nathansherburn

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by nathansherburn 3y ago
Am I correct that this only shows GUI apps that can be installed via Homebrew? I'm sure I have some command line utilities installed that aren't showing up in Applite.
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by nathansherburn 3y ago
I had the opposite reaction. I thought this was funny but I also think there's a about a 10% chance AI will go really badly for humanity in the next 30 years and appreciated the future of life institute's letter. I'm also sad
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by nathansherburn 3y ago
You'll be fine. If anything CSS is the one thing that's gotten easier in web dev. It might take some time but you'll be able to grok it for sure if you've dealt with old school CSS.
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by nathansherburn 3y ago
After trying a bunch of fancy frameworks and platforms I ended up doing exactly this - a static site with alpinejs and tailwind. It has been by far the best decision I've ever made. And the best thing is I'm confident any new dev
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by nathansherburn 3y ago
That seems high to me. A lot of people seem to spend most of their time on xiaohongshu (like Pinterest?), douyin (tiktok), bilibili (like YouTube) etc. WeChat is good for its utility functions like ordering a Didi, chatting with friends or
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by nathansherburn 3y ago
And even if you do get a VPN, the inconvenience and network effects push everyone towards censored Chinese alternatives like Weibo and Youku anyway. One thing I've seen working is western countries investing in high-quality media that
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by nathansherburn 3y ago
I would have thought "first off" came from "first of all". I.e. of all the points I'm about to make, this is the first.
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by nathansherburn 3y ago
Photo of some duck poop tea I had the other day in China (for anyone curious what this looks like in the real world): https://imgur.com/a/R5h6482 It just tasted like a normal ice lemon tea with oolong.
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by nathansherburn 3y ago
Totally agree. It's kind of annoying that we don't even have a system like this for the researchers at the labs!
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by nathansherburn 3y ago
This seems wild to me. Can you share examples of the complexity of the emails people are coding by hand? This sounds like a pretty amazing art form if people are building cross-client compatible, rich, modern email designs with tables and i
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by nathansherburn 3y ago
Amen. I stopped using Reddit when their new website got released a few years back. Not for any ideological reason, just because their new anti-user patterns killed my enjoyment there. I've never been happier having stopped using it!
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by nathansherburn 3y ago
Yeah I share your worry. It's pretty terrifying for anyone at all to have the power that could come from the next waves of AI.
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by nathansherburn 3y ago
Or to use a more successful example, it could look more like our chemical weapons conventions. I'm generally all for democratization of technology, open data etc. but some technology (e.g. bomb design, the smallpox virus, chemical weap
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by nathansherburn 3y ago
I feel like Firefox threads this needle well.
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by nathansherburn 3y ago
I wonder if it's cheap because of said future flooding?
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by nathansherburn 3y ago
Yep fair points. I should say, given this is hackernews there's every chance you might know the person who made this and if you are coming at it from something like this angle, I can understand your frustration. The site is a nice idea
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by nathansherburn 3y ago
> Maybe I missed something about the reason you oppose the website... It sounds like you took the primary criticism in the parent comment to be about reading in general . I took it to mean that the best way to learn say economics is not
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by nathansherburn 4y ago
I found during my preview months ago that it would often write bugs that took me longer to correct than if I had written it myself. Has it gotten better? Also in the situation where it suggests x[i+1] and it's wrong, doesn't that
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by nathansherburn 4y ago
Or is it that using the "euphemism treadmill" may help us slowly move toward a healthier world?
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by nathansherburn 4y ago
> Customers won't be able to call Duffel but can get in touch with the merchant that sold them the flight. As a merchant using your software, would we have priority access to the airlines' support lines? I ask as Duffel looks l
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by nathansherburn 4y ago
I'd personally see crypto experience as a very small point against someone.
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by nathansherburn 4y ago
I think I'm probably the target market. I don't want to eat meat but I also love cheese burgers, sausages and other processesed meats. Beyond is amazing for me because I get to enjoy something that's close enough to the food
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by nathansherburn 4y ago
Do you mind sharing what practice you've been doing?
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by nathansherburn 5y ago
As someone who's spent a bit of time dealing with fringe views, this take resonates with me. It's a nice companion piece to this: https://astralcodexten.substack.com/p/a-modest-proposal-for-... tl;dr Trump&#x
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by nathansherburn 5y ago
Thank you! As someone considering flying my family out of China soon I had a rush of fear reading that headline!
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by nathansherburn 5y ago
I felt a similar way when it first happened. I was fuming "an update should never break your core functionality across all devices!" only to find that it wasn't actually the latest update but rather code that had been there f
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by nathansherburn 5y ago
Holy shit. I never thought of this but that's such an interesting idea.
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by nathansherburn 5y ago
Yeah I can definitely see how this could be true in the current political climate. More generally though, it seems to me that: 1. A minimal censorship information environment is essential to scientific progress 2. The average person lacks t
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by nathansherburn 5y ago
Love it! Thank you for sharing!
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by nathansherburn 5y ago
As much as I love being relatively unrestricted on the internet, is there actually any evidence that censorship decreases trust in institutions? China is notorious for censorship but from speaking to friends there it seems everyone is total

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