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Lithuania Offers Four-Day Week for Parents of Young Children(bloomberg.com)
2 points by yboris 5y ago|0 comments
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by yboris 5y ago
One of my favorite books is Inside Jokes Using Humor to Reverse-Engineer the Mind. The gist is that humor is the "joy of debugging". Our brains are inference machines and make a lot of conclusions that might eventually end up be
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by yboris 5y ago
For reference, Miško Hevery, the author of this post, is the creator of Angular . At the end of the article, there's his solution: https://qwik.builder.io/guide/overview > Qwik is a new kind of web framework t
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by yboris 5y ago
On the happiness front, consider learning about Positive Psychology (a rigorous research subfield within psychology focusing on happiness and well being). If you read books, consider reading ones by Ph.D. researchers in the field, rather th
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by yboris 5y ago
My commercial, charityware ($3.50 to charity of every purchase), MIT open source software Video Hub App sells for $5 with about 100 customers per month. 4,000 purchases over 4 years since the launch. Unsure how common it is, but I want mo
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by yboris 5y ago
Sorry, by "this" I meant "the same functionality - rename files via text file" :)
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Meta will take a 48 percent cut from sales in Horizon Worlds(engadget.com)
14 points by yboris 5y ago|6 comments
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OMG! I created a GUI tool for this: Simplest File Renamer (Win, Mac, Linux). In my app, you can rename using your favorite code editor, so you have access to all your keyboard shortcuts. https://github.com/whyboris/Si
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Three-parent embryo law passed in Australia(bioedge.org)
2 points by yboris 5y ago|0 comments
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The Ironclad Argument Against Racism(betonit.substack.com)
29 points by yboris 5y ago|45 comments
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The speaker concludes with the self-referential comment, saying something like "and of course, here I am, giving you a narrative" implying we can't escape them, but at least we can slow down our thinking to contemplate whethe
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by yboris 5y ago
A really wonderful TED talk from Tyler Cowen: Be suspicious of simple stories > he asks us to step away from thinking of our lives -- and our messy, complicated irrational world -- in terms of a simple narrative. https://ww
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by yboris 5y ago
In my data science department, for a while all I used was Sanic (a server), and some dependencies (like Pandas, requests, and libraries to interact with GCP) and that was enough for most servers I wrote. But once you know Python, it'
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by yboris 5y ago
An aside about "Just War Theory" (JWT). I took a semester course in philosophy with Jeff McMahan (who has been working in this area for a long time). Having a theory (and a thus set of rules most countries try to follow) is better
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by yboris 5y ago
Sure, when my project installs via npm it weighs in over 1GB, but when I bundle it up for distribution, the installer is around 65mb (Windows). TypeScript makes coding a super-pleasure, it's not your grandma's JS ;)
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I think it used to be around 130mb on Windows. I checked just now with the latest Electron 18 - and the ram seems to be around 30mb. The app consumes more RAM when it's extracting screenshots from videos (usually you do this once to bu
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by yboris 5y ago
Oh I see! If you use the mouse to click around and arrow keys to move! Seems like a single toggle checkbox would be enough to satisfy everyone ;)
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Lovely game! I wonder if it might be a nicer UX if you could choose for the Shift key to be needed to slide circles around rather than to move the selection. In my mind, conceptually, arrow keys are for moving the selection, and tessellatin
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I have a production Electron application: Video Hub App and if I had a few hundred thousand dollars to waste, I could hire developers to write me Windows, Mac, and Linux native applications. But instead I spent a few months by myself and
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by yboris 5y ago
I think you can clone just the last commit: > Provide an argument of -- depth 1 to the git clone command to copy only the latest revision of a repo: git clone -–depth [depth] [remote-url]
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by yboris 5y ago
I'm a big fan of DrivePool (by StableBit) for Windows. You can add as many hard drives as you want and pool them together into one, optionally add duplication, and if anything fails, each hard drive is just an NTFS volume that can be
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by yboris 5y ago
A small tool I created for TypeScript files to visualize the call graph: TypeScript-Call-Graph I thought it would be useful for me, especially while working using the functional programming paradigm. https://github.com/w
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by yboris 5y ago
Awesome! Also, a PSA about the next image format for the web: JPEG XL (.jxl) - should be on everyone's radar. Already supported by browsers (behind a feature flag). Has lossy and lossless mode. https://jpegxl.info/
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But my point is that even if you use some closed-source driver or whatever is required to "set up" your project - you still can't re-use your regular code wholesale, but will have to modify to fit within whatever features the
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Do I understand this right? It seems like Habana has some super-efficient and fast ML hardware, but you can't just drop in an ML project and start using it? For example, only a subset of TensorFlow or PyTorch is supported? Is that righ
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One of my professors (a jolly fellow) joked about us having "street cred" based on our past work. So if we've been reliably good at proofs, when another proof had gaps, he said he'd assume we knew but just went too quick
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by yboris 5y ago
A bit off-topic, but any discussion of altruism these days I bring up effective altruism - a movement of people focusing on effective ways of helping as much as possible (within any specific area, and focusing on finding the most-import
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In my math department many professors said that as long as we can do well on the final, that will be the heaviest-weighted of our grades. It seems sensible, at least at the college level, to have 90% of the grade depend on the (cumulative!)
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My favorite dev tool is diff2html - a CLI that opens up your browser with a rich diff. Pro tip: alias `diff` to the command so you can launch it quickly ;) https://diff2html.xyz/
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Also reminds me of "computational kindness" where, for example, you give people 2 specific date-times to have lunch, rather than asking them to look through their entire calendar and come up with something (it's easier to che

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