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by wcarss 6y ago
+1, I agree strongly that the "channel" is a powerful UX metaphor and enables better high-throughput communications, and that other modern ideas are expressed in chat applications in a way that's more comfortable to us than t
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My layman's understanding is that recently available (~last 5 years) industrial scale processes to produce rebco tape[1] is the specific advance in superconductor tech that's specifically enabling higher tesla magnetic field stre
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by wcarss 6y ago
This is a great template! I have a personal theory about extending what you wrote above: Async verbal meetings > Async Google Docs > async Slack > meetings ...and I'm writing an MVP for a tool to do it[1]! I hope that a lot of
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by wcarss 6y ago
Very interesting to see audio messages pop up as a feature, especially as a value-add in an analytics tool like this! I'm working hard on an MVP of a system with some similar ideas, so I'm keeping a keen eye out for things like th
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I would love to hear more about the results of that test -- e.g. was it higher conversion for all categories, how much, did one category do particularly better with the 9's, was the distribution of category conversions similar on both
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by wcarss 6y ago
I'm working on a product to help with this exact type of use. I would love to find anyone interested in trying out a tool for this -- contact me at carss.w@gmail.com or drop a name/email into the form at https://heysy
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This (and the parent) both require a kind of paucity of vision or imagined capability -- endless subterranean hospital hallways and infinities of military bunkeresque quarters would indeed be abysmal, but there is no particular reason we co
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by wcarss 6y ago
Something complementary -- because this article just takes a moment to talk about the different encoding schemes -- a wonderful, terse, very informative video describing how utf-8 encoding works and why (with a little history) by Tom Scott&
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I was thinking about just this the other day -- why and how is QAnon a different sort of conspiracy theory? One thought that occurred to me is that it is not a post-hoc theory to explain events in the past, like for example, 9/11 truth
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by wcarss 6y ago
not a user yet, but: if you could "pay attention to" a second group, elevating their priority so you can see/hear them as well as your current group, then not have to 'hop' to them officially until you speak, and co
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by wcarss 6y ago
axel rauschmayer's books are pretty good: https://exploringjs.com/ (edit: a more direct link: https://exploringjs.com/impatient-js/toc.html ) I remember learning the fairly deep == type-inference a
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> make a social network of just those who have it that does sound very interesting and useful, but also -- as a passerby who admittedly doesn't understand your condition at all :) -- if just one psychopath got in there, they could h
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Diablo was far from the first ARPG, but given how influential it has been for the genre, I was floored to learn that it was actually designed and implemented as a turn-based game, and only turned into an Action RPG by request of folks at th
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by wcarss 6y ago
Self-directed initiatives need not be private -- that isn't some kind of big gotcha there, see for example: all open source work.
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Yes, the video above is basically about this, and is really worth watching -- it's a fantastic talk. I'm pretty sure that Commonwealth Fusion Systems[0] is the entity affiliated with MIT that has been doing work to prove out the
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by wcarss 6y ago
this makes a lot of sense. The bitcoin is actually a proof of authenticity -- send a small quantity from that address to prove that your screenshots of the DMs are authentic.
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make it give a way to show the answer and/or move on -- I don't know what I'm doing, but I could learn if it taught me.
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Just a tiny piece of extra information for your example: there's also a town called Paris in Ontario within ~100km of London (roughly on the path between London and Toronto) that has a picturesque appeal, so it's not a totally unl
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by wcarss 6y ago
I think we are agents of accelerating disorder, somewhat like a growing fractal with order inside but a much higher disorder produced at the edge. The internal order supplies the growth, and the external disorder grows exponentially atop it
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by wcarss 6y ago
One thing I love about javascript is the ability to quickly and easily assign/remove whatever fields I'd like: let a = {}; a.somename = "some val"; a.newname = "some val"; a["a computed n
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by wcarss 6y ago
Trunk flow has a lot going for it. Here's a link in case others don't know of/haven't heard about it -- it starts off with a tl;dr summary: https://trunkbaseddevelopment.com/ One of the key elements of t
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by wcarss 6y ago
It's a great point that you don't need to use these things if you don't want to in your projects, but the caveat is that you will often end up working on projects other people created, and they might have done things like use
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by wcarss 6y ago
A close family member of mine requested a sleep study in the past year and had one scheduled about a month out. edit: clarifying to add, not for a life-threatening issue.
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If you have an urgent care situation in Canada, you can walk into an emergency room or clinic and yes, your care will be triaged, but within a reasonable period (a few hours at most for most issues, e.g. a new persistent pain in your arm) b
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Comments almost always become lies with time, because code changes and nothing enforces that they are correct. Having commentary built into the artifact that introduced the change ensures your commentary applies to the specific change intro
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I hear you, almost no one goes back to look at it. But it's a chicken and an egg situation: no one uses history precisely because it's useless, and no one makes useful history because no one uses it. So, status quo rules, right? B
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tl;dr: "Instead of teaching syntax, you should actually teach kids to problem solve, be curious, and care about quality! Because those are underlying skills with more value to programming and to life in general. But, also, most people
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Just to report that it isn't necessarily/solely cultural myopia at work here: I live in Ontario and have family in London, Ontario, and while visiting them with location services on have both asked for and googled "what is th
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"Over the Southern Great Plains, we found that when the wind brings less moisture, dry soils are associated with increases in rainfall amount; and when the wind brings greater moisture, wet soils are associated with increases in rainfa
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There is a 'Show Notes' section of that page that appears to be a summary.

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