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by zukzuk 3y ago
I don’t think this is a fair characterization. The reason git is confusing is that its underlying model doesn’t resemble our intuitive conceptual model of how it ought to work. This was classic Torvalds — zero hand holding. But he gets away
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by zukzuk 3y ago
Yes, you can definitely use it selectively.
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by zukzuk 3y ago
I looked at Pi-hole recently but went with AdGuard Home. Nicer UI and nicer everything by all appearances. There's also a surprising amount of customization for something this slick, like being able to defer to my internal DNS for loca
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by zukzuk 3y ago
It’s almost guaranteed that advertising will find its way into whatever ends up replacing Google. Convincing/tricking people into buying things is a fundamental part of any free market consumer economy.
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by zukzuk 3y ago
No thread about UUID is complete without a plug for NanoID! https://github.com/ai/nanoid/blob/main/README.md
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by zukzuk 3y ago
I'd add "Into the Cool" by Eric D. Schneider and Dorion Sagan to that reading list. I'm pretty sure that one was originally recommended here on HN, so I guess I'm feeding it back into the echo chamber. But well wort
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by zukzuk 3y ago
I still mourn the end of Freehand. Illustrator’s UI never matched Freehand.
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by zukzuk 3y ago
Isn’t that usually to give pedestrians a head start on crossing?
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by zukzuk 3y ago
I guess the point I’m trying to make is that there’s a big difference between “good time to buy” for the “average” buyer vs someone who has been hoarding capital waiting to jump in at a better time. A recession probably will create a good o
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by zukzuk 3y ago
Worth noting that this way of thinking is true in the inverse too — when interest rates were super low, house values didn’t really go up, only credit got cheaper. In other words, the appreciation in costs is not about house value, it’s abou
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by zukzuk 3y ago
If interest rates to drop again in the foreseeable future, it will likely be due to an old fashioned recession. If that happens, both mortgage rates and home prices will fall (due to lower demand / ability to pay and possibly forced se
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by zukzuk 3y ago
I developed pretty nasty tenosynovitis in my inner wrist from using a Magic Pad over a year. I even tried switching to using it with my left hand instead of my right, and eventually developed the same problem in the other wrist. It got bad
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by zukzuk 3y ago
Typescript has a lot of momentum on all fronts and is almost certainly the future of Javascript. The big problem is that it still requires transpilation, which can set up all sorts of shitty traps. Not to mention that the Javascript ecosyst
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by zukzuk 3y ago
Siri in its current form is constantly "hallucinating" all sorts of stuff as it is. "Hey Siri, turn off the lights in the kitchen." -- "Sure, now playing a continuous stream of U2 on all of your speakers!"
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by zukzuk 3y ago
Because you lose all the stuff that’s nice about tRPC. The experience of building a tRPC app is very different from building an app that talks to a traditional REST API. The front and back end with tRPC are very tightly bound. In a way the
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by zukzuk 3y ago
I'd argue the opposite. For a lot of people, getting quick results is absolutely needed for motivation. Focusing on learning "the fundamentals" before getting to the enjoyable parts is bad advice for most, as it often leads t
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by zukzuk 3y ago
tRPC is not at all intended to ever be a public API, the way REST or GraphQL is. It's meant to be a tight, private connection between your client and your server. If you use tRPC in your stack but want a public API, you will almost cer
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by zukzuk 3y ago
Use TypeScript instead? (semi-joking) The way I've been approaching this lately is TypeScript on the frontend, then a thing TypeScript layer on the backend (via Deno), with those two pieces connected with tRPC. The real backend guts ar
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by zukzuk 3y ago
Absolutely JavaScript, in that it is easy to accidentally do horrifying things, but absolutely not surprising if you’ve spent any time working with it, as you quickly get used to how awful it is.
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by zukzuk 3y ago
Yup! Complete with the inevitable government bailout that socializes failure while privatizing profits.
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by zukzuk 3y ago
Do you also not allow loops, because they are the devil’s lettuce? Metaprogramming is just a higher level of abstraction that lets you express things that would otherwise be tedious or repetitive. It’s not that different than using a loop t
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by zukzuk 3y ago
That is very much not the environment sarracenia purpurea evolved in. I can't imagine it will survive very long. They need a lot of direct light, and they definitely need a winter dormancy period. They do not make great houseplants, at
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by zukzuk 3y ago
> …given all the success we've had with LLMs, it's weird that we can't use the exact same tricks with time-series data. Forecasting works quite well when the series is forecastable. The fact that it often doesn't work
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by zukzuk 3y ago
> …given all the success we've had with LLMs, it's weird that we can't use the exact same tricks with time-series data. Forecasting works quite well when the series is forecastable. The fact that it often doesn't work
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by zukzuk 3y ago
> …given all the success we've had with LLMs, it's weird that we can't use the exact same tricks with time-series data. Forecasting works, to a certain degree, quite well when there is actually something to forecast. The f
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by zukzuk 3y ago
Comparing the misc acrylamide and other byproducts of seasoning a cast iron skillet to the PFAS and other byproducts of teflon production is nonsense. Yes, complex hydrocarbons are not good for you, but PFOAs and their ilk are really really
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by zukzuk 3y ago
"which stocks listed on the TSX are most closely correlated with real estate prices" First result was "Plantir (PLTR)" ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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by zukzuk 3y ago
Very, very few, I would wager.
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by zukzuk 4y ago
Yes... in the same way that SF did: there were many calls for "defunding the police" in 2021/2022, but by 2023 the police budget in Toronto is higher than it was pre-pandemic. I understand that the same is true in SF. One thi
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by zukzuk 4y ago
Also, maybe for more direct comparison, Canadian cities. SF has 4X the murder rate of Toronto, for example. (And Toronto has about the same murder rate as London, and less than Amsterdam — I can't find the comparative stat for Munich t

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