tlonny

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by tlonny 2y ago
For some terminal patients, there are types of pain that no amount of morphine or money can fix. I'm thankful to know that when its my time to go, I'll have the choice to skip enduring several days of torture should I wish.
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by tlonny 2y ago
You can cross wherever and whenever is safe to do so. If traffic conditions don’t facilitate this, pedestrian crossings provide guaranteed crossing points where pedestrians have right of way.
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by tlonny 2y ago
I would love to create a simple, searchable directory of consumer appliances, software and services that list all the ways you are _objectively_ fucked over as a consumer (I.e. whether something sells your data, requires always-on internet
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by tlonny 2y ago
Re: the shopping cart example > This approach is good for now. But, it will limit you later. Your code will quickly get out of control. Will it? If we need to be able to “delete via X”, it sure feels more maintainable to have this featur
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by tlonny 2y ago
Typescript can do some wacky stuff with strings. Not only will it give you autocomplete and prevent “bad strings”, you can write “foo as bar” in your select and typescript figures out the return type has a field “bar” by parsing the string
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by tlonny 2y ago
Surprised nobody has mentioned “Kysely” ( https://kysely.dev ). It is a query builder (not an ORM), that (ab)-uses the Typescript type system to give you full type safety, intellisense, autocomplete etc. Crucially it doesn’t requi
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by tlonny 2y ago
preach, brother
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by tlonny 2y ago
I would be concerned that adopting PR would force dominant parties to agree to the demands of smaller, fringe parties in order to form a working majority. FPTP, to some degree, stops this from happening.. Is this a dumb take?
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by tlonny 2y ago
If ChatGPT emits a fragment of code that doesn’t compile, a developer can simply undo and try again. No such luxury is granted to the driver using FSD who has just collided with another vehicle.
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by tlonny 2y ago
You could always refinance every 5 or so years to achieve this
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by tlonny 3y ago
I imagine the earth isn't particularly static on the mm level.
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by tlonny 3y ago
This sounded completely false to me initially. When I think of taking mass and turning it into black holes, it involves squashing the mass into a strictly smaller volume. Thus I would've expected the radius of the black hole to be nece
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by tlonny 3y ago
Very tangential, but wanted to share a small QoL trick that makes using poetry (and venv in general) much nicer... Instead of having to type "poetry shell" to activate the virtualenv, I use a tool called direnv that automatically
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by tlonny 3y ago
My kitchen stove is touch screen. Totally non-functional when it gets wet. Brilliant UX.
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by tlonny 3y ago
I bought the wife a "thermomix" because she was ranting/raving about how great it is. Its a glorified blender with a heating element that cost (at the time) well over a grand. Its only after I bought it (and the free trial ex
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by tlonny 3y ago
On the subject of scalping, I've never understood why tickets can't be bound to a particular identity. I.e. if you buy tickets as "John Smith", only someone who can prove they are "John Smith" is let through th
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by tlonny 3y ago
> I long for the days of a tuned, polished game engine squeezing every inch of performance out of your PC. Have you heard of Factorio :)
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by tlonny 3y ago
Right, but I guess OP's point was that its not immediately obvious that this is a breaking change - and thus why the proposed usage is dangerous.
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by tlonny 3y ago
Cool project - if you include dots in the name the DNS availability checks are inaccurate. If I search for "foo.io", it tells me that "foo.io.io" is available
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by tlonny 3y ago
Someone please shoot me if I end up using "increased workplace productivity/creativity" as the primary metric to decide whether I should try something new.
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by tlonny 3y ago
Sadly I completely agree with you. Whats even sadder is I recently made a post proselytizing the virtues of neovim over vscode. The final straw for me was discovering that vscode automatically updates packages and imports when moving files
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by tlonny 3y ago
I'm not too clued in with how federation works - but is this practical? Doesn't federation require admins of both instances to agree to federate? If so, I could imagine it not scaling for larger instances that could receive 100+ f
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by tlonny 3y ago
Do you know of any existing projects in this space? I was toying with an idea/protocol where: 1. You add a TXT/CNAME that points to a trusted "authentication provider". 2. When you try and login to a website that support
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by tlonny 3y ago
No smoke without fire eh? God help whoever is on trial if you're on the jury!
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by tlonny 3y ago
> The submitters have given reddit a sublicense to publish their content, not random 3rd parties. This is tangential no? Third party reddit apps _already_ republish end user content. I'm not saying third party apps powered by scrapi
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by tlonny 3y ago
My point wasn't that scraping reddit is not a violation of the ToS, it was that you're not able to legally enforce the terms of the ToS (that you have quoted in your reply) on people who haven't agreed/consented to them
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by tlonny 3y ago
IANAL but my understanding is that violating the ToS is only ever a problem if your crawler decides to "sign-in", as that constitutes agreeing to the terms of the ToS. Further, old.reddit.com doesn't gate any content (even NS
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by tlonny 3y ago
Removing the ability to effectively service non-performing debt would simply drive up the cost of borrowing for people that need it. Debt collectors are a necessary evil... > This debt doesn't come from people like you and me. They
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by tlonny 3y ago
> I've been saying the same things for weeks, right here and in the usual places. Basically - OpenAI will not be able to continue to commercialise chatGPT-3.5, they will have to move to GPT-4 because the open source alternatives wil
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by tlonny 4y ago
You could instead ask it to "write out" the mathematical expression it wants to calculate in valid python instead of trying to hallucinate an answer directly. This could then be evaluated by a python REPL and passed back to Bloomb

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