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by teucris 4y ago
I don’t know if I’d call it original thought, but rather a synthesis of a few ideas I’ve been exposed to. Every innovation is eventually commodotized, so being a worker in a new space pays well because we haven’t figured out how to do it at
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by teucris 4y ago
Sure, there exists a path towards success in tech without significant capital. That doesn’t mean it’s easy, or that it will be that way forever. At some point in the past a car mechanic could build a new engine from stock parts and make imp
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by teucris 4y ago
> Do not help those who seek to devalue you Excellent statement. The rest only applies if you can confirm that your company is seeking to devalue you. That is becoming more common but I don’t think it’s universally true.
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by teucris 4y ago
DIY accessibility is harder than it looks, even if you plan to hook into each platform’s native stack for it. For all its flaws, the web stack standardizes the structure of UI, greatly reducing the dev cost of making accessible apps.
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by teucris 4y ago
I will caveat this with something I learned from “How to Keep House While Drowning” - an incredible book for overwhelmed parents, neurodivergent people, and those going through depression: Make your home work for you, don’t work for your ho
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by teucris 4y ago
> but that everyone must be forced to conform One thing I like about smolweb stuff, including Gemini, is that they really aren’t being gatekeepers. Sure, they have strong opinions (and they encode them in protocols) but it comes off like
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by teucris 4y ago
To address the “I don’t like the structure” argument, I suggest quantifying code quality by how long it takes a new engineer (moving into the codebase or just hired) to ramp up on the system to fix a bug or add a feature.
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by teucris 4y ago
> Contemporary society champions neuro-diversity and makes it taboo to consider that our psychological issues could have a biological causation. Telling someone that their mental health issues could come from pathogen exposure demeans th
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by teucris 4y ago
I’m not sure how this applies. Most joints are meant to flex, reducing the breakage of actual paving elements significantly. It also means that an area with significant heaving can be repaired more easily by only needing to service the affe
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by teucris 4y ago
So, essentially Phonegap/Cordova again? I always liked that model. I’m not entirely clear why it fell out of favor.
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by teucris 4y ago
> A bespoke tool will always be more productive than a one-size-fits-most tool Others have noted the FOMO/paradox of choice issue, so I’ll list another: multi-context environments. I work in a highly collaborative environment where
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by teucris 4y ago
Hearsay and gossip will happen no matter what. The issue here is amplification - an email from a relative can target a few dozen people at most; a tweet can target a few billion.
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by teucris 4y ago
Their efforts to make the proof of personhood process not leak any private information seem well thought out. What am I missing? Is the mistrust simply the orb itself, that it phones home to check the hash, something else?
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by teucris 4y ago
> Given the regulatory push, Liu’s laboratory team is “marching toward commercialization” with help from a $50,000 proof-of-concept grant from UCR’s Office of Technology Partnership to scale up this technology to handle larger volumes of
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by teucris 4y ago
I like to think that contentment is NP-Hard in that at its core, the only way to find it is to continually strike in the dark until you land on something that works. However, like many problems, there are strategies for optimizing the searc
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by teucris 4y ago
For years I had “delay send” enabled on all email for this very reason. I forget how long the delay was - probably only a few minutes - which was important because then the recognition of urgency helped catch mistakes.
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by teucris 4y ago
I think there’s a cultural belief in the US that the threat of destitution is a good, healthy motivator of productivity. It certainly is a motivator, and for some it’s a good one, but overall I think we’re starting to learn that it’s not he
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by teucris 4y ago
> and it got worse due to a more demanding lifestyle. Thanks so much for posting this! I went through a similar journey about a year ago. I was told I had been able to work around my executive dysfunction until I had kids. But even “work
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by teucris 4y ago
So for you, Emacs is more like a library or editor engine than an application? That makes sense and may explain why I didn’t connect with it, in that I’m used to adapting to my tools rather than building them. I need to change contexts freq
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by teucris 4y ago
Watching the Emacs community, I’m always just blown away by the love and adoration it gets. It’s clear to me that there’s something magical in it, but I can’t seem to tap that magic for myself. I’ve tried - really tried, including relearnin
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by teucris 4y ago
> Why can't growth be sustainable Because resources are finite. Sure, we haven’t tapped all the energy the sun shines on earth. But if we did, we would be doing the equivalent of painting the earth black, absorbing all possible lig
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by teucris 4y ago
This article commits so many logical errors, it becomes hard to unpack. But here are a few that struck me: 1. Attribution of the slower growth in energy usage to a environmental backlash by showing a correlation but no evidence of causation
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by teucris 4y ago
> Repeat until there are no more Tim Tams, or you feel physically ill. Similar to consumption of generator functions.
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by teucris 4y ago
Thanks so much for Solarized. Really changed the way I think about syntax highlighting and UI! Have you run common color/font configurations from Solarized through WCAG’s contrast checking tools? As I create more and more UIs I’ve beco
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The Degrowth Conundrum(resilience.org)
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by teucris 4y ago
If I’m not already very familiar with X, how am I supposed to know that?
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The absence of frames or other elements is extremely valuable to understanding what the window manager does/does not have control over.
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by teucris 4y ago
The Spaniard, known to change his moods on a whim, himself declared: “After Altimara, all is decadence.” > And the whole point of "fancy words" are to succinctly convey some nuance rather than using a generic word which is much
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by teucris 4y ago
> The modern "no bikes" is a cultural thing. It’s reinforced car culture. > Parents these days also are terrified of their kids walking to school. Also, reinforced car culture. Communities optimize car throughput, enabling f
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by teucris 4y ago
But oftentimes our ire towards certain technologies seems like ire towards those that use them, even if that’s not the intent. It leaves people feeling “outside” as it implies they should have known not to use that technology. My takeaway f

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