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by brianpan 11d ago
Is this actually clickbait? The title is in the form of many clickbait title, but I'd argue it delivers; the article is more interesting than the title. I suggest readers spend the click and the five minutes.
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by brianpan 16d ago
Defacement is not the point of graffiti. It's fundamentally visual, not fundamentally destructive.
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by brianpan 28d ago
Video: https://imgur.com/a/UDDDgFz
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by brianpan 28d ago
Sorry for meta comments, but are we writing blogs like tweets now? I got 2/3 of the way through before getting overwhelmed by the lack of paragraph groupings to help me follow the stream of consciousness. Interesting post though.
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Ask HN: Why is this my favicon for HN?
2 points by brianpan 29d ago|2 comments
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by brianpan 1mo ago
And the dishwasher, the laundry washer/dryer... There's also plenty of examples where technology creates something very different than the thing that humans were doing: photograph vs painting, car vs horse/bike. It would be s
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by brianpan 1mo ago
There are different ways to create an iceberg. You are probably thinking of a hard chunk of ice breaking off into the ocean, but probably a more common way is glaciers running into the ocean. A glacier is basically a "river" of sn
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by brianpan 1mo ago
Yes! Clean code (which is more readable and maintainable) should be a stop on the way to higher performance code. Otherwise, you are optimizing too early.
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by brianpan 2mo ago
A food processor is a kitchen tool even though it does many things. A computer is also a tool that does many things and the OS is arguably the important part of how a user wields that tool.
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by brianpan 2mo ago
Growing up I definitely noticed the wobble. But I'm also so used to it that I didn't realize a lot of examples were videos. Really interesting investigation!
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by brianpan 2mo ago
Jurassic Park had a Thinking Machines CM-5. https://www.starringthecomputer.com/computer.html?c=15 "The lights flash just like they do normally, although it's hard to understand why a theme park needs a supercompu
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by brianpan 5mo ago
3/4/5G/LTE networks and 802.1x predate their 8 years in aerospace. I worked on some of those 25 years ago. If you're not an EE, maybe you also didn't consider the lead time of working on HW to its adoption.
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by brianpan 5mo ago
You should not be touting magical health benefits on a sample size of one either way. There are already plenty of studies available to be found.
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by brianpan 5mo ago
Like a person playing the piano. If your arms are resting, then your fingers and wrists are doing the maximum amount of reaching as you type. If you use a wrist rest you are encouraging your fingers/wrist to reach up (bend in your wris
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by brianpan 6mo ago
Optimal line length is a thing.
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by brianpan 7mo ago
This is a way to tell if something is social media or attention media. "Surfacing the best comments" is only a problem at scale. And attention media demands scale whereas your social circles break down at scale. Commerce sites (li
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by brianpan 8mo ago
It's a cost-benefit analysis like many other things. There are limited resources, they should be spent on investigating cases that have a chance of getting closed. Cold cases might get reopened because of advances in technology or othe
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by brianpan 8mo ago
Late reply, but did your colleague go from ICE BMWs to an EV Model 3? For me, zero maintenance and no more stopping at gas stations (you need a charger at home) were HUGE advantages to switching to an EV. So I also really liked switching fr
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by brianpan 8mo ago
Not saying please or having to be polite is often simpler. Knowing and using etiquette is often more effective.
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by brianpan 8mo ago
If we're comparing notes, I traded in my Model 3 for a BMW i4 and I couldn't be happier. It's a nicer car and more fun to drive! JD Power and Consumer Reports both rate BMW above average. BTW, my impression of BMW maintenance
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by brianpan 8mo ago
You said: alcohol can be an amazing way to clean screens. It's still true that: alcohol is a very good way to destroy the old glossy screens.
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by brianpan 9mo ago
"Universal design" or "design for accessibility" will give you lots of examples of constraints that are not "commonly" needed ending up having much wider application and benefiting many other people. Some oft-c
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by brianpan 9mo ago
I felt really silly that the answer is just adding a "-i". But then I tried it and...WHAT?! Git is an endless rabbit hole of complexity.
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by brianpan 9mo ago
I think you're thinking about git as a separate thing from the IDE. I love using IJ + git because there are no seams in between edit and commit. For instance, with IJ, I could easily split every other line of a change into separate com
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by brianpan 10mo ago
You're right. A good postmortem/root cause analysis would START from "unwrap" and continue from there. You might start with a basic timeline of what happened, then you'd start exploring: why did this change affect s
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by brianpan 10mo ago
The diffs are the biggest reason I use it (beside the 3-way diff, I can't live without: blame, optimize imports, all the editor functions inside the diff, diff files/commits/branches). Beyond that: separating into change list
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by brianpan 11mo ago
I don't think the distinction is animate/inanimate. Submarines sail because they are nautical vessels. Wind-up bathtub swimmers swim, because they look like they are swimming. Neither are animate objects. In a browser, if you clic
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by brianpan 11mo ago
Even potluck parties tend to be better on average when someone or a few people are "in charge". In my experience, even when people are just getting together for dinner out, there are people who step up more to organize. Are you su
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by brianpan 11mo ago
I think you are restricting social media by defining as what it became (at the time driven by "eyeball" metrics), instead of defining it by what it could or should be.
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by brianpan 11mo ago
Nice. What's the app called? Is it available on Android? ;)

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