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by riwsky 9d ago
Being charming and persuasive is legitimately one of the core skills of a CEO or any leader, though!
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by riwsky 1mo ago
At the current pace of innovation, the 2020s might even see us catch up to where Google Wave was in 2009. Exciting times.
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by riwsky 3mo ago
HLA
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by riwsky 3mo ago
A much better test, which dynamically adjusts difficulty level: https://www.myvocab.info/en
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by riwsky 4mo ago
git let me make changes to local files without fear, since version control let me undo those changes easily. jj let me make changes to my git commits without fear, since version control of the git state itself let me undo those changes easi
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by riwsky 4mo ago
That’s, uh, exactly how jj works!
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by riwsky 5mo ago
I’ll just leave this here: https://www.businessinsider.com/grok-ai-elon-musk-is-more-fi...
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by riwsky 5mo ago
With jj worktrees, you can even have agents working on each of those sub-megamerge branches in parallel.
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by riwsky 5mo ago
My gRPC point is that it already gives you a language for describing interfaces and support for generating client types from it, and already abstracts the connection management[1]. If OBI just generated a gRPC ClientConn implementation to m
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by riwsky 5mo ago
You’re still not getting it. Duck typing comes from the phrase “if it looks like a duck, and quacks like a duck, then it must be a duck”. The Wikipedia page contrasts it with nominative typing that requires a declaration, and calls out that
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by riwsky 5mo ago
Artificial intelligence predates computers.
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by riwsky 5mo ago
Ad-hoc duck typing—“if it looks like a duck[…]”—is the only kind that exists! The point of the term “duck typing” is that it doesn’t require explicit declaration of the contract by implementers, it’s not synonymous with polymorphism or with
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by riwsky 5mo ago
The web IS the duck typing equivalent at the network boundary! That’s why plenty of alternative service providers can and do implement eg object storage APIs that work with aws s3 client libraries, or LLM APIs that work with Claude Code. Th
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by riwsky 5mo ago
Might makes right; brains hold reigns.
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by riwsky 6mo ago
Sure—but that’s a property of the inferred types moreso than the mere application syntax. It can be hard to revisit or understand the type of JS or unannotated Python expressions, too—but unlike those cases, the unknown-to-the-reader type o
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by riwsky 6mo ago
The functional programming take is that “the result of foobinade-ing an and b” IS “foobinade applied to two of its arguments”. The application is not some syntactic pun or homonym that can refer to two different meanings—those are the same
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by riwsky 6mo ago
cries in google wave
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Show HN: Iosef, an iOS simulator CLI designed for agents(github.com)
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by riwsky 7mo ago
In fairness to the skill author, this is indeed what Elon did to the US government with DOGE
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by riwsky 7mo ago
Am I the only one who finds this material rather dense?
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by riwsky 7mo ago
1. The collaboration and notation app for rock bands that I’d wished existed already: https://bandwith.rocks/about 2. A “runtime scheduler for humans” that I wished existed, too (think morning routines, travel checklists, a
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by riwsky 7mo ago
I agree that the font and emoji hops aren’t great for complexity or performance, but the problem in the post was in the rendering of a tiny SVG; serving it directly would not have avoided the problem.
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by riwsky 8mo ago
Damn, wait: you mean the random HN commenter didn’t magically solve a difficult problem that has long-confounded experts, simply by bringing their unique insights and thirty seconds to bear?
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by riwsky 8mo ago
> What's missing is a widespread replacement for XSLT jq says hello!
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by riwsky 8mo ago
"I give it a hot minute before this type of task tracking lands in Claude Code." aaaaand right on cue: https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/commit/e431f5b4964... https://www.threads.
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by riwsky 8mo ago
“I’m going to go lay down and, uh, think about the problem with my eyes closed” Oh good, mainstream coders finally catching up with the productivity of 2010s Clojurists and their “Hammock Driven Development”! ( https://m.youtube.c
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by riwsky 8mo ago
The underlying guiding philosophy isn’t relativistic, though! It clearly considers some behaviors better than others. What the quoted passage rejects is not “the existence of objectively correct ethics”, but instead “the possibility of unam
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by riwsky 8mo ago
This is an extremely uncharitable interpretation of the text. Objective anchors and examples are provided throughout, and the passage you excerpt is obviously and explicitly meant to reflect that any such list of them will incidentally and
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by riwsky 9mo ago
Simon Willison: How this Devastating Perfect Reply Changed my Publishing Workflow, featuring Claude Code
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by riwsky 9mo ago
Dude, what? The fuckers set up an automated system that found people’s private email addresses and blasted them with unwanted emails. The outrage is exactly that they built a line-crossing machine. Your moralizing is incoherent.

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