egometry

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by egometry 11mo ago
We still have the endash!
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by egometry 11mo ago
Dang?
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by egometry 11mo ago
In regards to the vast majority of reddit moderators: _how_?
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by egometry 1y ago
Fascinating! First time seeing/reading Tyranny of Structurelessness Was Pivotal Labs built with this in mind? A lot of their core principals seem to overlap with with seven principals prposed at the end ( https://www.jofree
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by egometry 1y ago
Reinventing the plan file! I mostly do this too for personal stuff. Although on solo projects I have a neverending TODO.md I check in... ...and on multi-person projects I end up using github issues/projects and/or Forgejo's
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by egometry 1y ago
Well, these numbers _are_ from 2023. Things seem to have shifted (especially for the new grads) in the past 2 years... (We'll know when new numbers come out of the feeling is correct?)
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by egometry 1y ago
Andy Schatz, the independent game creator of Monaco, said something at a GDC talk that really resonated with me along these lines I'm paraphrasing but - "Do the hard work that you need to do, but always give yourself an hour a day
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by egometry 1y ago
DP2e is one of the reasons I still use DOSBox
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by egometry 1y ago
Probably not Many old monitoring programs just literally generated graphs like these using input data and outputted a static image on a cron/tick. "Expensive" once, then cached... in the form of the image I'm guessing th
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by egometry 1y ago
what do you mean by "squat on"?
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by egometry 1y ago
The ethics of individual employees only lasts until the next firing, unfortunately.
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by egometry 2y ago
To the un-sticking point: it's also great at letting people ask questions without being perceived as dumb Tragically - admitting ignorance, even with the desire to learn, often has negative social reprocussions
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by egometry 2y ago
Adding this to my smallweb collection! Blocked reddit a few days back. Been looking for more idle exploring like the old days while relaxing, instead of that endless algorithm trawl...
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by egometry 2y ago
LLM Garak Elim Garak That's some good software naming punning right there
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by egometry 3y ago
The salient passage seems to be: Quite simply, we are talking about bullshit. Philosopher Harry Frankfurt, in his classic text _On Bullshit_, explains that the bullshitter “does not reject the authority of truth, as the liar does […] He pay
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by egometry 3y ago
The part about the modern (read: far future) calendar being commonly thought to be based on mankind's first moon landing but ACTUALLY being based on the Unix Epoch is a favorite amoungst engineers I know that love Vinge
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by egometry 3y ago
Still is. And there's little to be done about it. Unless you can stop cosmic rays. Luckily it doesn't happen THAT often. I forget the exact metric but I recall various Google Engineers saying that something like one out of a milli
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by egometry 3y ago
Is this the same Lit that started at Material at Google? Not seeing easily accessed references. Is it maybe no longer associated?
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by egometry 3y ago
My only note: state the year (and month if possible) in the first paragraph of a story like this. It helps for readers now, and archaeologists later!
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by egometry 3y ago
Have you tried Torchlight? I dislike the entire Genre EXCEPT Torchlight 1&2 And I've never really been able to put my finger on why
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by egometry 3y ago
The only thing I've learned from this comment thread is sbuk REALLY stans for apple.
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by egometry 3y ago
Autocomplete: The Only Reason We Know What A Trie Is(tm)!
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by egometry 3y ago
Yeah, the cadence of the article also felt AI-ey to me.
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by egometry 3y ago
The "Irish Wake" is this... but _before_ the funeral. And Ireland is VERY Catholic.
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by egometry 3y ago
This was also the name of the awesome downtown Berkeley gaming store that recently closed down. RIP
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by egometry 3y ago
Almost certainly a play on the Twitter space. Driven by some exec or PM. The numeric distinguisher was good, actually.
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by egometry 7y ago
Imagine the savings on having a beard! A $30 Wahl Peanut with a few guides, and 5-10 less minutes wasted in the morning per trim... and you get a beard!
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by egometry 8y ago
This was Brie Bunge from AirBNB at JSConf Hawaii this past weekend, btw. Great talk, should be online in a few weeks. https://www.jsconfhi.com/schedule/ for reference.
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by egometry 8y ago
Can you point to anything scholarly about Holotropic Breathwork? I'm curious, but my searches turn up very... "crystal woo-woo" stuff. :(
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by egometry 8y ago
This is accurate. I see a lot of my twitter-employee friend network represented here. (Also, this feels like it even started as a twitter thread.)

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