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by mbb70 1y ago
It is _also_ a colorful collection of boxes that a billion+ people could instantly identify. Cashing in on that global cultural awareness is just the kind of innovation a genius branding team needs. It does annoy me when 'Periodic Tabl
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by mbb70 1y ago
His comments on VS Code reminds me of the quote "Good accessibility design is mostly just good design": > Consistent keyboard shortcuts across all features, and the ability to jump to any part of the interface by keyboard This
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by mbb70 1y ago
I have seen "you can write Java in any language" proven true many times. The culture and idioms of Java impose great constraints than syntax. Not meant as a knock on Java or Java developers.
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by mbb70 1y ago
Off topic, but is there a term for the opposite concept? Something like "Decisions acquire a greater illusion of planning and deliberation the further into the past they were made". Feels like assuming there is a reason can be jus
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by mbb70 1y ago
There are at least 4 ethical/price tiers for eggs based on the quality of the hens life, and this adds a 5th to protect rooster chicks from slaughter. Ethical eggs are a luxury good that I can afford and am willing to pay for, but the
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by mbb70 1y ago
I'm reminded of Rich Hickey's Hammock Driven Development talk, whose thesis for design is basically: 1. Think about the problem and write it all down 2. Research what other people have done to solve this problem 3. Think about it
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by mbb70 1y ago
Speaking from experience you can absolutely ssh into the production webserver and live edit compiled/minified JS.
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by mbb70 1y ago
Feels like the big shift is Rust hitting critical mass mindshare and LLM assisted translation making these rewrites viable. Rust is a very vibable language. An announcement of Codex CLI being rewritten in C++ would be met with confusion and
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by mbb70 1y ago
A great feature of pydantic are the validation hooks that let you intercept serialization/deserialization of specific fields and augment behavior. For example if you are querying a DB that returns a column as a JSON string, trivial wit
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by mbb70 1y ago
> 42) Do not be an asshole. This list is paying dividends already! > 41) Use sarcasm rarely. ...Shoot
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Zoom is down?(status.zoom.us)
9 points by mbb70 1y ago|1 comments
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by mbb70 2y ago
I'm sure regular airline passengers trip the metal detectors more often than terrorists, doesn't mean we should get rid of the metal detectors.
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by mbb70 2y ago
It does feel like we are hurtling towards a world where every industry will have a high volume producer of generated content, which will force the creation of a high volume summarizer of generated content. "Having trouble processing a
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by mbb70 2y ago
Because we lack an infinite tape and infinite time, not everything that is Turing complete can run DOOM
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by mbb70 2y ago
The United States owns and operates the `.gov` domain, US only is implied.
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by mbb70 2y ago
No one uses Ruby because it is fast. They use it because it is an ergonomic language with a battle-tested package for every webserver based activity you can code up.
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by mbb70 2y ago
Yes, known images are used for validation, unknown images are used for training.
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by mbb70 2y ago
Off topic but on your home page https://fetchfox.ai/ the wider your screen the fewer 'Our Happy Users' anecdotes you get. Somewhere around 2400px the number goes to zero.
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by mbb70 2y ago
What does this hand waving about corruption in scientific research/publishing have to do with the mass firing of those deemed disloyal to the new administration? What has the new administration done to combat corruption in science? I a
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by mbb70 2y ago
There is no nebulous 'character' type. There are bytes, codepoints and glyphs. All languages with Unicode support allow iterating over each for a given string.
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by mbb70 2y ago
Eh, it's not disguised as anything, it's content marketing. Lago the API billing solution is not suggesting their product as a better alternative to ChatGPT.
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by mbb70 2y ago
I think it comes down to a previous discussion on HN, "don't just crush tickets". Crushing tickets gives you localized visibility and job security but doesn't help when your managers managers manager has to make cuts. Bu
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by mbb70 2y ago
I'm reminded of a town in New Mexico named after the railroad paymaster because everyone said "I'm going to see Gallup to get paid" -> "I'm going to Gallup to get paid" -> "I'm going to Gal
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by mbb70 2y ago
Sounds like Amy Adams, 'pretty famous' would be an understatement
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by mbb70 2y ago
Bartosz Ciechanowski is a subject matter expert of everything, given enough time: https://ciechanow.ski/archives/ . I still remember reading 'Gears' and being completely blown away.
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by mbb70 2y ago
"Beggars in Spain" is exactly this and worth the read. There is a book and a short story but as usual, the short story packs more punch.
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by mbb70 2y ago
Presumably a reference to Amazon CEO Andy Jassy
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by mbb70 2y ago
Obviously this is just `JSON.stringify(e, null, 2)` as a Service, but I think this is a nice app to kick the tires on a frontend stack without actually needed to build anything. Halfway between 'Hello World' and 'TODO app&#x2
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by mbb70 2y ago
They are very explicit in the article that they run everything on CPUs.
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by mbb70 2y ago
My favorite 2048 clone by far is https://ashervollmer.github.io/2048/128.html , which is just a 3x3 2048 that only spawns 2. I like it because it is possible to achieve total victory, a perfect game fills the board with

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