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by nsm 5y ago
Another example: Cue Health makes a rapid COVID19 test. They ship you a little box, and a set of wands to insert into the box. The box should literally be able to tell you whether the test passed or failed, like thermometers, and pregnancy
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by nsm 5y ago
I highly recommend Regolith Linux (which can also just be installed as a package on Ubuntu). It offers a nicely setup i3 tiling WM, without having to do any configuration, and things like external displays, bluetooth and so on working out o
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by nsm 5y ago
I wrote a post about this as someone who only discovered it in 2020 - https://nikhilism.com/post/2021/experiencing-smalltalk/
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by nsm 5y ago
In Iain M. Banks' Culture series, customarily, a ship Mind displaces (teleports) your body to the center of the nearest star on death. That way your atoms contribute to the star and will eventually rise to the surface and spread throug
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by nsm 5y ago
The author has plenty of experience with Bazel, as Sorbet, the Ruby type checker they helped create uses Bazel. I agree that Bazel is almost always the right solution beyond a certain scale or multi-language builds. The unfortunate reality
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by nsm 5y ago
The thing about LSP is that you really want to minimize latency for the user, which local is still the fastest at. Particularly with newer incremental completion engines that don't need to re-read the entire giant project. While you do
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Distributed Cloud Builds for Everyone(blog.nelhage.com)
86 points by nsm 5y ago|16 comments
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by nsm 5y ago
Agreed. I've been really happy with Ikea's Tradfri line. It's all on Zigbee, works without internet and doesn't need an "Ikea account". However lights and blinds only for now, plus they have perpetual shortages
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by nsm 5y ago
I built a little PWA just for me that I can use to scan ISBN codes of physical books I read. It then looks up the book and adds it to my spreadsheet of "Books I've read". I wrote a bit about it here https://nikhili
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by nsm 5y ago
A part of Dan Wang's 2020 letter discusses this https://danwang.co/2020-letter/ This "industrial literacy" is dominated by Asia today.
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by nsm 5y ago
Is there a software platform that more accurately tracks how software is actually developed? (I'm using JIRA below, but sub any other tracker I've used) Generally I'll start with a very rough idea of how something should work
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by nsm 5y ago
Completely agree with you! "Growing Object-Oriented Software, Guided by Tests" by Freeman and Pryce is a great book to get started learning how to test well.
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by nsm 5y ago
Yes, I think more than "written in Rust", what is attractive about these tools (and other Unix replacements like Ripgrep, FZF) is more their attitude of "we have a lot more computing power and higher resolution/larger sc
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by nsm 5y ago
There is now a good parser/interpreter already written for a proper configuration DSL in Rust - https://github.com/facebookexperimental/starlark-rust
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by nsm 5y ago
If your Rust program needs a more complicated configuration (conditionals, access to APIs and so on), also look at Facebook's Starlark parser and tooling[1]. Starlark is a subset of Python used by Bazel, Buck and a few other projects.
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by nsm 6y ago
This post actually suggests cloning John von Neumann as one of the options if we ever have adversarial AGI :) https://fantasticanachronism.com/2021/03/23/two-paths-to-the...
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by nsm 6y ago
Individuals in the Culture are free to state whatever they want, that doesn't mean the civilization executes it. Taking the thought (not action) of one individual in a civilization that has on the order of trillions of individuals is
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by nsm 6y ago
For fans of Banks, who are looking for a analysis of the Culture books through the utopian lens, I highly recommend "The Culture Series of Iain M. Banks: A Critical Introduction" by Simone Caroti. To quote Fal N'geestra from
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by nsm 6y ago
Airtable (airtable.com) is doing something like that. It’s less Excel and more a souped up relational database, so a slightly different angle where you surface the CRUD of a CRUD app to the user.
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by nsm 6y ago
As someone who already knows how to program, I've really liked https://r4ds.had.co.nz/index.html . It jumps right into visualization from the very beginning, which is great as a feedback mechanism, and also highlights R
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by nsm 6y ago
It is possible to have a programming language with well defined semantics, the ability to have libraries and utility functions and other nice things, while not requiring Turing completeness or the need to always expose file I/O etc. Th
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by nsm 6y ago
Haha! My very first thought on reading the parent comment was "Hillel Wayne would be all over this!"
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by nsm 6y ago
I am really glad they mentioned Smalltalk! I recently had a chance to experience Smalltalk and it was just mind blowing. Check out a video demo of the code introspection and visualization at minute 17 in https://m.youtube.com&#x2
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Experiencing Smalltalk(nikhilism.com)
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by nsm 6y ago
If you are using open source packages in a corporate setting you really should be a) pinning versions b) maintaining secure, internal mirrors instead of always pulling from Github etc. That would prevent breaking your builds without being i
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A lot of ideas here are present in Bazel (where the Starlark configuration language is intentionally very declarative and not-entirely-turing-complete). I also encourage anyone interested in build systems to read this paper https:/&#x
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by nsm 6y ago
I really like Dorian Taylor's analogy of software to movie production: https://doriantaylor.com/softwares-ailing-mythology Their point is that software is a refinement of a process to the point where it can be executed
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JungleDragon Reaches 100K(ferdychristant.com)
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It isn't that it is hard, it's that it is a thing that has to be done, and so your brain cycles + interruptions are dedicated to these things. Cooking is generally taken care of by parents, which means ancillary things like grocer
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In his book Oxygen, Nick Lane argues that most age related diseases are a function of cumulative oxidative stress, particularly in the mitochodria. He suggests that vigorous exercise is actually more stressful than lower intensity exercise,

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