cbare

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by cbare 1mo ago
What would it look like if social media were optimized for flourishing rather then engagement? Bring your own filter/ranking algorith? I wonder if there's not a fundamental conflict. Social media is essentially _addictive_ media.
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by cbare 1mo ago
One of the beautiful things about coding is the immediacy of the feedback. Screw up and your program crashes. Get it right and the machine does what you want. Tests turn green - that's nice. Subtle bugs can be deceptive, you might be t
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by cbare 9mo ago
My favorites that I read this year were: - Playground by Richard Powers: the ocean reminds us that we, along with our obsessions and rivalries, are small - Orbital by Samantha Harvey: a book were not much happens, but a lot goes on below th
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by cbare 10mo ago
Ha, I think that happens regardless of the tech you use. Just blame time.
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by cbare 10mo ago
It's very plausible that anxiety causes heart disease, anxiety causes insomnia, and insomnia leads people to use melatonin. Same with diphenhydramine, overactive inflammatory response causes allergies, allergic people take allergy meds
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by cbare 2y ago
Yep, I agree with ya. Whoever moderated that away is lame.
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by cbare 2y ago
The US has the strongest university and research system in the world. Wrecking that will be one of the worst acts of self-harm ever.
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by cbare 2y ago
Yeah, sounds like the problems are more due to monorepos rather than with GitHub actions. Seems like the pendulum always swings too far. Overdoing microservices results in redundant code and interservice spaghetti. Monorepos have their own
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by cbare 2y ago
I found it quite worthwhile to ask GPT4o to give an english summary of the paper linked in the Wikipedia article, _Bekräftartekniker och motstrategier - sätt att bemöta maktstrukturer och förändra sociala klimat_, which translates to _Techn
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by cbare 2y ago
That this resonates with a bunch of hackers is kinda funny - code is such an ephemeral medium.
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by cbare 2y ago
I also view coding as essentially creative. Programming was mostly a hobby in the days of 8-bit PCs. It was a profession for some decades. Maybe it will be a hobby again in 5 years. Like gardening, sailing, fishing - professions at one time
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by cbare 3y ago
...also, great scrabble word.
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by cbare 3y ago
I don't know what the optimal population is, but here are a couple of arguments against the "ever greater" thesis. Diminishing returns kicks in at some point. The economic value of human life is subject to supply and demand.
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by cbare 3y ago
I tried to do a similar thing, but in New Zealand, for engineering or ML engineering roles, without success. The folks I know of that pulled it off either knew people from previously working together in-person or were special in some way -
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by cbare 3y ago
Fuck that guy Marl.
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by cbare 4y ago
...by this website!
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by cbare 4y ago
It will be interesting to see what happens, as the tools for remote/async work keep getting better, workers get better at doing it, and employers get more used to it. To the extent that distributed teams compete well with single-locati
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by cbare 4y ago
The echoes are there. Reason vs. loyalty to a known falsehood.
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by cbare 4y ago
Every article about SOC2 should be illustrated with a Hieronymus Bosch-like hellscape.
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by cbare 4y ago
This project has the best possible name for a port of Clojure.
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by cbare 4y ago
The desktop client is really buggy and reflects poorly on Apple. Some say, an all-you-can-eat buffet of a big chunk of all published music is just too good to be true and can't last. But, then wasn't that the promise? Too cheap to
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by cbare 5y ago
genius
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by cbare 5y ago
Early career devs need to accumulate a few things, roughly in this order of importance: - projects where you made a key contribution, where you "owned" something - senior people who will be mentors / boosters - a portfolio of
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by cbare 5y ago
I love our very knobby Korg SV-2.
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by cbare 5y ago
A rainy day at a beachside café, lofi beats float on the breeze. Distantly, church bells ring, alien spacecraft hover ominously over a crowd of hungry zombies. The nuclear air-raid sirens sound. Brilliant. So 2021.
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by cbare 6y ago
YT music is a downgrade from Google Play Music. The web player for YT music is missing a bunch of features: - clear queue - multi-select in queue - save queue as playlist - high resolution album covers - play count It's great to consol
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by cbare 6y ago
This thread critiques this article in a way I find convincing: https://twitter.com/DiseaseEcology/status/125122527387113472...
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by cbare 6y ago
The Master Switch: The Rise and Fall of Information Empires by Tim Wu https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/194417/the-master-s... A great book on history of the information economy over the periods of Radio, T
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by cbare 7y ago
Ha, image how much Nature Publishing Group are crying in their coffee while they write that headline! Open science has the same free-rider problems as open source, but also, the same network effects with huge benefits.
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by cbare 15y ago
I'll second the recommendation for The Origins of Political Order: From Prehuman Times to the French Revolution. It lays out a systematic way of thinking about political development and decay. I wrote a review here: http://pragmaticpolitic

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