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by dfee 6d ago
when i was in the 5th grade (give or take a couple years), there was an innovation project where we were to bring in and present to the class an invention. i remember a girl inventing what i now know to be a "flexible weighted dip tube
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by dfee 6d ago
i've been telling people it's "imagination".
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by dfee 19d ago
> I really like htmx > Full Disclosure, I am CEO of HTMX i think you've found a good job!
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by dfee 22d ago
N+1 is at best two queries, right? I always interpreted it as: query 0 = list query 1_0 = getItem(0) ... guest 1_n = getItem(n) optimized to: query 0 = list query 1 = getItems(0..n)
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by dfee 28d ago
> It's only recently that we had space for completely retarded ideas like "staying in the sun doesn't hurt you" or "sunscreen causes cancer" but, what if staying in the sun isn't binary? and, what if ev
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Box Scores(boxscore.email)
2 points by dfee 29d ago|0 comments
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by dfee 29d ago
i have and continue to build a ton of automations against my life. my goal is to offload more and more of my "life" to it. - bills? bookkeeping? reading DMARC emails? yeah, i want to do none of it, but i desperately want these cho
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by dfee 1mo ago
but, you're going to pay either way (assuming you have a custom domain).
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by dfee 1mo ago
that's fine. doesn't absolve you from responsibilities of recipientship - as you'll inevitably find out (if you haven't already).
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by dfee 1mo ago
keep going – i was in your shoes 24mo ago.
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by dfee 1mo ago
irs.gov is without a doubt the SOT ;)
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by dfee 1mo ago
makes it doubly hard when you can't trust a media bias website, either. solving for "trust" is one of the hardest problems out there in 2026.
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by dfee 1mo ago
admittedly, i don't know anything about this case, but the person at the center of it seems to be Carlitos Ricardo Parias. the intercept (source link) was rated far left by AllSides ( https://www.allsides.com/news-source
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by dfee 1mo ago
i was wondering recently if i could ditch my iPhone for (just) an Apple Watch. i know i can't fully ditch it (an Apple Watch needs an iPhone for management). but, i'm curious about the concept nonetheless: what would it be like to
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by dfee 1mo ago
> With AI, "bad" engineers can now amplify their "bad" engineering x10 across the organization. and > I don't subscribe to the idea that AI generated code is fundamentally bad, just that people lack the right
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by dfee 1mo ago
in that money is the atomic unit of economic control, sure. government's don't surveil for money, unless you bend the argument a bit to say the government has finite resources and is run off money itself. which is kinda true, but
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by dfee 1mo ago
:waves: from California
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by dfee 2mo ago
but it biases towards the latin alphabet. so your point is diminished.
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by dfee 2mo ago
> Pronounced FEH-too (/ˈfɛ.tuː/). Stress the first syllable. In Māori wh is an f sound, not a w. The macron in ū makes that vowel long, which is why the ASCII spelling doubles it. oof. deliberate choice?
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by dfee 2mo ago
it's totally obnoxious to buy a copy of a book with notes in it and complain about those notes. 2¢
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by dfee 2mo ago
As Covered in the Hit TV Series Pied Piper, Season 1 (2014): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SNi0p7YtmyY
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by dfee 2mo ago
the infinite string must have more refined properties than infinite length. an infinite string of a repeating char doesn't encode much of interest.
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by dfee 2mo ago
then you'd imagine the inverse is possible: fabricate text that matches a fingerprint - poisoning someone's (psuedo-anonymous) reputation.
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by dfee 2mo ago
HHI and Simpsons are neat new finds. There's also this other variant of the Simpson's Index: https://www.thesimpsonsindex.com/
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by dfee 2mo ago
there are two camps: those who have spent the tokens to figure out how to wield AI, and those who haven't. unfortunately, it's not cheap to get to the former category… and i imagine it'd be difficult to lose access to that to
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by dfee 2mo ago
if you want to offload the decision to a decision engine, might i recommend the following prompt to the LLM of your choice: > "which should i choose: 1 word only" the comments are already universally aligned. but, it now seems
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by dfee 2mo ago
I've not worked at Amazon, but work in other big tech. If you were my son, I'd tell you to pursue Cambridge. Amazon employment isn't that special. (i've been in industry for 18+ years, went to a name brand school, and li
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by dfee 2mo ago
this is non sequitor. why isn't there really much waste in federal spending? because when you cut, nobody likes it. well, no . there is pork. a better example might be: "Half the money I spend on advertising is wasted; the troubl
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by dfee 2mo ago
centaur / reverse centaur seems to me like glass half full / empty. tough for Cory to get one wrong, though.
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by dfee 2mo ago
i live a few miles west of core Palo Alto (technically, still in Palo Alto); Starlink is my only real choice for broadband, and it's great.

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