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by msteffen 2y ago
It’s really the best and only way to find non-coincidences involving the definition of units, though. All such non-coincidences will have this property
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by msteffen 2y ago
https://youtu.be/90eg_erObDo?si=UWgIHL--S7LHkh3c for the uninitiated
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by msteffen 2y ago
There’s a great episode of the Oxide and Friends podcast where Brian & co. talk to Kelsey Hightower about Hashicorp changing the Terraform license to exclude a lot of companies in the TF ecosystem—the ultimate “we’re the maintainers we
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by msteffen 2y ago
Ok, I admit I was bristling a bit at the “it's really quite simple” tone. FWIW, here’s my actual view on this: there’s a great episode of the Oxide and Friends podcast where Brian & co. talk to Kelsey Hightower about Hashicorp chan
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by msteffen 2y ago
> Well, never use a dependency that you couldn't write or maintain yourself. I must ask, do you use Linux? (Linus, notably: can be hard on maintainers, very respectful of userspace)
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by msteffen 2y ago
I wrote a top-level comment ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40816168 ) before I read yours, but from Tulleken’s book, my understanding is the difference basically comes down to “would you ever make this in your kitchen
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by msteffen 2y ago
I posted my own understanding above ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40816168 ) but since those are good examples, my understanding is: Lay’s potato chips: not UPF McDonald’s fries: UPF due to the presence of beef flavo
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by msteffen 2y ago
To the extent that people are curious about the definition of ultra-processed foods, I recommend Chris Van Tulleken’s book “Ultra Processed People.” From it, I got the sense that the real emphasis is on this aspect of the NOVA definition: “
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by msteffen 2y ago
I can’t find the quoted text in the parent post or article, but as someone who’s fought the short-lived branches crusade in the past (in favor of it) I’ll do my best to answer the criticism you raise :-) > What about breaking up a change
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by msteffen 2y ago
This actually calls to mind this great talk by Grand Sanderson (the YouTuber behind 3blue1brown): https://youtu.be/z7GVHB2wiyg?si=jcUtUo-TT3ycpTpD That talk is about something superficially different—ego in math—but on refl
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by msteffen 2y ago
I have to say, I actually loved this article. Especially “Understanding doesn’t build fluency; instead, fluency builds understanding.” I love math and majored in it in college. The rest of my family is all scientifically inclined, but I thi
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by msteffen 2y ago
(By extension, I think software developers will be better understood—and we’ll better understand ourselves—once we start seeing our industry as a creative industry and ourselves as creatives. This post feels to me a little bit like a screen
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by msteffen 2y ago
Seeing a lot of agreement here, so I thought I’d post to say that I don’t agree with much of this. I don’t think the problem is “industry”, and I think open source is often similar. I wrote a short series of blog posts a while ago (in need
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by msteffen 3y ago
Really random, but the illustrator who made the slide art for this (Annie Ruygt) also made logos and brand art for two YC startups, RethinkDB (rethinkdb.com) and Pachyderm (pachyderm.io) (where I worked, and which was founded by former Reth
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by msteffen 3y ago
I think it does allow them to assemble faster. I found another article here: https://www.nextbigfuture.com/2023/09/tesla-will-build-a-car... It claims that it reduces the number of parts (and presumably simplifies
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by msteffen 3y ago
I do think that your comment almost understates the relationship: in 1917, an incredible 40% of Baghdad's population was Jewish. The nature of historical Jewish-Islamic relations is obviously a matter of great political contention (e
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by msteffen 3y ago
Some of these suggestions seem like non-trivial management problems, though, I think? Diesel fuel and generator maintenance: how do you hire for that? Does that position require experience? In what? Where do you post that job ad to get qual
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by msteffen 3y ago
I’m fortunate not to know any really serious narcissists (I think), so maybe this makes no sense, but it’s interesting to me that 1, 2, and 3 in your list seem to roughly correspond to the first three stages of grief (denial, anger, bargain
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by msteffen 3y ago
I’ll second the request for elaboration! I’m interested in APLs but have never tried writing more than a tutorial. Any particular examples of things that people {are,aren’t} doing, that they {shouldn’t,should} be doing that you felt like sh
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by msteffen 3y ago
Well, in case anyone else reads this: I mean that if you click the huge “message” button at the top of a contact’s page, that opens iMessage, and there’s nothing I can do to change that if I don’t want to be using iMessage. For contrast, An
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by msteffen 3y ago
> No, it isn't, because iMessage is not the only way to text on an iPhone It’s the only way to get an encrypted message into a user’s iMessage inbox, and iMessage is, unchangeably, the only possible default messaging app on an iPhon
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by msteffen 3y ago
…what did the US have to do with Russia’s invasion of Ukraine? (To another comment: the resolution of the Cuban missile crisis was that Kennedy negotiated a compromise with the Soviet Union…not a war)
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by msteffen 3y ago
From TFA: > Eventually, another officer helped schedule off-duty work: Derek Chauvin. He worked security at her club for 17 years. > … > “They were gone half the time,” Santamaria said. “They were on my payroll but they wer
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by msteffen 3y ago
I used to worry a lot about the implications of studies like for people drinking fluoridated water, but at least in the SFBA, water is fluoridated to 0.7ppm, below the top threshold of the “low fluoride” group in this study
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by msteffen 3y ago
In the US (not sure about other countries), new parents often stay at the hospital where the baby was delivered for a few days after the birth. During this time, the hospital often provides them all their food and childcare supplies: diaper
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by msteffen 3y ago
This post was great—thanks for posting it! Interestingly, the reason the old i := i trick works is not at all what I thought! The trick, for reference: for i := 0; i < 5; i++ { i := i // the trick go func() {
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by msteffen 3y ago
I find your comment fascinating and also I don’t understand it at all. > You may like such a person because her voice puts you in mind of your mother’s, but that origin or association is usually not what is important—the fact that you li
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by msteffen 3y ago
It’s JS rather than Python, but Google Apps Script is quite useful for this, IME. I once wrote a small app to add up all shared expenses among a group of roommates and calculate how much each owed the others. It pulled together rent (recurr
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by msteffen 3y ago
> the 'thief' doesn't gain the thing being 'stolen'. IIUC, they do—the thief delegates tedious, finicky work to preserve their own executive function for “important stuff”. They don’t have more executive function
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by msteffen 3y ago
Would you ever consider bringing the GitHub back?

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