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by schneems 2y ago
A friend of mine was a rafting tour guide for a summer and one day Warren Buffet and family rode on his raft. Mr. Buffet did not leave a tip. I’m in a well off place, maybe similar to you, but I think that some ultra rich people fundamental
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by schneems 2y ago
Alternatively: it’s a cost cutting measure and the “humans can do it with vision” is essentially a marketing spin.
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by schneems 2y ago
Someone “yes and”-ed a comment of mine awhile ago to teach me DRY SPOT. Don’t repeat yourself - Single Point of Truth. I.e. what you said. Couple logic that needs to be coupled. Decouple logic that shouldn’t be coupled.
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by schneems 2y ago
One of my fave Quine talks https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=IgF75PjxHHA And he made a Quine for the conf https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=4DfhAK8xVWI
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by schneems 2y ago
One of my biggest fears is a “Johnny get your gun” (or Metallica’s ‘One’) scenario where I’m actually aware but cannot communicate it. That seems worse than death. For organ donation the organ removal doesn’t kill you. They take you off of
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by schneems 2y ago
I respect your feelings, I want to share mine. I feel mostly the same way, but kinda think that the doctors who decide if I live or die will do so whether or not I’m an organ donor. It’s statistically more likely to die before the change of
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by schneems 2y ago
Are you talking of a long exit or a one and done? If it’s the longer variety I’m curious how you arranged that. I know hospice is about easing the pain to a certain degree but my understanding was that they wouldn’t go to the next level (ac
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by schneems 2y ago
I appreciate you sticking up for me. I can see this comment being taken poorly by others. I also think we generally need to learn to empathize that the creator might experience our words different than how we mean them (and therefore be kin
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by schneems 2y ago
I’m kinda glad you said something to be honest. I wanted to mention the voiceover being cringe but it’s also hard to pre-apologize for something without raising a lot of alarm bells. I’m still proud of the overall talk. I’m glad I pushed a
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by schneems 2y ago
The "No lieutenant, your men are already dead" defense. I like it. I think that if your threat model includes nation states (and the companies I was referencing above was largely S&P500 financial institutions) then you have to
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by schneems 2y ago
I agree. You can read the talk here https://www.schneems.com/2020/09/16/the-lifechanging-magic-o... . I introduced the voiceover artist at the beginning, she’s a Japanese speaker that I found on fiver. I chose
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by schneems 2y ago
> It makes me wonder how many potentially useful discoveries were made in industrial settings, and wound up being buried due to management not wanting to risk Probably a lot. I’ve come to find out that some dinosaur companies won’t even
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by schneems 2y ago
I did a talk in 2019 where I mention that tidbit. Of course, to properly do it justice I had to bring a Guinness and open it on stage. Here’s a video from EuRuKo that was filmed on a decommissioned ocean liner converted into a hotel and con
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by schneems 2y ago
Speaking of not wanting to get locked in. I work for Heroku and we are previewing an open source buildpack that produces docker images here’s a tutorial https://www.schneems.com/2024/05/01/build-a-ruby-on-rail
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by schneems 2y ago
I’m not in that space but it sounds familiar. In my experience there are a few phases in fixing a problem: - Noticing the problem - Finding something better - Finding a way to migrate between the problem and the fix The hardest is the last
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by schneems 2y ago
Also evolution doesn’t happen due to stimulus unless it affects fitness (just because we don’t like a trait, if people with it keep having babies at the same rate as others, then it won’t go away).
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by schneems 2y ago
These aren’t conscious decisions people are making. It’s baked into our chemical systems (read thinking fast and slow for some more context). Millions of years of survival instincts don’t go away overnight. We are wired to pay more attentio
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by schneems 2y ago
I heard you. I understand you think that’s the most important art of the message. Did you hear me that I believe the author is trying to use strong wording to evoke emotion but that they are not intending it to be taken literally/techn
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by schneems 2y ago
Mixed income and mixed use is my preference. The Austin Plaza Saltillo project is a great example. Shops at the bottom make it useful for the whole community. Parking is in garages underneath which promotes walk ability. When you see someon
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by schneems 2y ago
It seems you’re missing the larger message of that phrase (in my opinion). The point isn’t about intent. The point is about our relationships between cars and the concept of murder/manslaughter.
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by schneems 2y ago
I loved this talk about building an implementation of Piet by one of the jruby maintainers https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=uKGecSc-r1o
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by schneems 2y ago
Core memory unlocked. I played this with a friend at his house because my computer wasn’t strong enough at the time.
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by schneems 3y ago
Reminds me of “Paris syndrome” where people fall in love with the idea of a thing/place and the disillusionment of experiencing the real thing can be so violent that people can have panic attacks. Not what you’re talking about exactly,
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by schneems 3y ago
One of the best talks I saw was by a blind dev in India. About half way through I realized “holy crap, this guy had to memorize all his slides and talking points” and then it was even more impressive. Also to add: we are all temporarily dis
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by schneems 3y ago
Any idea how much weight this could hold? I’m wanting to manipulate a fan in my home gym with some eye tracking to get it to blow air on my face when I work out, but the fan is a few pounds. Alternatively: any hardware motor suggestions for
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by schneems 3y ago
That’s legitimately one valid way to test docs. The hard part is finding the target audience. 10 years ago HN was alite with tips like “offer people a $25 gift card to test your X” instead of the current LLM craze. Good design needs feedbac
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by schneems 3y ago
I wrote a custom tool that “runs” tutorials and embeds the output of commands in the resulting doc. It also acts as a test as each command run is checked for non-zero exit. It supports some neat features like webpage manipulation and screen
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by schneems 3y ago
Thanks for the explanation. I’m with you up until that last part. Maybe it’s just a “you have to try it kind of thing. Otherwise I’m not really sure the mechanics of what is happening when the unrolling is happening.
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by schneems 3y ago
Ugh. Same. I hate the “speed” narrative…It’s so addictive I need a cap on my medicine with a timer to know if I took it or not…
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by schneems 3y ago
I hold views in both sides here. I teach computers at an elementary school on Thursdays, and my kids go to that school. As an educator I see an impact of absences even in this fun class that kids want to go to and there isn’t a grade. We ge

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