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by michaelchisari 7mo ago
The collapse of the Soviet Union was ahistorical in many ways. It's rare that collapse of an empire can be pinpointed to a single day. And what you saw was a result of shock therapy imposed from the outside. I doubt that would happen t
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by michaelchisari 7mo ago
If a spec is regularly implement poorly, the spec is the problem.
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by michaelchisari 3y ago
Really cool UI. Makes me nostalgic for old NES games. I'm not sure this specific approach will catch on, but I'm excited to know that people see the need for a "slow internet" after years of algorithms and A/B testi
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by michaelchisari 3y ago
The Burnout Society by Byung-Chul Han addresses this as well.
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by michaelchisari 3y ago
I'm not one who believes that perfect representational parity is possible or even desirable within all social groupings. That said, I see no reason to ignore the implication of a 1% vs 40% disparity within a highly advantageous profess
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by michaelchisari 3y ago
Love Htmx but confident the hardest part of implementing will be convincing managers and designers to fully rethink how to approach UX and product in a way that privileges simplicity over presentation.
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by michaelchisari 3y ago
I'm aware.
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by michaelchisari 3y ago
I'd say that Breakfast at Tiffany's would make an incredible film. It's a pity they never even tried.
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by michaelchisari 3y ago
The talent on this film is stacked. I was interested the second I saw who was attached. Greta Gerwig was an indie darling for a decade before she went on to make two highly praised, award-winning films back-to-back. Noah Baumbach is known f
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by michaelchisari 3y ago
Bet a 13 year old with total confidence in GPT beats them both individually on any subject of reasonable complexity.
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by michaelchisari 3y ago
Or they're hooking kids because they're least likely to have the domain experience required to recognize how confidently wrong AI can be.
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by michaelchisari 3y ago
| shutting down entirely if they can't pay for server costs Keeping the lights on is never a guarantee for anything. VC funding can also run out. Being for-profit locks an organization out of crowd-sourcing, institutional grants and
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by michaelchisari 3y ago
| Don't kid yourself though into thinking the non-profit foundation Those aren't the problems I was expecting to solve. Those are other problems that exist regardless of funding model, because they're fundamentally social p
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by michaelchisari 3y ago
Maybe the solution isn't decentralization, but a non-profit approach like Wikipedia. Reddit already functions entirely on volunteer labor anyways, adding venture capital requirements makes much less sense than a just-keep-the-lights-on
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by michaelchisari 3y ago
| flat organizations Flat and structureless are not necessarily synonymous. It's certainly possible to have a highly structured yet flat organization with clear roles and non-hierarchical decision-making.
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by michaelchisari 3y ago
| Can you imagine putting the video card in every copy of a game now? I remember Star Fox (which included the SuperFX graphics chip on the cartridge) going for $90 on release in 1993. That's $188.95 in today's dollars.
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by michaelchisari 3y ago
Everybody's arguing about whether Htmx can do this or that, or how it handles complex use case x, but Htmx can do 90% of what people need in an extremely simple and straight-forward way. That means it (or at least its approach) won&#x2
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by michaelchisari 4y ago
I'm interested in what's happening in the MPA space. The Page and View Transitions API that the chrome team is working on, partial update libraries like htmx and unpoly, etc. If payloads are tight and servers snappy, many of the c
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by michaelchisari 4y ago
My doctor had me work on increasing the amount of water I drink in a day until I hit the recommended amount, and journaling the result. Turns out, I had spent most of my life dehydrated. I feel so much better when I drink a ton of water.
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by michaelchisari 4y ago
You need to salt it enough that the pasta itself becomes salty. So the sauce you use doesn't have to have much salt, a pinch or two, and the pasta carries the saltiness instead.
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by michaelchisari 4y ago
For 98% of projects? A global state object that gets passed down the component tree. This can scale to much greater complexity before it becomes an issue than many are willing to admit.
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by michaelchisari 4y ago
| Why did I deserve to make more money than a teacher or a nurse? My tech salary, adjusted for inflation, is almost exactly what my RN mother was making when she was my age. Maybe our salaries aren't that extraordinary, they're
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by michaelchisari 4y ago
Why assume the only alternative to American overconsumption is a a primitive existence?
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by michaelchisari 4y ago
I agree, but a honest model has a flat subscription fee instead of promising matches for free and upselling through nudging and manipulation. I haven't online dated in a long time, but if I ever do again, I'll go with a service th
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by michaelchisari 4y ago
| Why does this happen? Because nobody wants to hear "that feature isn't viable given our architecture." So we build systems that can accommodate any possible future feature. No matter how unlikely. And no matter how much e
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by michaelchisari 4y ago
Really cool on a technical level, but part of me thinks good lord, is anyone out there working on making the web simpler instead of more complicated and magical?
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by michaelchisari 4y ago
| They’re just internal to some organization not public. That's because technological decentralization is much easier with political centralization. But technological and political decentralization together is incredibly difficult.
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by michaelchisari 4y ago
> iterate in img2img with loopback at approximately the same rate. What's the advantage of using img2img as opposed to iterating on the seed value?
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by michaelchisari 4y ago
Right and the opposite of "Not Invented Here" can be layers upon layers of magical abstraction that nobody understands.
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by michaelchisari 4y ago
I was so geniunely happy with my 16GB iMac M1 until stable-diffusion released. I was amazed at how fast and powerful it was. I thought this meant I could stop buying top-of-the-line Macs every 4 years and start buying bottom-of-the-line Mac

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