leafmeal

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by leafmeal 6d ago
If I understand correctly this is the same as BPPV which is on there :)
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by leafmeal 2mo ago
> It is not bold at at all to say K-12 will be eradicated. Higher Ed not so much because many were always buying the status of higher education anyway, so the status in itself still has value as a product. It’s funny because I believe th
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by leafmeal 2mo ago
Aka solar power
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by leafmeal 3mo ago
If you're open to physical media you can probably request it through your library, or similarly buy the dvd from ebay or something.
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by leafmeal 9mo ago
This totally makes me thing of Martin Kleppmann's recent blog post about how AI will make verified software much easier to use in practice! https://martin.kleppmann.com/2025/12/08/ai-formal-verificati...
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by leafmeal 1y ago
I'm reading The Economy of Cities by Jane Jacobs right now. One of the main theses of the book is that small "inefficient" enterprises are actually the engines of economic grown. Large efficient organizations often lead to
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by leafmeal 1y ago
I wonder how comparable this actually is to "American Nervousness" which I learned about on Derek Thompson's blog https://substack.com/@derekthompson/p-170457512
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by leafmeal 1y ago
Points taken about benefits of run scripts for portability, reproducibility, CI, etc. I'm mostly just trying to find a way to debug arbitrary programs and run tests in the IDE. It looks like this should be possible with tasks https:
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by leafmeal 1y ago
The thing that's so sticky for me with JetBrains IDEs is their run configurations. Being able to configure all of the environment variables etc. for the actual code that I need to run, especially when connecting to a debugger or tests
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by leafmeal 1y ago
Do you believe making things easier and more accessible is bad for workers? I don't think it inherently is or isn't, it just depends on who benefits from the increased efficiency. I think that's more of a problem with your ec
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by leafmeal 1y ago
As someone who sometimes thinks of themselves as an "optimizer", I feel the opposite take away. I spend too much time "polishing" trying to make something perfect, at the cost of actually getting things done.
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by leafmeal 1y ago
I think your statement is reasonably reflective of his web articles (especially his SubStack) but I've really enjoyed the books of his that I've read, which felt well researched and founded, especially The Righteous Mind.
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by leafmeal 1y ago
If you factor in the cost of any government managed trash cleanup, it might. Basically require producers to cover all of the costs required to get the trash disposed of properly. Filtering micro-plastics out of the ocean? Add it to the pl
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by leafmeal 2y ago
This is a fun analysis, but that's not traditionally how a land value tax works. Land is taxed based on (surprise) its value. Land in cities is obviously more valuable than a big farm in Missouri. The general idea is that two plots of
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by leafmeal 2y ago
There's a create blog from the creator of RhymeBrain that talks about Succinct Tries: https://stevehanov.ca/blog/index.php?id=120 I'm pretty sure these were used to store the built in dictionaries on early mo
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by leafmeal 2y ago
I tried this just for fun and youtube said to update my browser :(
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by leafmeal 2y ago
It's relevant to compare though because Google has done the same thing now.
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by leafmeal 2y ago
This is fascinating! How can I learn more about this tech if I wanted to try an build something myself?
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by leafmeal 2y ago
Probably I'm a bad person with poor taste, but I enjoyed this and hope it was written by generative AI.
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by leafmeal 2y ago
I think PowerShell works this way essentially. As I understand, all data is structured which makes formatting and piping to other programs much simpler.
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by leafmeal 2y ago
They used fire for much more than just promoting plant growth for baskets, I don't think OP did a very good job of explaining that. Fire was used to promote plant growth to encourage game, keep meadows open and clear to aide hunting, s
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by leafmeal 2y ago
> There's not much evidence that indigenous Californians were doing any kind of fire management in the California coniferous forests My impression from the book was that there was. They specifically mention burning in around Yosemit
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by leafmeal 2y ago
I read Chasing the Molecule by John Buckingham recently and thoroughly enjoyed it! It give a good outline of the history of modern chemistry in a way that felt accessible but still thorough. It also does a great job of explaining the differ
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by leafmeal 2y ago
I wonder if I can take credit for that :) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23838755 I can to this thread to talk up the book too!
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by leafmeal 2y ago
In San Francisco, rent control doesn't apply to new construction as I understand.
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by leafmeal 2y ago
If they're also downloading or seeding the torrent, the learn the IPs of their peers, so they know you were downloading that particular file.
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by leafmeal 2y ago
immutable had a different meaning in common parlance than it does in datatypes. And even in datatypes usually you end up creating a new "copy" of the thing but with more info appended. The original remains as it was, unchanged (un
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by leafmeal 2y ago
This is the main focus of Jon Haidt's research right now. Plenty of resources on his site dedicated to it here: https://www.afterbabel.com/
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by leafmeal 2y ago
I think the general concept here is pretty good honestly, but would also emphasize that sometimes you don't even know if you're solving the right problem with your shitty prototype. You gotta get it out there and get feedback as s
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by leafmeal 2y ago
See my comment above, but the short of it is that it seems she didn't retract because she probably was not wrong. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39759898

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