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by ryangittins 2mo ago
It's been fun to see her steady rise since she first appeared on Numberphile more than ten years ago. She's a really excellent communicator of math and science. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rudzYPHuewc
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by ryangittins 2mo ago
There's a Firefox extension called Old Reddit Redirect which automatically sends you to old Reddit. It works great!
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by ryangittins 2mo ago
Well said! After a few years of LLM sycophancy convincing laypeople they've managed to make progress on or fully crack famous math problems it's satisfying to see a world-class mathematician really put it through its paces. It&#
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by ryangittins 3mo ago
As I recall there wasn't an abundance of notice of Pivotal Tracker's sunset, but I did kind of expect someone to come up with a more 1:1 open-source replacement with a one-step migration tool. We looked at Linear and other options
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by ryangittins 3mo ago
> Pivotal Labs RIP Pivotal Tracker, and thank you for your involvement! It was a nice piece of software.
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by ryangittins 5mo ago
Interesting, I hadn't considered that! You're probably right.
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by ryangittins 5mo ago
Hah, wow. A post with an ID under 10k. Meanwhile this one is over 47M. I didn't realize I've been reading HN nearly its whole existence. For all my complaining about what's happened to the internet since those days, HN has
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by ryangittins 1y ago
This is the coolest place! I'm so sad to see they're in financial distress. As a kid I would browse their website endlessly, just fascinated by all the weird stuff. It scratched the same itch that watching Mythbusters would scra
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by ryangittins 1y ago
> ...getting insecure or jealous of all the other social connections that your extrovert friends have. There’s an asymmetry there that can feed lots of insecurities. I wouldn't sweat this too much. Mathematically, most people have
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by ryangittins 3y ago
You and I are what Kurt Vonnegut called Bashers: > Swoopers write a story quickly, higgledy-piggledy, crinkum-crankum, any which way. Then they go over it again painstakingly, fixing everything that is just plain awful or doesn’t work. B
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by ryangittins 3y ago
Funny, I just checked up on the status of this project yesterday! I've been on the lookout for a personal CRM for a long time and have had my eye on Monica for months. It looks really promising but I could not for the life of me get i
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by ryangittins 3y ago
Yes! I'm sure I'm not using it anywhere close to its full potential, but just being able to two-finger tap a link to open it in a new tab is huge. What are your favorite shortcuts?
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by ryangittins 4y ago
This is a fantastic analogy for something which has bothered me for years! One example which comes to mind is pushback received on a pull request for a cron job. This script did some heavy lifting so it took a few minutes to run. The revi
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by ryangittins 4y ago
It's similar, but not quite a binary search. Imagine you have a book and you're trying to determine if a certain page number exists or if it's been torn out. You know the order, as pages are numbered in sequence, but you do
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by ryangittins 4y ago
Sure, there is one airplane but that's hardly revolutionary. A couple of guys can fly a few dozen feet. So what?
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by ryangittins 4y ago
As I recall, one of the clinchers was his use of the phrase, "you can’t eat your cake and have it too" as opposed to the now-predominant variant "you can’t have your cake and eat it too." I often wonder if stylometry can
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by ryangittins 4y ago
I suspect it's part of an effort to push back against the overwhelming number of thoughtless "listicles" which seem to dominate the internet. I'm planning a trip abroad right now and half the effort is in finding a list
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by ryangittins 4y ago
Interesting take. This reminds me of when people say that hate CGI in movies. What they really mean is they hate bad or noticeable CGI—a huge portion of CGI is stuff we don't even notice, like landscapes or city streets.
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by ryangittins 4y ago
A lot of people say they left a job too late. Not many say they left one too early. I think you know that you are still in the midst of burnout. If you can go a few months without a job and be okay, my suggestion would be to quit immedi
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by ryangittins 4y ago
> Not sure how this feature made its way in. It's possible the language was just following usage rather than leading it. Regardless of whether or not it's right, I commonly see something like } catch (\Exception $e) {
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by ryangittins 4y ago
I've seen the same hack done with `switch (true)` in pre-PHP8 code (and other languages) as well.
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by ryangittins 4y ago
I've never heard of F3 so I can't compare and contrast, but Slim is definitely my go-to for projects like the one you describe. Just enough boilerplate to handle the basics, but not a ton of framework-specific quirks and conventi
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by ryangittins 4y ago
I'm fuzzy on the details as it's been 5+ year since I looked at it, but it wasn't as simple as that. I think it may have been that it worked over HTTP but not HTTPS, and/or they did say that accepted it but it broke und
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by ryangittins 4y ago
I ran into a number of finicky issues building siftrss[1] a few years back. One I toiled over quite a bit was the discovery that Feedly, a very popular feed reader, does not support gzip. I haven't checked in recent years, but they m
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by ryangittins 4y ago
Those aren't funded by taxpayers like libraries are.
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by ryangittins 4y ago
This is true of a lot of things. Imagine if libraries didn't exist and someone got the bright idea for one today. It would never fly.
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by ryangittins 4y ago
What's the alternative? Professional jurors?
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by ryangittins 4y ago
Maybe if American society valued science the same we we value justice, we could compel people to occasionally participate in surveys and studies the way we compel them to participate in jury duty. We see the latter as a fact of life and occ
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by ryangittins 4y ago
I've made this a few times and it's pretty nice!
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by ryangittins 4y ago
Chillichump is great! His enthusiasm, depth and breadth of content, and general manner really got me into growing peppers and making hot sauce during the pandemic. I've got a dozen different varieties growing on my balcony right now!

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