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by nomilk 1y ago
The two facts you provide, 1. life is short and 2. books are time-consuming lead to the conclusion you should be extremely judicious about which ones you read, and not hesitant in ditching any you believe are unworthy of your time. I&#x
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Steve Jobs on the Mythical Man Month [video](youtube.com)
16 points by nomilk 1y ago|5 comments
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Heartbound Is Unfinishable [video](youtube.com)
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We Conquered the Whomp's Fortress Tower [video](youtube.com)
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by nomilk 1y ago
Ironically, it seems Carnival have switched at least some of their ships to use starlink [0]. I can't find a date on that webpage, but assume it happened after the confiscation of the customer's starlink mini. [0] https:/&#x
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by nomilk 1y ago
Speed comparison (screenshots at 2m53s) shows Carnival's wifi at 3.88 mbps download (upload not shown) Vs starlink's at around 140 mbps down and 30 mbps up. Also (4m55s): > unlike every other Cruise Line they intentionally bloc
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Carnival Cruise confiscates Starlink Mini because it threatens predatory pricing [video](youtube.com)
4 points by nomilk 1y ago|2 comments
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Koch Snowflake(en.wikipedia.org)
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All Rocket launches in 2025 so far, chronologically and to scale(old.reddit.com)
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by nomilk 1y ago
> the book includes a section on what they called “sludge” — tortuous administrative demands, endless wait times, and excessive procedural fuss that impede us > a number of these obstacles are deliberate tools that discourage This &#x
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Hypnic Jerk(en.wikipedia.org)
3 points by nomilk 1y ago|0 comments
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MacGuffin(en.wikipedia.org)
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by nomilk 1y ago
> on the vibrant business and street culture in Japanese cities and the seemingly very, very low barriers to entry for regular people to participate. An astute observation that allowing markets to operate without onerous licensing scheme
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European Commission Radioactivity Environmental Monitoring Map (Real-Time)(remap.jrc.ec.europa.eu)
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by nomilk 1y ago
Why are yawns contagious in the first place? (i.e. human to human)
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by nomilk 1y ago
This was a entire ship (not just an engine), and nobody was hurt or killed. Is this a major or minor setback for SpaceX? Rapid unscheduled disassemblies may look spectacularly bad but may be par for the course during testing (in order to
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by nomilk 1y ago
It cites inability to compile to machine code as a reason for preferring lisp to R and Python. What are the benefits of an ability to compile to machine code? Does it mean you can make stand alone binaries (I.e. programs that can run withou
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by nomilk 1y ago
Brilliant example (flash occurs at the 28 second mark): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nTen8-LmXfM
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Green Flash(en.wikipedia.org)
5 points by nomilk 1y ago|2 comments
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Open Source Software Violates YouTube's "Harmful or Dangerous" Content Policy [video](youtube.com)
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by nomilk 1y ago
The baffling lack of candor from Heroku is alarming! At first their status page showed absolutely no problems. Some time later it received updates to acknowledge an incident. Why not go out of your way to be up front? I feared this may be h
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by nomilk 1y ago
Status page definitely showed ‘all green’ (no issues) when I checked after noticing database backups (via the heroku CLI) were failing.
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by nomilk 1y ago
Google are pushing their luck - I never have used any "AI features" in my workspace subscriptions, and probably never will (I really just need basic email). Also worth mentioning Google's arrogance of not citing current pri
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"I've changed my mind on AI coding" – Adam Wathan [video](youtube.com)
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by nomilk 1y ago
Main points: > This morning, I designed an entire enterprise dashboard without opening Figma. I sketched the core flow on paper, annotated it with handwritten notes, dropped them into my generative AI tool. Within a few seconds, my hand-
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by nomilk 1y ago
> "but you have no idea what the code is" > Are you a vibe coding Youtuber? Can you not read code? If so: astute point. Otherwise: what the fuck is wrong with you? You’ve always been responsible for what you merge to main. Y
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by nomilk 1y ago
Dumb question, but why hasn’t GitHub made a solution that lets you run GitHub Actions locally? Or at the very least a solution that validates the action (giving a bit more certainty that it will succeed, a bit like a dry-run)? (My war story
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by nomilk 1y ago
> def execute(path:) > why the "incomplete" colon? Just ruby's syntax to denote 'keyword arguments', i.e. when calling this method, you must explicitly use the parameter name, like so: execute(path: "&#x2
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by nomilk 1y ago
If video exists of the presentation, would love to see it.
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Should you backup your S3 buckets or trust they will never fail?(twitter.com)
2 points by nomilk 1y ago|0 comments

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