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by pcmaffey 5y ago
He blocked me on Twitter for pointing out something (technical) he said was wrong, and then he deleted his tweet. Told me everything I need to know about that guy.
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by pcmaffey 5y ago
This boils down to the original confusion around hooks. Putting a sequence of useData / useState hooks inside a View component is just as "data-first" as wrapping a View component in HOCs for the api and app state. Ultimately
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by pcmaffey 5y ago
To carry the metaphor, iteration is not just about refactoring and optimizing, it’s mostly about debugging. Finding what isn’t working and trying something new. I wrote about how I use my programming logic to “debug my art”.* The same can b
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by pcmaffey 5y ago
Both are dealing with the “magic” of transformation. Programs transform data. Fiction transforms desire.
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by pcmaffey 5y ago
Bobby Shaftoe has a story to tell...
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Origins of agile in Japanese stone masonry(pcmaffey.com)
3 points by pcmaffey 5y ago|0 comments
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by pcmaffey 5y ago
Why are online color palettes always 5 colors? It seems... arbitrary.
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by pcmaffey 6y ago
I also have a theory that the Titans were the gods of Neanderthals.
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by pcmaffey 6y ago
When a forest burns, most of what burns is new growth: grass, leaves, needles, branches, etc. Rarely do trees fully incinerate, even in the hottest spots. I imagine the charred matchsticks left behind still contain the majority of a tree’s
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by pcmaffey 6y ago
Or just run them in the browser...
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by pcmaffey 6y ago
I just played my first game of Dominion (2nd edition) with my wife last night. Really fun, except, coming from MtG, it became obvious to me to build an engine with +cards and +actions. My last 2 hands I cycled through my entire deck multipl
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by pcmaffey 6y ago
Related: I learned recently that Lerna is intended specifically for publishing packages within a monorepo, and is entirely unnecessary if not publishing individual packages. Yarn workspaces is all you need to manage dependencies between pac
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by pcmaffey 6y ago
Shannon loved to juggle and make non-sensical contraptions. One was a box with (a button? lever? I don't remember, let's go with button) that when pressed would open the lid. A mechanical arm would then pop out of the box and pres
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by pcmaffey 6y ago
That’s been my thought to date, just investing in air filters instead. We’ve got several. But we’re still not sure whether it’s a good idea to be there at all.
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by pcmaffey 6y ago
Does anyone have experience with air quality monitors? My home partially burned in a wildfire 3 months ago, and while I have damaged areas sealed off, I’m still not sure how safe the outside air is from the surrounding charred forest. Would
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by pcmaffey 6y ago
Another alternative: live trees! I normally hunt my own to cut in the hills, but a forest fire burned everything for miles... so we bought a spruce still in its pot from the nursery. It costs more and it’s smaller than our usual, but we’ll
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by pcmaffey 6y ago
not sure I understand the base 64 encoding: a bigint generated with this: 2457081803026990508 base64 encoded: MjQ1NzA4MTgwMzAyNjk5MDUwOA== why?
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by pcmaffey 6y ago
I’ve always liked instagrams id_generator() for sortable bigints without an external point of failure. http://www.livinginthepast.org/2016/02/24/sharding-into-bigi...
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by pcmaffey 6y ago
Ergo, the purpose of writing is to destroy your ego. That way, something more interesting can take its place.
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by pcmaffey 6y ago
Especially so for sci-fi. As Gibson put it, the short story is the quintessential form of sci-fi.
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by pcmaffey 6y ago
I see buckwheat honey all the time at farmer’s markets in the rockies. It’s a favorite of mine too. Not nearly as sweet.
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by pcmaffey 6y ago
I’ve always wanted to invent a baby balloon that worked as a floating replacement for strollers. Not sure about the helium requirements for < 35 lbs...
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by pcmaffey 6y ago
Absolutely. It’s one of those rare sites that I still enjoy “wandering around” on. It’s an archeological park of language and tattered remnants of stories.
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by pcmaffey 6y ago
Probably the correct answer is: whatever rebuilds the soil. Forests represent the mature phase of an ecosystem, so jumping right into tree planting from barren field is likely not the best idea. You look at the edges of a road cut through a
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Dante's Peek(etymonline.com)
51 points by pcmaffey 6y ago|27 comments
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by pcmaffey 6y ago
Makes me wonder how federal ballot initiatives might play out, and why they don't exist...
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by pcmaffey 6y ago
> It's about fresh food, cultural traditions, and conservation. You don't eat wolves. No one you know grew up hunting them. Killing a (still) endangered species is not about conservation, in fact, it's closer to the oppos
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by pcmaffey 6y ago
The purpose of hunting is to acquire food. Wolves are not food animals, nor are they any longer competition for us. There's no evidence that wolf populations would explode if not managed by humans, so controlling them seems premature.
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by pcmaffey 6y ago
That people don't kill wolves to eat them. So it makes no sense to compare killing wolves for sport to killing livestock.
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by pcmaffey 6y ago
Wolves are not livestock.

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