foxbarrington

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by foxbarrington 7mo ago
A common reaction I get to https://forty.news is that the stories “need sources” which I always find funny. I don’t hear the same demand of sources from every other news outlet (I find it extra weird because all FN’s stories are
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by foxbarrington 8mo ago
https://david.app/
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Show HN: Forty.News – Daily news, but on a 40-year delay(forty.news)
443 points by foxbarrington 10mo ago|180 comments
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by foxbarrington 1y ago
I just tried to put omarchy/arch on my 16” mbp. Everything worked (eventually… speakers and keyboard backlight needed special stuff) except for suspend or hibernate. After about a week, I gave up and put Monterey on it.
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by foxbarrington 1y ago
I tell people to get an LCD and xreal or viture AR glasses with the saved money. AR glasses are a WAY better display than a small OLED screen.
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by foxbarrington 1y ago
GPT-5’s results: Your Programming Philosophy You prefer elegant, high-level solutions that are intuitive and accessible to other developers. You likely favor functional programming, clear abstractions, and code that reads like prose. Abstra
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by foxbarrington 1y ago
Estimating: similar to planning, thinking through the whole problem and surfacing early anything that seems like not a big deal on the surface, but actually is. Estimate changes over time: surfaces underlying issues e.g. too many urgent bug
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by foxbarrington 1y ago
“Plans are worthless, but planning is everything.” It’s not the estimate that is valuable. It’s the estimating and seeing how/why the estimate changes over time that is valuable.
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by foxbarrington 2y ago
Use this to learn more about what is going on at the company and how you can provide more value in exchange for what you want. Want more money? Use this to figure out what the company and manager would want in exchange so you can work towar
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by foxbarrington 2y ago
Business doesn’t hate creatives, and is not specifically targeting creatives to automate them away. Any job that can be done as good for a lower price or better for the same price is going to be a target.
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by foxbarrington 2y ago
I was a psych major in undergrad, and did an experiment as a riff on stereotype threat and got a small effect. I had the participants solve brain teaser puzzles and the only difference was introducing them as coming from 11th grade or gradu
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by foxbarrington 2y ago
This is the most maddening thing about all content now. It's all platform based and every platform wants to constantly push/"recommend" things to you and your kids. Right now I use Roku and Plex but even both of those ar
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by foxbarrington 2y ago
Sure, and they even go on to say that the article is about “what helps to explain the differences in outcome between two genetically identical people.” However it’s clear that is not actually what the article is about and they do talk abou
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by foxbarrington 2y ago
From the link: Results The analysis of the data revealed no significant difference between MZA twins (reared apart) and MZT twins (reared together) in regards to personality measures such as temperament, hobbies, interests, career pursuits
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by foxbarrington 2y ago
Personality is ~70% determined by genetics, not life experience.[0] I’m surprised that someone interested enough in the topic to write such a long post wouldn’t put the time in to do a cursory dive into personality psychology. I’m going to
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by foxbarrington 2y ago
I tried to use Charles on Robin Hood, but it looks like they use cert pinning to prevent it.
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by foxbarrington 2y ago
> They typically borrow the form and structure of an in-person conference without considering whether those still make sense online, and whether the goals of an online conference should even be the same as an in-person conference. Been h
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by foxbarrington 2y ago
Thanks! Was surprisingly hard to find something that looked good on Amazon. I'm thinking it has to be matte for the full effect. Probably worth checking out an art supply store.
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by foxbarrington 2y ago
Love it, going to try them out. What paper do you use?
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by foxbarrington 2y ago
Right, the less it looks like printer ink and printer paper.
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by foxbarrington 2y ago
I just got an axidraw and I’ve been having a lot of fun with it. Because it can just use SVGs as is, I could plot a “still”[0] from one of my existing generative pieces[1] minutes after bringing it home. What surprised me is how good some p
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by foxbarrington 2y ago
I hesitate to recommend this because of how woo woo it sounds, but... I had terrible pulsatile tinnitus (both sides) for over a year and half. I went to doctors, specialists, tried steroids, the works. I had to sleep with headphones to drow
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by foxbarrington 2y ago
I built https://upfollow.app to help a product manager have a better relationship with the software engineers. It makes it easy to create calendar reminders to follow up on features and other requests that she is waiting on. Thi
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by foxbarrington 2y ago
I just finished an MVP for a free tool to help delegated tasks get done. I was wondering if I did it all wrong, but like you say, I would have a very hard time describing a management tool like Upfollow.app as “lovable”—I’d be happy with a
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by foxbarrington 3y ago
You might find my survival guide for founders who depend on devs to get things done useful. It covers topics like how not to lose key information if a dev leaves, preventing endless rebuilds and framework switching, keeping devs busy vs. ke
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by foxbarrington 3y ago
Agreed. Would make more sense with a red X over it.
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by foxbarrington 3y ago
When you’re holding a hammer, everything looks like a nail… There’s a fun project using AI here isn’t there?
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by foxbarrington 3y ago
Anyone else thinking of making a service that can easily fork and host a fandom like this?
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by foxbarrington 3y ago
Remote work and async comms means that latency tends to be high. Latency issues can be overcome by not stopping to wait at each decision point. For example, low latency this is ok: “do you want to go to dinner or a movie?” Movie. ”Do you wa
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by foxbarrington 4y ago
Jonathan Haidt has a recent essay that argues the teen mental illness epidemic started in 2012: https://jonathanhaidt.substack.com/p/the-teen-mental-illness...

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