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by wheels 3y ago
That's a false dichotomy. This is the old, "I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it." It's possible to both believe people should have the right to do something annoying, and s
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by wheels 3y ago
We're not frying batteries quicker, we're using our phones longer. The only reason I'd have to replace my 3.5 year old phone is that the battery is dying, but it probably doesn't make sense to spend half the price of my
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by wheels 3y ago
I feel like the elephant in the room is that there's no phone battery that's going to stay useful in anywhere close to that time frame, and replacing phone batteries is usually a losing proposition. I've tried, several times
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by wheels 3y ago
I've heard it explained a different way: Americans stopped eating mutton when plastic became widespread. Mutton was largely a side effect of wool production, and with the invention of nylon, far less wool was produced.
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by wheels 3y ago
Counter-intuitive as it may seem, math does have the notion of larger infinities.
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by wheels 3y ago
This an extremely weird passive-aggressive flex. The thread basically went, "I think people that notice font problems have something wrong with them." To which I respond, "No, designers and design-y people notice stuff like
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by wheels 3y ago
I just watched the first half of the talk, and it's pretty interesting. I don't think Adam Neely is actually saying they're the same; he's saying it's interesting to think about their similarity. And what you actu
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by wheels 3y ago
Fixed width fonts have a special purpose. They're designed to fill that purpose, not to be optimal for other things. There's an age-old debate of how much "good taste" is subjective, but in this particular case, it&#x27
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by wheels 3y ago
I wouldn't be bothered about it in this case (I'm much more offended when the font size or margins are stupid), but to use your phrase "I don't want say this in a way that comes off as insulting, but I'll just say
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by wheels 3y ago
We're talking past each other because we're arguing different things. If I understand you, you're saying that you can avoid technical debt by using tools that are intrinsically more performant, and that skilled developers ar
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by wheels 3y ago
It's a false dichotomy in theory. It's mostly not in practice. And that was far truer in 2006 when Shopify got started. Then there really weren't any modern web frameworks in performant languages. Primarily it's not t
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by wheels 3y ago
Am I really going to have to get out the premature optimization quote? Most businesses fail. Those that don't fail, usually don't have interesting scaling issues. (You can go a really long way on a boring monolith stack.) So in
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by wheels 3y ago
I didn't say it always does. I said it's about 50/50 on whether the cruft is from actual complexity vs. bitrot.
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by wheels 3y ago
We know that it's not (primarily) rocky though because the radius is 2.6 that of earth, but the mass is only 8 times. So it's about about 46% as dense as earth.
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by wheels 3y ago
Gravity is only about 1.25 g, according to Wikipedia. Density matters. The earth and Saturn have about the same surface gravity.
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by wheels 3y ago
May I venture that you're probably early in your career? There's almost always things that can be redesigned to be better and smaller if one has a better understanding of total scope from the beginning, but there's equally as
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by wheels 3y ago
A lot of that is about developing intuition and like in most fields, there's not an easy way to develop intuition without a lot of experience. What helped me a lot was starting to work through "On Cooking", which is geared to
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by wheels 3y ago
You're not taking the amps into account. Voltage without the amps on the circuit breaker is pretty useless. Quickly Googling indicates that a standard residential circuit breaker in Japan is 30A (3000 watt max), meaning you'd ge
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by wheels 3y ago
A lot of people simply don't have a dominant hand. They're typically grouped with the people for the hand they write with, but that's a pretty incomplete picture. I suspect your friend who "switched" never had a d
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by wheels 3y ago
We manage non-unique names in a lot of domains. It'd be a shit-show if given names had to be unique. It'd be acceptable to have an ID in the background that helped regain specificity. (Kind of like social security numbers in the
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by wheels 3y ago
Some random anecdata: I have a chronic sleep disorder, "Non-24 Sleep / Wake Disorder", which means my sleep floats pretty freely and doesn't naturally sync up with the sun. For the most part, I've structured my lif
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by wheels 3y ago
In many countries adults just continue to wear backpacks. One of the things I keep in my backpack is a big IKEA bag, meaning I'm pretty set for shopping on foot (or bike, which is more common for me). Medium sized purchases go in the
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by wheels 3y ago
Crew Republic, one of the biggest German craft beer producers, makes a session IPA.
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by wheels 3y ago
George Carlin's take on the words: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hSp8IyaKCs0
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by wheels 3y ago
I think it's more of an admission that internet discussions aren't analogous to in-person discussions, and have a way of dehumanizing the person you're discussing with. Combined with modern-day tribalism, it means that most
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by wheels 3y ago
I don't watch enough movies in a theater to measure walk outs there (though I would have walked out of the latest Avatar had I not been there with my son; so boring and long...), but I do stop maybe 1/5 novels without finishing an
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by wheels 3y ago
My usual thing is to say that early on, there's only the technical person and the money person. There is no ideas person. If you aren't one of the first two (i.e. access to savings, investment, sales channels, etc.), then you do
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by wheels 3y ago
To make this more numerical: Windows is about 66% of our customers, macOS about 33%, Linux about 1%. On Windows we currently only test on x64 for Windows 10 and Widows 11. On macOS we test 4 configurations. Each Windows configuration we
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by wheels 3y ago
Literally most of the packages on the page you link there explicitly say that they're maintained by other people. The author seems to maintain an RPM and a DEB setup, which is already more than most. And my point is absolutely not th
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by wheels 3y ago
Doesn't work for things that are, or use plugins, which is typical in pro-audio. (Our software is primarily used as a plugin.)

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