braythwayt

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by braythwayt 6y ago
Never mind Europe. As a Canadian, I question how we can permit Facebook to act as a massive conduit for official American propaganda like QAnon. If it's a national security issue for Tiktok to operate in the US, it's a national se
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by braythwayt 6y ago
There is a “Red Queen’s Race” between the accelerating productivity gains of abstractions, frameworks, libraries, and other stacks we can leverage, balanced against the fact that each one is a leaky abstraction, and the leaks interfere with
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by braythwayt 6y ago
First, I think you and the OP are correct. It’s not Barbara’s money, and Barbara’s career is driven by hiring and developing productive people. If her group is shipping good product, nobody in a growth company is sitting down and asking why
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by braythwayt 6y ago
"Tabloid is a real, turing complete programming language written in JavaScript, inspired by _cilckbait_ headlines." I like the deliberate misspelling of "clickbait," it layers a spam email feel on top of the clickbait et
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by braythwayt 6y ago
I guess you're suggesting that adding a million lines to a log is excessive. But in my math, you can count lines like this: 1, 2, 3, ..., the-number-of-lines-that-fit-in-a-window, many. Once you have more lines than fit in a window, yo
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by braythwayt 6y ago
The equally interesting implication of your comment that "we don't get a stack trace from an ordinary loop" is that maybe we should have logging and introspection the behaviour of loops, and the fact that we have them for fun
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by braythwayt 6y ago
Fact check... TRUE! https://www.torontopubliclibrary.ca/using-the-library/your-l...
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by braythwayt 6y ago
I have been to excellent public facilities in the US. Excellence is not evenly distributed anywhere, but the discrepancies of available public services between rich and poor neighbourhoods, between predominantly white and predominantly blac
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by braythwayt 6y ago
I have a feeling that as a Canadian, I really cannot cross the chasm between our society and America's, but I'll try. Here in Toronto, the libraries are open to the public. Borrowing material or using their online facilities requi
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by braythwayt 6y ago
This comment is a master class in civil argumentation, and informative to boot. Thank you.
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by braythwayt 6y ago
I believe it's somewhat correct, based on some random diving training. There is a thing where you deliberately hold your breath, which starts with taking a big lungful of air, which presumably is at normal pressure and contains 21-ish
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by braythwayt 6y ago
"Wait until I find out?" Don't patronize me, I am keenly aware of automobile deaths, and furthermore, it's a complicated problem to solve for many, many reasons, some of which are caused by greed, lack of oversight, reck
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by braythwayt 6y ago
They may not have obvious solutions, but we recognize that they are broken and we try to find solutions. We then find places the solutions don't work and we iterate or even replace the solutions with new solutions. All systemic problem
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by braythwayt 6y ago
I make software that is broken ALL THE TIME. And what do I do then? Find the faults and then fix them. Just because software is not perfect does not mean that I sit like a dog in a house fire saying, "this is fine." Killing 300+ p
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by braythwayt 6y ago
There are two completely separate issues here, and they need to be disentangled to have a productive discussion. First, there is the question of the right-to-repair and to what extent Apple is hostile to the existence of a viable second-par
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by braythwayt 6y ago
And that goes back to Macintosh 128K. Obviously, Apple stole mice and bitmapped graphics and GUIs from Xerox Parc. But a huge part of their pitch for MacOS in the early days was integration between apps on the platform. Consistency of UX me
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by braythwayt 6y ago
Not just ads, but yes ads. If I friend/follow a lot of people, and I have a simple timeline, I see what they're thinking about. But if there's an algorithm selecting which posts I see from my social circle, and it happens to
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by braythwayt 6y ago
I question the words "sucked in." Influenced is more appropriate. Before VisiCalc was invented by Frankston and Bricklin, nobody wanted it. Many people had the problem it solved, but nobody knew it existed, so they didn't g
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by braythwayt 6y ago
You are preaching to the choir on this subject!
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by braythwayt 6y ago
Just tried it on iPadOS 14, and yes, "Messages pasted from Safari."
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by braythwayt 6y ago
You're 100% right. Everything Apple does can be construed as "abuse" if someone is willing to argue in bad faith. iOS now tells you when one app pastes content from the clipboard, if the contents of the clipboard came from an
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by braythwayt 6y ago
Dare I say it can be both? Some things are "virtuous cycles." You get updates, and in your experience those updates add value, which increases your expectation of value should you stick with this phone and possibly replace it with
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by braythwayt 6y ago
Yes, big difference between swedishbrickguy.com and volvoguy.com. Up here in the People's Republic of Kanuckistan, Canadian Tire even won a case with someone over crappytire.com. I thought that was heinous, personally, but INAL, so I a
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by braythwayt 6y ago
As a Canadian, I'm horrified—HORRIFIED!—by the legal theft called "taxation." Those pampered government employees up here with their unions and pensions and benefits. It's awful. All they do is make our country work. If
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by braythwayt 6y ago
It's amazing how much leverage an employer has when they have the legal right to simply fire everyone, and there is no recourse for the employees because the employer is the federal government itself. https://www.politico.co
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by braythwayt 6y ago
The pilots I know describe these calls informally as, "Mr. Braithwaite, would you step into my office? Bring your license, and a match."
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by braythwayt 6y ago
If that’s your definition of “free will,” may I ask if you think that we humans have free will?
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by braythwayt 6y ago
A highly inspiring book, for sure. In my own case, it has led to a handful of blog posts about HashLife, a literate programming implementation, implementing Life on a Turing Machine, and of course, Conway’s passing from COVID-19 led to a po
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by braythwayt 6y ago
What is my motivation to practice my bass? If I do it to make a living, that’s one thing. If I do it to be “the best,” that’s another thing. If I do it for the pleasure of learning to do a thing, that’s a third thing. It’s the same with gam
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by braythwayt 6y ago
Apple are cheating the 9ms lag measurement the way speculative execution and aggressive cache population are cheating performance benchmarks. In general, this point makes me think of computational photography. If you have extra computing po

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