jlnthws

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by jlnthws 4mo ago
Why not use AI to speed up the Python runtime? V8 showed what focused engineering can do for JavaScript, and Astral showed how much room there is to improve Python tooling. The same tricks may not apply directly, but AI could definitely acc
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by jlnthws 5mo ago
Volcanic winters are far more frequent than catastrophic asteroid blasts. Disregarding a volcanic winter possibility and its impact is like disregarding the possibility of a pandemic.
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by jlnthws 5mo ago
I wonder where they store coal waste.
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by jlnthws 5mo ago
Nice! Now moving from Windows to Linux is the "easy", visible part. Replacing US cloud + US AI dependence end to end is much harder, and that’s the real deal today.
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by jlnthws 6mo ago
Wouldn't that imply that design is solved (at least regarding visual elements discussed here)? Then why not move onto other things? Why self-sabotage their success?
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My Programming Job Has Become an Intelligence Buying Job(frederic.vanderessen.com)
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by jlnthws 1y ago
Use them for what they are (hints, documentation). Use it for gradual typing when implementation makes it hard to understand return or parameters types. But don't enforce it across your code base, use another language or another mindse
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by jlnthws 1y ago
Of course you can alias, but I was not very clear indeed. My point is that these tools ship multiple commands (z, zi, etc. autojump does too). I treat core shell commands as interfaces: keep the name, swap the implementation. If there&#x27
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by jlnthws 1y ago
Those kind of tools should have the same name as the command they replace, I don’t want to change my workflow with this or that. I think a simple wrapper over cd with fzf is good enough and much simpler. Claude can probably write it in a
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by jlnthws 1y ago
How complete is it? I can't reach the page, it can't decide if I'm a robot or not.
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by jlnthws 1y ago
Come to Europe!
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by jlnthws 1y ago
So is domestic aviation negligible in every way? Is non-domestic aviation part of the transport category? Not clear to me.
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by jlnthws 2y ago
This is the regular current taboo. Micro-dust from tires and brakes contributes to half of an ICE vehicle’s pollution, with the other half coming from exhaust emissions. The amount of this micro-dust scales with a power of the vehicle’s wei
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by jlnthws 2y ago
The sharp rise in the rat population in my city coincides with a new regulation requiring food waste to be placed in a thin, dedicated bag outside. Since collection is delayed, the waste spoils, providing an easy food source for pests. It d
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by jlnthws 2y ago
Rigrep and fzf in bash and vim.
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by jlnthws 2y ago
"Ambergris has been synthesized, but its synthetic versions are not convincing. They lack an indefinable something that is gained only after years spent at sea." Probably a bit like synthesized truffle oil, good enough for most pe
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by jlnthws 2y ago
> incredibly superior to a cell phone I guess YMMV. I've recently had the chance to test drive some of the latest models from BMW and Audi, and honestly, I found their infotainment software to be quite laggy and sometimes unresponsi
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by jlnthws 2y ago
I still drive a 2008 model car with nothing more than a radio and a basic Bluetooth handsfree system, and it's all I've ever needed. When I bought the car, I consciously opted out of a 3500€ built-in GPS, predicting that smartphon
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by jlnthws 3y ago
Interesting. EV are 10 to 20% heavier than a comparable ICE vehicle. So, if we follow this 4th power law, an EV impact on the road would be 50 to 100% more than its equivalent ICE. For me that's yet another new data to factor in the eq
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by jlnthws 3y ago
We could get inspiration from the case of the record industry against Napster, or cabs VS Uber. Both parties are somehow abusing their position, but the world is moving on. Rent seeking is probably not an absolute source of wealth after all
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by jlnthws 3y ago
I was early adopter and managed to get a 2-letter username but I’ve also been renamed to -xx without notice and any explanation :(
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by jlnthws 3y ago
They first need to build European-style mindset to properly take advantage of this.
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by jlnthws 3y ago
The key is to ensure your x86 code is run with Rosetta instead of being emulated (with qemu for instance). By upgrading to Ventura and using the latest Docker Desktop which allows Rosetta translation, I was able to run x86 containers 6 time
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by jlnthws 4y ago
That's why we have conventions: to avoid wasting time arguing about which style to use here and there. I wasted more time reading this article than I will ever waste with lower/upper case naming issues. By the way, Arabic has 4 le
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by jlnthws 5y ago
Yes that’s the correct explanation: 1/120 speed for 220mm focal length equivalent is far too slow, at least 1 EV. The stabilization is probably not on par with big pro lenses and SLR so you might offset 1 more EV. Now the way the AI is
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by jlnthws 5y ago
Metaverse seems backwards because it’s adding skeuomorphism back to social networks.
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by jlnthws 5y ago
This is the best answer. Web devs blindly following edgy Chrome trends which are nothing more than a way to slow down Apple's revenue (which is fair game). App Store revenue was over $70B last year, with a 20% increase every year. Let
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by jlnthws 5y ago
Their device is tiny. I don't understand how it works with low frequency / large wavelength sound wave. Do you?
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by jlnthws 5y ago
Thanks, this is the most underrated answer. Selling processed food as one solution to climate change is genius marketing BS but still just BS. It reminds me of Soylent, Juicero and the like. If you care about the environment, your health an
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by jlnthws 6y ago
What about Terrapower and Nuscale? They are building new type of reactors, much smaller and allegedly safer/cleaner.

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