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by lukeck 4mo ago
It’s a fair point about the difficulty in deleting data in a decentralised system but that’s also true in more centralised systems like GitHub or any other website. Once some data is out there, you have no control over whether it can be rem
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by lukeck 11mo ago
Generally, nothing inherently wrong with sending a username but directing people to a 3rd party social media platform rather than an official Anthropic email or support system does nothing to build trust that they actually work there.
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by lukeck 2y ago
This is a really interesting perspective. Thanks for sharing. In your opinion, what would a product that successfully provides low cost computing in developing markets look like? Is one even needed?
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by lukeck 2y ago
I have to agree with this. The software was always serviceable before the new app. I have a Sonos speaker in my kids’ rooms that we often use for audiobooks and lullabies. Even with the latest version of the new app, when I play something o
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by lukeck 2y ago
And they provided an interesting tidbit of information about some of the units mentioned. I didn’t read it as anything negative towards your comment at all. Both your’s and their’s added to the conversation.
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by lukeck 3y ago
I took their question to be shorthand for “Can you please share the image?”
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by lukeck 3y ago
Or they’re looking for someone with a few of the listed skills. I’d be totally on board with job ads saying “the team’s tech stack includes A-Z. No one is expected to be an expert in all of these but if you have experience with some of them
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by lukeck 3y ago
At my kids’ childcare, by far the most popular educator is non-binary. They do a great job of listening to the kids, and talking to them without talking down to them. Come to think of it, the way they interact with the kids actually reminds
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by lukeck 3y ago
> the ones for the CV vaccine were listed on many pages of tiny text (both from Pfizer and from Moderna) The size of the pages side effects were written on says absolutely nothing about what the side effects are or their severity. > T
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by lukeck 3y ago
Do you have any recommendations of your own that you can share?
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by lukeck 3y ago
There have been a few minor revisions of some of the optional add on boards and things like SNAC adaptors for using original controllers from different systems. There have also been a few different takes on making a mister in more of a cons
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by lukeck 3y ago
In my view Python’s strength is it prioritises making how things work clear while Ruby’s strength is it prioritises making intent clear. I actually wish there was something that struck more of a balance between these two philosophies. Ruby’
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by lukeck 3y ago
> There should be one-- and preferably only one --obvious way to do it. I just wish Python applied this approach to package management. It is needlessly complicated.
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by lukeck 3y ago
Thanks for sharing. I’ll check out Ballistic NG. I would love love to see XL/2097 added. That was my favourite. Wipeout 3 was a close second. It was certainly quite different in tone though. In what ways did you find it a disaster?
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by lukeck 3y ago
Are Aruinos really aimed at the professional prototyping market? I’ve always had the impression they are aimed at students and hobbyists. These two groups are generally more price sensitive but do also value ease of use. For these non-profe
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by lukeck 3y ago
1. Being able to take a problem, break it down into progressively smaller chunks and methodically work through it. This often looks like binary search (eg. When trying to understand how a codebase works or debug an incident). 2. Being able
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by lukeck 3y ago
Energy use per capita has dropped because people are using less electricity, and generation has dropped to match. Power systems need to be operated so that demand very closely matched supply from second to second. If people use more, more p
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by lukeck 3y ago
What has happened that makes borosilicate glassware hard to get?
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by lukeck 3y ago
Or make an iPhone that can take spatial pictures.
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by lukeck 3y ago
I used a single large TV for my monitor for a couple of years. At first I used a 50” 4K LCD TV. Some aspects of this were very nice. As you describe, being able to split the screen up into multiple areas or use a portion of the screen as a
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by lukeck 4y ago
In the late 2000s and early 2010s, I was working as a C# developer in a big, old, traditional enterprise environment. I had burned out and I was falling out of love with programming. A friend introduced me to Ruby and I became excited again
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by lukeck 4y ago
I recently switched to Fastmail and have been happy with it so far. The setup I’m using is: - I have a mylastname.com domain. For serious accounts like my bank and insurance, I use companyname@accounts.mylastname.com. - I also have a myrand
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by lukeck 4y ago
If you ask it, it says it can’t search the web and only works with the data it knows about. You can already ask it to provide responses “in the style of.”
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by lukeck 4y ago
I interpreted the original comment as saying that C is detrimental to the long term health of a piece of software in a similar way to how asbestos is detrimental to the long term health of humans. I don’t think there was any suggestion made
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by lukeck 4y ago
Analogies might not help you understand a perspective on a topic but they do help many, many people.
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by lukeck 4y ago
I heard your recent interview on the Retro Hour podcast. Thanks for writing this. I’m looking forward to reading it.
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by lukeck 4y ago
Similarly to the person you’re replying to, I needed to confirm that a doubly linked list is what I thought it was because for me, high school and college were decades ago. I just haven’t had to use that knowledge in many years of professio
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by lukeck 4y ago
This is why diversity of thought is important in teams. Some people will be the “ship, ship, ship type who make sure that the team is meeting its goals. Some will be detail oriented, may frustrate the first type but will ensure the team is
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by lukeck 5y ago
I may be misremembering but I think it was Jessica Kerr who suggested calling it “escalating or compounding risk.” I quite like that because it makes the consequences clearer.
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by lukeck 5y ago
I kind of agree with you. I don’t care if a new hire has deep experience in every part of the team’s tech stack. In interviews I look for four things: 1. Do they know the fundamentals of each domain they mention in their job application? Ho

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