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by macrael 2y ago
Sublime text is great! It’s been worth it to write small plugins to fix my biggest complaints but since they got LSP runni by first class it has been a great place to be.
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by macrael 2y ago
Never a good sign when you have a line in your slides that says “Alien spacecraft are made to be very light. Why?” He mentions aliens multiple times. Not a good sign when claiming to have discovered a new force coming out of a static electr
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by macrael 2y ago
Reminds me of The One Electronic from Rice Boy
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by macrael 3y ago
yes
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by macrael 3y ago
Protected bike lanes save lives. https://www.nyc.gov/html/dot/downloads/pdf/2012-10-measuring... Painted only bike lanes, in fact, do not really have an impact on safety. This is why it's law in the
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by macrael 3y ago
They've also stopped closing down every other block regularly and a bunch of other stuff that were actual wins from the pandemic. I'm as confused about that as anyone else but it's true that parklets were a big driver for the
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by macrael 3y ago
Unbelievable how often this is written about without mentioning one of the primary reasons for this design: Parklets. Before the pandemic there was a finalized design for Valencia that would have done what has been done most commonly elsewh
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by macrael 3y ago
"Third: Package it nicely. Ideally, your customer should be able to download a zip with an executable and some config files from a well designed enterprise page - or get a URL to a Docker Repo. When your on-premise version starts for t
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by macrael 3y ago
What a delightful shit show. I don't even personally care whether Sam Altman is running OpenAI but it brings me no end of schadenfreude to see a bunch of AI Doomers make asses of themselves. Ethical Altruism truly believes that AI coul
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by macrael 3y ago
I'm so unsurprised that he's part of Alcor. The comments on HN lately do make me hopeful that this quote: "He is the techiest of tech evangelists, the purest distillation of Silicon Valley’s reigning ethos." is starting
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by macrael 3y ago
At first I was skeptical that other satellite phone companies would use geosynchronous satellites but I looked up https://www.inmarsat.com/en/about/technology/satellites.html and sure enough they do
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by macrael 3y ago
I've been fully remote for 6 years. I know people who's primary criteria for their next job is that it be in person. I think remote work is here to stay and there are so many people who are discovering that remote work is their pr
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by macrael 3y ago
Optional types can get you for sure. I've been doing this with typescript and it's been alright. Prisma -> my domain model -> ApolloServer
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by macrael 3y ago
I think there are certain types of boilerplate that used to be truly onerous that are now much less so because of types. If there are 3 different files that need to be updated to add a file, and forgetting one is only going to error at runt
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by macrael 3y ago
It's a dangerous anti-pattern to pass your db types through to your api handlers. Those are always different models and it's important to have an intermediary representation for the rest of your domain.
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by macrael 3y ago
My first thought is that it's a classic macOS dev strategy to take a CLI tool and build a UI for it. In retrospect brew is a perfect candidate
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by macrael 3y ago
Nit, it's not a translation since she did not speak Chinese. That said I adore her Tao and have read it a few times.
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by macrael 3y ago
My boss isn't my Dad and I'm not a child, tho.
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by macrael 3y ago
slightly orthogonal but it bugs me sometimes that so much blood was spilled for democracy but that every time we organize ourselves for work it's right back to kingdoms
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by macrael 3y ago
I just switched b/c it told me that the 7 browser plugin was going to stop working
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by macrael 3y ago
Checkout the cocoa class for this: https://developer.apple.com/documentation/foundation/nsattri...
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by macrael 3y ago
It is so disheartening that Musk's callous and destructive management of Twitter is becoming a template/excuse for shitty choices at other companies. We exist in a culture and Twitter has lurched the Overton window in a direction
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by macrael 3y ago
Genuine question: why have these models all been trained to sound so confident? Is it not possible to have rewarded models that announced their own ignorance? Or is even that question belying an "intelligence" view of these models
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by macrael 3y ago
The XKCD comic was absolutely about randomly generating a four word password, not picking four words that mean something to you. That's how the math works is if each word is random.
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by macrael 3y ago
I mean that as actionable advice. Believing you are worth spending time with makes you more fun to spend time with. If it's hard for you to believe that, I found that talking to my existing friends 1:1 about it and therapy made the dif
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by macrael 3y ago
Practice "aggressive friendship". People love being invited to things so when you find someone you like, start asking them out. Play tennis. See a movie. Get coffee. Happy hour after work. Walk through the park. Get lunch at work.
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by macrael 3y ago
I love Paprika, one of my favorite apps I use. It even syncs a grocery list between my phone and my Mac.
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by macrael 3y ago
Anyone have an RSS feed for Neal.fun?
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by macrael 4y ago
I've loved every article he's done so far. He only publishes about once a quarter and usually his articles are ~2 hours long. I've yet to be unimpressed.
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by macrael 4y ago
I'm not even done with it but I can't recommend enough Kottke getting interviewed by John Gruber on The Talk Show this week. It's a fun trip down memory lane hearing them talk about the beginning of the web as we know it. No

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