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by tshaddox 2y ago
Ironically, the amount of effort I expend dealing with spam from the postal service is much larger than the amount of effort I expend dealing with email.
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by tshaddox 2y ago
Yeah, this isn't really that complicated. It's just colloquial usage, not rigorous dimensional analysis. Roughly no one is actually confused by either usage ("1920 by 1080" or "12 megapixels"). It's nearly
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by tshaddox 2y ago
That’s not what I meant. I agree that the empty product being equal to 1 is reasonable. I meant that it’s inconvenient to require engaging with that concept directly in the everyday definition of prime numbers.
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by tshaddox 2y ago
It seems a little inconvenient to require acceptance that empty products equal 1, since that is also slightly subtle and deserving of its own explanation of mathematical terminology. Of course, I generally hear the fundamental theorem of ar
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by tshaddox 2y ago
How do you know that the conclusion you’re drawing from your experience raising kids is correct? There are alternative conclusions that sound like they match your experience, such as “most kids won’t do difficult things that don’t interes
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by tshaddox 2y ago
> Websites can't autoplay audio anymore (which is actually really annoying in a few use cases) precisely because of abuse. But this is hardly true. There are some complicated heuristics (like Chrome's "Media Engagement Ind
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by tshaddox 2y ago
Why would we expect this to become more of a problem than, say, websites playing audio quietly to encourage you to turn your volume up, than playing extremely loud audio?
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by tshaddox 2y ago
That strikes me as an odd opinion. Surely the colorspaces and display technologies that predate HDR had as much dynamic range as they could reasonably squeeze out of the technology at the time. Is it the brightness specifically that bugs yo
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by tshaddox 2y ago
It's an AI company that is presumably drowning in money. What humans do work there have probably already had a good laugh and forgotten about this incident.
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by tshaddox 2y ago
That's a fun one. It could be interpreted as a generous implementation of a monthly subscription, or a hostile implementation of a metered plan.
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by tshaddox 2y ago
Knockout was a huge leap in developer experience at the time. It's worth noting that Ryan Carniato, the creator of SolidJS, was a huge fan of Knockout. It's a major influence of SolidJS.
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by tshaddox 2y ago
> The old way was to return HTML fragments and add them to the DOM. There was still a separation of concern as the presentation layer on the server didn't care about the interface presented on the client. I doubt there were many sys
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by tshaddox 2y ago
Surely laws of nature are still relevant since they (presumably) establish limits on how closely a system can be measured and which physical interactions can be simulated by computers (and how accurately).
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by tshaddox 2y ago
According to my perhaps naive interpretation of that, the "degree of surprise" would depend on at least three things: 1. the laws of nature (i.e. how accurately do the laws of physics permit measuring the system and how determine
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by tshaddox 2y ago
What zamalek describes isn't just that China manufactures cheap products. The complain is more about retailers or marketplaces (particularly online ones) that encourage essentially anonymous, zero-cost seller accounts and product listi
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by tshaddox 2y ago
Yeah, and it's not even necessarily a problem with the product itself. Sometimes I do want something cheap and disposable. The problem is that you have roughly zero information about the retailer, and manufacturer, and anyone in betwee
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by tshaddox 2y ago
> My understanding is that entropy is a way of quantifying how many different ways a thing could 'actually be' and yet still 'appear to be' how it is. So it is largely a result of an observer's limited ability to
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by tshaddox 2y ago
Should Gmail never have been created as a web page? How about Google Maps?
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by tshaddox 2y ago
I'm more interested in how we regularly use the term, rather than how we might attempt to come up with a rigorous definition (particularly when that rigorous definition conflicts awkwardly with regular usage). My point is simply that w
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by tshaddox 2y ago
I think that’s a bit silly. The reason we don’t commonly refer to a dishwasher as a robot isn’t because dishwashers exist and we only use “robot” for things that don’t exist. (This should already be clear given that robots do exist, and w
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by tshaddox 2y ago
> maybe you haven't noticed but there's a machine washing your clothes Well sure, there’s also a computer recording, storing, and manipulating the songs I record and the books I write. But that’s not what we mean by “AI that co
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by tshaddox 2y ago
> If you’re making a web page that has this problem, what you’re making should not be a web page, and you should feel bad about the choices that led you to that point in your life. The web is explicitly and intentionally a software distr
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by tshaddox 2y ago
Isn’t this how many features are rolled out for Chrome and Firefox? Chrome’s feature flag system is called Finch: https://developer.chrome.com/docs/web-platform/chrome-finch This is a list of variations: https:&#
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by tshaddox 2y ago
I mean, it may not be a completely solved problem, but you don't have to be too clever to think that perhaps rules similar to the War Powers Act ought to also apply to the President's authority to apply tariffs.
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by tshaddox 2y ago
If it's a highly interactive chart that's displaying data small enough to easily be transmitted to and manipulated by the client, I agree that server components might not provide much benefit. The main use cases where server compo
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by tshaddox 2y ago
What programming languages are you using? Compilers and interpreters are pretty darn complicated, not to mention operating systems and computer hardware.
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by tshaddox 2y ago
Isn't that pretty intuitive? Imagine if they had to spend one million dollars in order to make $50 profit.
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by tshaddox 2y ago
The thought of The Kingkiller Chronicle hasn't crossed my mind in many years, and now I have renewed sadness that the story will never be finished. :'(
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by tshaddox 2y ago
> These are both accurate descriptions of what happened, and they give the reader wildly different impressions. Indeed, but which one are you implying is impartial?
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by tshaddox 2y ago
It's very weird and suspect to say "impartial" if what you mean is simply "accurate."

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