zellyn

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   by zellyn 3y ago

   But implementation language is also predictive of the values and style likely to be embraced by a project. I found my current job (as Square) because in 2015, I got on the Atlanta 404 Slack, and asked “Who in Atlanta is doing interesting th
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   by zellyn 3y ago

   I personally find the mention of the implementation language as part of a project description to be slightly interesting/informative, or at worst benign. Unlike the inevitable comments complaining about it. Mercurial, written in Python
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   by zellyn 3y ago

   I watched season 1 with interest, but by the time I got an episode or two into season 2, I just couldn't muster the interest. Sounds like I should give it another try…
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   by zellyn 3y ago

   I agree that Apple is surprisingly good at sci-fi, but I'd disagree about the genre being shunned for years. It seems you can't throw a rock these days without hitting some lame, sci-fi-flavored TV show that has no internal consis
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   by zellyn 3y ago

   I love how you put that! As a voracious reader of Asimov/Clarke/etc. as a kid, I can confirm that your description fits a depressingly large fraction of that era of SciFi. That kind of SciFi is at its best when the ideas (which ar
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   by zellyn 3y ago

   Heh. I thought the relationships were the point in For All Mankind. I'm not a fan of alternate histories, but the characters pulled me in.
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   by zellyn 3y ago

   I'm always puzzled by the feedback I see on The Peripheral. Granted, I haven't read the book, so I'm not comparing to anything. But the show was interesting, compelling, and fun. It also ended satisfyingly and absolutely does
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   by zellyn 3y ago

   The article goes on to make a pretty good case that _nobody_ understands the laws around recovering game animals at night.
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   by zellyn 3y ago

   The whole website is just beautifully done. I found myself mousing over the "What’s New/Features/Pricing/etc." headers repeatedly just because it feels fun! In a world of endless Bootstrap and rampant Corporate Memp
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    by zellyn 3y ago

    And if you highlight the redactions, it reads: REDACTED REDACTED REDACTED REDACTED REDACTED REDACTED and REDACTED REDACTED? REDACTED REDACTED Antithesis REDACTED REDACTED REDACTED REDACTED, REDACTED REDACTED REDACTED REDACTED. REDACTED REDA
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    by zellyn 3y ago

    Wow. Impressively, ShaderToys → Sierpinski Towers crashes Firefox completely!
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    by zellyn 3y ago

    Do you know how far away from adding AccessKit the Zed team is?
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    by zellyn 3y ago

    Aside: I don't believe I'd run across the Lucide library of free SVG icons before (linked in the credits)… very nice!
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    by zellyn 3y ago

    I usually just spin up datasette (hi, simonw) for this, although this looks prettier in a “they just used bootstrap“ kinda way (not that I'm denigrating that… it made all our internal tools at work look really nice for years!). dataset
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    by zellyn 3y ago

    The most interesting question this has always raised for me is whether it implies you should always try two doctors/dentists/therapists/etc. before making a choice. Seems like it would be just as powerful “in real life“.
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    by zellyn 3y ago

    Benjamin Wester (whom I just found out reads this and saw my comment, so now I don't feel weird randomly mentioning by name!) is the true hero of our monorepo's upgrades.
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    by zellyn 3y ago

    At Square, we typically wait until the first point release before updating the default version in our Go monorepo. Individual application owners are free to upgrade sooner. This time, we had some wiggles, so the Go team beat us to 1.22 befo
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    by zellyn 3y ago

    I love tilt, but it feels like I'm doing something wrong when I write a whole new tilt deployment yaml. I _think_ this space just hasn't matured enough to have settled on standard solutions. Between dev, CI, and staging/prod,
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    by zellyn 3y ago

    I'm curious: what do you do for developer environments? Do you have a need to spin up a partial subgraph of microservices, and have them talk to each other while developing against a slice of the full stack?
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    by zellyn 3y ago

    I mean, you could play his piece at a speed designed to spread it out evenly from the present until the (predicted) moment when the universe can no longer support the mechanism used to play it. That would literally be "as slow as possi
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    by zellyn 3y ago

    I would start with lambda calculus. If you pick the right intro video, they'll stray into combinators: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3VQ382QG-y4 is very good.
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    by zellyn 3y ago

    Touché! I guess I was thinking that there are often sub-classes of NP-complete problems that are amenable to much more efficient algorithms, and it might be easy to accidentally not try any hard ones. Turns out the author fully acknowledged
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    by zellyn 3y ago

    Ah, I missed that. Makes perfect sense! By the way, if you're interested in the "this problem can blow up badly because it can be converted to 3-SAT", you might like https://research.swtch.com/version-sat
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    by zellyn 3y ago

    I'm almost completely clueless with both 3-SAT and supercompilation, but I'm willing to bet that if you found a neat trick that solves 3-SAT problems easily, then either or both (a) there are classes and/or sizes of 3-SAT pro
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    by zellyn 3y ago

    If you follow a pull-request based workflow, and if you typically squash down to one commit, then finding these messages isn't too bad, since the commit description pre-populates into the pull request description. I often track changes
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    by zellyn 3y ago

    Is there a modern, non-JVM lisp that cleanly threads types through the expressions? I'm thinking like Haskell or Roc, where the type definitions are optional, but can be written down for clarity. Lisp was by far my favorite language in
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    by zellyn 3y ago

    lol. Upvote. Wait, Idlewords? Should have guessed. We’ve missed you!
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    by zellyn 3y ago

    I figure that's a given - you kinda have to build one, right?
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    by zellyn 3y ago

    The text refers to bcompiler.tar.gz, and indeed, changing .html to .tar.gz and keeping the rest of the archive.org URL the same, you can download http://web.archive.org/web/20121030222527/http://www.rano.
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    by zellyn 3y ago

    I love each and every one of you who have posted into this subtree, although it's bittersweet if bash.org really is going away… <3 https://archive.is/0y1yT is the archive of http://www.bash.org/?2443