fernmyth

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by fernmyth 5mo ago
It’s an alternative to coups and civil wars. The deal made in private conversations is something like “Give up power peacefully. Everybody gets pardoned and goes home to their families. Nobody needs to do anything crazy or violent out of de
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by fernmyth 11mo ago
Replace Gmail? Meaning instead of real emails from my actual contacts, I’ll read AI generated emails?
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by fernmyth 1y ago
Hey, remember that time we used "an organic" kitty litter instead of "inorganic" kitty litter and the resulting explosion cost a half-billion dollars to clean up? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waste_
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by fernmyth 1y ago
Here's a dumb idea: - Take the most recent sale prices of all neighboring parcels within a quarter mile - Take the land-area weighted average price per square foot - Assess the given property as its land area times that average Practic
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by fernmyth 1y ago
This will make lobbying more powerful. If you can’t make money from insider trading, you have one less alternative to accepting bribes. I’d rather require insider trading than ban it.
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by fernmyth 1y ago
Here's Vitruvius in "De Architectura" claiming it's common, easily verified knowledge: https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Vitruvius... Of course, him mentioning "
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by fernmyth 1y ago
Science is a tool for finding truth, or at least weighing evidence. It isn’t policy and doesn’t have anything to say about policy. You can have a policy of waiting for overwhelming proof of harm before banning anything. But there are an awf
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by fernmyth 1y ago
As described in the article, sharing data between apps is currently impossible. I wish Solid/PODs had taken off, but I get the sense that project spent more time on ontologies and less on making useful things. How can we draw apps into
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by fernmyth 1y ago
Cursor with defaults, I guess mostly `cursor-small`. Typically I write and adjust function names or signatures and let tab-complete draft the code and propagate refactors. It does mix up Crystal and Ruby, but the compiler catches it.
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by fernmyth 1y ago
Windfall, for those who want it. LLMs were fantastic for writing a project[0] in a new, niche language[1]. They help write any missing libraries. They help iterate when I get stuck on language aspects. They explain concepts as well as the m
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Show HN: Chatfile – AI in a Textfile(github.com)
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by fernmyth 1y ago
> If this happens, the designer had a error in his design, and should extend the design to accommodate the facts that escaped him at design time. Errors in the initial design should be assumed as the default. Wise software engineering sh
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by fernmyth 1y ago
It is useful for humans if a farmer can lock in the price for their crop at planting time, rather than get a nasty surprise when they harvest. In financial terms, this is "selling a futures contract". It's also useful if the
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by fernmyth 1y ago
I thought at 0°F you're supposed to bring the cows inside! Also at 100°F I guess it depends on the cows
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by fernmyth 1y ago
[Written laws] were just like spiders' webs; they would hold the weak and delicate... but would be torn to pieces by the rich and powerful - Plutarch
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by fernmyth 2y ago
It’s not about an unfamiliar syntax. S-exprs are objectively hard to read. The same shape for function calls, macros, blocks, and data means I can’t distinguish them by sight to detect the code structure. I have to do conscious paren matchi
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by fernmyth 2y ago
"Non Plus Ultra" Followed by another company introducing their "Plus Ultra" model.
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by fernmyth 2y ago
There's no reason for the doctor to involve any patients, other than to write their names down. These are fraud factories submitting thousands of templated claims per year.
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by fernmyth 2y ago
I’m quite happy with my Perixx Periboard 335 replacing the Microsoft Ergo Sculpt. Standard layout, semi-split, tented, low (-ish) profile, mechanical switches, wired. Took me a lot of searches to find something meeting my requirements
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by fernmyth 2y ago
Plot the days when your air conditioner is on with the temperature of your room. It will have many concrete examples and a long-term correlation showing that actually, the air conditioner is associated with the temperature going up . All f
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by fernmyth 2y ago
Solving recurrence relations has always felt just out of reach for me. But rewriting it in matrix form makes so much sense! Thanks!
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by fernmyth 3y ago
This works on my system76 lemur pro 10 with pop!_os: - click and hold on the touchpad with thumb - swipe with another finger to drag around. Multiple, disjoint strokes work, so there's nothing special about switching fingers It would b
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by fernmyth 3y ago
The lenses in your eyes refract different wavelengths at different angles - think of a rainbow coming out of a prism. Only one wavelength can be perfectly tuned to project a clear image onto your retinas. We are optimized for green, red is
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by fernmyth 3y ago
I love it! I’ll have to play around with it today
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by fernmyth 3y ago
The funny Unicode symbols are actually ASCII `->` and `|>` rendered in a font with ligatures. I agree it's a bit jarring to see, but you wouldn't need a special keyboard.
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by fernmyth 4y ago
> Should they ignore engagement increases of 3% because someone has stern feedback? Yes. A sane person or organization must be able to make judgements that include values other than narrow metrics. If your engagement numbers told you to
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by fernmyth 4y ago
You’ve hit on three of the four of Jane Jacobs’s conditions for a healthy, high-density neighborhood in her book “The Death and Life of Great American Cities”! - Variety of building age/quality, to have rent levels that allow diversity
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by fernmyth 4y ago
The emojis are colorful, detailed, and unique. They have much higher visual weight than the text, which is black, simple, and regular. In other words, they are objectively distracting.
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by fernmyth 5y ago
I have never measured the speed of light myself. But Google and Wolfram Alpha agree with my memory of physics lectures and textbooks. All of our epistemology is based on testimony. And in the degenerate but common case where the credibility
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by fernmyth 5y ago
1. LEGOs, "The Way Things Work" by David Macaulay, programming (for me, LOGO, Excel, TI-Basic, but there's better now), any kind of game system to analyze or theorycraft (but avoid games with too much time-sink!) 1a. Look for

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