musingsole

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by musingsole 3y ago
Java by Sun back in the day is much more the Coca Cola of languages. Today, maybe C# by Microsoft. Python's organic growth and adoption is more of an OpenCola model.
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by musingsole 3y ago
> Handlers are functions that are part of the app object's state, which alters the app's behavior. I find that phrasing very fair.
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by musingsole 3y ago
The Handlers implement behavior, sure. But from the perspective of the `app` object, the handler function objects are state. You can tell, because `app` is an instance of the Flask class and the Handlers are added to the instance by way of
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by musingsole 3y ago
> Envy doesn't create rights for oneself nor does it impute privilege to other I'm saving this for posterity!
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by musingsole 3y ago
That applies to databases as much as data lakes. I don't know why it's so hard to get across that data expires in the same way that language changes.
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by musingsole 3y ago
I'm always yearning for a modern StumbleUpon
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by musingsole 3y ago
But that's missing the GP's forest for the trees (pun intended). Liu Cixin's work popularized the theory and phrasing by a massive amount both in comparison to the works that came before and as well as after. The core point s
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by musingsole 3y ago
I've been experimenting a lot with using Jupyter Notebooks ( http://jupyter.org/ ) to get many features of literate programming. The tooling can be a bit clunky -- though JupyterLab and some plugins can go a long way. Im
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by musingsole 3y ago
Landscaping is a perfect example of how an individual can instantaneously create value in the economy. Banks can create currency, but individuals can magically create value. How? Decide you want your yard to look different. On a whim. Just
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by musingsole 3y ago
This is awesome! The IPython prompt was the last place I expected a tool like this, but I'm very excited to use it!
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by musingsole 3y ago
Rainbow tables didn't pan out before; they won't this time either.
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by musingsole 3y ago
Without context, the animation applied to a basic interaction seems like it's getting in the way of User Interaction But as you hint, in many situations a gradual change of the presentation will allow a user a lot more awareness of the
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by musingsole 3y ago
Whether or not the button exists in someone's interface is likely separate than the means used by GPT to reason it was the case. GPT responds that there is an upload button because a lot of interfaces are described that way around th
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by musingsole 3y ago
I don't buy it (pun intended). The challenge of a profitable, open source business model is very real, but also very surmountable -- as evidenced by Prusa's existence in the first place. Thinking one has to straddle the line betwe
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by musingsole 3y ago
This response references Thea Flowers' response: https://blog.thea.codes/a-reply-to-josef-prusa/ Prusa exists in what I hope is a time of transition from capital/ownership mindsets into a new type of open mar
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by musingsole 3y ago
"regular expression" != "regular language" I appreciate the academic frameworks that have led to the development of systems, however as a working engineer, ignoring where the rubber meets the road is my entire complaint.
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by musingsole 3y ago
No True Scotsman. For years I struggled to grok the difference between regular expression and parsing. The conversations I would hear about the topic always left me feeling there must be some interesting meat to the difference...and so I wo
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by musingsole 3y ago
If a project calls for 3+ of the same board, then PCBs become worth it quickly, in my opinion. Even more than aesthetics, I've had a few projects where an unpopulated board outlives any other remnants of a project and so becomes the la
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by musingsole 3y ago
For prototyping, RaspberryPis will get you where you're going faster than anything else. The Linux environment gives you speed of development. The form factor let's you toss it in a parts bin. The GPIO gives you direct, easy acces
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by musingsole 3y ago
Not typically
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by musingsole 3y ago
CS programs are designed with broad input from a wide assortment of interest groups -- specific industries or companies or whatever. Different universities tend to emphasize the "foundations" of the industries physically nearby. S
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by musingsole 4y ago
People like dreaming more than they enjoy actualization. Pulling dreams into reality is hard work and necessarily heartbreaking as reality and dreams don't match.
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by musingsole 4y ago
I used to take the cabinet doors off all my rentals -- less for me keeping track of what was where and more for guests so they didn't need to ask where anything was.
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by musingsole 4y ago
>I imagine these days it would just have a few power transistors and an inscrutable ASIC That just make an it easier to replace with an ESP32 and flashing OpenWashingMachine
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by musingsole 4y ago
Are you mistaking restaurants for hedge funds? Franchises never have much margin to begin with -- they're mostly real estate vehicles. It's why a Chipotle will operate at 20% staff like it's a normal thing. A local restaurant
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by musingsole 4y ago
> This or that restaurant or this or that regional manager could give them a fair wage They do... usually by way of appropriate schedules or other logistics of the job which delivers access to the richest streams of tips. This is why the
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by musingsole 4y ago
> U.S. tipping doesn't make any sense from a European point of view. Because you're thinking about it too hard or otherwise unaware of the inner turnings of the system. Where it matters, servers are almost their own industry, s
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by musingsole 4y ago
Decisions made for the convenience of the owner, not the customers nor the employees.
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by musingsole 4y ago
Layoffs and paycuts don't bode well for any interesting work or keeping people in a mood where they are likeable. The handwringing and psuedo-calculus of cuts does further damage to any interesting work. Can't do interesting work
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by musingsole 4y ago
And humans don't just produce CO2. They shed everything from dust to viruses. Really, humans are the health concern we should be paying more attention to.

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