caseyross

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by caseyross 6mo ago
Interesting idea. I feel like it could be productive to categorize operations by their result shape as well: - Row select: From N rows, produce 0-N rows. - Column select: From N columns, produce 0-N columns. - Table add: From MxN and OxP ta
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by caseyross 8mo ago
This is only "overcomplex" from a naive point of view. Radio buttons, as with all UI controls, have tremendous inherent complexity, which comes to light once requirements ask for something beyond the blessed happy path of the defa
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by caseyross 8mo ago
The real world is infinitely more standardized than virtual ones. Physical space itself enforces a set of laws that make any two objects "compatible", regardless of any established interoperability agreements. However, in software
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A Chinese lab starts to tackle a giant mystery in particle physics(economist.com)
5 points by caseyross 1y ago|0 comments
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by caseyross 1y ago
So, building on this, we can view Beat Saber not as a music game, but as a *dance* game that figured out a reliable, precise way to track player movements. It's interesting to note that similar movement-quantizing systems are at the co
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Dollar Street(gapminder.org)
2 points by caseyross 2y ago|0 comments
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by caseyross 3y ago
While I agree with the spirit of the post, I think that there are better and worse times to start something new, and in retrospect 2014 seems like it was one of those worse times. The period from 2014--2024 was an era where the sheer gravit
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Patreon: Blocking platforms from sharing user video data is unconstitutional(arstechnica.com)
82 points by caseyross 3y ago|41 comments
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by caseyross 3y ago
I wholeheartedly support this. But frameworks exist for one simple reason: HTML has never been powerful enough for the work people do. The last two decades of web UI framework development has shown, over and over, what people need out of HT
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First-Gen Social Media Users Have Nowhere to Go(wired.com)
11 points by caseyross 3y ago|2 comments
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by caseyross 3y ago
Here's the data on a map, since for some reason the article didn't include one: https://felt.com/map/NYC-Rat-Observations-Oct-2023-via-Trans... (You can toggle the layers to switch between no/some/m
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by caseyross 3y ago
Isn't it more likely to be the case that no one was willing to pay for the investigative journalism? You see this everywhere. The clickbait is a funding source for the real work. Journalists almost never want to push garbage on the p
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by caseyross 4y ago
The big underlying factor is that so many software prices are artificially low because they're subsidized by collecting and making money off of users' personal data. Unlike with physical goods, users don't know any "obje
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by caseyross 4y ago
For comparison, US median house prices are up by 42% over the same period [1]. Hospitality prices (especially for traditional hotels, which raised rates by about 10%), are actually significantly trailing inflation. [1]: https://f
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by caseyross 4y ago
Owning the world, and being slow and bureaucratic, are not mutually exclusive. In fact, I imagine they're highly correlated.
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by caseyross 4y ago
Rather than scrolling through the obligatory endless speculation in the comments, I encourage all of you reading this to open up the section entitled "Long time coming" at the end of the article, and reflect on the fact that worth
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by caseyross 4y ago
I think this gets to the core of it. It's just not economic anymore. My sense is that most of these family shops were started during the mid-20th century when the economy in developed countries was more accommodating to small business.
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by caseyross 4y ago
Would be much more interesting to see absolute numbers compared instead. My conjecture is that Mason is the biggest YoY decrease (11 -> 18), followed by Abigail and Michael (both 12 -> 17). The counts elsewhere on the website show: -
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by caseyross 4y ago
Previous submission in 2015: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9501112 (167 comments)
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I was an undercover Uber driver (2015)(philadelphiaweekly.com)
1 points by caseyross 4y ago|1 comments
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by caseyross 4y ago
Yep, and it can be argued that this kind of complexity spectrum is the foundation of connoisseurship itself, in any domain. The journey from amateur to expert is one of becoming bored with simple, easy-to-understand things, and gradually se
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by caseyross 4y ago
Open source, historically speaking, is an implied social contract: I as the developer do something nice for the world. I therefore hope that you, as the user, will pay it forward. When this ethos is subverted by people who don't pay
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by caseyross 4y ago
If we want progress, it's important to draw a distinction between the different effects of regulation. Some regulation enforces the status quo, by helping entrenched interests use their power to crush potential innovators. Other regula
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by caseyross 4y ago
Anyone remember the 1990s-2000s US-market civilian Hummer models, and how people at the time felt them to be absolutely massive? Well, the 2023 Chevy Suburban is a comparable size to the largest of those Hummers. There are so many incentive
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by caseyross 4y ago
With the success of AI content generation for text (GPT-3 etc.) and images (DALL-E etc.), it seems inevitable that music will soon be targeted as well, if not already. What's particularly interesting in the music sphere is that there a
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by caseyross 4y ago
From the official withdrawal letter [1]: > [Victoria University] has not operated its market in compliance with the terms of [the 2014 letter granting no-action relief]. Nowhere does the CFTC state exactly what the alleged violations whe
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Elite Universities Are Out of Touch. Blame the Campus(nytimes.com)
2 points by caseyross 4y ago|1 comments
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by caseyross 4y ago
It really is weird, isn't it? To have what was essentially a solved problem 10 years ago become... what you described. On Facebook/Instagram/Twitter/LinkedIn, I still have tons of people I'd be interesting in passiv
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by caseyross 4y ago
Success stories would have been mostly accurate in prehistoric times. In a tribe of a few dozen people, it's quite imaginable that one person might be able to "disrupt" the status quo through singlehanded grit, determination,
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by caseyross 4y ago
The way I see it from the outside, Medium had a lot of lofty goals that unfortunately turned out to be in conflict with each other in the real world. One one hand, they wanted to create the best writing and reading experience on the web, by

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