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by wenc 9mo ago
I'm not entitled to your time of course, but would you mind describing how? All I know is beads is supposed to help me retain memory from one session to the next. But I'm finding myself having to curate it like a git repo (and I a
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by wenc 9mo ago
I took a course on critical thinking once which taught me to at least pause and ask questions when I read something sensationalist. I’ve learned that when my impulse is to say “It sounds like something X would do,” it often leads me down ve
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by wenc 10mo ago
I live in NYC. That sounds more like NYC. Most mega cities in Asia Pacific at least have newer infrastructure and social norms that make them less miserable. NYC is miserable in some ways (crumbling infrastructure, broken social norms espec
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by wenc 10mo ago
Curious, what does that have to with the article?
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by wenc 10mo ago
Not Doordash, but I often ask my Lyft drivers. Like for anything in life, it depends on the market you're in, and where you are situated on the acumen distribution (low acumen drivers don't make a lot, while high acumen ones do).
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by wenc 10mo ago
That is a cool visualization of a quad tree. I use quadtrees in geospatial applications (to partition lat longs) but this is the time I’ve seen it used to render a photo. Quad trees are abstract until you see what they look like. It’s a cle
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by wenc 11mo ago
I lived in downtown Montreal and it could just be me but the housing stock was not of the highest quality compared to most other places in Canada. Montreal as a whole feels rundown (I say this as a former Montrealer who’s lived in many plac
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by wenc 11mo ago
This is one of those NYTimes "solutions journalism" pieces meant to celebrate the program rather than truly analyze it. You can pick free, or scalable, or financially sustainable (and without sustainability, a political shift will
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by wenc 11mo ago
I just downloaded Google Keyboard (Gboard) and tried typing "thumbs up". It still screws it up. Not sure if it's better that the iOS keyboard.
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by wenc 11mo ago
I thought it was just iOS not being responsive enough to my thumb-typing speed. But this was very validating to watch. I love my iPhone but hate the iOS typing experience. It's so bad that I bought an external foldable Bluetooth keyboa
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by wenc 11mo ago
I have a Kindle, multiple iPads and an iPhone. I only read on my iPad and iPhone because they are on-hand almost anywhere I am. To me, the e-reading discussion is the same as the notetaking software discussion -- people obsess over the best
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by wenc 1y ago
Which ones? If you’re thinking Scandinavian countries they are mixed economies. Most successful economies today are mixed economies.
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by wenc 1y ago
Globals are not commonly used except in retrofit cases of legacy code or in beginner code. I haven’t seen or used a global more than once in my 20 years of writing Python.
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by wenc 1y ago
This is it. Counting countries with visa-free access to passports seems like vanity metric -- there are many countries that I will never visit in my life. Freedom to work/live and consular access in places where people want to be is
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by wenc 1y ago
Those are the larger format stores in France. In the US they are called Fred Meyer, Meijer, etc.
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by wenc 1y ago
As a Canadian living in the US, I’d say your sentiment depends on where you live and what you’re willing to pay. In the Seattle area there are overpriced grocery stores like PCC and Met Market that sell healthy food at a premium. There is a
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by wenc 1y ago
Outside of big cities in Japan, car ownership is quite high (usually 2 cars per household).
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by wenc 1y ago
> In the US, it's common to go out to eat because the reputation and wages of labor for food service have been crushed, but in Japan, asking another human to pour your beers and make you food and then clean up in an izakaya carries
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by wenc 1y ago
Canada has great homegrown software talent (mostly out of schools like UWaterloo and UToronto). They usually come to the US on TN visas, not H-1B. Canada has given the US so many great people: Brian Kernighan, Alfred Aho, Rob Pike, Ken Iver
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by wenc 1y ago
This is the classic tradeoff. (it's similar to the bias variance tradeoff, or fox and hedgehog analogy) Monolithic systems are scalable and efficient when well-governed, but brittle under errors or bad leadership (e.g. China closing it
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by wenc 1y ago
> “if it typechecks, you’re done” nature of proofs. This resonates with me. Software engineering is more art than math -- you have to deal with corner cases, exceptions, human interactions. So much of code encodes culture, preferences, s
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by wenc 1y ago
> Anyone who has used AI tools has seen cases where the first 80% of a project came together like a bolt of lightning, but the last 20% is next to impossible for the AI to accomplish Offtopic: doing the inverse works better. If you rely
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by wenc 1y ago
For me Twitter: anger Instagram: vanity Facebook: pride Of those, I hate anger the most so I am off twitter, even though it’s still a great place to overhear the latest in the business, geopolitics and tech zeitgeist. You literally hear abo
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by wenc 1y ago
I also live in Seattle, and have to dig my Orca card out of my wallet every time. I can't even tap my wallet because there are multiple NFC cards in there. I tell myself, eh first world problems. But agreed that it's also a Seattl
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by wenc 1y ago
Also Express Transit. If you live in a city that supports it like NYC or Toronto, just tap your wrist (no unlock) on transit and you’re in.
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by wenc 1y ago
I work in more applied fields. When I’m doing a long derivation, I draw figures and arrows and my notes spill over from my current view into a larger view. I find the page concept limiting (for me). I scrawl something but I need an infinit
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by wenc 1y ago
Only if you type. Oddly, no one gets offended if you scribble with your Apple Pencil. It looks like you're taking notes.
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by wenc 1y ago
> On an iPad, at any moment there could be a toast from Signal, or Discord, or Messenger, or whatever. There's a web browser full of infinite content on Reddit and YouTube. I can go on a plane and have a physical book in front of me
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by wenc 1y ago
I’m not sold on e-ink devices being a creation device. The refresh rate is too slow and the resolution is too low. I realized there was already a device that was perfect for note taking on an infinite canvas. I use an iPad and Apple Pencil
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by wenc 1y ago
If ChatGPT's Advanced Voice Mode could be served through an always-on device like Alexa, I'd pay for it. Hmmm... maybe I can install do this through a cheap tablet....

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