curun1r

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by curun1r 1mo ago
The concept is fine, but I'm a big fan of doing it with mise instead. It does the exact same thing plus a lot of other things really well. The environment for a project is not just things that get stored in environment variables, it al
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by curun1r 2mo ago
The Iranian team’s treatment is a prime example. The Somalian ref being denied entrance is another. And the Balogun red card is a double example (it shouldn’t have been a red card in the first place, but the precedent that the President of
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by curun1r 2mo ago
FIFA looked at this World Cup as an experiment. They wanted to see whether turning the monetization knob all the way to 11 would encounter significant resistance or whether fans would still watch/attend. The US, with its plethora of ex
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by curun1r 2mo ago
I’m not so sure about that. I can see a real rationale for creating sanity checks using AI to more quickly/proactively catch pathological billing issues before they become HN nightmare stories. They wouldn’t replace billing code, but t
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by curun1r 3mo ago
What's interesting is that I can see exactly what is happening behind the scenes at the Times because I've been in so many meetings that resulted in similar data-driven decisions. Both your experience and the article author's
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by curun1r 4mo ago
This. It's funny that GP mentioned science fiction as a negative because what immediately springs to mind, for me, is Neal Stephenson's The Diamond Age. We literally have the tools to build his "Young Lady's Illustrated
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by curun1r 5mo ago
The issue I have is that people are still trying to shove AI into a pre-AI educational paradigm. And yes, if you introduce AI into a world where people are still trying to teach kids the way that they were taught in the 20th century, AI loo
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by curun1r 5mo ago
I'm old enough to remember a similar controversy over whether to allow calculators in math classes. While most schools were banning them to force kids to learn how to do math without them, my school went the other way. They mandated th
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by curun1r 7mo ago
What’s obnoxious about them isn’t tariffs conceptually, it’s the implementation. There’s an argument that some sort of tariffs are actually necessary. The world is changing and the US has become reliant on countries who increasingly have di
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by curun1r 1y ago
> almost everyone who says they want a smaller phone will just buy a larger one anyway The problem is that smaller phones are usually fundamentally flawed in ways that aren’t about the smaller screen. Whether it’s a worse CPU, worse came
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by curun1r 1y ago
> But what's missing is a shared cultural experience This is my problem with the proliferation of streaming platforms when it comes to movies and TV. We’ve arguably got more and better content than we’ve ever had. But I find myself
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by curun1r 1y ago
All three of those tools immediately felt, to me, like the wrong approach the moment I first experienced Docker. The notion that production infrastructure should be mutable and we use automation to make changes to it just introduces so much
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by curun1r 1y ago
> that doesn’t update beyond macOS 13 ...in a way supported by Apple. But OpenCore [0] makes installing the latest OS on older Macs relatively simple. You lose out on some features that your hardware doesn't support (e.g. Apple Inte
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by curun1r 1y ago
Especially since it fits nicely into a mental model that includes !*, !^, !$, !-2 and such. ^something^somethingelse is also useful. And the sudo !! pattern is something I do even when I realize that I need root ahead of time. There’s somet
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by curun1r 1y ago
A number of years ago, the company I worked for got acquired by Intuit and I ended up in a lot of meetings with the people in charge of Quickbooks. And I can tell you that you’re not looking at Quickbooks the way they are. One of the key ta
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by curun1r 2y ago
> I manipulate URLs every day, both for work and private usage Zen/Arc are actually much better for this use case, albeit after an adjustment period for people who’ve become accustomed to the way Firefox/Chrome do it. The idea
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by curun1r 2y ago
As someone who just upgraded from an intel to M4, I feel this. But I do wish I had known about OpenCore [0]. Ironically, I learned about it while on a bit of YouTube binge of Mac videos in preparation for my new one arriving. As much as the
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by curun1r 2y ago
The microphone also can't be covered with a $1 plastic camera cover off Amazon. It's so easy to solve the camera issue if you care about it, but there's really nothing you can do about the mic.
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by curun1r 2y ago
The key to this implementing this sort of policy without hurting poor people is to introduce a corresponding tax credit or stimulus payment (potentially means tested) such that driving a normal vehicle a normal amount comes out even and poo
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by curun1r 2y ago
Also worth noting that "other developers" includes the original developer when they return to the code several months later.
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by curun1r 2y ago
Meanwhile, I rented a Model S from Turo (essentially Airbnb for cars) and had a great experience. The car was clean, well maintained, fully charged and already parked in my hotel’s parking lot. Charging was free at any Tesla charger over th
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by curun1r 2y ago
This is missing a few things from the trainings I’ve had on giving feedback, though it has a lot of the good stuff. For one, it mentions to give positive feedback, but it fails to mention that you should not give that positive feedback at t
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by curun1r 2y ago
Along with private university endowments. The endowments of the Ivy League schools are nearing a combined $200b and schools like Stanford and MIT not far behind. These “schools” have become investment funds with a side hustle educating stud
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by curun1r 2y ago
The “someone else” also needs to be vetted to ensure that their first update won’t include crypto mining malware. We should remember that an unmaintained dependency isn’t the worst thing that can happen to a supply chain. There are far wors
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by curun1r 3y ago
> I suffered through Quickbooks because I just assumed that was the Only Way Suffering through QuickBooks is literally a product feature. Like, when they were porting it to the online version, bookkeepers got upset that the web version d
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by curun1r 3y ago
> but it's not a physical barrier AVP is a V1 product, but it’s already clear that Apple understands this and is interested in solving it. It has the best pass through of any VR headset, with reviewers able to do real-time tasks lik
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by curun1r 3y ago
This isn’t inherently true. Take a look at the Silence S04. The batteries are removable and have wheels and a handle like luggage. You could park in any old spot and wheel the battery home to charge. They’re even cheap to buy because you ca
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by curun1r 3y ago
> You need land, and you cannot make them in a factory The land part is true, but there are people working on the second part. One of the more exciting ones I’ve seen recently is Cover [0]. They do the majority of building in their facto
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by curun1r 3y ago
I’m an American (born here), but I’ve felt our skilled immigration policies are wrong-headed for a while, especially after dealing with them as a hiring manager. Broadly speaking, I feel we need a better focus on a) getting people who have
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by curun1r 3y ago
Some the variables should be illegal, though. A seat should cost the same whether I'm buying it from my computer in California or Lima, Peru. And the kind of travel hacking that allows someone to purchase 100k points to buy a seat usin

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