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by thom 1y ago
Hopefully their interest expands beyond single syllable words, otherwise the highest scores according to a cursory search are 'zizzed' (34) and 'jazzed' (32) which are probably slightly below the average for an elite pla
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by thom 1y ago
I am (un)fortunate in that I'm a massive softy so don't need to bring out the big guns like this. I cried four times during Superman last week.
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by thom 1y ago
Of course coming from the UK there is nothing that strikes horror into my heart more than being at a crowded platform waiting for a late train and it pulling up with half or quarter the carriages that you expected. Feels like a luxury to im
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by thom 1y ago
I am very much for internal DSLs for functional testing, but have never seen the point of external DSLs (it feels wrong that anyone but the implementing team could or should create or maintain them). I passionately believe you should refact
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by thom 1y ago
Not sure where opinion ended up on this, are there dissenting voices still? https://www.accuweather.com/en/weather-news/scientists-debun...
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by thom 1y ago
That might be true in-game (though I suspect the marginal gains compound fairly strongly) but I think the numbers when applied to recruitment and avoiding costly mistakes are much more impactful.
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by thom 1y ago
As someone for whom Moneyball bought a nice house, I can say with some confidence that I have seen analytics elevate the smartest organisations to new heights, while burying the less sophisticated under their own confirmation bias. Many in
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by thom 1y ago
Yeah, discoverability is getting worse. It would be slightly more okay if there were one canonical menu system for an app that you could summon immediately and unambiguously. But every app is a mess of inconsistent layout and hidden gesture
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by thom 1y ago
I do get that, and I use my editor with basically no ornamentation, but that’s because I have a key combination for everything so it’s quick and discoverable. I’d accept voice commands that worked quickly and reliably maybe? Or fine, give m
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by thom 1y ago
The transparency, blur and contrast issues are stupid but so obviously stupid that I assume they’ll be fixed. What worries me more about iOS 26 is the continuing trend of platforms being so ashamed of any visible UI that they feel the need
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by thom 1y ago
Is much added with this talk of evil? Peep Show seems largely the same sort of tragicomic tale of hubris and human frailty that we see in Shakespeare or even all the way back in Ancient Greece.
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by thom 1y ago
This was in reply to a post about visual design of different forums.
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by thom 1y ago
Yeah, I see this all over. Every hobby becomes a question of how to get better at it, not of how to enjoy it more. Even if you enjoy your craft and growing your skills, the internet presents you with infinitely many well-trodden paths, comp
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by thom 1y ago
I was brought up vegetarian.
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by thom 1y ago
I think there's an extremely long tail of streamers and associated chat communities that are untroubled by any form of financial rewards. When I speak to people in those communities it sounds to me like the closest thing to IRC in the
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by thom 1y ago
https://www.cvedetails.com/vulnerability-list/vendor_id-26/p...
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by thom 1y ago
Hate these burgers. As a dairy-loving vegetarian, first the vegans came along and ruined everything by evicting most of the tasty options from restaurants, and then the meat eaters somehow wanted vegan food that tasted of animals and that b
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by thom 1y ago
Just like there's a massive community of Microsoft-adjacent technologists who still think C++ can do new and exciting things, there's a similar community who think XML components with declarative databindings are also going to mak
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by thom 1y ago
It's possible that various Discord servers, or obscure streamer chatrooms still feel like this, and we're just old. But it definitely feels like the default has become very top-down and public instead of bottom-up and intimate.
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by thom 1y ago
I remember usenet where every forum was exactly the same and it was still better than today, so I’m not convinced this is a fundamental symptom of our current problems. To me it’s more that the internet has lost any sort of physical, spatia
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by thom 1y ago
It's basically the exact type of framework you probably built on your third or fourth Ajax project 15 years ago - declarative, progressively enhanced, simple.
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by thom 1y ago
Apparently so.
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by thom 1y ago
The sum of positive possession-value deltas! Captures end-to-end games where exciting dribbles nevertheless don't convert into shots or goals.
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by thom 1y ago
People genuinely did suggest that we were going to redesign our cities because of the Segway. The volume and duration of the hype were smaller (especially once people saw how ugly the thing was) but it was similarly breathless.
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by thom 1y ago
I’d also recommend basically always having search enabled. That’s eliminated major hallucinations for me.
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by thom 1y ago
For the avoidance of doubt, what’s the next 10-100x sure thing?
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by thom 1y ago
The purpose of a system is what it does.
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by thom 1y ago
Yeah, the way I've always used LISTEN/NOTIFY is just to tell some pool of workers that they should wake up and check some transactional outbox for new work. False positives are basically harmless and therefore don't need to b
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by thom 1y ago
I don't think this is tangential at all. This whole conversation is exactly the same as Spolsky's point about Napster: it's hard to know what to say to someone who thinks the reason the web was successful was REST, rather tha
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by thom 1y ago
That's absolutely not what the essay is about. It's about the misassignment of credit for the success of a technology by people who think the minutiae of the clever implementation was important.

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