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by wrs 1y ago
Wow, do I feel old right now.
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by wrs 1y ago
Some packages have install scripts that actually need to run (e.g., esbuild). pnpm refuses to run install scripts from packages you haven’t manually authorized, which helps a bit.
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by wrs 1y ago
It's Apple house style. Marketing writes in tiny sentences. Even fragments. Makes the copy more punchy. And it's been like this for decades.
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by wrs 1y ago
In case you don't know, at least there's a setting to help: defaults -currentHost write -globalDomain NSStatusItemSpacing -int 8
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by wrs 1y ago
I use RTT fine without a J-Link (I have an ST-Link). There’s a fantastic Rust package called defmt-rtt that uses macros to leave all the bulky text in the ELF file and just stream the printf arguments. Super fast logging, as verbose as you
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by wrs 1y ago
Because if you want to get a good science education, you need to be in a place that supports science and education. The administration has disrupted the system that made the US the world scientific leader, a status it’s had only since the m
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by wrs 1y ago
We can only hope this administration and its supporters are a temporary aberration that the US can claw its way back out of. Otherwise, that classic advice to sign up your kids for Mandarin class starts to sound pretty good.
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by wrs 1y ago
These prompts remind me of the YouTubers giving people self-actualization advice. “Act like the person you want to be!” Telling the LLM that it is an experienced product manager doesn’t make it an experienced product manager, it just makes
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by wrs 1y ago
What does “fear-driven” mean? I’m sure there are people who go into climate research because they want to help prevent bad things from happening. Just as in medical research, auto safety research, cryptography research, civil engineering, a
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by wrs 1y ago
UTF-16 made lots of sense at the time because Unicode thought "65,536 characters will be enough for anybody" and it retains the 1:1 relationship between string elements and characters that everyone had assumed for decades. I.e., y
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by wrs 1y ago
There's no apple, much less any dots. Of course, I'm happy to draw you an apple on a piece of paper, and draw some dots on that, then tell you where those are.
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by wrs 1y ago
The one that is better at governing is worse at politics. The system sort of assumes that will be the other way around.
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by wrs 1y ago
If you look closer, I'm pretty sure a majority of us aren't really on a "side", think the whole situation is incredibly stupid, and wish the politicians would just shut up and actually...govern...instead of playing silly
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by wrs 1y ago
Yep. https://gandalf.lakera.ai/baseline
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by wrs 1y ago
Thanks. Digging out my shoebox of college mix tapes right now.
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by wrs 1y ago
That’s exactly what I’m saying is hard to do when progress is being made on multiple threads.
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by wrs 1y ago
Random observation: This is very similar to the rationale for the “trash can” Mac Pro.
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by wrs 1y ago
Why should a database need to transfer funds? Bitcoin doesn’t transfer funds, it’s just a shared ledger of what funds have been transferred. Lots of banks use Oracle to record fund transfers, but Oracle doesn’t transfer any funds.
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by wrs 1y ago
Which says something about how bad modern appliances are.
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by wrs 1y ago
> you can reason about each component in isolation > you can focus on the explicit contracts between components > you can design systems where problematic interactions are structurally impossible In other words, exactly what a stro
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by wrs 1y ago
Yeah, same with progress bars — especially the Windows Installer progress bar that goes backwards when it’s backing out after a failure! Of course, progress bars based on increments have a whole other failure mode, the eternally 99% progr
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by wrs 1y ago
Yes, block based signaling is what I interpreted “local first” to mean in this context. It works, but it slows everything way down. I don’t know, but I would imagine, there’s still a block based setup as a failsafe backup in most or all mod
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by wrs 1y ago
You can go down a very deep rabbit hole learning about the history of train signaling. Trains and subways have had centralized signaling for…I’d have to look it up, but 100 years surely? It’s the only way to safely have more than one train
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by wrs 1y ago
Long ago (I first remember doing it in about 1985 with the original Mac watch cursor) this was the standard way to do spinners: somewhere in your processing you incremented the spinner. It was hard to put the increments in the right places
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by wrs 1y ago
Running a database does not require liquidity.
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by wrs 1y ago
I’ve been producing music as a side interest for a long time, and I learned early on that to really hear what’s going on during a mix I have to close my eyes and wait about 30 seconds for my ears to “open up”. My visual sense overrides the
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by wrs 1y ago
Classic Star Trek (speaking as a fan). They can scan an entire planet to find a lost crew member, but can’t tell how many people are on their own ship. And they have universal audio surveillance on the ship but still have to use wall interc
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by wrs 1y ago
I get that it’s a different mode, but if you ever drop into editing, why would you ever want a worse (or just unfamiliar) editor? How does that improve the agent mode? If my junior dev only had Notepad installed, I would get them to install
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by wrs 1y ago
Maybe if you have a business where the need for software is a constant, so it’s great to get it for 90% off. (It’s not clear what business that is in 2025, maybe a small plumbing contractor?) But if your business is making software it’s h
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by wrs 1y ago
Or CEOs.

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