nadagast

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by nadagast 2mo ago
Interesting that I could _immediately_ tell the model visualization was built with Claude
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by nadagast 3mo ago
I enjoyed this. But reading the claim that the iPhone was bad compared to other phones of the day makes me question it all. That's so incredibly backwards. It _was_ a much better internet in your pocket. If you couldn't see that,
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by nadagast 2y ago
I think a lot of this type of problem goes away with immutable data and being more careful with side effects (for example, firing them all at once at the end rather than dispersed through the calculation)
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by nadagast 2y ago
You think the only reason vim & emacs aren't used as much as iOS/Android/Windows (or equivalent defaults on those platforms) is familiarity?
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by nadagast 2y ago
I think there have been and will continue to be UX improvements to programmer tools. GitHub is one example. You think tools that stagnate will continue to see the same levels of adoption in new generations of programmers? It's an empir
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by nadagast 2y ago
I use and love emacs, but pointing to it as an example of how to evolve UX over time is indicative of your perspective. iOS/Windows/Android are used by the majority of people on the planet, emacs is not. Which UX do you think youn
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by nadagast 3y ago
Day-tomic I believe
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by nadagast 4y ago
Isn't it because there's a ton of new supply of labor from around the world?
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by nadagast 4y ago
Maybe the system was different back then, but now Avoid will only avoid the player as a teammate, they can still be on the enemy team. So if someone is too good, there's no incentive to avoid them.
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by nadagast 5y ago
indeed
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by nadagast 5y ago
We're working on task management + email, I kept your comment [1] from awhile ago. I don't see any way to contact you in your profile, are you interested in trying an alpha? Email me at garrett at twobird.com [1] https:/&#x2
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by nadagast 5y ago
Mike Duncan and Revolutions is great, endorse! His previous podcast, The History of Rome, is also great.
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by nadagast 5y ago
I know -- I meant more about making sure they don't make public places unsafe/unclean.
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by nadagast 5y ago
Yeah, when I first saw the flow, I was shocked...
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by nadagast 5y ago
I think we should do everything we can to give/push them into treatment, but at the very least they don't get to make streets unsafe and unclean for others, they have to go elsewhere
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by nadagast 5y ago
100% this -- is this really an unpopular opinion?
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by nadagast 5y ago
In Our Time is a wonderful podcast, always interesting content! Also, as an American, the pace of the show and way of speaking is itself interesting to me.
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by nadagast 5y ago
This was one of the biggest things that struck me when I visited Japan. Their cities are just so much friendlier/better than 99% of American cities.
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by nadagast 6y ago
This brings back thoughts I've had that we should be working with normalized data in code, rather than thick objects. I think the main reason we don't is because there's a lack of tooling around it in our languages. I think a
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by nadagast 6y ago
This is the right answer and I wish more languages would make this dramatically more ergonomic to do. Store the most basic normalized truth and query/derive what you need.
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by nadagast 7y ago
But how will you decide which is worth knowing if you never look? I get why you may want to take it in at a slower pace than a social media feed, but it seems like there's no way to tell what's worth knowing if you "stop con
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by nadagast 7y ago
> On the whole, you are not ignorant if you don't consume the news, not by any standard. I don't mean this in an insulting way, but aren't you ignorant (by definition) of current events if you don't read/hear abo
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by nadagast 8y ago
> I guess I overlooked it because the other way is so logically trivial, since it basically boils down Yeah, that's (part of) Hickey's point. That the "best" type systems fail this test, and require manual programmer
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by nadagast 8y ago
Yes, the default of a lot of languages, (Java, C, etc) where nil is implicitly a member of every other type is a bad default. But that's a separate question.
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by nadagast 8y ago
I agree that there are reasons for Maybe a to be a different type from (a | nil) but there are also good reasons to prefer (a | nil). Like most things, it's a set of tradeoffs. What I appreciated about this talk was that he went into
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by nadagast 8y ago
Why is it illogical to say that a Maybe a -> b should be callable as if it were a -> b? His point is that Maybe a should be composed of all the values of a, plus one more value, nil. A value of type a is a member of the set (nil + a)
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by nadagast 9y ago
- Two unstable people with nukes and a lot of angry rhetoric. And this today: https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2017/12/li... -- not a great situation. - Don't know enough about ta
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by nadagast 9y ago
This would be a reasonable opinion if the far right reacted to this event by giving credit to WaPo--if their genuine interest was in the truth and good reporting. Unfortunately truth and good reporting is not their goal, and this entire st
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by nadagast 9y ago
I've been thinking a lot about nearly these exact same things. We desperately need better ways to deal with derived textual data. Why do we make the programmer guess which data structure will work best for a particular task, when we
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by nadagast 9y ago
I agree, it's better than iOS 10. Though quitting apps does feel worse, but maybe that's intentional?

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