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by scelerat 1mo ago
The compliance team seeks to maximize company profit/success within the confines of hard legal boundaries. There are no "hard" boundaries for ethics or "doing the right thing," and so those boundaries will always be
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by scelerat 1mo ago
I built a guest list management tool for a music festival. Nothing technologically ground-breaking: Two front-end apps and the back end to support them. The project gave me an opportunity to try out Svelte and FastAPI in a substantial way,
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by scelerat 1mo ago
The risks, such as they are, of walking in a city are blown way out of proportion to reality in order to sell ads or elect political candidates.
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by scelerat 1mo ago
How much of the performance differences come down to language or compiler choice in these examples? Would I see the same kinds of performance gains or losses avoiding or using certain patterns in Go or Rust or Java? Are they the same exampl
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by scelerat 1mo ago
I think people use these tools in varying ways, sometimes in the same session, and there are no hard-and-fast correct answers. For example: Sometimes I just need to blast something out which works well enough so I can either consider the ou
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by scelerat 2mo ago
I recently, with the help of Claude Code, made a tool which involved a database, two separate apps surfacing and interacting with various aspects of the data, and a user base of dozens, with some semi-specific domain knowledge on my part an
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by scelerat 2mo ago
It took browsers and web dev until, IDK, maybe 2010? to match the interactivity and capability of Hypercard circa 1994. The actual killer app turned out to be the network itself, but for anyone who used and built things with Hypercard (a lo
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by scelerat 2mo ago
Super useful knot for when you don't have a ratchet tie-down. Learned and used this knot all the time hauling around dirt bikes.
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by scelerat 3mo ago
Ha when I read “I won’t name the system; let’s just call it Minerva,” I thought, “I’ll bet it’s called Athena irl. “
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by scelerat 3mo ago
I have a lot of fun memories about when I moved to SF in 2006. Among them was meeting Craig and interacting with him casually a handful of times. He was a regular at Reverie in Cole Valley, where a good friend and mentor of mine was also a
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by scelerat 3mo ago
I'm not picking up any subjective, simplistic labeling like "good" or "bad." Are we reading the same paper? Haven't fully read the paper, just the introduction and skimmed through the rest, but it seems they&#x
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by scelerat 3mo ago
I agree with the sentiments -- knowing the scope of a change is more essential, in most cases, than knowing whether the change was a "fix" or a "feature" -- but much of the scope in a project can be gleaned from the f
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by scelerat 3mo ago
Half of the purpose of me documenting things is to make certain that I fully understand the problem and its solution. As I write out the explanation, if something doesn't make sense, that is a prompt for me to dig in and understand m
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by scelerat 4mo ago
As I'm sure many people on HN with kids do, I think very highly of my toddler's capabilities. I'm looking forward to the day I can stick him on a cross-town bus and have him fly solo (or at least with a peer/buddy). I&#x
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by scelerat 4mo ago
as someone who laments the loss of spaces and pastimes that once brought people together -- bowling alleys, dance halls, pubs, movie houses, etc. -- to work from home, home entertainment and especially anything and everything online, I keep
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by scelerat 5mo ago
It's not that credit card companies have some kind of moral bone to pick, it is that the legal, logistical and political morass of dealing with the variety of state and national laws, definitions of porn, protections of children and no
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by scelerat 5mo ago
There is a psychological hype effect which affects both audience and performers in a capacity room of any size. Whether it's 50 or 5000, if the room is full, you feel it, and it adds to the excitement, tension and maybe magic of the ev
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by scelerat 5mo ago
only slightly serious. children are a joy! right? right??
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by scelerat 5mo ago
It's not even "in the street" I'm worried about -- it's the lunatics who drive like they are the main character in a single-player RPG. Not looking for bikes or pedestrians, crashing into parked cars and houses.
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by scelerat 5mo ago
Riight! I was wondering why some people had more than one. Like, I wonder that every single ever-loving day
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by scelerat 5mo ago
My biggest fear of letting my young kid play alone outside is getting hit by a car.
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by scelerat 6mo ago
The alphabetical streets in the Richmond and Sunset districts of San Francisco do a similar thing
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by scelerat 6mo ago
The artist was the band Van Halen; the forbidden color was brown https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/brown-out/
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by scelerat 8mo ago
It’s interesting comparing the enthusiasm I see in this thread compared to the more jaded responses I’ve seen in r/synthesizers I think it looks cool and fun. Wish my workflow and time could accommodate it right now but they can’t. I’m
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by scelerat 8mo ago
Oh yeah makes sense
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by scelerat 8mo ago
Digital Audio Workstation in the context of computer-based recording it's pretty common jargon
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by scelerat 8mo ago
>> Yes, Canada, you are indeed in danger as well as Mexico. > No evidence. Unless you're arguing while NAFTA was around this was a way to create a "United America". Trump recently posted an image on Truth Social of a
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by scelerat 8mo ago
When did Biden say the US needs 300M more immigrants?
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by scelerat 8mo ago
When did Biden say the US needs 300M more immigrants?
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by scelerat 8mo ago
hehe

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