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by drums8787 15d ago
The never ending gate bites. How I have come to detest certain phrases.
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by drums8787 29d ago
It boggles the mind when you hear people defend the US healthcare system in terms of efficiency (OK, granted, maybe people have long stopped doing that). It has to be one of the most bureaucratic and paperwork overloaded systems of all time
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by drums8787 29d ago
Even-engineering?
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by drums8787 29d ago
Our week of discontent.
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by drums8787 1mo ago
We use WASM DuckDB as the target for an in-browser agentic feature. Generated SQL runs against the user's individual tables that then feed in-browser dashboards. Excellent performance.
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by drums8787 1mo ago
Enter the long tail of caveats
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by drums8787 5mo ago
I feel like I finally get to feel the designer’s pain when people arrive with their vibe-coded pile of garbage and I have to explain why it can’t just slide into the product. It does something and it’s what the business wants. So what’s my
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by drums8787 5mo ago
I particularly love when the “CTO” is also the main offender.
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by drums8787 6mo ago
No. The means can spoil the end.
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by drums8787 7mo ago
Dehomag. What has been will be again, what has been done will be done again; there is nothing new under the sun.
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by drums8787 9mo ago
I often hear comparisons to Web 1.0 (the bubble aspect, potential for change, etc). As someone who lived and worked during that era, I don’t remember thinking “holy shit, if this ever gets released on the world at scale we’ll have serious p
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by drums8787 10mo ago
This is a big piece of what drove me out of corp jobs. With a sufficient hourly rate people are less likely to have you waste time in meetings. Or maybe I’ve just been lucky. Prob doesn’t work everywhere.
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by drums8787 1y ago
My experience is the opposite I guess. I am having a great time using claude to quickly implement little "filler features" that require a good amount of typing and pulling from/editing different sources. Nothing that requires
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by drums8787 2y ago
I make a living writing software that's hosted on Windows. I've never felt as comfortable with the command line options on Windows as I do with macos/Linux. Git bash with vim was such a relief. It's an idiosyncratic mix
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by drums8787 2y ago
Been filling notebooks for years while also keeping pretty meticulous digital notes. Physical is mostly personal or ideas (sometimes for work). Digital is mostly work. I like to doodle and draw alongside note-taking and there's no subs
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by drums8787 3y ago
Technical debt and “feature debt”? I imagine some people would object to things being taken out or significantly altered. An existing & happy (?) user base probably carry weight.
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by drums8787 3y ago
I recommend the book “why we sleep”. It helps (helped me) understand some of the fundamentals of sleep and why it matters
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by drums8787 3y ago
Not sure that day/night matters but an essential element is the cycles you experience during extended sleep. Naps won’t make up for that. Night is probably most realistic because of light/noise factors
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by drums8787 3y ago
The Billy Ireland Cartoon Library and Museum is a fantastic place. I was on a backstage tour a few years ago and seeing early 20th century cartoons at original size was such a treat.
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by drums8787 3y ago
Did your cat tell you its name?
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by drums8787 3y ago
> Lily Jamali: So you call this “Cerebral Valley,” is that right? > ... > Jamali: Got it. What does that mean, that term? > > Tan: Well, I think it’s a play on really the brain,... The things people say.
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by drums8787 3y ago
I'm holding on to two x230s as backups (only need one, happen to have two). Great little machine, still enjoy it for basic hacking and writing once in a while.
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by drums8787 3y ago
Some “artists” I know are scraping by on work that could be eaten by generative AI. Even if they don’t self identify as “illustrators”.
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by drums8787 3y ago
Barge hauler 4th from the back appears to be checking his messages.
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by drums8787 3y ago
Did exactly this for about the same amount of time. Couldn’t be happier.
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by drums8787 3y ago
Not sure exactly what you mean but you can have lower average life expectancy and still see lots of people reaching old age (60-80). Longer average contemporary lifespan in the west has a lot to do with infant/child mortality.
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by drums8787 3y ago
I don’t know, it works now (ios). First time it just showed some untraditional looking navigation that I couldn’t get past. This time the content actually displayed.
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by drums8787 3y ago
I’d read it if the site would let me do so.
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by drums8787 4y ago
My manager is blissfully absent.
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by drums8787 4y ago
100% agree re: Doom Emacs. Evil mode user and no issues with emacs pinky ;-). It's a perfect match. No concerns about performance either, start my emacs in the morning and close it at the end of the day. For quick command line things o

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