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by projectileboy 2y ago
I can’t say enough good things about The Craftsman Blog. Was my primary source for learning how to rebuild my 100-year-old double-hung windows. Lots of good stuff to explore.
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by projectileboy 2y ago
I feel like I’ve been looking at the same marketing slide deck for 10 years from these people. Wake me when they ship something.
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by projectileboy 2y ago
Fascinating, but I really wish this work was being published as a series of papers in peer-reviewed journals. Otherwise it’s hard to take the work seriously.
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by projectileboy 2y ago
I have said this a million times and I will say it again: anyone who thinks the US healthcare system isn’t a flaming train wreck hasn’t used it much. Or is rich enough enough not to care.
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by projectileboy 2y ago
I get it. And to be clear, I have seen SPAs that justified their existence. I just feel very strongly that for most of the apps I use on a regular, daily basis (email, messaging, newspapers, bank, etc), SPAs are just totally unnecessary. A
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by projectileboy 2y ago
OMG it feels so good to not be the lone voice in the woods. I would say about 3/4 of my frustrations as a user are from sites that should have simply been built with HTML + CSS and minimal Javascript. The front end community most days
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by projectileboy 2y ago
He would have to deny it, even if there were none of the shenanigans surrounding all this.
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by projectileboy 2y ago
Breaking up businesses that are “too big to fail” is good for the economy in the long run, and for defense firms is arguably an issue of national security. It seems to me an incredibly bad idea for a nation to have all of its defense eggs i
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by projectileboy 2y ago
This is almost too a high a bar, but I would prefer to take a job at a place where the interview isn’t about the interviewer demonstrating how smart they are. But… that would rule out most places.
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by projectileboy 2y ago
As a good friend of mine often says: We work in a field of people who envision themselves as artists, when all that is wanted are painters.
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by projectileboy 2y ago
Exaaaactly. I worked on big systems at a very large retailer, and at a very large bank, and in each case, there were reasons why GraphQL worked very well for us. But 90+% of developers across the world adopt tools and technologies because t
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by projectileboy 2y ago
It is incredibly disheartening to see what was born a non-profit dedicated to guiding AI towards beneficial (or at the very least neutral) ends, to predictably fall into the well-worn SV groove of progressively shittier behavior in the purs
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by projectileboy 2y ago
The real issue in modern data centers is TCP. Of course at present, we need to know about these little annoyances at the application layer, but what we really need is innovation in the data center at level 4. And yes I know that many people
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by projectileboy 2y ago
It’s pretty simple: Americans value having sports teams over most other things.
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by projectileboy 2y ago
Agree 100%. The change in Musk’s public persona combined with his more recent business decisions are alarming. And you may say that his public persona shouldn’t matter, but when he willfully alienates a large portion of his traditional cust
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by projectileboy 2y ago
It’s frustrating. The early LED bulbs I bought are still working; anything more recent has already been replaced more than once. In my fantasy world there is a government that actually advocates for consumers…
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by projectileboy 2y ago
Exactly. Squeeze a few drops of energy efficiency out of consumers so that you can chalk up a win without having to try and fight the producers. Anyone care to break down the comparison of carbon reduction from this energy savings vs the ca
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by projectileboy 2y ago
The 1-2 options is a big part of the problem. Government has been willfully asleep at the wheel allowing massive mergers to take place for decades. Then, oops, all of the few remaining companies are now too big to fail, so now what? This is
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by projectileboy 2y ago
Anyone who made it through CS 121 is an engineer for life.
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by projectileboy 3y ago
But then didn’t productivity sharply increase beginning in the ‘90s? And wasn’t much of that attributed to information technology? I don’t know what I’m supposed to learn from this website if they aren’t willing to compare - am I missing so
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by projectileboy 3y ago
Once spent a year building middleware to integrate money transfers with an ATM network. As we’re going to pilot, competitor buys the ATM network. End of project, thanks for your time. I have a couple more like that.
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by projectileboy 3y ago
Exactly. The safety issues around autonomous long-haul trucking will be reported on very differently than FSD in consumer autos. Likewise, there may be some human interest pieces here and there on truckers put out of work, but don’t expect
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by projectileboy 3y ago
There seems to be a lot of skepticism in this thread, which I understand, but I really think many people here are underestimating just how much economic incentive there is to make this happen. The freight companies want this, the insurance
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by projectileboy 3y ago
If you dig this you might like https://cs121.boazbarak.org/ , which also has a link to Barak’s textbook, available as a PDF.
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by projectileboy 3y ago
The optical equivalent of transistors have useful applications, but there are many shipwrecks on the shore of general-purpose optical computing, going back decades. I need more than a paper to get excited.
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by projectileboy 3y ago
“Anyone who thinks programming dates and times is easy probably hasn’t done much of it.” - Peter van der Linden, Expert C Programming
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by projectileboy 3y ago
Imagine a world where you spend $12k per month on assisted living. Yeah, it’s a fun ride.
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by projectileboy 3y ago
This is great work, although benchmarks that do not explicitly include analyses of each JVM’s GC options and their behaviors don’t help me much in practice. I’m not doing scientific computing; I need to know what kind of GC pauses I get and
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by projectileboy 3y ago
I would recommend trying. I once quit HN for six months after a particularly nasty comment exchange, and I think I was the better for it. But one day I came back, and… well, old habits die hard.
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by projectileboy 3y ago
Haha… “streaming services were supposed to end piracy”. Only in ways that they care about. Musicians are dead last on the priority list of streaming services.

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