HeyImAlex

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by HeyImAlex 3mo ago
You can AOT typescript types from zod schemas if intellisense is your main complaint. I think it generally makes more sense to transform from more expressive => less expressive, and zod is more expressive than typescript (as evidenced by
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by HeyImAlex 3mo ago
They're talking about window units, not heat pump systems or central air. It's a complete AC that sits in your window. It can't cool a very large space (even in apartments people may have more than one), but it's cheap a
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by HeyImAlex 4mo ago
Do effect systems actually avoid colored functions? Don’t most typed effect systems require the used effects in the signature?
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by HeyImAlex 6mo ago
It seems like it would drive down housing prices, but (given limited zoning) drive up land prices?
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by HeyImAlex 11mo ago
In the times of the French Revolution that was enough, but I think technology is obsoleting us there too. If evil oligarch can make a bunker and ten million $100 kill bots, I don’t think the people are rising up unless existence is worse th
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by HeyImAlex 11mo ago
Here’s my favorite post on the subject https://adam-p.ca/blog/2025/04/string-length/
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by HeyImAlex 1y ago
Another thing I’ve encountered with tree/structured diffs is a concept of identity. diff([{id:1,name:foo}],[{id:2,name:foo}] should show object w/ id:1 removed and id:2 added, not id changed from 1 to 2. Tough because then your di
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by HeyImAlex 1y ago
I think if this can keep a knife effectively sharper than the equivalent nice steel with less maintenance, then it’s going to find a market. I’m a nerd, but Ive found that once I’ve mastered a hobby I eventually gravitate towards convenienc
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by HeyImAlex 1y ago
Reddit’s eventual livelihood would be based on selling ads, so legality is not the line they were aiming for.
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by HeyImAlex 1y ago
Hasn't the proliferation of streaming services shown that the content is the "drug"? To remain competitive, they had to start producing themselves.
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by HeyImAlex 1y ago
Check out design within reach. Fancy furniture can be incredibly expensive.
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by HeyImAlex 1y ago
Thank you for writing this! It’s something I’ve always wanted a comprehensive guide on, now I have something to point to.
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by HeyImAlex 1y ago
Consensus is that the evidence supporting that is not strong.
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by HeyImAlex 1y ago
It seems insanely risky to attempt to fill a niche that only opened up because of these tariffs. If they’re removed, congrats you just spent a bunch of capital to make a factory that is suddenly no longer competitive.
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by HeyImAlex 2y ago
Same deal with other industries with hybrid public/private, like the postal service or insurance. Arithmetic is based on serving some people at a loss but amortizing those losses against the wider public. Private entities come in and e
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by HeyImAlex 2y ago
I feel like immigration is effectively unlimited from the perspective of big cities. There's friction moving states, and some things keep people anchored, but the market is nationwide. If you built enough in NYC to make rent comparable
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by HeyImAlex 3y ago
I think all metrics can be reconstructed as “wide events” since they’re just a bunch of arbitrary data? Counts, gauges, and histograms at least seem pretty straight forward to me. It seems like the main motivation for metrics is that sendin
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by HeyImAlex 3y ago
This is about a council rule that forbids “derogatory statements or comments about any individual.”
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by HeyImAlex 3y ago
This is about a different man, Noah Petersen, who was reading a statement mentioning the linked encounter at a council meeting.
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by HeyImAlex 3y ago
There’s a difference between “approving of” something and thinking it shouldn’t be a crime. What’s your feeling on the first amendment? Do you approve of hate speech?
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by HeyImAlex 3y ago
Isn’t that kinda what stock options are?
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by HeyImAlex 3y ago
Maybe discoverability? If you can’t google “major event” to find news, you’ll wind up just going to big-news-site.com and searching there.
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by HeyImAlex 3y ago
This discussion isn't new[1], and I'm not sure re-hashing it here will be useful unless you think AI generated child porn is significantly different from any other form of fictional child porn. Photoshop has existed for thirty yea
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by HeyImAlex 3y ago
I don’t think so? Household Cost = Total Cost / Households, Household Duration = Capacity / (Household Usage * Households), Houshold*2 would half both.
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by HeyImAlex 3y ago
I grew up in the suburbs and walked out my front door to play with my friends. There were probably 15 kids around my age within 100 yards of my house, 50 in my neighborhood.
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by HeyImAlex 4y ago
And if it’s not far away, we’ll have many other things to worry about! For me, accepting my total helplessness on world-altering events like this makes the anxiety go away. There could be a zombie apocalypse tomorrow, or a giant meteor coul
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by HeyImAlex 4y ago
The article mentions fentanyl is more deadly but also 5-10 times cheaper than the opiates it replaces. $4 for an oxy clone is wildly accessible. No telling if I would have tried it as a teenager had they been that cheap and available.
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by HeyImAlex 4y ago
And we kill 80 billion animals a year for food.
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by HeyImAlex 4y ago
Thanks for the suggestion!
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by HeyImAlex 4y ago
Ah can’t wait to finally build a cross platform app without complex JS tooling once I take my time machine back to 2005 and change the course of cross platform GUI development forever.

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