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by athenot 13d ago
Yes, but what about the Factory Factory Pattern? https://www.danstroot.com/posts/2018-10-03-hammer-factories
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by athenot 2mo ago
Happy Kagi subscriber here! I just wished Apple let them integrate into Safari without the need for silly hacks.
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by athenot 2mo ago
For now at least, it seems the paying customers don't see ads. Who may see ads We do not show ads to users on Plus, Pro, or any Business plan, or to any users who tell us or we predict are under the age of 18. https:
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by athenot 2mo ago
Maybe it's not practical for day-to-day use but the way this hacks the font to produce something completely different is amazing!
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by athenot 3mo ago
Money. Typical amount of commercials time per game: NFL 60-65 min NBA 40-50 min MLB 40-50 min NHL 25-35 min MLS/P
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by athenot 7mo ago
> I'm not even sure what exactly "Microsoft Copilot" entails anymore It's highly reminiscent of "IBM Watson" a few years ago. Basically the add-on brand to make them look cooler.
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by athenot 7mo ago
One of my favorites being Micros~1, in reference to how Windows had to mangle file names for DOS's 8+3 character limit.
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by athenot 7mo ago
A more appropriate signature would be "Please excuse any auto-correct errors that my ducking phone might have added."
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by athenot 8mo ago
> We ultimately need optimized DSLs and aggressive use of stateless sub-modules/abstractions that can be implemented in isolation to minimize the amount of context required for any one LLM invocation. Containment of state also happe
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by athenot 8mo ago
This is a fun app. One way I deal with people talking on speakerphone, is inviting myself into their conversation and making comments as if I were an active participant. That usually earns me a weird look, and then they go off speaker so I
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by athenot 8mo ago
> You can write boring code in Scala, but in my (limited) experience, Scala developers don't want to write boring code. They picked Scala not because it was the best tool for the job, but because they were bored and wanted to flex t
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by athenot 9mo ago
This is Postel's Law, aka the Principle of Robustness: "be conservative in what you send, be liberal in what you accept" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robustness_principle
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by athenot 9mo ago
In a similar vein, as the industry matured, we went from having teams of wizards building products, to teams of "good-enough" developers, interchangeable, easy to onboard. Perl culture was too much about craft-mastery which ended
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by athenot 11mo ago
Only in France. For some reason, the names for Gruyère and Emmental got swapped there.
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by athenot 11mo ago
You're being downvoted but yes, this is about risk mitigation. The IT department at a health care organization has to balance matching the requirements of payers, admins and clinical staff, do so in a way that fits inside the allocated
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by athenot 1y ago
Same here. Perhaps what I've enjoyed the most about Perl was the humanness and art of it. Cleverness and expressiveness were at the service of elegance. Sure you can write amazingly obscure foot-guns in Perl but that's also true o
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by athenot 1y ago
The setup that I adopted 15 years ago and still use today is the "bar desk". It's a standup desk that's positioned in such a way that my elbows rest naturally when I'm standing. But instead of a fancy mechanism to m
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by athenot 1y ago
Perhaps you can add a product in there "Contribute to this fun site" in various amounts, and let that one take a real payment.
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by athenot 1y ago
The author made that point, in considering frequency of use as a criteria for whether to use an animation or not.
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by athenot 1y ago
When expressing nuanced ideas, a series of short sentences is harder to follow. Not always but often. The short sentences are less connected. The connection between those sentences comes across flat. Nuanced ideas apply different weight to
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by athenot 1y ago
That stood out to me as well. Bell Centennial† used that for phonebooks; here I suspect the light-on-dark display has some visual bleeding that this compensates for, especially for tired pilots. † https://en.wikipedia.org/wi
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by athenot 1y ago
That's a different mechanism. There are rubber "feet" at the bottom the of the carts. The wheels are thin slices that sink into the moving sidewalk grooves, therefore the cart rests on the feet instead of the wheels. It'
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by athenot 1y ago
The irony is you can scan a URL with a phone camera and it's clickable, with the nice side-effect that the domain is human-inspectable. Just make the font a little bigger and it scans easily. QR codes are fascinating though, as they ca
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by athenot 1y ago
Even without any AI stuff, it's a fantastic editor for its speed.
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by athenot 1y ago
This is an Opinion piece, not a news article. The distinction between the two seems to be lost on most people nowadays. One way I leverage opinion pieces for things with which I disagree, is to treat it as a sort of "devil's advoc
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by athenot 1y ago
I remember being on sensitive zoom calls and seeing Otter.ai join. Had to track down which person was using it, and even they were clueless as to how it got there, and the client kept rejoining despite the user trying to stop it. I've
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by athenot 1y ago
You don't need the cookie banner for cookies that are just preferences and don't track users.
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by athenot 1y ago
> Has this guy Sophie Koonin is a lady. That information was in the original article but might have been omitted by the LLM summary.
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by athenot 1y ago
I think google amasses far more information via website analytics, Gmail and SSO (Log in with Google) than "willingly"-input search queries.
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by athenot 1y ago
There are institutions like that. For example, the Collège de France started in 1530, still active, doesn't administer tests nor grants degrees. It's purely about learning. https://www.college-de-france.fr/en htt

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