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by shireboy 4y ago
If this thing is trained on my commit messages we’re all doomed. Or else we’ll be able to type “fixed the thing” and have a whole app written.
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by shireboy 4y ago
That’s usually my take, but I still worry about a few things: * which stack will still be around in 1/2/5years? * which stack Will other teammates or future devs be productive in. I’m still searching for a very light, productive o
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by shireboy 4y ago
Rabbit trail: What is the state of non-ai tech to assist in building or defending cases? I vaguely know a thing called LexusNexus exists, but not what it does. Is there a system where a lawyer can search, find related law, then fill out a
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by shireboy 4y ago
This is what I’m looking for too. I have three places I plug in displays: home office, work office, no displays (coffee shop). I have specific windows I want in specific places when plugged into external displays at home or work. Browser
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by shireboy 4y ago
If I understand the mechanism, LTT did a video on similar albeit larger more expensive version of these a few months back. Had some drawbacks IIRC but maybe the chip design addresses that. https://youtu.be/NY-gA_zA_os
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by shireboy 4y ago
I thought cryptography was the big thing here. Whoever has a big enough one of these could break tls and other encryption. Which means we enter an arms race where we need quantum to build qc-proof encryption before qc gets cheap and easy
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by shireboy 4y ago
If I pulled all the weeds out of my yard all I would have is dirt.
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by shireboy 4y ago
I did similar but had worse outcome. Thought my shoulder pain was due to 10 year old mattress. Tried them all, got Tempurpedic thinking "30 day guarantee" would be worth trying. 30 days passed and we both felt it too hard, but
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by shireboy 4y ago
I agree it's gotten too complicated. In my mind, the evolution has gone like this: 1) Plain HTML/CSS, built using desktop tools like FrontPage/Dreamweaver 2) Server-side scripts (CGI/ASP/ColdFusion) to dynamically g
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by shireboy 4y ago
I get why functional programming, but why functional languages? The article uses JavaScript. I do c# professionally, which can do similar, and have only dabbled in f#. Seriously asking so I can understand better: what can f# do that c# can
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by shireboy 4y ago
Yep, that’s me to a tee. I’ve from a young age felt like I was “Jack of all trades, ace of none.” At first it bothered me, but then I realized it could be a strength. I may not get awards, but I can solve all sorts of problems well enoug
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by shireboy 4y ago
Merry Christmas - I agree HN is the best. I don't have a ton of techy friends, and since I and the friends I do have have young kids, I don't get much time to nerd out with them. HN is a great alternative and has managed to keep
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by shireboy 4y ago
I really like this thread. Both make good points. I still land on space being really big and really hard. Maybe so much so that multi-stellar civilization is next to impossible and multi-galactic moreso. If you think resources are scarce
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by shireboy 4y ago
well, for some values of “very likely”. ;) I base it on extremophiles. Life exists in volcanic vents and freezing waters. So it seems possible that at least microbial life exists somewhere else in the universe. Either way, “is/has the
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by shireboy 4y ago
So glad I'm not the only one to see this connection. 1984 was not meant to be a guidebook.
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by shireboy 4y ago
Yeah, this is where I've landed on Fermi. It's very likely life exists elsewhere - possibly even on moons in our solar system. And it's somewhat likely intelligent life exists in other solar systems. But physics is such th
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by shireboy 4y ago
“It’s a beautiful thing, the Destruction of words. Of course the great wastage is in the verbs and adjectives, but there are hundreds of nouns that can be got rid of as well… in the final version of Newspeak there’ll be nothing else. In the
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by shireboy 4y ago
44, somewhat in midlife burnout here. Plenty of better replies- getting professional help seems to be a solid recommendation here- but a few thoughts I don't see mentioned elsewhere: - Your life has value no matter what. Your worth
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by shireboy 4y ago
Thanks for the reply. I will have to give those essays some thought and revisit. I think some of it may boil down to the type of app, customer, etc. At first blush I’m hesitant to want two apis plus a client at least for my typical (admit
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by shireboy 4y ago
I want to like - I feel like the frameworks are all too much ceremony now. You need to buy into a bunch of different build tools, a cli or two, and are left wondering "where is my app again?" I've tried htmx, though, and li
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by shireboy 4y ago
Spot on. I tell people all the time my job is to translate from English into Nerd.
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by shireboy 4y ago
I see the appeal of low/no code, but have yet to find a platform that I think does it well. The sell is that "business users" can write their own apps/sites/etc. That ends up not materializing - business users don
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by shireboy 4y ago
My (completely unqualified, armchair level) understanding is that most think dark matter is actually real substance that interacts with gravity but not any other force. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark_matter#Observat
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by shireboy 4y ago
Rules out chemistry that interacts with regular matter, but is it ruled out that there are forces that govern dark matter internally? Dark electromagnetism? Or can we tell from interaction with gravity that dark matter doesn't interact
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by shireboy 4y ago
Interesting thought experiment, but untestable with current tech. I’ve wondered if dark matter/dark energy couldn’t be organized into life. There’s 80% of mass we know next to nothing about. Any reason that can’t be organized into d
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by shireboy 4y ago
My read of the articles is that they have footage from a hall or something but not of the immediate area: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-51053205 Regardless, it proves the point that the news system is not he
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by shireboy 4y ago
killed himself, disabled the cameras pointed at his cell, and made the guards skip their 30 minute wellness checks.
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by shireboy 4y ago
Oh it’s crazy. That he’s spending 350+/mo on storage eats me up.
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by shireboy 4y ago
Got dad a gift certificate for them a few years back but he’s hesitant to send the stuff off for various reasons. I disagree with him but I have to think there are plenty of people who would want the service on-site.
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by shireboy 4y ago
I have often thought someone could make solid income going around to storage facilities, garages, attics etc and scanning in old photos and memorabilia. My dad has his mothers’, grandparents, and maybe further back in storage. Doesn’t wan

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