TexanFeller

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by TexanFeller 11d ago
There are degrees of mindless! I know one can't substitute watching lectures for serious study, but it's a great substitute for the far more mindless and addictive content I would be tempted by otherwise. There are lots of interes
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by TexanFeller 11d ago
One of my problems with blocking things like YouTube is that there’s so much outstanding long form content that’s not always available elsewhere. I love watching semi popularized physics lectures like from Sean Carroll but I can’t help but
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by TexanFeller 11d ago
I just started reading Infinite Jest and unsurprisingly it seems shockingly relevant to the doomscrolling problem. I’m aware of its flaws, but I’ve heard it recommended a number of times related to our modern problem of amusing ourselves to
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by TexanFeller 16d ago
FF seems to use less RAM than Chrome for my 100+ open tabs these days. It’s just as fast for 99% of sites and surprisingly even compatibility is often better. Half the time when my wife encounters a broken webapp in Chrome it works fine whe
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by TexanFeller 2mo ago
For a long time I've used similar approaches for testing against Postgres, especially when using tools like Testcontainers. It's saved a massive amount of time waiting for my tests to run over the years and it's incredibly si
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by TexanFeller 2mo ago
There are potential parallels with how AIs are trained and the evolutionary pressures that our brains likely evolved under. Human AI trainers accept/reject or give a rating to the AI's response so the selection pressure on AI mode
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by TexanFeller 3mo ago
I actually loved the imbalance of OG RA, I live for vaporizing my foes with tesla coils!
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by TexanFeller 3mo ago
> Code duplication is far cheaper than the wrong abstraction Very true in some sense, but I continue to encourage DRY-bias because I've literally never seen teams duplicate code responsibly and later dedupe it when it's the rig
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by TexanFeller 3mo ago
Rational behavior in some situations? Mutually assured destruction’s deterrence isn’t very effective if one side is known to be hesitant to launch the nukes. It’s been argued that MAD is what’s been keeping the world relatively peaceful for
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by TexanFeller 5mo ago
> "Preparing backup..." taking an unreasonable amount of time is a regular occurrence, TM heavily throttles disk I/O used for backing up in order to ensure that normal user activity isn't affected. That makes it appea
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by TexanFeller 5mo ago
1Gb Internet service seems low these days, much less 1Gb LAN. I have 3Gb Google Fiber service and actually get 2+ for individual downloads from some internet services like Steam. Even at 2Gb it's annoying to wait tens of minutes for 10
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by TexanFeller 5mo ago
For a very long time I thought Time Machine had become flaky, and I'm sure it's partially to blame, but with my current setup I've literally never observed it corrupt a backup and have to start over. Before I was using one of
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by TexanFeller 5mo ago
I'm extremely happy after upgrading my network to 10gbit copper ethernet. It was much more expensive than I thought it should be, but worth it even if I only max it occasionally. Now I can easily fully saturate my 10gbit ethernet doing
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by TexanFeller 5mo ago
When I first heard of the APIs that allowed websites to modify browser history it sounded like a huge mistake. I still feel that way to this day.
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by TexanFeller 5mo ago
I'm a backend dev and I'm always hearing about how LLMs are dramatically better at frontend because of much more available training data etc. Maybe my perspective isn't as skewed as I've been led to believe and LLMs need
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by TexanFeller 6mo ago
Toyota just had three large EV announcements and they are putting large incentives on some of them. Feels like they're serious about it and with so many others exiting the EV market lately they may have timed it well.
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by TexanFeller 7mo ago
> They ALL suck including Google Search. Kagi is the ONLY search engine I know that currently doesn’t suck and I highly recommend it to anyone who will listen. I would cancel almost any other subscription before Kagi.
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by TexanFeller 7mo ago
> Since if Kagi does search as well as the Google of old, and I can adjust its searches to prioritise results from known good (to me) sites, then that probably is worth paying for As I was saying in another thread Kagi is what Google wou
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by TexanFeller 7mo ago
I’ve also been using Kagi for the past ~2 years. At first I would always also search Google to see if I was missing out on better results, but after a couple of months I no longer bothered because Kagi did better 99% of the time. It’s worth
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by TexanFeller 7mo ago
App stores may reduce many of my freedoms, but they also provide me with some other freedoms by limiting the power of big tech companies over me, and the tradeoffs are different for my phone compared to a PC. For example Apple uses their bi
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by TexanFeller 7mo ago
One of the main reasons I use Postgres is I've rarely(never?) seen an article like this posted about it. Every time I've touched MySQL I've found a new footgun.
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by TexanFeller 7mo ago
> In my view nonnegative real numbers have good physical representations: amount, size, distance, position I'm not a physicist, but do we actually know if distance and time can vary continuously or is there a smallest unit of distan
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by TexanFeller 7mo ago
Sounds like you’re talking about the presumed free speech rights of corporations, which is part of this debate. I think corporations should have much more limited speech than an actual person and the concept of corporate personhood in gener
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by TexanFeller 8mo ago
Ofc I wouldn't us it for extremely high scale event processing, but it's great default for a message/task queue for 90% of business apps. If you're processing under a few 100m events/tasks per day with less than ~10
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by TexanFeller 8mo ago
I became fascinated by Lean last week while watching Terrence Tao stream his proof work on Youtube. At least on the surface his thought process and workflow looked very similar to what I do in my IDE when programming, especially when coding
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by TexanFeller 9mo ago
Even worse for me, some of my coworkers were doing that _before_ coding LLMs were a thing. Now LLMs are allowing them to create MRs with untested nonsense even faster which feels like a DDOS attack on my productivity.
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by TexanFeller 9mo ago
What I'm hearing you say is that IBM is basically just a private equity firm now.
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by TexanFeller 10mo ago
> Ads are speech. Companies should have more limited speech than individuals. Nerfing the concept of “corporate personhood” will be a key part of fixing our problems IMHO.
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by TexanFeller 10mo ago
> The smartest kids are smarter than ever before Only if they’re wealthy or get extremely lucky and live near a randomly good school. By many metrics I was the smartest in my class, but my family had little money and lived in a rural are
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by TexanFeller 10mo ago
I think of ADHD and autism as brothers, or at least cousins. Lots of overlap, but not quite the same. With the older concept and diagnosic criteria for autism there was less overlap. ADHD and autism used to be considered mutually exclusive

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