chambers

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by chambers 27d ago
> I'm not saying you can't worry about this The relentless demand for justification is indistinguishable from a demand for others to stop doing things you don't like.
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by chambers 1mo ago
> Sometimes, though, it only takes 5 minutes IRL to realize that you only like the persons email - not the person, themselves. A great point that’s also true in reverse.
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by chambers 1mo ago
PSF drama is pretty well known at this point, imho. The Tim Peters scandal was well covered on HN. Nothing the GP said surprised me
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by chambers 2mo ago
It's work of art and a work of science, I'd say. Programming language dev needs both, and I think Java has learned how to do both, at least compared to its messy early years. On the note of science, I'll credit Java's ma
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by chambers 4mo ago
Yes, feature flags are conflated with remote configs (or its more useful variety: "dynamic configs"). The difference is subtle, hence why people are talking past each other. Feature flags are gates for whether a piece of code run
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by chambers 4mo ago
One small edit: many also look to the Internet to meet their needs, beyond just fantasy or desire. Their lashing out comes after the disappointment: when the internet simply cannot fill the hole in them the way the common goods once did.
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by chambers 4mo ago
Humane, as a secular and universally applied sentiment, is a bit of a modern idea, once backed by common goods; shared institutions, third places, extended families, good economy, religion, etc. With those common goods fading, I see people
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by chambers 5mo ago
Thank you kindly, Peter. My partner is a H1B tech worker employed by Meta; not working on AI/ML. Given the Chinese government opposition to the Manus acquisition, is there any risk they could encounter for their upcoming H1B visa stamp
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by chambers 1y ago
Statsig's core value is their experimentation platform— the automation of Data Science. Big Tech teams want to ship features fast, but measuring impact is messy. It usually requires experiments and traditionally every experiment needed
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by chambers 1y ago
Hats off to Statsig. They built a stellar product. Superior to many of their industry competitors like Optimizely. Back when I was on an internal Experimentation platform, we were impressed how they balanced dev velocity & stat rigor h
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by chambers 1y ago
Off-topic, irrelevant question: does anyone need a local first version of Airtable? That uses SQLite under-the-hood and plugs into files and data with syncing across computers. I’m curious (as a solo dev) if there’s a market for such a prod
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by chambers 1y ago
My read was that Garry Tan implied "you sacrificed a lot of money in order to grandstand". I felt that was a knee-jerk dismissal of a founding employee's legitimate concern.
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by chambers 1y ago
https://x.com/ahmaurya/status/1948491614160122308 Garry Tan posted "sounds like a tweet that cost $20M" which he later deleted. Smells like a strong bias against employees in favor of management and foun
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by chambers 1y ago
Yeah, this tracks. If the OP consulted with Turso on this blogpost, then Turso probably believes the reported behavior is indeed a failure or a flaw, which they think a local db should be responsible for. The confusion is that Limbo, their
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by chambers 1y ago
I think you're right. I'll add on: there's a lot of thinking that does not need writing, and there's a lot of writing that needs no thinking. Deng Xiaoping and other greats wrote pretty minimally for their own thinking,
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by chambers 1y ago
You should look up the term "zero cost abstractions". It's the organizing principle of the second generation of Rust's leadership[1]. Formally, it means "zero runtime cost"[2], but the now-former maintainers o
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by chambers 1y ago
I was in Beijing last year. Many, many EVs on the road, far more than the Bay Area. About half of China's Market is EV's now[1] The Chinese Government backed up their mandate with money. Lots of money, allocated well, over a long
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by chambers 1y ago
I think this article is AI generated. I only skimmed so I could easily be wrong, but it smells too simple and too confident. The author is using AI quite a bit in other places as well https://www.linkedin.com/groups/985
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by chambers 1y ago
Ah, I didn't meant to imply you did something wrong. I thought you were right to share. Rather, I saw the start of a flamewar below (not caused by you) and I figured I'd say my piece. But it came out wrong and you got flagged unde
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by chambers 1y ago
I was also raised by a loving catholic mother, who let me go my way, out of the church. I eventually found my way back in, and feel similar to you as you do now. IMHO, the GP has a right to share his experience here as we do ours. A thread
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by chambers 1y ago
Agoda has worked well for me.
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by chambers 1y ago
I use the "Shortcut" section in Accessibility Settings. I uncheck everything except for "Color Filtering". I then map the default hotkey to a more convenient key using BetterTouchTool. BetterTouchTool is additional softw
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by chambers 1y ago
In lieu of an e-ink monitor, I use a hotkey to toggle "Grayscale" filtering on my Mac. It's taking some of the addictiveness out of my screen viewing.
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by chambers 1y ago
^ This is the real advice. Approach a conflict as a choice the child needs to make, and the options the parents need to give. Be flexible but hard where it counts. Children need grounding. "I need to win arguments with my own kids&quot
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by chambers 1y ago
I dug into this out of curiosity a few years ago. I thought 2.8 UI redesign was all thanks to Ton, but it turned out it wasn’t. Ton was actually against a UI overhaul for decades. There’s a video where power-users and Ton were vocally dismi
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by chambers 1y ago
"No sides in science" is a silly idea. Of course, scholars have biases. They're human. Humans like to group up and gang up against other. Specific to Bible Scholarship, I wager the two big sides are scholars who have faith (i
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by chambers 2y ago
> SQLite is really a terrible example of anything other than what you can accomplish when you pour enormous resources into a single C library. That's quite a sweeping, even caustic, indictment. Can you explain this statement more?
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by chambers 2y ago
The author edited his post with a follow-up. [Update (2025-02-12): This post, which I thought of as a hasty update to the handful of people who followed my links, was posted to Hacker News for some reason. Yes, I should have provided ev
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by chambers 2y ago
Yup, I've tested and seen WASM SQlite's slowness myself. But I don't think it's a SQLite problem per se. I heard WebSQL, which used SQLite, was at least 10x faster than WASM SQLite. Probably even more.
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by chambers 2y ago
I found WASM slower than expected. I wrote some WASM logic functions recently which I thought would perform better than their native JS equivalent. For example, take a large array and "pivot" it in 10ms instead of a 100ms. What I

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