rablackburn

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by rablackburn 3y ago
You appear to have skipped the introduction (which comes before the statement about this being useful for non-human operators like bots) where it says: >> This request code may be used to provide visibility in cases where one or more
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by rablackburn 3y ago
The progress is looking great so far. And good timing, I was just digging through some of the older/current-release cosmic code to hack the light/dark theming settings panel to have a toggle for “change at sunset”. I don’t suppose
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by rablackburn 3y ago
Most investors back companies with a kind of “extraction” mindset. They only want to Solve The Problem in so far as they can turn that into a stream of income. Why would they give that to the employees to improve The Solution? It’s already
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by rablackburn 3y ago
I think the only way is aggressively simplifying your solution, documenting the hell out of it (playbooks for rebooting, exporting data, etc), and leaving a notebook of passwords in a safety deposit box/safe.
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by rablackburn 3y ago
They have, check out IQOS. Its been huge in Japan (and other parts of asia?) for years now. It heats the cigarette but doesnt actually burn. Same as the “dry herb vapes” that get used for cannabis. Theyve started making moves to roll out it
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by rablackburn 3y ago
A combination of enclosures (which had be going on for centuries and peaked in the 18th century with the Inclosure Act), and the Agricultural Revolution which greatly reduced the labour required in the fields (so if you had transitioned fro
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by rablackburn 3y ago
I read it as you need to stop consuming and start creating _something_ if you’re ever going to get noticed (we all need to be noticed, humans die when they are alone). But creating something doesn’t guarantee you’ll succeed. A “You’ve got t
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by rablackburn 3y ago
> Ironically, I feel like I've experienced more bugs after the switch than before Not ironic, expected. When you do a refactor like this any good PM knows you’re creating a bunch of new bugs, and the ROI of the rewrite should consid
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by rablackburn 3y ago
Not put words in OPs mouth, but saying they “just want to control people” is perhaps not what they’re going for. Since you raised the valid point of “why make everyone pay”, it seems they (OP) are concerned that currently _everyone_ is payi
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by rablackburn 3y ago
If it bumps it up the queue at all: I’ve been wanting to read someone pitch this way of thinking for what feels like an age. Personally, I went all in on border-box as agency work is always design-lead. When the work is “make this picture i
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by rablackburn 4y ago
> its actually a "Sequential Dichotomizer" and works by dividing the data into subsets based on their similarities until each subset contains only items that are very similar to each other. As someone who was considering this e
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by rablackburn 4y ago
Web 3 seemed silly enough that I didn’t bother really following it. I know that there is probably some very good work going on around blockchain stuff, but NFTs ain’t it. LLM assistants is genuinely just moving _very_ fast, so if you don’t
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by rablackburn 4y ago
> It's one thing to criticize a specific aspect of digital culture, and maybe come up with some facts; it's another to just put everything in a blender and pretend there is wisdom in calling it terrible. May I ask why not? Why
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by rablackburn 4y ago
For PWAs you could simply not expose a hook to the developer that initiates the install process? It would be like if App Store pages didn’t have URLs. Have the install functionality added to the browser UI instead. If PWAs weren‘t arbitrari
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by rablackburn 4y ago
I’m curious to the reasoning behind a decision like this. Part of what Akamai bought was the Linode brand name. Anecdotally as a user Linode’s brand seems to have a fair bit of value and positive reputation. Havent they just written off a n
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by rablackburn 4y ago
That depends, what’s the rate of hallucination compared to your coworker whose microdoses are a little too macro some days? :)
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by rablackburn 4y ago
I wouldn’t say it necessarily correlates with validity - Darwinism is about one thing: fitness of survival. I feel like if you squint a little you can see all the positive-memetic adaptations that get bolted on to organised religion. A comm
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by rablackburn 4y ago
The effect is probably more that everyone in your life makes time for it. There’s no scheduling conflicts for work, there’s nothing to get done…except getting together and appreciating each other. …which can be its own mission. The holidays
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by rablackburn 4y ago
It’s almost as if the war on Christmas isn’t really a policy of liberalism ;) Most people eventually recognise that intent matters. Consider that the people you see who mock Christmas are probably a younger demographic realising for the fi
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by rablackburn 4y ago
Sorry to hear about your family - I hope you have some community around you. Being the “uncle” of the community (who isn’t related to anyone by blood) is actually a pretty fulfilling role sometimes.
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by rablackburn 4y ago
Merry Christmas from the airport bar! May your 2023s be full of family, grace, and good fortune.
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by rablackburn 4y ago
I knows it’s becoming a bit of a meme now that modern software development is just rediscovering approaches from the 70s… but it has really hit me recently how so many “indispensable” projects are just something that’s existed for decades r
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by rablackburn 4y ago
It’s uncommon? It still happens to me every time I’ve used a different windows laptop, and I haven’t even been on a MacBook for more than 6 months, so not legacy hardware. That being said, it happened on my m1 MacBook a few weeks ago - so s
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by rablackburn 4y ago
The issue is the Iron Law applies to the unions as well. Given enough time unions tend towards bureaucracies dedicated to serving the Union, not its members. Frankly I think saying the Iron Law is inevitable is a little too pessimistic for
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by rablackburn 4y ago
Interesting, that’s basically the model a lot of Japanese towns use. The difference is, if you leave garbage without the right bag/on the street your neighbours are going to dump it back on your front door. Larger item dumping is still
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by rablackburn 4y ago
I’ve followed a few of your posts on this and I’m sorry that things have worked out this way. I think there were always some nay-sayers around in replies, but I appreciated what you were trying to do and despite the negative outcome am glad
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by rablackburn 4y ago
That was an excellent read. Thanks for sharing. Always love blog posts that cite Knuth.
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by rablackburn 4y ago
While I’m not doubting you would personally do as you say, I would point out that as someone living somewhere with quite lax tenants rights and a nationally recognised housing emergency (Australia), landlords not renting to people because t
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by rablackburn 4y ago
I’m guilting of writing a “can’t happen” branch (as I’m sure many of us are). I stripped it out before production after verifying it couldn’t actually happen but it was something like an artefact of my thinking process while writing the cod
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by rablackburn 4y ago
Fantastic. Making a cli for reviewing my anki decks has been on my weekend project todo list for awhile now. Now I can just use Speki. As a bonus you’ve done a much more polished job than I would have hacking it together :)

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