virgil_disgr4ce

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   by virgil_disgr4ce 11mo ago

   This is interesting; I always assumed that the Grimm's tales and all kinds of folklore throughout cultures and history were responding to anxieties about, say, super-high rates of infant death. It would be, in a way, hilarious if it wa
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   by virgil_disgr4ce 11mo ago

   OK, I want to meet these guys. This writeup has several breathtaking (if you will) passages. Like: > "We found different scents by steering the beam over ~14 mm (20 degrees at 4 cm radius). The distance between freshness and burning
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   by virgil_disgr4ce 11mo ago

   ... ...... ...OH you probably mean for the purposes of stimulating things OTHER THAN SMELLS
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   by virgil_disgr4ce 11mo ago

   > Some shows and movies seem harmless, initially, but then we noticed in so many kids movies (e.g., Zootopia, Sing), they're always yelling at each other, expressing anger, frustration, and hostility towards one another. Although th
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   by virgil_disgr4ce 11mo ago

   Seriously. I always hated that mall hanging was organized around an icon of capitalism, but we don't even have those anymore (in many places). The US just doesn't consider public space a thing.
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   by virgil_disgr4ce 11mo ago

   Avoidance: the cause of, and solution to, all of life's problems
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   by virgil_disgr4ce 11mo ago

   Location: NY, NY Remote: Yes, open to hybrid Willing to relocate: No Technologies: TypeScript, JavaScript, HTML/CSS, Python, C, C++, C#, Go, Scheme, Artificial Intelligence, Generative AI, React.js, Next.js, TypeScript, Tail
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   by virgil_disgr4ce 1y ago

   It's a nice coincidence to find this post on HN today as I JUST finished reading Gleick's book. But it was the audiobook version, which I immediately realized was not going to be very effective if I can't see any images or eq
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   by virgil_disgr4ce 1y ago

   This is an interesting position because that's only simple if you already know it. From the perspective of discoverability, it's literally the worst possible UI, because a string of that length has, say, 30^30 possible combinati
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    by virgil_disgr4ce 1y ago

    I don't understand. What is the "wildly different" market that "most musical gear" is in? Do you have a citation for "most musical gear?"
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    by virgil_disgr4ce 1y ago

    Well, a youtube search for "typescript" returns about 13 trillion videos, does that count?
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    by virgil_disgr4ce 1y ago

    Haha yeah, I talked my dad into getting me the Borland Turbo C++ compiler for DOS when I was 12 or so and it came with a big ol' thick book that I attempted to teach myself with X-) https://winworldpc.com/product/t
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    by virgil_disgr4ce 1y ago

    I also learned Turbo Pascal in high school, it's quite a trip returning to that time. I'm pretty sure that was the last year they taught Pascal at that school, and after that.... Java. Well, it was the 90s, I guess.
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    by virgil_disgr4ce 1y ago

    I read The Road long before I became a father and part of me is, I guess, afraid to read it again now that I have two kids—perhaps because I remember how devastating it was then and suspecting it would be 100x that now. But I do intend to r
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    by virgil_disgr4ce 1y ago

    So—slowcial media? :D
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    by virgil_disgr4ce 1y ago

    > And you may say: > > I tried Mastodon once, which is not immediately intuitive, and the apps aren't perfect. Plus, the wikipedia article describes something that isn't perfect, so I shouldn't bother. You use a quot
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    by virgil_disgr4ce 1y ago

    lol if I saw a teammember create a PR with "[vibe]" in the title I would: 1) Gape in disbelief 2) Shout obscenities as loud as I can 3) Take a deep breath 4) reject the PR and seriously consider firing them. Yeah "consider fi
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    by virgil_disgr4ce 1y ago

    Not to be pedantic but the person you're replying to never said anything about MLK
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    by virgil_disgr4ce 1y ago

    > working on problems that don't even really need to be solved Very, very few problems _need_ to be solved. Feeding yourself is a problem that needs to be solved in order for you to continue living. People solve problems for differe
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    by virgil_disgr4ce 1y ago

    The "audiophile" attitude is such that that "work" is enjoyment. It's a game, a hobby. I'm not defending the extremes of it, but it's not like these people are miserable, they enjoy doing it even if it r
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    by virgil_disgr4ce 1y ago

    UI performance is "a weird thing to index on"?
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    by virgil_disgr4ce 1y ago

    Thank you for this, I'm going to have to check out Triplit. Have you tried InstantDB? It's the one I've been most interested in trying but haven't yet.
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    by virgil_disgr4ce 1y ago

    Well, reduced sibilance is an ordinary and desirable thing. A better "audiophile absurdity" example would be $77,000 cables, freezing CDs to improve sound quality, using hospital-grade outlets, cryogenically frozen outlets (lol)
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    by virgil_disgr4ce 1y ago

    > there is definitely a market solution to this one This would only be true if it was possible—as in, actually realistic and doable—for anyone to enter the market.
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    by virgil_disgr4ce 1y ago

    > It's not that hard to get a human on the other line who is able to help me far better than any robotic agent could Are we living in different universes?
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    by virgil_disgr4ce 1y ago

    I'd also like to hear about this—did OP use Augment Code in Cursor? How does that work/what exactly does that get you? Do you pay for both?
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    by virgil_disgr4ce 2y ago

    I have no interest in defending Notion or anything but... have you actually used it? It's not even close to a "simple notepad app." I mean, that's what it started off as, and you can use it that way, but "simple not
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    by virgil_disgr4ce 2y ago

    I assume this will turn into some kind of insane tiktok "life hack" trend that makes increasingly outrageous and false claims, and then in a couple months dentists will see their revenues jump.
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    by virgil_disgr4ce 2y ago

    > anything beyond that isn’t even a "best effort" Ehhh, I don't know, whoever's designing and implementing Swift and Xcode etc clearly genuinely care on a personal level about quality. I get that there's going to
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    by virgil_disgr4ce 2y ago

    > now it's just power-user-hostile and considerably more locked down and buggy Hm, I've been using macOS (alongside others) for the past 20 years straight. In what ways is it hostile and buggy?