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by dejawu 3mo ago
If vibe-coding is hopping into a self-driving car and telling it to take you anywhere you can get a coffee, then I use coding agents more like a bicycle - they let me get further faster than if I'd walked, but I still have to decide wh
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by dejawu 3mo ago
It's strange to me that Apple would choose to disadvantage themselves by selecting Google as their provider as opposed to, say, Anthropic or even OpenAI. Doesn't this mean they'll struggle more to differentiate themselves fro
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by dejawu 5mo ago
My Computer Engineering degree had an "ethics" course (really a course on "engineering communications", but it was considered to satisfy the ethics requirement for graduation). It was a semester on how to file memos, car
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by dejawu 7mo ago
This is exactly why, as someone who thought I'd be an IC with my head buried in code my whole life, I accepted a role as a tech lead last year. Humans will always need other humans to be human for them. I love working with computers, b
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by dejawu 1y ago
I've similarly thought about building a language that compiles to Rust, but handles everything around references and borrowing and abstracts that away from the user. Then you get a language where you don't have to think about memo
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by dejawu 1y ago
Every so often, YouTube changes something on their site that causes NewPipe to stop working. Usually within a few days, NewPipe pushes an update that fixes this, and we're back in business. Every time this happens, I donate to their Li
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by dejawu 2y ago
A similar exploration by Matthew Rayfield using the URL bar instead of tab favicons: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q7GtCLwTmV4
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by dejawu 2y ago
It's astonishing just how awful Spotify's software is. Everything it does, it does poorly, even down to things like playback and playlists that were figured out by other media players decades ago. Just this week, it started random
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by dejawu 2y ago
Looks like one of them is Pyne Pod: https://www.pynepod.com/uploads/bd58c18e.png The Geek Bar Pulse has the custom multi-segment on the side: https://oss.geekbar.com/products/meloso-ultra/2&#x
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by dejawu 2y ago
An ex of mine used disposable vapes and I was shocked by how beautifully designed some of them are - transparent covers with visible inner workings reminiscent of the Nothing phones; custom multi-segment displays for battery and temperature
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by dejawu 2y ago
The worst toast I've seen is on Android Auto (itself already a veritable petri dish of awful UX) where, when the on-screen keyboard appears, a toast helpfully pops up informing you that a keyboard is also available on your phone... Thu
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List of Lishes(en.wikipedia.org)
1 points by dejawu 2y ago|0 comments
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by dejawu 2y ago
Add to that list QMK VIA, which allows reprogramming a keyboard running the QMK firmware from the browser! https://www.caniusevia.com/
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by dejawu 3y ago
This almost reads like a deconstruction of my favorite explanation of Lisp: https://www.defmacro.org/ramblings/lisp.html The explanation basically uses an AST that's apparent to the user to explain the language -
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by dejawu 3y ago
I had the pleasure of encountering them in-person at Strange Loop 2023! They gave us an impromptu demo of some of their experiments in the hallway after the last talks had ended and we were cheering wildly with everything they showed us. It
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by dejawu 3y ago
Re: your edit - I've always thought it'd make for a fun pet project to take the hyper-engagement-driven approach that social media apps take but apply it to Wikipedia. Like a Tiktok-style vertical feed of articles that tries to fi
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by dejawu 3y ago
I wonder how it must feel to be on a team at Microsoft working on actually useful features like WSL and then having all your work be thrown away by shit like this driving users off your platform anyway.
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by dejawu 3y ago
It's also possible to see the names, topics, and timestamp of the last message of hidden channels through their API. The channels are only hidden on the client-side. (To be clear, it's still not possible to view the contents of th
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by dejawu 3y ago
I'm quite fond of this library for pattern matching; it's a staple in all my new projects. https://github.com/gvergnaud/ts-pattern
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by dejawu 3y ago
> We have evidence that points to life forming basically immediately once the conditions are right. What's the evidence for this? Not asking rhetorically, I'm curious and want to read more.
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by dejawu 3y ago
I feel like it's worth comparing Reddit to another thing that went from being free to paid - Dwarf Fortress. They built up a great rapport and trust with their user base, and in return their user base happily paid for a product they&#x
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by dejawu 3y ago
A lot has been written about how Reddit should/deserves to die, but not much has been said about what a loss of a community it will be. Besides providing amusement, Reddit is the reason I'm a better programmer, partner, and perso
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by dejawu 3y ago
Give the MacBook (12-inch, 2015-2019) a look. They're Intel based and you can find a top end model for a few hundred bucks on ebay. I love mine - the weight and size make it incredibly easy to move with. They're also great to have
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by dejawu 3y ago
And its counterpart quote by Bill Gates, "Bicycles are like a computer for our legs."
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by dejawu 3y ago
While this seems awesome (and I do hope to make use of it) I do find it a little funny that an application for a visa for remote work must be submitted by snail mail.
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by dejawu 4y ago
The most infuriating thing about Twitch ads is that it insists on running a thirty-second pre-roll ad. This is a platform where the focus is on liveness and immediacy, where you're very likely to open a stream because what's hap
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by dejawu 4y ago
A similar idea that resonated with me is CGP Grey's suggestion to replace resolutions with themes: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NVGuFdX5guE Rather than set a lofty goal you're more likely to give up on (leaving
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by dejawu 4y ago
I mean, I for one can't wait to be free of my meat prison, and a future where all of us can be sure seems nice. But we have no guarantee that all of us are going to be brought along for the ride. Who's to say that the rich (who ar
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by dejawu 4y ago
As it happens, a friend recommended me the Manna story almost a decade ago! It's been on my mind for the last couple weeks, and I definitely think if we're not careful and deliberate about how we shape our future, we will definite
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Ask HN: Does AI progress also fill you with dread?
36 points by dejawu 4y ago|43 comments

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