked containers so much when I first encountered them: Debian
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by macNchz 3y ago
On this subject, I recently read Quit: The Power of Knowing When to Walk Away by Annie Duke, which explores research on our decision making biases around quitting, and goes over interesting case studies of people who did and did not quit
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by macNchz 3y ago
You can run it with just a script tag: https://vuejs.org/guide/extras/ways-of-using-vue.html#standa... They even describe it as a "declarative replacement for jQuery" in the docs!
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by macNchz 3y ago
I was a big advocate for “just use jQuery” amidst the JS framework hype ~10 years ago, but nowadays I agree that plain Vue hits a similar mark quite well. Even just a naive approach of plopping a whole page in one big component or enhancing
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by macNchz 3y ago
I have had pretty good results over the years following the mantra “normalize until it hurts, denormalize until it works”. Start with as little redundancy as possible, then carefully consider anything you want to denormalize and plan around
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by macNchz 3y ago
This is likely true for me–I’m a fan of Docker and a longtime Python developer. Docker rose in popularity at around the same time that many applications were in between Python 2 and 3, and putting apps in containers was a bit of a magic wan
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by macNchz 3y ago
I anticipate the rollout of congestion pricing will wind up accelerating some changes to the way parking works: areas on the margins of the congestion zone will likely see a surplus of commuters looking to park where they can avoid the toll
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by macNchz 3y ago
I don’t run Asahi on anything currently, but I do have two desktop Linux machines, an M1 Macbook, and have previously run Linux on an Intel Mac… I can see the argument for laptops based on battery life/heat/build quality, but for
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by macNchz 3y ago
I didn’t get one until the 3G came out, but I have a very clear memory of the “wow!” feeling: right after buying the phone, I went down the street to a coffee shop and started browsing the web while waiting in line. I was instantly cured of
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by macNchz 3y ago
The latest HP models require always-on internet or they will refuse to print.
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by macNchz 3y ago
The newest consumer oriented HP printers (with model numbers ending in 'e') will not tolerate being disconnected from the internet. Even if you only ever print over USB, the printer has to maintain a wifi connection with internet
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by macNchz 3y ago
I think there’s a “eyes glaze over” effect with generating lots of boilerplate, where things look generally correct, but have issues you need to be paying attention to notice and correct. One example recently: I watched a developer scaffold
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by macNchz 3y ago
Voice synthesis AI has gotten pretty impressive: https://www.audiostory.ai/2065785/12139903-a-fragment-from-t... I listen to a lot of audiobooks and have definitely sampled some with narrators I found harder to listen
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by macNchz 3y ago
Arguably if you anticipate someone targeting you who is capable of attacks this sophisticated, you are very far outside the norm and should probably have an entirely different relationship with your devices than most people.
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by macNchz 3y ago
> It’s time to just ship With “just shipping” as the stated goal, I am a big believer in using the tools you know, even if they’re not absolutely perfect or new or sexy enough to blog about. Using things you know like the back of your ha
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by macNchz 3y ago
Am I reading correctly that Docker just automatically uses pigz if it’s in the system path? I’ve used both for years and had no idea. I’m definitely going to make sure it’s installed in CI pipelines going forward, I know of some bloated ima
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by macNchz 3y ago
I think there’s definitely something to this, and it’s insidious because the technological ability to reach someone at any time has built social expectations accordingly. Everyone is reachable all of the time, and the threshold for agitatio
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by macNchz 3y ago
If we were able to quantify it, I'd expect the degree to which someone agrees with this statement to be incredibly well negatively correlated with measures of life satisfaction.

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