mjfisher

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by mjfisher 28d ago
Second that recommendation, and I think that podcast would particularly as appeal to a lot of the HN crowd. I listened from the beginning until the early/mid 20th century philosophers and understood so much more about my own perspectiv
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by mjfisher 2mo ago
I see a lot of back and forth about postgres' suitability as a queuing system. I wonder if there's a couple of separable problems here. Postgres backed queues - even very scalable ones - might work well for background jobs in a mo
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by mjfisher 2mo ago
In the UK, pretty much zero. Nobody ever leaves their windows down when they leave their car.
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by mjfisher 2mo ago
Indeed. Real life hacks are beginning to sound like Neuromancer.
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by mjfisher 2mo ago
It says something about the state of the world that I was genuinely uncertain whether this was actually a joke right until the last paragraph. Very well done.
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by mjfisher 3mo ago
That's interesting and actually the opposite of mine. I wonder if it's stack or methodology dependant? For reference I'm usually using cursor and opus4.6 and for a bigger piece of work: - Start in ask mode - "I'm pl
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by mjfisher 3mo ago
I can't speak to this particular case, but most of the delay is likely to be organisational rather than technical at this kind of scale. Don't think about how hard it is to migrate a VM to a new provider. Think about how hard it i
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by mjfisher 3mo ago
How could that possibly, ever have made it through. Every single API for every single service didn't check the JWT?
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by mjfisher 4mo ago
I think the specific case of having a long conversation with an agent about what you're trying to achieve and why, and then have it update a README or a skill based on that conversation is a useful thing to do. Captured the context of
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by mjfisher 5mo ago
That's usually because the system that runs those things is independent of the timing of the main game loop. And then when someone finally gets around to implementing the pause screen, they still run even with the main game time stoppe
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by mjfisher 5mo ago
I hope most people have a broader definition of "relevance".
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by mjfisher 5mo ago
The reintroduction of Red Kites to the UK has been a huge success. I don't get particularly excited by birds normally, but regularly seeing such large creatures (almost 2m wingspans) curving through the sky is nothing short of majestic
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by mjfisher 5mo ago
Just to sanity-check my reading of this: - Zustand exposes itself as a hook. - MobX does that observer-wrapper thing - Snapstate instead has an explicit writing step (`scoped()`) at the bottom of a component If so, I really quite like that.
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by mjfisher 6mo ago
I tend to use things like pyenv or nvm; they keep python and node versions in environments local to your user, rather than the system. `pip install x` then installs inside your pyenv and gives you a tool available in your shell
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by mjfisher 6mo ago
It's fine, just not stellar. It was terrible (UX, speed, consistency) ten years ago. It's better now - mostly gets out of people's way and just works. It doesn't delight me.
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by mjfisher 6mo ago
Can anyone recommend good alternatives to Jira? Things that keep me defaulting to it: - Scales well from simple configuration and workflows to more complex multiboard views/custom fields/layouts per issue type etc - Good OOTB inte
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by mjfisher 7mo ago
I think there's definite scope for that being true; not because you can start doing stuff before you understand it (you can), but because you can ask questions of a codebase your unfamiliar with to learn about it faster.
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by mjfisher 7mo ago
I think that we don't and can't know is part of the point
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by mjfisher 8mo ago
Serious question: what are those things from windows 95/98 I might miss? Rose tinted glasses perhaps, but I remember it as a very straightforward and consistent UI that provided great feedback, was snappy and did everything I needed. U
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by mjfisher 9mo ago
Could you give a few examples? I'd lean towards adjusting tooling if you can. My spelling is often horrendous and I know it - but almost every dev I know of prefers to copy and paste anything that might be misspelled just because it&#
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by mjfisher 1y ago
Is there a way of getting them to store a dozen or so totp secrets? And if so, how do you select which one you want to use?
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by mjfisher 1y ago
Cheaper for everything, ultimately. A triangle by definition is guaranteed to be co-planer; three vertices must describe a single flat plane. This means every triangle has a single normal vector across it, which is useful for calculating an
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by mjfisher 1y ago
And in case it helps further in the context of the article: traditional rendering pipelines for games don't render fuzzy Gaussian points, but triangles instead. Having the model trained on how to construct triangles (rather than blobbl
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by mjfisher 2y ago
I'm on mobile; I scrolled to the bottom and clicked the image of the painting and could zoom in to my heart's content - did it ask you for an account?
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by mjfisher 2y ago
Fascinating reading: > The majority of developers are unacquainted with features such as processing instructions and entity expansions that XML inherited from SGML. At best they know about <!DOCTYPE> from experience with HTML but t
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by mjfisher 2y ago
Nope, it's not a coincidence - it's an interesting exploration of the history of the definition of a metre. Read the article. As it says, at some point there was an attempt to standardise the length of a metre in terms of a pendul
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by mjfisher 2y ago
Perhaps not all that offtopic - Hatetris is what happens when you subvert normal the rules and make the game play against you. Anti-mimetics stories are what happens when you subvert the rules of ideas and make them play against you. I ca
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by mjfisher 2y ago
Most recently, Elixir. I never really lost my love for programming, but twenty years in the n-th commercial project in the more common languages (plus a front end based in whatever combination of JS frameworks is the new flavour) really gro
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by mjfisher 2y ago
The author mentions those at the bottom of the article, but two problems highlighted still remain: * There's another intermediary concept (kernel density estimation) between the audience and the data * They're still likely to misr
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by mjfisher 2y ago
There's a difference between asking someone to invert a binary tree, and asking someone to sum up a list of numbers. The latter finds the people who can't code much more quickly!

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