Timpy

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by Timpy 3y ago
I read a comment on hacker news that I cannot find now, but it resonated deeply with me. Don't try to answer the question "what do you want to be?", answer the question "what do you want to do?" I answered the wron
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by Timpy 3y ago
Wow I really love that idea. Next time I get stuck on a fix tinkering with my setup I'm going to check this out.
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by Timpy 3y ago
For me, the visual noise is a downside for UUIDs. A lot of time investigating data issues means glancing at query results and deciding if something looks unexpected. I just can't parse a UUID with my eyes that quick. I've come
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We Should Stop Using JavaScript According to Douglas Crockford [video](youtube.com)
5 points by Timpy 3y ago|0 comments
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by Timpy 3y ago
Thank you, this is the first explanation I've heard that clicked with me.
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by Timpy 3y ago
If I understand this correctly, these third party apps are drawing tons of ad money away from Reddit while at the same time increasing their hosting costs and dev costs for maintaining the API, right? How is this not a win-win for Reddit?
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by Timpy 3y ago
I had the same experience, I was worried and now that I've used the tools I sleep easier. But I still worry that these tools will improve dramatically and quickly. Somebody tell me I don't have to worry, please.
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by Timpy 3y ago
I agree that "easy to debug" is subjective. But it's insanity to act like that doesn't mean that some architectures are objectively easier to debug than others. How can splitting something up into different services an
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by Timpy 3y ago
Isn't auto already a keyword for specifying scope? I know it's never used and kind of redundant, but something like `auto x = foo(y);` is a terrible direction for C. Type being abundantly clear at all times is a huge feature.
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by Timpy 3y ago
> For Alt+C, are peoples’ file and directory layouts such a mess that they need to search entire directory trees to find what they’re looking for? Have you ever joined a new project? Usually they're both messy and you don't kn
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by Timpy 4y ago
I'm not sure how that's relevant, a quick look on Wikipedia and they are number 1 in Asia in terms of democracy index, number 10 worldwide. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democracy_Index
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by Timpy 4y ago
I don't have reason to believe this is more than just an algorithm that can create convincing AI text. It's still unsettling though, and maybe we should train a Chat GPT that isn't allowed to read Asimov or anything existent
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by Timpy 4y ago
I saw this "Build Your Own Text Editor"[0] on HN a month or two ago, everyone was raving about it so I went through it and it really was fantastic. The learning experience was unparalleled. I'm a believer in the idea of &quot
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by Timpy 4y ago
I'm on a Macbook/Firefox with my resolution scaled up a bit and I didn't realize the answers were being displayed at all until I zoomed the page to 80%. Scrolling does not work. I did about 20 of them wondering when a resul
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by Timpy 4y ago
I listened to quite a bit of Darknet Diaries back in 2018 but he had a few episodes that were such complete misses for me that I hopped off the train. The episode about trying to get to the top of Apple's podcast charts wore my patien
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by Timpy 4y ago
I know this one, the last letter is the non printing character '\0'. I just spent December crash coursing my way through C.
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by Timpy 4y ago
Chinese pinyin isn't meant to be read as an alphabet though, it's just a different set of information that isn't explicitly available in the ideogram. At least as a foreign language learner, it's not possible to reliabl
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by Timpy 4y ago
I get a lot of useful information from reading raw URLs, the exact thing they're advertising here is the thing I hate most about Jira. I even wrote a chrome extension that prevents Jira from loading smart links because I hate it so muc
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by Timpy 4y ago
I'm in a similar boat, I find even a 10 minute walk with no phone in my pocket can help the things I've been studying coalesce into understanding.
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by Timpy 4y ago
I'm really confused by this, I tried finding some videos online but it looks like they're all just mixing egg whites into their wine. How do you get the egg out of the wine?
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by Timpy 4y ago
I'm abroad right now working remotely, I've had nothing but extremely positive interactions with the culture here and it's about as distant as two cultures can get. The crusades are over, I can't say I've met a ton
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by Timpy 4y ago
I thought I got everything moved over to an authenticator app before leaving home but I forgot one, I got a "check your phone for verification SMS" earlier today. My American SIM could get the text but my foreign sim was giving m
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by Timpy 4y ago
As I was reading the article I was thinking the same thing. This is just the most recently evolved version, now including things like social media and online communities. It was still an interesting analysis to read. I wonder how the number
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by Timpy 4y ago
Isn't that how communication works? Understanding your audience and "appealing" to them does improve comprehension for them.
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by Timpy 4y ago
I guess that would be Artificial Artificial Intelligence then?
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by Timpy 4y ago
I don't think this needs to be a programming problem. If you have a team of coconspirators watching the game live from another location you can manually turn the vibrator on and off remotely. It's not like Sockfish where the play
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by Timpy 4y ago
Curiosity got to me and I finally tried the GitHub Copilot free trial. My conclusion is that it's good for that stuff I would have googled, like "I can't remember, how do I get the date again?" or "Is it array.count
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by Timpy 4y ago
Fortunately for me, at my current job I don't see a lot of code that makes me say "what the hell is this even trying to do?" The most useful comments are the ones explaining limitations and why this implementation was chosen
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by Timpy 4y ago
I have been using post-it notes and a pen on my desk lately and it feels like virtual ram for my brain. Instead of holding X variables in my head I can hold X+5 or whatever fits on the post-it note. The ephemeral nature and small footprin
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by Timpy 4y ago
Isn't that what a parameterized query does? It separates the sql logic from the inputs so it can cache the query and then it accepts inputs separately. Safer and more optimal at the same time, the engine doesn't have to re-optim

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