larzang

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by larzang 5y ago
Peak Chinese coal consumption was 2013, it's still substantial but total usage has been falling along with percentage of total output for a while now.
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by larzang 5y ago
Context is incredibly important. The author is writing from the standpoint of a startup trying to fine tune an MVP. Of course it doesn't matter if it lasts if you don't know what you're building and rewriting everything isn
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by larzang 5y ago
I was thinking more TempleOS or Time Cube
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by larzang 5y ago
I must have missed the parts where South Korea and Taiwan were bombed into the stone age for years and then forced to repeatedly fight their neighbors for continued survival. From the virtually complete annihilation of civilian infrastructu
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by larzang 5y ago
Some chiropractors do have the education and experience to operate as physical therapists. When I was doing competitive weight lifting, I saw a chiro who had a masters in sports medicine and had spent years as a college football trainer.
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by larzang 5y ago
Working for a for-profit company is a completely different labor relationship than working for an OSS org or other non-profit. You absolutely should fight to prevent management from extracting more of the value you generated just because y
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by larzang 5y ago
Wasting massive amounts of mostly carbon-producing electricity as the planet dies to do absolutely nothing productive is a pretty cyberpunk evil megacorp thing to do, agreed.
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by larzang 5y ago
Neat project, awful name. Overloading Flow, an already important part of the React ecosystem, just makes it harder to both find information about your project and find information about Flow.
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by larzang 5y ago
I think a fair few of us have been burned by companies where this level of respect absolutely did not and could not exist and engineers were treated equivalent to you, an amateur, calling a plumber to your house and then hovering over them
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by larzang 5y ago
Something I never see mentioned in these discussions is the surprisingly high hurdles to actually operating a distributed company. You'd think in 2021 it wouldn't be difficult to have employees doing knowledge work in multiple US
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by larzang 5y ago
FIG standards are explicitly interoperability standards. They make it easy for anyone to jump into a new company or open source project with minimal friction and minimal bikeshedding. If you or your team don't care about that and want
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by larzang 5y ago
8 days, but the bigger problem is that increases the expected sea states encountered by several levels. Huge container ships don't like that.
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by larzang 6y ago
So what's your proposed alternative that doesn't involve checking? Option-style wrappers enforce consistent checking and handling, but so do explicitly nullable type signatures. At some point you're going to need to know wh
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by larzang 6y ago
Having worked on a number of CRM and other business applications, yep, it's maddening. Not all addresses and names are your address and name.
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by larzang 6y ago
Individuals may not need it, but companies? The company I work for has multiple products which internally rely on geolocating arbitrary addresses. OSM keeps our costs way down, we only have to pay Google when OSM fails a match and we fall
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by larzang 6y ago
$125 for my zoji that I've used at least 4 times a week for the last decade is significant value that you just don't see out of most appliances anymore. I'm more impressed by the reliability than the cooking tech (though it
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by larzang 6y ago
If pumping and dumping for the robin hood chumps is far more profitable than years of dividends, which is the real product?
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by larzang 6y ago
It seems really premature to make any declarations about brand loyalty when Uber is still majorly subsidizing consumer prices with a VC cash bonfire.
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by larzang 6y ago
Postgres stores records by primary id sequence. If you have completely random IDs, records inserted at the same time are fragmented across the entire set, which makes accessing them slower if they're meant to be sequential. Whether th
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by larzang 6y ago
If we were serious about preventing deaths, a lot more could and would have been done before going as far as taking risks on experimental drugs.
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by larzang 6y ago
It's not a question of perfect, it's a question of __unnecessary__ fragility/vulnerability. We all rely on electricity because the alternative is far more difficult. We drive despite the costs and problems because most plac
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by larzang 6y ago
Dealing with the hell of mixed ISO-8859-1/15 vs CP-1252 vs UTF-8 vs simple ASCII was enough to make me an early embracer of UTF-everywhere despite mostly only having to deal with English language sources. "Someone copy/paste
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by larzang 6y ago
Completely agree, a change is an atomic change and should be contained in a single commit, I don't need to know the sub-steps it took to arrive at the final solution when I'm trying to blame or log the reason it changed 6 months f
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by larzang 6y ago
"Removing outdated or poorly written laws by paying off Congress is more effective than funding lawyers to litigate their misuse on a case by case basis forever"
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by larzang 6y ago
It also still requires 32-bit drivers, which were initially missing from the last nvidia update, forcing a rollback. I'm incredibly grateful for the work they've done on Proton, but it's definitely odd they don't seem to
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by larzang 6y ago
My immediate reaction isn't "this is so cool and useful for me" but "this might be really useful over traditional speech translation for programmers who can't use their hands". If you know the code but have di
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by larzang 6y ago
I would have been perfectly happy if Microsoft had just kept making the Natural 4000 forever. Logitech has some 20+ year old designs they keep producing because for some people they're perfection, and I'd hoped Microsoft would co
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by larzang 6y ago
Right? Forget bugs in the contract system, if you have pools writing whatever history they want in private that seems to defeat the entire point.
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by larzang 6y ago
Completely agree. Sure, any editor can be paired with static analysis tools to make sure I probably didn't break things, but only a full IDE can just handle the refactor for me so that I don't have to spend time searching, fixing
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by larzang 6y ago
What programmer wants to add those things? Ads have been the bane of the internet for 20 years, how many times has a developer excitedly clamored to ruin their performance metrics, layout, security, etc with more ads? How often are progra

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