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by Smudge 10mo ago
only once pushed or merged to a shared branch.
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by Smudge 4y ago
I'm no fan of the system we have, and I agree that it's dysfunctional at best, but my view is that the only thing worse than a two-party system is a single-party system. All of the problems we have with the power structure of the
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by Smudge 4y ago
The ever-widening political divide, which I have observed both in the abstract and in family/friend relationships, is something that I could easily see spelling the end of US democracy. I'm dead serious, and this (well-reasoned) p
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by Smudge 6y ago
You missed the part about regulating. The point isn't to create a drug free-for-all, it's to reduce the economic incentives that lead to drug cartels.
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by Smudge 6y ago
I made a CLI for controlling macOS's "Night Shift" feature programmatically. It also doubles as a Rust library. https://github.com/smudge/nightlight Now I'm working on cross-system compatibility wit
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by Smudge 6y ago
Having a "brutalist" aesthetic is called out in its README as part of the design philosophy. Brutalist is a bit of an acquired taste. There are at least a couple different schools of brutalism (this one seems to line up with more
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by Smudge 6y ago
Well said, and I'm sorry you had to deal with such a heartless reply.
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by Smudge 8y ago
Doesn't really answer your questions, but I'd point out that it's possible that we only hear about these suicides precisely _because_ they are from professions that tend to produce high-profile celebrities. I'd counter y
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by Smudge 9y ago
When modeling was done for the Kuwait oil fires, there were two opposing expectations. One was that the fires would cause a kind of "year without a summer" similar to the Tambora eruption in 1815. The other was that the smoke woul
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by Smudge 9y ago
Worth noting that Teller was one of the inspirations for Dr. Strangelove.
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by Smudge 9y ago
Most forest fires don't create strong enough firestorms (if they do at all) to funnel material high enough to have an effect -- most of the ash falls back down in a matter of weeks (even sooner if it gets rained out of the atmosphere).
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by Smudge 9y ago
Most tests have been performed underground. And for an above-ground test to cause anything close to a nuclear winter, you need a lot more material than the bomb itself and the soil beneath it. Tons and tons of debris would need to be shot u
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by Smudge 9y ago
Email is just one example, but maybe a better example is talking to an API that supports some form of idempotency. You don't want to talk to the API during a transaction that involves other related data persistence, but you can transac
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by Smudge 9y ago
Nice -- pg-amqp-bridge seems like a clever solution for coordinating the two. It still puts some amount of the queuing load on the DB, but I'd be comfortable with that trade-off if I really wanted to use rabbitmq as the primary queue.
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by Smudge 9y ago
Very common in the web context -- you perform some form of relational persistence while also inserting a job to schedule background work (like sending an email). Having those both in the same transaction gets rid of a lot of tricky failure
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by Smudge 9y ago
Firstly, time spent learning is not time wasted! Secondly, the best way to avoid making painful design decisions is... to make them enough times that you instinctively remember them. There aren't many shortcuts to developing that insti
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by Smudge 10y ago
There is a much bigger barrier to entry when it comes to monetizing via product placement and sponsorships. For smaller entities, developing dedicated advertising partnerships is just not on the table. So if the the ad networks themselves t
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by Smudge 10y ago
The book How Not to Be Wrong: The Power of Mathematical Thinking [1] by Jordan Ellenberg has a segment on this with similar examples (minus the programming bits), tying it in to human psychology and, with surprising insight, the behavior o
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by Smudge 10y ago
Hospital-acquired infections have become incredibly common. My grandmother caught a C diff infection after what had already been a very arduous treatment and recovery, and she received basically no support from the hospital that had effecti
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by Smudge 10y ago
Curious about the first one -- was there some kind of conflict of interest? As far as I can tell all you were doing was taking public information already available on the page and disclosing it with a much more visible banner. Was your empl
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by Smudge 10y ago
Immutable data is very easily shared.
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by Smudge 10y ago
Intuitively the solution kind of makes sense. M must always be the highest point within the range. A and Z are at the same height and are the lowest point within the range. Imagine that the hikers are somehow connected (quantum entanglement
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by Smudge 10y ago
I think the operating word is "some," not all. We know that UBI will sometimes be misspent. Most if not all aid programs have this problem. That doesn't mean it isn't worth it for those who would put the money to good us
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by Smudge 10y ago
Basic income doesn't always solve this for someone who is already homeless, but it might still act as a preventative measure, giving someone enough of a financial buffer to avoid homelessness entirely.
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by Smudge 10y ago
Solving deployment is orthogonal to organizing your code. You can deploy multiple products which share the same codebase, and you can also deploy one product which draws from multiple codebases (say, from other gems or npm packages that you
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by Smudge 10y ago
Seconded. The most important thing for me, when writing code, is whether or not I (or someone else) will be able to read it in 6 months. The second most important thing is whether I'll be able to throw this away and replace it with som
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by Smudge 10y ago
Developers come in many different forms, and I think this kind of "high performer" can be most valuable in an early-stage startup environment, where code quality hardly matters if product-market fit cannot be discovered before the
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by Smudge 10y ago
Perhaps, with the right kinds of expectations and code review processes, many of the "high performers" to which he refers end up becoming the "low performers" that you see as the cause of most technical debt. People who,
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by Smudge 10y ago
I generally see two reactions to the "one codebase to rule them all" approach (used by Facebook, Google, et. al): 1. Holy god why would you let your code grow to such a massive, interdependent scale? Just release everything separa
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by Smudge 10y ago
Seems useful (albeit tongue-in-cheek), but will have to keep my eye on this just in case: http://isdeadyet.deadyet.lol/ ;-)

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