benrbray

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by benrbray 1mo ago
Hey, I want to say that I love Solid as an alternative to react. I've been using it for hobby projects for 5+ years. I'm at least one example of someone who prefers authentically clumsy. Users like me will be less likely to give
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by benrbray 7mo ago
Presentation matters. Good documentation is evidence of a library that has been carefully thought through. Slop in the readme suggests slop in the code.
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by benrbray 1y ago
Really cool! Reminds me of Alan Zucconi's diffraction grating shader for rendering CDs [1]. [1] https://www.alanzucconi.com/2017/07/15/cd-rom-shader-1/
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by benrbray 1y ago
> upset people who decided to pay for it for the first time in their life It also upset paying customers. It's no longer possible to _own_ Adobe software, and so I don't anymore. Up until just a couple years ago I was still u
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by benrbray 1y ago
Eastern Europe it looks like, but this story is remarkably similar to my experience as a graduate student / technical staff at public research institutions in both the United States and Japan.
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by benrbray 1y ago
I'm sorry, but your reply suggests an incredible disdain for both technical expertise and for educators. There is value in depth&breadth of knowledge, and it takes great skill to craft a good curriculum. From a US perspective, stu
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by benrbray 1y ago
Somewhat related, I used minisat.js to generate Boggle boards that contain a given list of words! [0] https://benrbray.com/projects/unboggler
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by benrbray 2y ago
Location: Tokyo, Japan Remote: Yes Willing to Relocate: No Technologies: TypeScript, Rust, Haskell, Scala, C# Résumé/CV: https://benrbray.com/about Email: benrbray [at] gmail [dot] com I'm an American softwa
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by benrbray 2y ago
fwiw Chrome on Linux has no WebGPU support or hardware acceleration, so I often use Firefox for e.g. playing Ruffle content. The story is different on different platforms, and will slowly improve.
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Ask HN: Tech Jobs with Minimal Screen Time?
2 points by benrbray 2y ago|1 comments
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by benrbray 3y ago
Most (all?) vscode extensions are hosted on GitHub, is it not possible to reuse them with a custom build?
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by benrbray 3y ago
I live in Tokyo which arguably is one of the most transit friendly cities, and still bus to the nearby Costco to load up every month or two. Sometimes you just need a suitcase full of mozzarella sticks, no questions asked.
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by benrbray 3y ago
Howdy Elfman, fancy meeting you here all these years after the Game Trailer Collab! Thanks for the nostalgia trip :)
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by benrbray 3y ago
I think something like datalog queries would be perfect for refactoring and searching tags. Would also let you declare relationships between tags, like "tagged(x, calculus) -> tagged(x, math)"
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by benrbray 3y ago
Driving without insurance is illegal in virtually every state, and the supreme court has ruled that driving is a "virtual necessity" [1] to American life. I am normally very r/fuckcars but this sort of thing affects everyo
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by benrbray 4y ago
As a simple example: I wouldn't want to work with ten copies of myself. It would magnify my strengths but also my weaknesses. It's much better if a team is comprised by people with different backgrounds, different strengths, dif
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by benrbray 4y ago
For me it's the ability to type math in LaTeX notation on the slides. Google slides doesn't support this and neither did PowerPoint last time I used it many years ago. When I was a TA I used a plugin to let me display Jupyter not
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by benrbray 4y ago
One side effect of this inane policy is that it is becomes very difficult for US citizens living abroad to invest their money, due to the tax consequences of holding foreign stocks, as well as the fact that very few US exchanges are willi
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by benrbray 4y ago
They should be legal, but expensive. If it is so valuable to companies that their workers not leave to work for competitors, they should be required to pay 100% salary for the non-compete period.
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by benrbray 4y ago
Meanwhile houses here have no insulation or double-paned windows so it's still not cool enough and my electric bill is through the roof!
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by benrbray 4y ago
I've come to appreciate function application / composition syntax and think it allows for much more clear and readable code, compared to e.g. Scala which can be quite verbose and obscure the compositional structure of functional c
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by benrbray 4y ago
> recipe sites with select/copy disabled, or worse, sites that modify the copied snippet > password fields which are not appropriately marked so that autofill / generate secure password does not work > no sign in button o
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by benrbray 4y ago
Can you give any examples of useful non-terminating programs? It seems to me all useful programs are terminating (or, we truncate some non-terminating procedure by some convergence criteria). The question is only whether we have the logica
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by benrbray 4y ago
Tokyo.
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by benrbray 4y ago
That's a rough commute indeed. I do wish American cities (for instance, idk where you are) made it simpler to live close to with without sacrificing too much in other areas of life. It's one reason I now live in Tokyo. Other tha
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by benrbray 4y ago
> The one group of people I don’t get are the ones who suggest people should be forced to work from the office, and not able to decide for themselves. I guess I can give a bit of perspective. I don't think people should be "fo
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by benrbray 4y ago
Wikipedia is can actually be a great source of high-quality mathematical exposition. It is often not the best source, but I often use it as a jumping-off point for learning about advanced topics. It helps me turn "unknown-unknowns&
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by benrbray 4y ago
If you want more theory, I recently stumbled across some great lecture materials [1] for a course on coalgebra, which is a category-theoretic way of modeling state-based systems, as well as familiar computer science concepts like (co)data t
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by benrbray 4y ago
I recently had to switch to Mac for the first time for work and knowing you worked on both Nautilus and Finder I'm shocked that my favorite features from Nautilus are nowhere to be found in Finder: Right click in Folder > Open Termi
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by benrbray 4y ago
One thing to consider is: If the child realizes that Santa Claus isn't real before being told by their parents, they will experience the feeling of months or possibly years of all of the adults they trust lying to them. That is n

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