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by zellyn 2y ago
My only-mostly-joking answer is that you can go work for a typical Silicon Valley style technology company, and stay around for two or three four-year vesting periods. Most of them have Google-influenced design doc processes, and few if any
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by zellyn 2y ago
For me, on a 2021 MacBook Pro M1 Max, on MacOs 15.1.1, it appears to work in Chrome but in Firefox shows this error. error: script:16:1: compile error: unknown symbol twist in evaluate [lib/evaluator.janet] on line 81, colu
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by zellyn 2y ago
Simon's blog is fragmented because it's, well, a blog. It would be hard to find a better source to "keep updated on things AI" though. He does do longer summary articles sometimes, but mostly he's keeping up with th
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by zellyn 2y ago
This is the bet Roc is taking. They call it "Opportunistic Mutation" and you can read about it at https://www.roc-lang.org/functional I didn't see links on that page, but IIRC, there's a particular paper
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by zellyn 2y ago
Reading just the headline, I thought that's what this post was referring to. I used to give the Skyline overlapping rectangle problem at Google for several years, until it got banned. I'd say that with appropriate nudges, most can
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by zellyn 2y ago
Is that not what asciinema does?
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by zellyn 2y ago
As noted by other commenters, the author addresses this, although I would have loved to have had a version of all the _statistics_ with name-based drops elided.
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by zellyn 2y ago
LaunchDarkly has a mix of OpenFeature providers they wrote, and quite reasonable community-contributed ones, depending on language. They are also very actively engaged with OF in meetings, discussions, etc. (We are a big LD user at work.)
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by zellyn 2y ago
It's fun and valuable to have a place to land proposals and try them out early (seems like TS itself should have flags for this though). The problem is that as the proposal is refined, or if it is rejected, it implies constant changes
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by zellyn 2y ago
As another comment pointed out, it's a Douglas Adams quote. Also, are we not hackers? If we can't sprinkle jokes into discussions of serious things without thinking that makes the whole discussion unserious, what have we become? M
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by zellyn 2y ago
I remember traveling to the US from South Africa when I was 14 in 1990 and my dad renting Cry Freedom on VHS so we could watch it, since it was banned in South Africa. The long roll of peoples' names and how they died "accidentall
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by zellyn 2y ago
How does this compare to Dragonfly (IIUC, basically the same thing, but in Go)? https://github.com/df-mc/dragonfly
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by zellyn 2y ago
Sadly, Fandom still has a lot of search mojo. For instance, when searching for "minecraft redstone filter bedrock" I get a link to the Fandom minecraft wiki rather than minecraft.wiki. Hopefully over time, that corrects itself. Al
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by zellyn 2y ago
Random question: do you work with the new wikis to create some kind of license that prevents Fandom from scraping future changes back into their version of the wikis? Obviously the technical modifications can't translate, but it seems
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by zellyn 2y ago
The article explicitly covers this question. Looks like they're setting up explicit legal(?) agreements. One key point is the domain name: minecraft.wiki, for example, not a subdomain of something owned by Weird Gloop. So the wiki can
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by zellyn 2y ago
Thanks! I allowed myself to be distracted by all the weird infix stuff. I was thinking "but it's not passing itself into the money constructor" but it's actually just delegating to a different-signature version of `money
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by zellyn 2y ago
https://github.com/eriksencosta/money/blob/4bef95a1d2158e308...
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by zellyn 2y ago
Surely they would have just noticed a discrepancy in timing and added a few circles-upon-circles to effectively fix it up? Is deeply grokking relativity necessary for GPS to work? On the other hand, it would be impossible to make those adju
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by zellyn 2y ago
I'm new to Kotlin. Can someone explain how this function creates a Money object incorporating the given count of them? This looks like it's ignoring the Number and creating a new Money object (of denomination 1?) > public infix
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by zellyn 2y ago
ESP-IDF is astonishingly well done. As someone who used to install Linux from stacks of Slackware floppies and used open source code back in the days when the install instructions were: configure; pray; make; figure out which of the 11,000
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by zellyn 2y ago
I bounced off learning Haskell a few times (infinite regress to downloading category theory textbooks), but almost the moment I saw its type inference, I immediately wanted that in lisp. Roc is looking pretty nice (especially once your edit
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by zellyn 2y ago
Having now spent enough years thinking about feature flags during an extended migration (from our own internal system to LaunchDarkly), I've become convinced that a really useful primitive would be: * SQLite, but every change you mak
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by zellyn 2y ago
> And I would love to use a language that limited side effects like this at the language level — even ignoring security, it makes reasoning about code easier. This is one of the value propositions of Roc
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by zellyn 2y ago
Ah, interesting. I think, looking back, that "lea" is usually where I start getting confused! I apparently also need to internalize harder that I should just ask llms about everything :-)
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by zellyn 2y ago
I disagree. I did 6502 (and a bit of z80) in high school, those old Turbo-Pascal-embedded-assembly demoscene tutorials in high school and college, learned MIPS in college, learned msp430 (very risc-y) when working through microcorruption.co
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by zellyn 2y ago
Working through the microcorruption.com challenges left me really liking msp430 assembly
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by zellyn 2y ago
I'm lucky in that my company closed the office far from me, and consolidated on an office about 15 minutes' drive / 25 minutes' bike ride from my house. Now, when I weigh 30 minutes of commute versus being cooped up in t
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by zellyn 2y ago
I do too, but sometimes I read a blog post that makes me wonder about something and I don't want to schedule a 1:1 with them and then wait to chat about it. We're mostly remote now…
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by zellyn 2y ago
I've had incredibly productive discussions with Claude about category theory. (I prefer Claude because it's the most pleasant to talk with; I think they optimized for that.) The ability to explain what I know already, hand-wave at
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by zellyn 2y ago
In college, there were people who rated professors negatively just because their classes were hard. Thirty years later, it still annoys me.

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