mikepurvis

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by mikepurvis 5d ago
The Square One commentary on the AlphaZero v Stockfish game from 2017 is pretty entertaining: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LnVDUQksIDk In other videos he's called out the influence that this and similar games have h
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by mikepurvis 5d ago
True, though I wonder if 2026's "Claude make me a minecraft plugin" is 2006's "View Source" button. Web development took a long time to gain respect in part due to the accessibility of it. When everyone had a n
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by mikepurvis 5d ago
I remember fifteen years ago I would tell people leaving my house "oh yeah, ignore your GPS that tells you to go that way, just down the road here and left turn; that'll get you on the highway much faster." Nowadays obviously
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by mikepurvis 5d ago
I can see how the situation is annoying there; I've had a similar frustration when doing manual code review for someone's obviously AI-slop PR only to have their bot auto-respond to my comments. There's an asymmetry of effor
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by mikepurvis 6d ago
Transporting and handling cash is absolutely not free, and unlike joe sixpack taking out $20k in a stack of benjamins that one time to buy a motorcycle with cash, it's much worse when a. a lot of it is coins, so it's heavy and b
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by mikepurvis 6d ago
The Square One Chess channel on youtube turns this kind of exploration/commentary into quite digestible content, though the thumbnails are, like everything else these days, a little clickbaity. It's been fun viewing for me and my
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by mikepurvis 7d ago
Agree. The comparison to a passport is ludicrous since a passport can be curled around your leg when it's in a pocket where this obviously cannot.
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by mikepurvis 7d ago
I switched off my 13 Mini this year to go to a Pixel 10 for the better Pebble support. I still miss it, it really was the last perfectly-sized phone.
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by mikepurvis 7d ago
I mean, cash is also expensive in its own way. It has to be handled and insured, coins may need to be rolled before being taken to the bank, a register is a mechanical device to power and maintain, petty theft by employees is a concern. It&
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by mikepurvis 7d ago
> For most users who only use a single platform Also depends if your "platform" extends beyond just the OS. If platform includes IDE/editor/terminal, then a lot of users are juggling multiple keyboard schemes from dif
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by mikepurvis 10d ago
For a while after the acquisition you could syndicate your external blog's RSS feed into your Facebook profile. Didn't take long for that to get the axe.
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by mikepurvis 12d ago
Seems like an extremely practical way to handle that requirement without hauling around a ton of extra battery capacity that will rarely get used.
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by mikepurvis 19d ago
It's definitely a case where I see the value of the Asia-style super apps, where you just attach transactions like this to LINE or Grab or whatever, and everyone knows what to do with it. The only thing remotely comparable in Toronto m
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by mikepurvis 19d ago
Using tab to cycle between interactive elements in a window or page. As soon as you tab and it goes somewhere unexpected, you're cooked.
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by mikepurvis 19d ago
That seems reasonable. The kiosk is still there to pay with cards or cash directly, but the app/website lets you skip that, avoid printing a slip, maybe buy a pass or something. The risk is mainly that down the road someone looks at th
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by mikepurvis 19d ago
Valid, though I expect this being down the block from the festival theatre, it probably was being actively patrolled. I was a bit shaken by a prominent sign threatening a $400 fine for illegal parking, though having just checked the website
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by mikepurvis 19d ago
Yes, just a plain tap-to-pay on the meter itself (or a nearby kiosk) is the obvious solution. I think doing it on the meter is awkward because then they all need to be online, so you're either dealing with individual M2M cards or some
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by mikepurvis 19d ago
I guess, but no one carries coins, and the machine doesn't accept them. Me not having coins changed nothing about this situation.
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by mikepurvis 19d ago
Ehh maybe. I mean, it was a three hour show and I don't carry coins any more. So that would have been ATM -> go to a store and break a twenty -> put in a few bucks -> remember to go out at intermission and put in more money. P
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by mikepurvis 19d ago
There are a lot of businesses that have a semi-captive hold on a market. Like a recent example was I drove my daughter and I to a stage play, and to pay for street parking I had to install an app, make an account, and add a credit card. A t
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by mikepurvis 20d ago
But isn't that really just about giving "front end" models more access to specialized tool libraries, which include models tuned to specific tasks? Like the first model says ah, we're being asked to code something, oh an
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by mikepurvis 20d ago
I suspect some of this goes the other way too, that the people who see the value in Nix and/or are willing to tolerate its idiosyncrasies in exchange for what is on offer there are are a lot of the same kinds of folks likely to take an
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by mikepurvis 20d ago
Yeah, Nix flakes can be a static URL path, but they inherit your VCS refs directly, so nix run github:tailscale/tailcat Gets you the default branch. Tailcat doesn't yet have any tags, but if you want a build of the main
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by mikepurvis 20d ago
Maintaining and providing a deb is pretty easy too; the real killer for a nix flake I think it's how dirt simple it is to provide infinite testing builds for different branches.
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by mikepurvis 21d ago
I enjoy that they supply a nix install/environment, similar to the main tailscale/tailscale repo. Is nix widespread or the standard dev environment at tailscale, or is it like a 10% option and most people just use Docker or whatev
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by mikepurvis 22d ago
I switched back to a desktop tower a few years ago as well. Notably, I don't use external displays with the work-issued laptop, but rather set up the laptop on a stand alongside the dual 1440p displays and have synergy for mouse and ke
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by mikepurvis 22d ago
Unrelated to disk, I've definitely been thinking about this more on the network side recently. I upgraded to 1.4/900 home fibre a while back and then got a modern Unifi UCG/U6 wifi setup, and while I do get 1.4GB down from my
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by mikepurvis 22d ago
I bet this is a lot of what is driving it on the DC side, and just in general bringing disk closer to RAM as far more conventional database type workloads.
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by mikepurvis 26d ago
uCLinux was a real thing for a good long while, though I think at this point real microprocessors are cheap, simple, and widely available enough that there hasn't been much need.
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by mikepurvis 27d ago
Parenting philosophy rooted in growth mindset advocates less for "I am smart and therefore I can do this" but rather "the hard work that it will take to do this is worth investing, and failures along the way are opportunities

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