lmm

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by lmm 14d ago
> at $156B market cap someone sure is making money. So 50x Pets.com or 2x Enron. > judging a mega-corporation on lemonade-stand level accounting is a fool's errand. Disagree. Unit economics matter and can help you cut through a l
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by lmm 14d ago
> What's bad about them? There is a sensible default and users (in particular those with poor eyesight) will adjust them to their needs. 16pt is a sensible default on some screens and very much not on others. > users (in particul
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by lmm 17d ago
> What's wrong with the following CSS snippet for example? It doesn't achieve a reasonable readable font size which was presumably the goal. Your padding won't be the right size for all screens either. (And personally I ha
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by lmm 18d ago
What a pointlessly provocative and unproductive thing to say.
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by lmm 18d ago
I am in the same boat as GP, and I wonder if it's one of the reasons I migrated hard to ebooks and online magazines/newspapers as soon as that became possible and never looked back.
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by lmm 18d ago
There is no way to specify a good size in CSS - a size that looks good on current computers will be too big on old computers, and a size that looks good on old computers looks too small on current ones. Browsers and users are the ones who c
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by lmm 19d ago
Only any who hypocritically want protection for their own models (are there any?). The morality of scraping everyone is arguable; it's when you object to being scraped back that you reveal yourself as a scoundrel.
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by lmm 19d ago
This isn't about the app being unfinished, it's about Google deliberately half-assing support for open standards. They want you to be stuck in their calendar ecosystem so they make sure there's more friction adding a calendar
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by lmm 1mo ago
It has other uses. But the point is that saying "we" when one is not, in fact, a sovereign, is extremely pretentious.
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by lmm 1mo ago
> I literally can't imagine generating a script with an LLM without testing it at all. Then you're extremely unimaginative as well as unusually fastidious. Certainly someone - several someones - are generating lots of scripts a
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by lmm 1mo ago
Talking about the "royal we" is a correct, established (if somewhat sarcastic) way to complain about this kind of usage. It highlights the presumptiveness of the author in their use of "we".
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by lmm 1mo ago
No, that is exactly GP's complaint. Their whole point is that OP has written things like "we throw everything at a model and hope it gives us what we imagined, without ever having to understand how any of it actually works" w
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by lmm 1mo ago
> IT projects that cost billions are incomprehensible to me, outside of frontier work Getting a large bureaucracy to agree on a question where any answer will disadvantage some members of it is frontier work. No-one has a good general
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by lmm 2mo ago
> Credit card entry, I think you should know a few basics like don't put it in MongoDB?? Or nah? It's just like any other user data? > How about a background check - can anyone take a user-entered DL and randomly Google stuf
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by lmm 2mo ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memorylessness
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by lmm 2mo ago
> It’s a contract Many kinds of contracts are illegal, including those that are anticompetitive in certain ways. > Should I be allowed to pay a landscaper less if I agree to not do part of the work myself? No?
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by lmm 2mo ago
Trade ins are fine. A contractual commitment to not buy hardware sounds like illegal restraint of trade.
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by lmm 2mo ago
What are these orgs that have unused meeting rooms? Everywhere I've ever worked has had a chronic meeting room shortage.
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by lmm 2mo ago
Most hardware has an exponential (memoryless) failure distribution in practice. The bathtub curve is a myth.
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by lmm 2mo ago
That's been a common claim, but I don't think I've seen anyone provide actual evidence.
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by lmm 2mo ago
Shinjuku isn't the worst - it's big, but every part of it has its own distinct feel, you never get confused about where you are. I actually think Ikebukuro is the worst - there are too many places where you can rotate 180 degrees,
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by lmm 2mo ago
> why the hell does a TUI need to run in terminal React by way of JavaScript Because React is the only UI framework that takes the problem seriously. Everything else is stuck in the dark ages. How HN gets this so badly backwards I'l
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by lmm 2mo ago
> I think it's profoundly uncool to love your country in many parts of Europe—think the UK and especially Germany. I think that's because you're focusing on outward displays in exactly the way GP was talking about. It&#x27
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by lmm 2mo ago
Shimano is famously a company that people in about four seemingly random/unrelated fields/hobbies think of as a specialist brand in that hobby (e.g. fishing). (They are or at least were originally a bearings company, specialising
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by lmm 2mo ago
I don't know what specifically is wrong with the US-centric numbers you are citing, but I know they don't match the lived reality of the UK, which compares favourably with not only Mississippi but with the US as a whole.
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by lmm 2mo ago
Presumably because he thinks (rightly or wrongly) that the one is damaging his reputation while the other is not.
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by lmm 3mo ago
If there was enough soap residue to matter you'd notice the taste.
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by lmm 3mo ago
Imagine using an ftp program to transfer files.
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by lmm 3mo ago
> there's a long line of well-known names from Alan Kay to Steele, Matz and Goetz, etc. who publicly said great things about the grand idea of Lisp. About the ideas, yes, helped by being such an early language that it can lay claim
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by lmm 3mo ago
> why all of a sudden does management need to micromanage my tools? Because doing so increases the value of their stock options. They might privately think it's as dumb as you do, but apparently the stock market disagrees.

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