jon_richards

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by jon_richards 4mo ago
How close are we to the birth and death of yavascript? https://www.destroyallsoftware.com/talks/the-birth-and-death...
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by jon_richards 4mo ago
And := not being = can really matter for variable shadowing. Absolutely insane syntax choice in a language where everything returns 2 values. At least do var:, err: =
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by jon_richards 4mo ago
I was expecting this https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/the-missile-knows-where-it-is
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by jon_richards 4mo ago
> What's great about this country is America started the tradition where the richest consumers buy essentially the same things as the poorest. You can be watching TV and see Coca-Cola, and you can know that the President drinks Coke
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by jon_richards 5mo ago
Then you need a lawsuit to determine whether the law is “constitutional”.
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by jon_richards 5mo ago
The main value I get from sqlalchemy is parsing the result into useful structures. Getting the two models out of a join, prefetching related objects, etc. Though I much prefer rust diesel’s approach of no lazy queries (prefetches returned a
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by jon_richards 6mo ago
I was taught that’s old American from before knives were cheap. Originally you’d pass the knife. Strange that the wiki implies you set the knife down after each cut.
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by jon_richards 9mo ago
This history was a surprisingly interesting read https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43667010
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by jon_richards 9mo ago
But how are you going to replace the OG? https://mrcoles.com/dragondrop/ (Ironically doesn’t work on mobile)
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by jon_richards 10mo ago
Steam OS might get a boost soon with their new hardware.
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by jon_richards 1y ago
I’ve thought about making a Venmo for betting. Start a betting pool with a group of friends. Use an exchange (not sports book) internal to the group, so no external money needed. No commission. It’s no fun realizing you and your friends hav
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by jon_richards 1y ago
I guess a more accessible version would be toast… what do you put in a toaster?
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by jon_richards 1y ago
Bombe is great. You might like the zactronics games. And there are tons of factory games now if you want factorio with different window dressing.
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by jon_richards 1y ago
Huh. Just checked kagi and it’s the same. At least you can block sites manually.
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by jon_richards 1y ago
Or “called them over by raising a hand” with “flagged down”.
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by jon_richards 1y ago
As recently as the Silicon Valley tv show, the joke was that every startup pitch claimed they were “making the world a better place”.
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by jon_richards 1y ago
Writing an email with AI and having the recipient summarize it with AI is basically all the fun of jpeg compression, but more bandwidth instead of less. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=jmaUIyvy8E8
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by jon_richards 1y ago
The problem making a bear-proof trash can is that there's significant overlap between the smartest bears and the dumbest tourists.
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by jon_richards 1y ago
I considered forking an MIT repo once but had no idea how to communicate which parts were under the original MIT license and which weren’t. Unless I copied it into each file and deleted the root license, it seems like it would license all m
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by jon_richards 1y ago
Not to mention the (now experienced) graduates of really elite schools on the other side of the adversarial relationship, working for those financial institutions.
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by jon_richards 1y ago
The market cares about dollar returned vs dollar-x-time invested. A shoe sits on a shelf until it is sold. If it costs 1.5 times as much to stock a store with shoes, then you need to earn 1.5 times as much money after the same time-delay. T
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by jon_richards 1y ago
And yet we still enter zip code after the rest of the address.
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by jon_richards 1y ago
Yes, 1d. But it's easier to go from a strip to a sheet to a block than trying to imagine an infinite block from scratch. The important part is that at any given point on the elastic strip, both sides are getting further away. Everythi
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by jon_richards 1y ago
Picture an infinitely long piece of elastic. Now stretch that elastic.
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by jon_richards 1y ago
I used to think I watched TV or scrolled Reddit because I didn’t have the energy to pursue more interesting things. I blocked Reddit and TV. Turns out I have plenty of energy, those were just stealing it from me.
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by jon_richards 1y ago
I actually like 2 and 3 in retrospect, but I shut 4 off about halfway through. I liked the reimagining of agent smith ("the man") from an unnamed government agent to a tech bro. The conversation about the new matrix being made &
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by jon_richards 1y ago
When I moved to the US in 3rd grade, I was marked wrong for putting negative numbers as answers on a math test. The correct answer was "You can't subtract a larger number from a smaller number".
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by jon_richards 1y ago
There is a huge category of computer science problems that can be solved with the same algorithm (and a conversion). Graph coloring is probably the easiest of those problems to explain.
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by jon_richards 1y ago
I can’t tell if this was intentional, but it’s a hilarious joke. OP was referring to the decision to provide an “answer”, not the length of the response.
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by jon_richards 2y ago
Interestingly, the author of my quote also mentions this: > Tolkien in his letters insists that Frodo did not fail – that his captivity to the Ring was inevitable

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