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by alexambarch 6d ago
It’s been hard for me to overcome the feeling that anything I can do, the machine can do better and faster. I know people have been saying “If you’re worried about it replacing you, you weren’t a good engineer to start with,” but it doesn’t
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by alexambarch 5mo ago
“Soon” we will see celebrity AI gossip? Someone clearly missed the first season of Fruit Love Island[0]. [0]: https://www.nbcnews.com/pop-culture/viral/ai-fruit-love-isla...
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by alexambarch 8mo ago
As an Ableton user myself, I’m pretty surprised that this musician could just… switch from Ableton to Bitwig. Goes to show how dire the situation was I guess. I still have yet to hear any non-technical person I know encounter issues on Wind
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by alexambarch 1y ago
I’d argue Terraform/HCL is quite popular as a Level 4 configuration language. My biggest issue with it is that once things get sufficiently complex, you wish you were using a Level 5 language. In fact, it’s hard to see where a Level 4
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by alexambarch 2y ago
I really like lazygit when I need something quicker and more ergonomic than the VSCode git extension. I’m still partial to magit over everything else but lazygit has replaced a lot of my CLI usage of git. Thanks Jesse.
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by alexambarch 2y ago
As someone who’s too young to have been around for HyperCard, what was the main draw? Was it the accessibility of the tech or was it just really well executed?
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by alexambarch 2y ago
If these vehicles tackle the roads of Boston, there will be no stopping this company. That place has one of the most confusing road networks I’ve ever seen in addition to some of the most confused drivers. NYC is another obvious challenge b
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by alexambarch 2y ago
From what I got out of the article and my own limited understanding of double entry bookkeeping, the "double" seems to be referring to the part where we split a transaction into credits and debits as opposed to a transaction with
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by alexambarch 2y ago
The most interesting takeaway from this article for me was that there's an inverse correlation between the number of syllables spoken per second and the bits of information conveyed in that time. > Japanese, for example, has an extr
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by alexambarch 3y ago
Oh boy I sure hope I receive my grandmother's Monero cold wallet in her will!
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by alexambarch 3y ago
As someone who has managed keycloak in production for work, it's a solid solution but boy is it easy to make mistakes that cause difficult to debug issues. It's a headache that does what it says on the tin.
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by alexambarch 3y ago
I stopped being interested in poker when I realized that by far the best strategy is simply to play with the worst players you can find. Everything else pales in comparison to simply playing with new players. I understand that these are peo
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by alexambarch 3y ago
Brokers fees for the apartment in Cambridge I rent were $4k. This was in addition to first and last months’ rent. Extremely annoying but when every other apartment is doing it too, you don’t have much of a choice if you want to live in the
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by alexambarch 3y ago
> Also, oh, man, Jazelle. I'd forgotten about that. Hardware support for Java bytecode... that did not pan out well. As someone who was too young to be paying any attention during this time, what were some of the reasons this didn’t
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by alexambarch 3y ago
Honest question: what do we even do? I'm not European but it seems like you can't talk about the "housing crisis" without having to specify whether you're talking about Europe, Canada, the US, etc. I see suggestions
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by alexambarch 3y ago
I've seen Infracost around and think it looks cool, do you have any plans to add support for Pulumi? One advantage Terraform seems to have over Pulumi is the ecosystem of tools that support it.
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by alexambarch 3y ago
If you're desperate enough, you can nixtamalize corn by getting your hands on some calcium hydroxide (referrred to as cal) and giving some kernels a good overnight bath in a mixture of cal and water. The obvious downside being that it
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by alexambarch 3y ago
For the record, "188,000 views on TikTok" is not that many for a single video to reach, let alone an entire search term's worth of videos. As a zoomer reading this article I can tell you this very literally boils down to &quo
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by alexambarch 3y ago
A while back I somehow managed to watch Space Is the Place[1] without knowing anything about Sun Ra. The discovery that he was not an actor and was instead a great jazz musician was a wild one. If you haven't seen it, Space Is the Plac
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by alexambarch 4y ago
What entity an ENS record is registered to, who owns what JPEG, who sent who some Ether... Ethereum is one big state machine so that state holds everything.
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by alexambarch 4y ago
> You can already rent compute globally and perform computation in an environment orders of magnitude faster than on the EVM True, but Ethereum also has the benefit of having a globally agreed upon state that is transparent and traceable
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by alexambarch 4y ago
In my haste I guess I didn't make this clear enough, sorry. By "blockchains" I was trying to emphasize the fact in Nano that we are talking about many blockchains as opposed to one main chain. Every account has its own blockc
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by alexambarch 4y ago
From looking around the internet I am starting to believe I might be the only person holding crypto strictly because I just happen to think it's neat. I think it's interesting that via Ethereum, I can spend Ether to perform distri
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by alexambarch 4y ago
I didn't exactly understand this feature. Usually when I'm opening a file, the chances that my cursor is already where I want it and I can just start typing is next to zero.
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by alexambarch 4y ago
While I don’t think she cheated, the reasoning she gives at the table for why she calls the hand is really weird. The first explanation I hear her give is “I thought you were on Ace high,” which when asked “So why call with Jack high then?”
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by alexambarch 4y ago
> It also went ahead and put non binary... which is like, right there I think the general idea of adding a word for non-binary was that there were already words for man and woman, but if you didn't identify with either of those, you
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by alexambarch 4y ago
If you want to pick up a new language purely for fun, I wholeheartedly recommend toki pona[1]. Its small vocabulary (<200 words) and simple grammar force you to break down complex thoughts into simple ideas. This feels limiting at first,
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by alexambarch 4y ago
I love watching people go in depth and get passionate about something that seems so trivial. The next time someone asks why I don't use Microsoft's emojis I'll let them know it's because it takes too long to cut things w
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by alexambarch 4y ago
I got mine through the Oculus store, although you might be able to find them cheaper from a different seller. https://www.meta.com/quest/accessories/quest-2-virtuclear-le...
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by alexambarch 4y ago
For the record, you can purchase corrective lenses that fit over the ones on the headset. I have a pair and they’re great, the only downside being that any new prescription you get needs to be updated on your VR headset too…

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