jwalton

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by jwalton 23d ago
In general, when I’ve worked on projects where I’ve spent that much time planning, having a magic AI box that wrote perfect code wouldn’t have helped that much. When you spec every everything out like that, writing the code is the most tri
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by jwalton 8mo ago
LLMs do a cool parlour trick; all they do is predict “what should the next word be?” But they do it so convincingly that in the right circumstances they seem intelligent. But that’s all it is; a trick. It’s a cool trick, and it has utilit
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by jwalton 8mo ago
If you’re 2x farther away, the intensity of the sound with be 1/4, because of the inverse square law, so logically your speaker would need to be 300% louder.
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by jwalton 9mo ago
Bookshop.org has a DRM free section? Where do I find such a thing?
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by jwalton 9mo ago
And Baen. Baen has a storefront of their own online at https://www.baen.com/ .
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by jwalton 1y ago
It's somehow a little poetic that the author's chatgpt example has already been plagiarized by a realtor blog: https://www.elikarealestate.com/blog/beautiful-suffering-of-...
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by jwalton 2y ago
One of the largest camera stores in the US is https://www.bhphotovideo.com/ . Since B&H was founded in NYC by Orthodox Jews, you can’t event place an order on their website on Saturdays.
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by jwalton 2y ago
> but if your hobby is a website where others can post content you have a responsibility that the content shouldn't be illegal or harmful to others I’m not entirely sure I agree with this sentiment. It certainly isn’t true from a l
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by jwalton 2y ago
This is why the LinkedIn app is and will always be banned from my phone.
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by jwalton 2y ago
There’s no small irony that this isn’t age doesn’t render correctly on Safari on iPhone. All the text wraps off the right edge of the phone. -_-
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by jwalton 2y ago
I just spent an afternoon recreating the custom threads on a Hayward chlorinator for my dad so I could 3D print a temporary replacement part. These don’t even use standard pipe fitting thread. -_-
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by jwalton 2y ago
Agreed. I’ve never used spring-boot, so telling me this is like spring-boot is less informative than the author might think it is.
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by jwalton 2y ago
How do you think google maps got such a good database of these things? When I last used it, Google maps used to actively ask you for this sort of information.
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by jwalton 2y ago
Well, step one to increase aerodynamics would be to switch to recumbent bikes, but they’re banned, because they’re too aerodynamic. :P
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by jwalton 2y ago
In my late teens I would frequently be late for university because I’d turn off my alarm or my gf would come wake me up and I’d go straight back to sleep. One day I decided to move my alarm clock to the other side of the room so I’d have t
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by jwalton 2y ago
I'm sorry, I feel like I'm missing something here. I have an M1 Macbook Pro running Sonoma 14.1.1 (I need to update...), I have a nice pair of Sony Bluetooth headphones. I turn my headphones on and off multiple times a day, they
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by jwalton 2y ago
Also, my favorite collection of JS weirdness, “Return true to win”: https://alf.nu/ReturnTrue?world=true&level=id
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by jwalton 2y ago
> A link preview with an image is over 100 MB? I think what’s being implied here is that, when you share a link to Facebook, Facebook will access the page to generate a link preview, so will download a tiny bit of HTML and an image. But
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by jwalton 2y ago
Back in the day, I spent a good month playing the original CS non stop. By the end of that, it was common for someone to accuse me of using wall hacks or otherwise cheating. Cheating in these games is definitely a problem, but I’m skeptic
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by jwalton 2y ago
I had a Honda that nicely solved this by labelling the bars with “int”, so clearly the large markings were for a larger interval. Which is exactly the opposite of how it worked. -_-
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by jwalton 2y ago
I thought about replying with something exactly like this, but generally this sentiment gets downvoted to oblivion. I’ll add that we waited longer than we should have, and while it’s hard to conclusively say we would have had an easier tim
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by jwalton 3y ago
> Unfortunately, the repository where this tool is developed is private Have you thought about publishing the install.sh and final zip file through GitHub pages? Or Cloudflare pages? Then the repo stays private, but the built application
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by jwalton 3y ago
I think you need some info in your readme about what this tool is and why you’d want to use it instead of “rm”. When you say “remove files safely” is this as in “you can easily recover the file if you delete something by accident”, or “safe
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by jwalton 3y ago
I think the actual issue is that a government holds the insane belief that by blocking one out of many ways that someone could make an anonymous threat, it somehow contributes to the safety of their citizens.
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by jwalton 3y ago
I was at a large company during the dot com bust. Someone added a world readable field (I assume by accident or because they didn’t realize we could all read it) to our LDAP called “Departure date”, which let you look up who was going to b
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by jwalton 3y ago
This is very true, but "helping you realize you are doing something unintended" works just as well with a string as with a symbol.
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by jwalton 3y ago
I cannot be the only one who reads AVP as “Alien vs. Predator”.
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by jwalton 3y ago
Unfortunately this doesn’t work, at least not from a type safety perspective, because even without access to the symbol, nothing stops anyone from doing `let myFooId = 'foo' as any as FooId;`. You could detect this at runtime, but
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by jwalton 3y ago
See also https://kitschprompt.com/docs/intro
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by jwalton 3y ago
The relevant quote: > In the 1990s, a big part of Sega’s arcade business was selling cabinets like the Astro City that didn’t come with game boards included. Dottori-kun seems to exist primarily to provide a simple game that could be use

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