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by tessierashpool 1y ago
yeah, it's a good post overall, but the humblebrag factor undermines it
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by tessierashpool 1y ago
sorry but you’re underestimating the number of people who come here, and the range of backgrounds (and interests) they have
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by tessierashpool 1y ago
yeah, that’s what works for me also. LLMs are a nightmare for debugging but a breeze for this. another good use case: have it read a ton of code and summarize it. if you’re dealing with a new (to you) area in a legacy application, and tryin
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by tessierashpool 1y ago
The problem with Lisp (or at least Clojure) is that abstracting away the boilerplate requires you to correctly identify the boilerplate. It’s nontrivial to structure your entire AST so that the parts you abstract away are the parts you’re n
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by tessierashpool 1y ago
Since I had to Google it, 3Com was the company behind Ethernet, a wired networking standard that revolutionized offices in the days before remote work. Like with GUIs, the work started at Xerox PARC.
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by tessierashpool 1y ago
The EPA is currently reviewing its ban on asbestos.
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by tessierashpool 1y ago
this is correct, because "enemy" starts with a vowel, but it's a fairly gratuitous translation either way, since "know your enemy" comes from Sun Tzu
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by tessierashpool 1y ago
I found the Wii U joystick too springy to win OOT or even play much of Twilight Princess. I was able to compensate for the springiness until the penultimate fight with Ganondorf at the top of the castle in OOT, at which point it got too ann
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by tessierashpool 1y ago
> One of the interesting pieces of science that I think a lot of people don't think about is strategic investment. the Internet itself began with DARPA. the web at CERN. both came from publicly-funded research.
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by tessierashpool 1y ago
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by tessierashpool 1y ago
Having a car that mostly drives itself is the best purchase I’ve ever made. ok, you can get that with a Hyundai though. higher-quality, too, yet the Tesla costs more.
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by tessierashpool 1y ago
ironically, this itself is gaslighting
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by tessierashpool 1y ago
If somebody wanted to be... not president, but authoritarian leader of a post-democracy, Musk would be well positioned technologically. of course, that was his very explicit goal. Thiel backed Curtis Yarvin, who came up for the plan for t
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by tessierashpool 1y ago
how do you feel about Talespire? it allows pretty fast on-the-fly map-making as long you’re not dealing with significant vertical distances, although it’s got very little in common with LambdaMOO. but MUDs generally seem to be MMRPG precurs
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by tessierashpool 2y ago
it was severely overused in the late 90s. its versatility made it very bad for large projects, but people used it anyway because it handled CGI easily. people who were there still bear the scars, and language hipsters know it isn’t popular,
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by tessierashpool 2y ago
spoiler alert: this always happens with new technologies, to some extent. the possibilities that materialize are always an odd subset of the possibilities that people envision when the tech is new. you can get better at predicting that subs
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by tessierashpool 2y ago
I didn't know him well, but I interacted with him a few times. I liked him, and I enjoyed his book Rebuilding Rails .
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by tessierashpool 2y ago
that’s bonkers. “philosophers and other wordcels” not only insults Borges but the entire world of philosophy. the arrogance and the nonsense in that phrasing are both off the charts.
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by tessierashpool 2y ago
Elm does something similr. Neither elm/regex nor elm/parser are built-in, but elm/regex encourages you to use elm/parser instead. btw, I like the namesake, but a language named Janet is pretty much obligated to also prio
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by tessierashpool 2y ago
underrated comet
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by tessierashpool 2y ago
this is provably false. the demand for generative compositional techniques fuels a lot of the Eurorack market. people pay lots of money for machines that generate musical ideas. and the history of algorithmic composition goes back to at lea
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by tessierashpool 2y ago
I happened to re-read this, and to be clear, I'm not Chinese-American. the "we" there means "everyone else in the English-speaking world except for the actual English."
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by tessierashpool 2y ago
fun fact: Paracelsus (real name Theophrastus Philippus Aureolus Bombastus von Hohenheim) is the historical inspiration for the character Van Hohenheim from Fullmetal Alchemist.
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by tessierashpool 2y ago
Josephine Baker was a star. Bach and Mozart were stars. Pythagoras was more famous for music than math, during his lifetime (well over two thousand years ago). The decline of a particular business model is a legit observation but it doesn’t
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by tessierashpool 2y ago
everything in film is like that, though. it’s an industry built on gig work which nonetheless has strong unions. a seeming paradox but it works.
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by tessierashpool 2y ago
yeah, digging up that screenshot (and the repo) really made me realize how primitive this solution was. it was also a very basic implementation of the whole headline sizes concept. there was an app called Flipboard at the time which did som
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by tessierashpool 2y ago
this is exactly how my 2009 version (in my previous comment) chose to size and space its headlines
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by tessierashpool 2y ago
I agree, but I'm biased. I built basically the same app as OP back in 2009 and it had different headline sizes like a newspaper: https://github.com/gilesbowkett/hacker_newspaper/blob/master... I kept it
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by tessierashpool 2y ago
You're thinking like a progressive technocrat. You're thinking, how would I institute a fair, efficient, and effective program of mass deportation? I'm really not.
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by tessierashpool 2y ago
that's also partly because of Fox News, which was explicitly founded to ensure that the next Nixon would survive his Watergate.

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