citelao

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by citelao 1mo ago
I think the more appropriate analogy is there's more to a drill than the drill. When you buy a Milwaukee drill, because it shares a battery with other Milwaukee parts, it's easier to buy more Milwaukee tools. So it helps to choo
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by citelao 1mo ago
That’s the prevailing statistic, but your original number isn’t that wrong either: Humans can perceive much smaller latencies. If you look at the Card & Miller reference, at least some humans can perceive differences in ~50ms vs 100ms l
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by citelao 2mo ago
My statement is not super constructive, but yes, I also really liked this article. Local-first, privacy, even the example of managing personal restaurant reviews. I don't have enough meaningful thoughts here to contribute, but you &amp
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by citelao 2mo ago
OP: ooooo, that's neat. Do you have a source? I struggled to find a source for even that $6,000 number.
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by citelao 2mo ago
OP: Perhaps it is, but this article honestly took me 12 months to research & write. I really struggled to find trustworthy sources. Do you know of any others I should look at? Also, I rather like the idea that blogging can simply be sta
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by citelao 2mo ago
Totally agree; I had to cut a few sentences about that :). (I also tried to steel-man the paper as much as possible). Oddly enough, it seems like, although the value of "blind operation" is well-understood, it's not super wel
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by citelao 2mo ago
OP here: I always disliked touchscreens in cars, so I didn't understand why automakers kept shoving them in. I always assumed I was weird in some way, and that most consumers preferred touchscreens or something (Reddit seems to argue t
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Car touchscreens are cheap, not good(ben.stolovitz.com)
92 points by citelao 2mo ago|141 comments
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by citelao 5mo ago
OP here: I really enjoyed learning about the history of industrial design for this. I wanted to understand the parallels between software engineering and industrial design (well, chairmaking) through the Industrial Revolution. Matthew Bird&
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Consider the Chairmaker(ben.stolovitz.com)
7 points by citelao 5mo ago|1 comments
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by citelao 7mo ago
I've been using "Big noun pages" in my technical documentation for quite some time now, and I wanted to formally explain the concept to my teammates. Thus: this blog post! I hope you find it helpful!
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Big Noun Pages(ben.stolovitz.com)
2 points by citelao 7mo ago|2 comments
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by citelao 8mo ago
Perhaps this is a bit OT, since the article focuses more on self-development ("When training a muscle, you only get stronger with resistance"), but I wonder about the subtitle: > Every week there seems to be a new tool that pro
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by citelao 10mo ago
Many languages have very complicated pluralization rules. For example, Russian has different plural forms for numbers ending in 2. That doesn't prevent a good translation framework from working properly, but it proves why the sample co
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by citelao 11mo ago
I agree on all counts! Some generated music is basically indistinguishable at this point, which scares me. Also, kudos to HN’s title algorithm; it gave my article a punchier title. AI, right? :D
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by citelao 11mo ago
OP here: I thought it might be interesting to document how I (a random engineer) have been using AI day-to-day. I tried to ground everything with real examples, so you can judge for yourself :)
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I Use AI(ben.stolovitz.com)
3 points by citelao 11mo ago|3 comments
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by citelao 2y ago
I started writing this the day before TikTok shutdown, but I kept dwelling on it for months. How much should we archive? Why? The end result is TikTok will always be temporary . I hope you enjoy!
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TikTok will always be temporary(ben.stolovitz.com)
3 points by citelao 2y ago|1 comments
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by citelao 2y ago
I updated my terminals to play a quiet sound when they finish long-running commands, and it's saved me many hours of wasted time. I think modern software is missing a large opportunity to use unintrusive sound in "eyes-free"
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Computers Should Beep More(ben.stolovitz.com)
8 points by citelao 2y ago|1 comments
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by citelao 2y ago
What a timely article! I've been thinking about writing something similar for a bit. I was doom-and-gloomy about how programming is more complicated now, but then friends pointed out a bunch of things to me: * Arduinos & ESP32s (&l
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by citelao 2y ago
I did that yesterday with a project: I took a Rust package that compiled a C project, then had the Rust project generate a C-compatible DLL that I could consume in dotnet. It was so much easier (for me; I am bad at build systems) that I pla
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by citelao 3y ago
Wow! Thanks for sharing. Sometimes I get disheartened about programming, then posts like this remind me how complicated the world actually is. And how much perseverance and elbow grease we put in to make the world simpler.
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by citelao 3y ago
There’s actually published evidence of exactly that! Where Do Security Policies Come From found that the websites with the most aggressive policies were those with the least incentive to make the system easy-to-use. Big sites like Facebook
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by citelao 3y ago
What would be a good, more academic overview of computing history? Do you have any specific book recommendations? I'd love to read a more "citation-based" version.
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by citelao 3y ago
I'm not chaxor, but as far as I remember I think you're right: If I had unzipped all the takeout directories into one giant folder, there'd be no conflicts. Since I didn't do that, I had to do weird multi-pass parsing, s
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by citelao 3y ago
I would be extremely interested in a Google Takeout viewer if you ever end up releasing one. I dealt with Google Takeout, trying to export my photos to Apple Photos (when Google was planning to charge money for old Google Workspace accoun
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by citelao 3y ago
I haven't used it, but the team (person?) that makes Buckets ( https://www.budgetwithbuckets.com ) makes SimpleFIN ( https://www.simplefin.org ), which seems like it exposes exactly what you want: simple transaction
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by citelao 3y ago
Hi! I spent the last few years writing this guide to cybersecurity because I couldn't find good answers to my questions. I tried to be as evidence-informed as possible, so I could offer a level-headed perspective on cybersecurity for o

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