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by shireboy 3y ago
Nice. Exactly the kind of thought exercise I was hoping for.
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by shireboy 3y ago
This is something my kids and I have wondered about too and were hoping some more physics-minded soul here could rule in/out: * Base laser "pushers" on moon, Lagrange points, etc. * Use moon/earth pushers to push 1st wav
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by shireboy 3y ago
“In the future, all restaurants are Taco Bell”
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by shireboy 3y ago
Can we just stop a moment and appreciate that last quote? Every now and then there is a quote that embodies the spirit of the age, like “One does not simply walk into Mordor” or “All your base are belong to us”. Maybe “You must use your ow
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by shireboy 3y ago
Going to have to start following this Derek Lowe guy. He also had a good balanced bit on room temp superconductor. Well done science reporting without the hyperbole.
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by shireboy 3y ago
A little bit of a rabbit trail, but with this and similar science/reporting issues, I find myself wishing both the hype and the vitriol was taken out completely. What if the world could follow the LK-99 team and replication attempts in
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by shireboy 3y ago
To be sure, part of the challenge for me on that one is to ask it while not being a jerk. Yes, it’s a negotiation. Maybe you and I work in different circles, but in my experience people ask for features they don’t need all the time. They
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by shireboy 3y ago
Related truisms I've come to: * Watch the test fail first. Write a test FooMethod_Should_Do_X. Confirm it fails. If it passes, it means you're testing the wrong thing. Once it fails, make it pass. Once it passes, make it pret
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by shireboy 3y ago
Struggling with this on a current project, except I’d say it’s not currently consistent. It already has “lava layers”, lots of bugs and unintended behavior devs struggle to reproduce in dev/test. We’re debating rewrite vs refactor no
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by shireboy 3y ago
I get what he’s saying, but definitely several gotchas. The main project I work on these days has code that definitely isn’t the shortest path already checked in to main and running in prod. I’m that guy- set up ci/cd, apm, upgraded f
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by shireboy 3y ago
This is what I’ve wanted for ages from browser dev tools. It’s now fairly standard to have hot refresh where the dev server uses websockets to control injecting changes and refreshing the browser when changes are made in the code files. I
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by shireboy 3y ago
I don’t take criticism of my work personally because I’m usually the one giving it. I’m only partly being snarky here. I think constantly about how I should improve past code, why I shouldn’t have done x, etc. Self criticism is healthy an
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by shireboy 3y ago
Does nebula virtual desktop support rdp and browser? I remote into dozens of machines for work and most other things are browser based- email, chat, etc.
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by shireboy 3y ago
> “If GitHub can produce code by training an AI on all code it is hosting, Youtube could produce videos and music by training an AI on all content it is hosting, the Writer Guilds could produce books by training an AI on all books it own
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by shireboy 3y ago
Ah, I've had this idea for 5+ years now and just haven't had time to try to build a MVP. Before this year it would have been harder to do well - involve human writers and sentiment analysis. But lately I have been thinking about
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by shireboy 3y ago
Same way they do insider trading, pay-to-play, and cocaine orgies with laws against those on the books. The laws are for thee, not them, pleb.
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by shireboy 3y ago
What a great anecdote. Makes me think of Tesla’s (the person not the company) vision of wireless power distribution through the air. Can’t we just put a big tesla coil in orbit and beam that down to power today’s “telegraph”
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by shireboy 3y ago
This to me is still the weak link. It’s not just chargers, it’s 30+ minute charge time. As great as electric is, an extra hour in the car on a road-trip with 3 kids is a tough sell. More chargers would help but it’s really battery tech a
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by shireboy 3y ago
The most important requirement IMO is his last: a clear off ramp. Export to code would be nice, but what I think the market really wants is to go back and forth between a coded and no coded experience. Let me start a quick app in nocode ed
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by shireboy 4y ago
If you like this, you may be interested in the book Manifold Destiny: The Art of Cooking on your Car Engine.
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by shireboy 4y ago
This is a bit of a rabbit trail, but something I’ve been wondering about lots of these new languages. Who uses them and why? I’m genuinely asking here. I have a hard time imagining going to a team or customer and saying “c#/go/
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by shireboy 4y ago
Yes, I have it set up where I can play the tests manually via the .http file or automated via a test suite. In general, I parse the .http file- each ### represents a new test, next line is METHOD URL, next lines are headers, empty space, t
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by shireboy 4y ago
I'm confused - I see multiple repeating patterns. three light blue hats in triangle around dark blue. grey boomerang pattern. two white tiles with same rotation and layout. I'm sure I misunderstand what is meant by "patte
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by shireboy 4y ago
I just this week did something similar for a line of business app API I'm migrating. I added code to the API to record all unique requests to a .http/.rest format file (natively supported in vlatest Visual Studio 22 and via exten
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by shireboy 4y ago
Microsoft calls this the strangler fig pattern and recommends it for large migrations: https://martinfowler.com/bliki/StranglerFigApplication.html They make it somewhat easy to do using Yet Another Reverse Proxy (YARP)
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by shireboy 4y ago
Absolutely. As a developer (in an English speaking country) I tell people my job is to translate from English into Nerd. I sometimes further qualify that as "translate from <business or role> into nerd". Some of this has
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by shireboy 4y ago
FYI This crashes Brave iOS. Odd it doesn’t crash Safari iOS given they’re the same engine.
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by shireboy 4y ago
Totally agree they should have provided a warning. Any Saas (and really would apply to social media, web mail, etc) should clearly warn before taking drastic action if possible. But I don’t see how you’d have dns without vendor lockin. I
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by shireboy 4y ago
I recently ran into this dilemma. I was tasked with writing a feature to allow importing a bunch of CSV into a system. Do I 1) stand up Azure Data Factory and build a pipeline to take the CSV from blob storage, massage it, and upsert the
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by shireboy 4y ago
Optimist view: it’s not. There has never been a golden age. There were anarchists blowing up things in the early 1920s, WWI followed by II, institutional racism, etc. Things have always been hard, just takes different forms. Pessimist v

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