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by yayitswei 1y ago
See also for related ideas: missionary/electric for frontend and rama for backend. I wish for a unified interface combining the best of all three!
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by yayitswei 1y ago
Not sure how much unpacking most founders do beforehand. "We do these things not because they're easy, but because we thought they were going to be easy."
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by yayitswei 1y ago
I'm picky about layouts - I type in Dvorak, learned Janko via Chromatone, currently playing harpejji. Coming from a classical piano background, there was definitely a learning curve, but I feel like it was worth it. Every chord shape i
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by yayitswei 1y ago
Make it cost money to submit.
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by yayitswei 1y ago
Interesting literacy regression: this newly discovered Babylonian hymn was routinely copied by schoolchildren 3,000 years ago, while yesterday's article about why English doesn't use accents showed that by 1100 AD European literac
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by yayitswei 1y ago
Early cljs/react adopter here. Found "the next react" in Hyperfiddle's Electric Clojure — it eliminates the client/server boundary entirely. Write one function that spans both sites, compiler handles the network aut
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by yayitswei 1y ago
I agree. Reminds me of that story about chess grandmasters having incredible memory for valid chess positions but performing no better than average when remembering random piece arrangements. There's likely some efficient compression y
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by yayitswei 1y ago
I predict this will evolve into bot warfare! For example, here's a snippet to advance pawns: https://gist.github.com/yayitswei/442cd5128b2dbfbd95a101b70f...
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by yayitswei 1y ago
With driving in the age of autopilot, there's yet a new skill - staying engaged enough to intervene during that 0.1% of the time it tries to kill you.
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by yayitswei 2y ago
At first I thought they were going to implement it in MIT Scratch.
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by yayitswei 2y ago
This is excellent satire. It's like a Rorschach test for the commenters.
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by yayitswei 2y ago
Same Krugman who wrote "Bitcoin is Evil" in 2013.
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by yayitswei 2y ago
Simple and abstract are subjective, but for me: PHP, jQuery, htmx, Electric Clojure.
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by yayitswei 2y ago
I wouldn't say Rails is the most simple and abstracted way to build a web application. More so than Next.js, yes, but there are both older and newer technologies that keep things simpler.
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by yayitswei 2y ago
I chose death and never looked back. Favorite replacement has been Diatomic, currently looking into Rama.
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by yayitswei 2y ago
What if SteamOS included kernel-level anti-cheat? Seems like an elegant solution compared to the current approach of running invasive third-party anti-cheat software.
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by yayitswei 2y ago
From a statistical definition, it does. But yes, we can do better.
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by yayitswei 2y ago
Letting the Guardian publish on article about the cabin is the opposite of security through obscurity.
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by yayitswei 2y ago
'Buzee' pronounced as 'boozey' (from the readme) is a similar to a common slang term for intoxicated or alcohol-related.
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by yayitswei 2y ago
The database I'm working with, Rama, has an interesting way to do "instant migrations" at scale. Your migration function runs on every read until data is durably migrated in the background. So you get migrated data immediatel
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by yayitswei 2y ago
Now do the wrench attack.
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by yayitswei 2y ago
For comparison, here's a talk about Overwatch's netcode: https://youtu.be/W3aieHjyNvw Overwatch has a long time-to-kill, interesting to compare tradeoffs.
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by yayitswei 2y ago
Is there a good tool for scraping a multi-page website (e.g. documentation) into plain text to send to an LLM?
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by yayitswei 2y ago
What's up with Germany?
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by yayitswei 2y ago
A PR that moves the needle is worth 2-4 weeks or more. Small improvements or fixes can be handled by the team on the defense rotation.
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OpenAI real-time api, vision fine-tuning, prompt caching, model distillation(twitter.com)
2 points by yayitswei 2y ago|0 comments
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by yayitswei 2y ago
YC did not have prestige in their early years (Jessica mentions they had to beg their friends to come to demo days). Yet people were dropping out of Harvard to join. So it seems prestige is not necessary for success and in fact may be a neg
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by yayitswei 2y ago
He's targeting a particular audience in this essay. Doesn't mean he hates everyone else. In fact, in other essays he says that being an older founder can actually be an advantage in some ways.
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by yayitswei 2y ago
Could it be "Children of Time" by Adrian Tchaikovsky? (ht Claude)
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Fed unveils oversized rate cut (0.5%)(reuters.com)
2 points by yayitswei 2y ago|0 comments

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