thestephen

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by thestephen 5mo ago
Reads more like a dunk than a critique. When the interspersed commentary has to lift that hard for the criticism to land, it’s worth asking whether the Dawkins quotes actually support the reading or whether the reading is just being asserte
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by thestephen 1y ago
Counterpoint: Zed wins me over because the LLM calls don't feel like magic - I maintain control over API calls unlike Cursor, which seems to have a mind of its own and depletes my API quota unexpectedly. Plus, Zed matches Sublime'
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Silicon Valley's Roach Motels(lolsteph.substack.com)
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by thestephen 2y ago
Emacs in its final form? Sadly, for those of us not versed in Elisp, such power remains a pipe dream.
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by thestephen 2y ago
Great tool! It uncovered a surprising amount of unnecessary exports in our codebase. Really streamlines things. One interesting observation: when using it with our Next.js project, it flags all page TypeScript files as unused. This inadvert
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by thestephen 5y ago
This solves a huge problem for me, and is easily worth three times the amount I paid for it. Thank you!
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by thestephen 5y ago
So I really enjoy the spatial paradigm with Muse. It feels like a digital whiteboard - I can paste images, resize them, throw them around, and ink over them, which makes it great for thinking. Compare this to Apple Notes, where each note ac
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by thestephen 5y ago
ADHDer here. WFH was a nightmare the first six months, but the past few months have been working out great. My findings from this past year: * Finding the right medication, in the right dose. Biggest QoL improvement. YMMV * Whenever I get l
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by thestephen 6y ago
I picked up writing music a few years ago - something I had been longing to do since my early teens, but avoided because I hated the feeling of having no idea what I was doing. I’ve been working on a track for the past few months. And for o
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by thestephen 6y ago
Consider trying elvanse / vyvanse. While concerta did help in some sense, I had the same side effects as you. In my experience, Elvanse feels more like it "cures" my ADHD while retaining my personality and creativity. Oh, and
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by thestephen 6y ago
Since 10.15.4, my 16" started having kernel panics while waking up from sleep. Disabling Power Nap seems to mitigate this. While this is an awful stopgap solution, at least I can get back to work.
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by thestephen 7y ago
> Is unconscious bias training the worst example of bullshit you have experienced in your professional life or the thing that has aggravated you the most? I can't see the parent making this claim at all; are you sure that your inter
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by thestephen 7y ago
> Homosexuality was legalized in 1944 in Sweden, compared to the U.S., where it was legalized nationwide in 2003. While homosexuality was legalized in Sweden in 1944, it was classed as a mental disorder until 1979 and it wasn't unti
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by thestephen 7y ago
Safari hasn't been supported for Windows since 2012.
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by thestephen 8y ago
I pull out my phone and use Beorg, which syncs with my Dropbox. The next time I'm at my computer, the notes are right there in Emacs.
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by thestephen 8y ago
I'm curious in what way static languages are "designed for developers who aren't good at coming up with abstractions", are "more work" and "slow down progress". Those are quite strong statements to no
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by thestephen 8y ago
Further down in the article: In our original demo, we ran a V100 GPU against 8 CPU nodes. The new T4 GPUs cut our cost in half, which meant we reduced the Apache Spark cluster to 4 CPU nodes in order to maintain price parity. Even with the
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by thestephen 8y ago
Consider getting screened for ADHD by a professional. While it's impossible to build a case from one anecdote, some aspects of your story are all warning bells – the hyperfocus on "unproductive" parts of the decisionmaking pr
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by thestephen 8y ago
As a Swede, it is interesting to see people using Sweden's tax policies for arguments without fully following the studies on our tax policies. There are studies showing that the highest margin taxes in Sweden actually lose more money t
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by thestephen 8y ago
China is actually doing something similar right now, albeit in a different way: https://nordic.businessinsider.com/china-swedens-bizarre-feu... Chinese tourists visiting a Swedish hostel in Stockholm sparked an internation
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by thestephen 8y ago
While this was definitely true five years ago, I'm happily writing C# on a Mac with Rider today, having a great experience. Except for when looking up old documentation mostly relating to .NET Framework, I never feel like a second clas
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by thestephen 8y ago
The behaviour you have for Windows is available for Mac with Karabiner-Elements. It's tremendously helpful.
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by thestephen 8y ago
> Are you saying pills will fix that? No, that's not what the parent is saying. It's completely possible to be a neurotypical person and "getting into the wrong mentality", as you are saying. But that is why the paren
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by thestephen 8y ago
To be fair, here is a direct quote from the parent: »In the end, it's absolutely the case that a movement to microservices is something that should be evolutionary, and in direct need to technical requirements.« I would argue that wh
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by thestephen 8y ago
Have you tried, or considered trying org-mode? I found that once I got over the hurdle of learning emacs, the friction in managing tasks once you have learned the tool is nearly nil. Further, it definitely supports embedded latex fragments,
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by thestephen 8y ago
Although not _every_ product, such a thing exists! https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/ikea-place/id1279244498?mt=8
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by thestephen 8y ago
I would guess that OP means that it is overly satured, and therefore that some color information is lost. I noticed this sometimes happening for a few seconds when switching out from some apps that play video while having high brightness. I
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by thestephen 8y ago
I assign a mnemonic to a composite (usually radicals, sometimes combinations of radicals). timerol's example in this thread is excellent; here's another example. 脂: Meaning: Fat. Consists of 旨 (tasty) and 月 (moon). However, mnemon
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by thestephen 8y ago
This type of learning, combined with applying the knowledge learned, is easily one of the biggest lifehacks I've encountered. Growing up, I (falsely) internalized that I somehow had a hard time learning languages. However, with the hel
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by thestephen 8y ago
I don't understand what you are "disagreeing" on. What OP is saying: The new Macbooks are very expensive, and it has quality issues (keyboard). Neither is it user serviceable. Most of the product line is also out of date. It&

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