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by ryangs 1y ago
While laudable, this seems significantly harder to implement than banning advertising. Not that either are particularly feasible policies but this one seems harder.
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by ryangs 2y ago
Epistemic statuses are a great aid in sharing ideas without sounding overly confident. https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/bbtvDJtb6YwwWtJm7/...
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by ryangs 2y ago
https://www.hillelwayne.com/post/graph-types/ gives an interesting take on why we don't see a graph type as a primitive on more programming languages. Essentially boils down to graphs being very vague and dep
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by ryangs 2y ago
I like this. Testing the browser extension now and pretty happy with it (after tweaking so returning to a tab has a grace period). I was using StayFocused, which is okay, but too tempting to just disable it (and annoying if I need to access
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by ryangs 2y ago
Java Streams and Kotlin Sequences provide similar iterator capabilities. Iterators are great for this lazy performance but can sometimes be difficult to debug. Especially if you are nesting many iterators, then extracting the underlying col
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by ryangs 2y ago
Excited to hear about Hardcover! I like StoryGraph but the lack of API frustrates me - I want to be able to sync back to my general notes store (Obsidian). Hopefully Hardcover works better with that.
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by ryangs 2y ago
>Debug information tends to be large and linking it slows down linking quite considerably. If you’re like many developers and you generally use println for debugging and rarely or never use an actual debugger, then this is wasted time. I
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by ryangs 2y ago
What is your pattern for navigating to a function definition (as an example of a basic IDE operation that doesn't seem supported)? Grep?
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by ryangs 2y ago
What are some of the challenges involved with international hiring in a remote environment? I work at a fully remote startup with ~200 employees. We hire from a couple dozen countries but I know there are fairly significant barriers wheneve
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by ryangs 2y ago
I think proper nouns get a bit more of a pass in terms of purple prose.
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by ryangs 2y ago
But the nonempty list never has an element, so we don't need to worry about the type mutation of removing an element from it. Filter just returns a nonempty list.
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by ryangs 2y ago
The problem is that user inferring doesn't scale. For small projects this is reasonable but for enterprise software engineering it is easy for a constraint that isn't enforced by the type system to be missed by an engineer leading
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by ryangs 2y ago
Indeed, still in use. Also presumably the Aho of the Aho-Corasick string matching algorithm.
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by ryangs 2y ago
Right - it is saying that there is no algorithm to do this in general. Any specific instance may have a solution.
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by ryangs 2y ago
Interesting read. Does not seem to be working with the same set of facts as the ACX post[1], especially around FDA approval. [1]: https://www.astralcodexten.com/p/defying-cavity-lantern-biow... .
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by ryangs 3y ago
Big fan of todoist. I've been using it for less than a month, but have already switched to the yearly subscription. I use Obsidian for my notes, but for remembering to do something, I now use Todoist. Any passing thought that I want to
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by ryangs 3y ago
I've noticed some streaming platforms have ads for other shows/movies they've made. I don't love these but can tolerate them because: 1. They are only at the start of a show, so I'm not interrupted. 2. They offer a
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by ryangs 3y ago
Linking is an exceptionally good idea. It is very transformative to how I think about organizing information and doing it with Obsidian the past few months has felt great. Besides future proofing, I love the speed of processing a simple tex
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by ryangs 3y ago
Being 'fair' helps company relationships with current and future employees.
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by ryangs 3y ago
Highly recommend Freya's various deep dives into various game development contents. She also has twitch vods for developing those videos which are also fascinating. https://www.youtube.com/@Acegikmo
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by ryangs 3y ago
Highly recommend the chrome extension Facebook Purity. It strips your feed of the nonsense you don't care about in a very configurable way.
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by ryangs 3y ago
This was effective for me around a decade ago. These days it feels like most algorithmic content generation sites don't care when you express negative interest in something.
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by ryangs 3y ago
I think there is a fundamental gap between the OP's concept of "Point" versus the responders. They're essentially asking if decidability has practical[1] uses to which the answer is generally "No". When a gener
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by ryangs 3y ago
Interesting breakdown. But this format is horrible for conveying information. An improvement would be removing the slides, crafting some coherent paragraphs and then reinserting some of the more crucial images for support.
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by ryangs 3y ago
It looks so bad in the context they give themselves: C# $"{x} plus {y} equals {x + y}" Visual Basic $"{x} plus {y} equals {x + y}" Python f"{x} plus {y} equals {x + y}" Scala s&qu
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by ryangs 3y ago
See also GameTex[1]. It is a LaTeX framework for writing a certain style of LARP common at MIT and Stanford. [1]: http://web.mit.edu/kenclary/Public/Guild/GameTeX/
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by ryangs 3y ago
Definitely agree with unethical, although net negative seems a lot harder to quantify. Amazon has a lot of bad practices I disagree with, but are they net negative? I find it difficult to assess. And even if they aren't net negative no
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by ryangs 3y ago
I think the important thing is to find a balance that satisfies you. If you never do any self improvement, you might be missing out on a much better life that would cost you relatively little to get to. But maybe your current life is hunky-
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by ryangs 3y ago
Can you describe the structure of your conversation? Did you describe what libraries you were using and send the full code of the main app component?
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by ryangs 4y ago
Much more reasonable advice would be along the lines of "If you aren't excited about what you are going to do today for many days in a row, you should change things up." Substitute "excited" for any reasonable desc

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