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by strken 10mo ago
Yeah, "no pain no gain" is probably the worst advice I've ever received. It encourages sedentary people to go hard for a week and then quit, which is the exact opposite of what works: starting with consistent easy sessions an
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by strken 10mo ago
I think you're misunderstanding me: the proposal of a carbon tax is fine, but if you're the person who spearheads it then it's most effective to already be individual acting. That way, you can't be accused of hypocrisy.
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by strken 10mo ago
Is that surprising? Big tech selects for people with few ties to a real life community (because they're willing to move to the Bay Area/NY/Seattle/etc.), no particular moral objections to the work, and enough brainpower
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by strken 10mo ago
This is an oversimplification. Collective action is driven by a mass of individual beliefs that are strong enough to suppress bad actors. If you are one of the bad actors, it's more difficult to force the other bad actors to stop bec
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by strken 10mo ago
We grew up with an '80s Victa, but it was one of the super 600 slashers with a newer 5hp engine. He probably didn't have a slasher, but the rest of their lineup used similar engines and weren't especially underpowered. If his
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by strken 10mo ago
Hopefully this conversation plays out a million times whenever someone decides to make sentence boundaries harder to recognise for no reason, and together we can all make a difference.
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by strken 10mo ago
maDe iT muCH WORse for aNyone wITH A viSUAL OR COgniTive impaiRment bY trEATinG capItalIsation as UNImporTanT.
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by strken 10mo ago
I hate it when people do this. I refuse to write Bell Hooks or E. E. Cummings without capitals. Even though it's vanishingly unlikely, I hope they both read this from beyond the grave and think about what they've done to reading c
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by strken 10mo ago
I'm not going to put customer data on a USB-3 SSD sitting on my desk. Having a small database doesn't mean you can ignore physical security and regulatory compliance, particularly if you've still got reasonable cash flow. Jus
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by strken 10mo ago
Our AWS spend is something like $160/month. Want to come build bare metal database infrastructure for us for $3/day?
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by strken 10mo ago
I can't talk about staff costs, but as someone who's self-hosted Postgres before, using RDS or Supabase saves weeks of time on upgrades, replicas, tuning, and backups (yeah, you still need independent backups, but PITRs make life
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by strken 10mo ago
You're only expected to crash 500 or so times per 100 million miles as the base rate[0]. If you were impaired enough to have 2x or 3x the risk of crashing then it's entirely possible that you wouldn't crash, or that other fac
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by strken 10mo ago
I still don't get it. External API calls aren't deterministic. You're still left with the choice between making them idempotent or potentially performing an action twice (or more!), and I don't see how durable execution
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by strken 10mo ago
Given that most PhD students pay for their earlier education and then do underpaid grunt work as part of their program, the US should already be reaping the benefits. It's only failing to reap them in the sense that more could be gaine
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by strken 10mo ago
I know you know everything I'm about to write, but I read a lot of dubious quality fiction. It needs to be made clear that if the butler "strides" up to Helen, then I, the reader, am expecting him to eject her from the party,
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by strken 10mo ago
Can you explain a bit more about what you mean by a limit on how much code an event loop can handle? What's the limit, numerically, and which units does it use? Are you running out of CPU cache?
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by strken 10mo ago
Extract the concrete predictions, evaluate them as true/false/indeterminate, and grade the user on the number of true vs false?
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by strken 10mo ago
AI reviews have the benefit of making me feel like an idiot in one bullet point and then a genius in the next.
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by strken 10mo ago
I understand merge sort enough to just jump in and write it. It does require a little more space and thought than bubble sort, though.
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by strken 10mo ago
Most people I know talk about finding a good job, where good is a mixture of pay, conditions, and values. Who do you know that's working age, capable, and doesn't want a good job?
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by strken 10mo ago
Toasts are like a tourniquet, for me. You slap them on a problem to stop the bleeding, and they're often preferable to the alternative, but nobody actually likes them and you really shouldn't keep them long-term or apply them fr
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by strken 10mo ago
One of the interesting things about the internet is that almost anyone who runs a web browser on their phone is using a processor designed by Sophie Wilson, a trans woman, to run a language designed by Brendan Eich, a guy who donated money
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by strken 10mo ago
Part of this is the huge ZIRP-driven salary bubble in the US. If good software engineers were as cheap as good structural engineers, you'd be able to stick three of them in a room for $500k a year and add a part-time manager and they&#
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by strken 11mo ago
I'm already talking about how information should be free. The idea that a reader is infringing on the copyright of a work by reading it and learning is ridiculous. At the same time, if someone designs a robot that prints out copyright-
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by strken 11mo ago
Really depends what the moral objection is. If it's "no machine may speak my glorious tongue", then there's little to be said; if it's "AI is theft", then you can maybe make an argument about hypothetical
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by strken 11mo ago
This is just wrong. Beans and rice are more than an order of magnitude cheaper than McDonald's per calorie and they're non-perishable. Combine that with whatever fruit and veg is affordable fresh or frozen, a bit of cheap seasonin
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by strken 11mo ago
I've had more SD cards die on me than fans. I don't think any have died in the past five years, even.
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by strken 11mo ago
As an Australian, I have the suspicion that the decline of industry in the last couple of decades has done a lot of damage to that capability. We've lost oil refineries, steelworks, consumer car manufacturing, and we lack much shipbuil
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by strken 11mo ago
Low level waste is an expensive pain in the buttocks. I toured a local medical and research reactor back in highschool, and they were running out of space to store their discarded PPE and other minimally contaminated waste. You could probab
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by strken 11mo ago
If they're cheap enough that you can swap the tractor unit or its batteries out at a truck stop, does that not solve most of the problem?

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