rkapsoro

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by rkapsoro 27d ago
I remember reading a scene where this exact thing was going on in Vernor Vinge's Rainbow's End: there, the books were being shredded and scanned as tiny bits and stitched together in software similar to shotgun genome sequencing.
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by rkapsoro 1mo ago
A story as old as time.
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by rkapsoro 1mo ago
My beef with birds has always been that they treat the entire world as their toilet. Woe betide the creature who finds himself beneath a bird.
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by rkapsoro 4mo ago
Whoa that's a surprise. They even call out support for CrossPoint by name, too. Moreover, it's a bit of a crazy looking hack too, by doing a MITM attack. I'm curious to see what exactly is the seam between the Xteink brand an
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by rkapsoro 5mo ago
I only partly agree with this. The answer is maddeningly more complicated. Some parts of their software stack -- higher up than the kernel -- are actually pretty great. There's a lot of realy brilliant stuff in their system frameworks,
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by rkapsoro 5mo ago
Argh. I was really excited for this. I'm a YouTube Premium user, and I get a lot of value from YouTube, but I can't get rid of the nicotine-tastic home feed and shorts. I go to YouTube for useful (especially, long-form) stuff, and
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by rkapsoro 6mo ago
I think you're agreeing with him. All of the things you just listed are key senior developer skills.
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by rkapsoro 6mo ago
I say, those chat logs read like Wodehouse.
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by rkapsoro 6mo ago
I'm sure certain people accustomed to hand assembly were saying this when compilers emerged on the scene.
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by rkapsoro 6mo ago
> The plate reader company touts “Accurate residency verification does more than protect the financial health of public schools—it safeguards the trust and equity at the heart of public education.” There is so much wrong with that senten
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by rkapsoro 7mo ago
Wait until you hear what kind of vehicles the CAFE regulatory framework has incentivized US automakers to build.
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by rkapsoro 9mo ago
There is one use case that is brilliant: comedy and meme videos. Bigfoot comes to mind.
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by rkapsoro 10mo ago
This is the wrong attitude to take to the problem. While I grant there were many who were disposed to be irrational skeptics, lots of skepticism was generated by dishonest messaging, coercive mandates, and punitive limitations on dissenting
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by rkapsoro 11mo ago
fwiw I've noticed that Omarchy[1] uses some terminal-based screensavers, using something called tte[2] to do so. 1: https://omarchy.org/ 2: https://github.com/ChrisBuilds/terminaltexteffects
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by rkapsoro 11mo ago
They didn't port SwiftUI to windows; they wrote a Swift wrapper for WinUI. Impressive in its own right, but not SwiftUI.
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by rkapsoro 1y ago
Timely sponsorship, downloading the Omarchy 3 ISO last week sat at about 600 KiB/s. Appreciated!
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by rkapsoro 1y ago
The use case I always think of is the developer experience for regular hobbyist and workaday devs writing their apps with local-first sync. Apple comes close with CloudKit, in that it takes the backend service and makes it generic, basicall
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by rkapsoro 1y ago
This seems equivalent to Notarization on macOS. https://developer.apple.com/documentation/security/notarizin...
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by rkapsoro 1y ago
Something like 15 years ago I once went to a Less Wrong/Overcoming Bias meetup in my town after being a reader of Yudkowsky's blog for some years. I was like, Bayesian Conspiracy, cool, right? The group was weird and involved quit
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by rkapsoro 1y ago
I've been planning for decades to have a party on that day. Only 13 years left!
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by rkapsoro 3y ago
https://startingstrength.com/get-started
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by rkapsoro 3y ago
Yeah, I've noticed this too. It looks like the air quality models that iOS Weather is using are integrated into a single system, and then that system is asked to render maps in any of the different regions' AQI systems. Which mean
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by rkapsoro 3y ago
Perhaps the evolution of this story is an interesting example of confirmation bias?
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by rkapsoro 3y ago
Man. The filesystem and disk features look particularly awesome. I would have definitely got mileage out of it back in those days. Alas!
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by rkapsoro 3y ago
This was my first (tiny) taste of a non-MS-DOS/Windows environment for PC. Back in middle school, circa 1997 or 98, with the tiny scraps of time I could get on an Internet connection with a web browser, I ended up using Infoseek (or si
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by rkapsoro 3y ago
Have a read of Manuel Smith's "When I say no, I feel guilty". The tools there are astonishingly effective at reframing one's relationship with criticism (reasonable or otherwise). Highly recommend.
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by rkapsoro 3y ago
Are you outside the US? It seems to be region locked to US right now, so all of the third party frontend apps are all you see when searching from elsewhere.
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by rkapsoro 3y ago
Me, I stick with Stephen Krashen's hypothesis, borne out by my own experience: compelling, comprehensible input is the key. This applies to both your first language acquired when you are young and any other languages later. Start with
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by rkapsoro 4y ago
A great way to be terribly sore all the time.
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by rkapsoro 4y ago
GPT-3 definitely ups the ante on the old "I will replace you with a very small shell script" quip.

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