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by menssen 4mo ago
I had a CalDigit TB dock -- maybe 2021-ish? -- that every time I unplugged my MacBook would take my internet offline. I thought I was insane. How is that even possible? But I finally gave up and returned it. Thanks for finally answering thi
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by menssen 3y ago
Off-topic rant: to read this article, I: 1. Clicked on the link. 2. Got pay-walled. 3. Remembered that I had access to the Atlantic through Apple News+. 4. Opened the News App on my phone. 5. Went to Magazines. 6. Found the latest issue of
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by menssen 3y ago
For what it's worth, I don't take that framing of intelligence seriously either. It's useful to have a word to describe the far-future state of the increasing capabilities of Computers. I'm just saying that I don't
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by menssen 3y ago
I appreciate this paper for relatively clearly stating what "human-like" might entail, which in this case involves "reasoning about the causes behind other people's behavior" which is "critical to navigate the
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by menssen 3y ago
There is always space for options for "fast and easy" vs "robust and maintainable." Nothing will ever beat the following as tech demo for how easy it is to make interactive UIs, but anybody who ever tried to reason thr
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by menssen 3y ago
It is possible with React to write an application where components have no internal state, every component is "read only," and all UI changes are state transitions in (something like) a redux store. This is rarely done, because
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by menssen 3y ago
"Lots of people are still using it, but nobody can quite remember why." I can remember why. This, and every other article I've ever read arguing to replace React with Web Components, completely misunderstands the point of Rea
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by menssen 3y ago
Just take the whole compressed, square, package-shaped "patty" of ground meat from the plastic and drop it into a ripping hot pan intact, and don't touch it until it browns pretty darkly on the bottom, then proceed to break
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by menssen 3y ago
Ted's booklist/review websites have been my go-to for "I need something to read" for years now. He appears to not be maintaining them and some of the domains have expired, but here's "The New Canon" (ficti
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by menssen 3y ago
I thought this was going to be about "Moose Boulder," whose existence was (rather unconvincingly, I think) "disproven" a couple years ago, and which begs the interesting question about how we define "Largest Lake.&q
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by menssen 6y ago
Sports, shows, movies, and games are all essentially free (or already paid for via a handful of subscription services). Travel, concert tickets, expensive restaurants, and wine are not free, and are all currently cancelled. Most high-income
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by menssen 6y ago
Finance YouTuber Graham Stephen recently made a big deal out of moving from Los Angeles to Vegas because the tax savings more-or-less paid for a giant mansion in Vegas. (And because of some slightly cringey comments about not wanting to see
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by menssen 6y ago
Well, but we are all philosophers -- lovers of wisdom -- or at least all who begin to ask about it are. Sure, it would be idiotic to say that such a book is the end of philosophy, but actually such a book as the beginning of philosoph
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by menssen 7y ago
It's almost impressive that Docker-on-macOS works so seamlessly that people are downvoting this comment. Yes, Docker containers run in a Linux VM on macOS. It's just one though, and generally seems fine on low resource workstation
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by menssen 7y ago
It's okay... to advocate for a major economic recession to make flying more comfortable for those of us with somewhat recession-proof skills?
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by menssen 7y ago
Nothing. I self-host nothing. My entire home networking infrastructure consists of a more powerful WiFi router than the one built into the modem that the cable company provides so that it reaches to the back of my apartment. I pay money for
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by menssen 7y ago
"Kid who has eschewed the internet gets exploited by mom for vogue.com clicks"
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by menssen 7y ago
I don't know the answer to this, but I've always been genuinely curious: how accurate is the Date object? setInterval's minimum interval is ~15ms [1], so shouldn't something like... setInterval(() => (new Date()).valu
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by menssen 7y ago
BetterTouchTool is well worth the money. Recommended setup (mine): One giant button in the left corner that says "escape escape escape escape escape" (what it does should be obvious), and one tiny button in the right corner that b
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by menssen 7y ago
> you just need to parse incoming sql to sanitize it and make sure there is no role escalation "Just"? I guess I'm skeptical of a statement that begins "you just have to parse sql". Is this actually easier than I
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by menssen 7y ago
Do you work for the Minneapolis tourism association? You are correct, and it's kind of insane to me how much of a "baseline" there is to what "tolerable temperatures" feel like. You start to notice this a lot living
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by menssen 7y ago
I think you're being down-voted because you are sort of wrong about the distances. We could probably get some people to another star. Why we would do that, or what we would tell them (with a five year communication delay) after they go
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by menssen 8y ago
It’s too bad that “sales driven” is code for “information hiding.” But it’s true. Anecdotally, I’ve been able to solve the information assymetry problem by drinking recruiters under the table. This is pretty much a prerequisite for me worki
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by menssen 8y ago
Yeah. This is littered with stuff like: "This is, be it said forthwith, apposite as a castigation of historiographic diagnostics..." I don't know Polish, but it seems suspect that all of "forthwith," "apposite,
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by menssen 8y ago
Or Frida Kahlo. It’s pretty easy to become an idol of art or health when you’re born into money. All those traditional mid-century Marxist “class is the only thing that matters” people don’t sound so bad now, huh.
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by menssen 8y ago
“Could a computer scientist understand a brain?”
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by menssen 8y ago
Is the Apple/consumer thing still true? Not questioning your general business-model assumptions, but anecdotally all the “consumers” I know with Macs are holding onto them for six years, while every dev shop I’ve worked in in this deca
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by menssen 9y ago
Strip malls, factories, and suburban office parks are all associated with dense, vibrant, walkable cities, so, yeah, this makes sense.
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by menssen 9y ago
Arguably it works better. Minnesota Public Radio has 127,000 members [wikipedia], which is a bit over 2% of the population of MN. They do a far better job covering stuff like city politics than any other news organization in town. The Guard
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by menssen 9y ago
Recently, after some corporate IT crap required handing over my laptop for a weekend, it came back with a post-it note attached that said "your caps lock key is broken, let us know if you want a new computer."

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