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by zem 11mo ago
I think it's perfect as it is, trying to expand the headlines into articles would belabour the joke too much.
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by zem 11mo ago
I figured the button went on the side of your finger nearest the thumb, and you curled your hand into a loose fist to press it
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by zem 11mo ago
this seems to be optimised for the use case where you just want to record something quickly; if you wanted a longer recording session the up front overhead of pulling out a dictaphone or something wouldn't be too bad, and you would hav
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by zem 11mo ago
martin gardner stood head and shoulders above everyone else for me, but asimov did indeed have some great works of non-fiction.
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by zem 11mo ago
brilliant stories both, but my two favourite asimov shorts are "profession" (I really, really love the trope that a regimented society depends on outcasts and outsiders for any sort of innovation) and "the martian way" (
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by zem 11mo ago
I don't see how free market capitalism fixes that. I looked up a definition to make sure I wasn't missing something and as per investopedia: "The term “free market capitalism” refers to an economy that puts no or minimal barr
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by zem 11mo ago
that's not the idea of capitalism; the idea of capitalism is that you should be able to make money by virtue of owning stuff. it's an inherently rich-get-richer scheme, competition has little to do with it.
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by zem 11mo ago
this effectively writes a backend for all the weird targets at once, since pretty much everything out there has c compiler support
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by zem 11mo ago
agreed about rust literally being designed to build a browser, but when it was developed there were many amazing pieces sitting around in c++ :) let the zig folks have a go at building their own ecosystem.
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by zem 11mo ago
good point, it was often less than inflation, so a very nominal sort of raise
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by zem 11mo ago
the full article as a lot more context, including the fact that he reached out to Hong to join her startup rather than vice versa. he seems to be excited about the problem they're attacking and has a good idea of what he can do with a
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by zem 11mo ago
the saddest thing is that it used to be possible to do it at at least some of the megacorps too. "senior engineer" (one level below staff) was widely accepted as an "I have reached as high as I want to in my career, and just
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by zem 11mo ago
type annotations in python are essentially structured comments with special syntactic support and runtime introspection facilities (i.e. you can get at the annotations from within the code). they are explicitly not "types" as far
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by zem 11mo ago
"coincided" is understating it; it is precisely the bad job market that leads to this sort of mandate, because employees have little choice but to go along. in a good job market companies are very willing to offer remote work as a
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by zem 11mo ago
same, I used to use it to add PDF generation to my small projects because it was really easy to synthesise and output lout
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by zem 11mo ago
> where k is constant for similar triangles. you can see that by simply scaling the figure of (the triangle + square on its hypotenuse) as a whole; whatever size the triangle is the ratio of the two pieces doesn't change
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by zem 11mo ago
great, will do! this really does look like the solution to having random docs and shell scripts scattered around
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by zem 11mo ago
this looks wonderful, will have to see if I can get permission to use it at work.
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by zem 11mo ago
that's good to know, and greatly increases my likelihood of getting one!
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by zem 11mo ago
the homepage design makes it impossible to link to anything, but they have a video which makes it look a lot better than that.
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by zem 11mo ago
it's not entirely clear from the page - the description of what you get when you buy the "dev kit" says 8<---------------- Each kit includes a custom Playtile and a download key for Gumpy Function's enhanced version o
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by zem 11mo ago
the sticker is a game controller, with physical buttons. meant to give you more of a handheld gaming device experience on your phone
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by zem 11mo ago
> I'm not really certain why LinkedIn even has social features available if it's purporting to be a professional space people want to socialise in all sorts of contexts. think of it as hanging out at the bar after hours at a co
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by zem 11mo ago
> Say, you have a process that is single threaded and does a lot of stuff that has to happen step by step. > New dev comes in; and starts splitting everything it does in 12 functions, because, _a function, should do one thing I would
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by zem 11mo ago
I tried watching an episode of the bbc version and found it very off-putting, it was written almost as a caricature of holmes. elementary was definitely a lot closer in spirit.
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by zem 11mo ago
that sounds awesome. having wrestled with complex build setups I'm a big fan of simple and reproducible, though as you say there's definitely the temptation to do things to improve performance at the expense of simplicity.
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by zem 11mo ago
yeah, I didn't mean that it was evidence the open source move was successful or valuable, more that it showed that the engineering effort that went into the open sourcing also yielded dividends for the project in general
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by zem 11mo ago
to be fair, he quit because he (rightly!) disagreed with the company's petty-minded insistence that the prize belonged to them, not because he valued a graphics card over his internship.
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by zem 11mo ago
out of curiosity, why not kotlin? I had the impression it was the jvm language to reach for by default these days.
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by zem 11mo ago
one thing that struck me was that the foundation for this effort was the linux distro build system. in other words, the work they put into making .net open-source and cross-platform eventually made everyone's lives easier.

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