singingbard

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by singingbard 7mo ago
I actually disagree. People only take your lane if you are in the fastest lane. If you are in any slower lane, people tend to jump in and then leave and I have no problem with people who do that. You can also keep a gap in the fastest lane
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by singingbard 7mo ago
To me, they all the same because they are all tools that stand between “my vision” and “it being built.” e.g. when I built a truck camper, maybe 50% was woodworking but I had to do electrical, plumbing, metalworking, plastic printing, and e
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by singingbard 8mo ago
I did a fair about of data analysis and deciding when or if my report was correct was a huge adrenaline rush. A huge test for me was to have people review my analyses and poke holes. You feel good when your last 50 reports didn’t have a sin
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by singingbard 8mo ago
The Internet is to blame! But you could say we peaked before electricity too: - It broke our natural circadian rhythm - It enabled the 24-hr grind - With radios and televisions, people were now staying home for leisure instead of going to p
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by singingbard 8mo ago
So you’re not missing anything if you use Claude by yourself. You just update your local system prompt. Instead it’s a problem when you’re part of a team and you’re using skills for standards like code style or architectural patterns. You c
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by singingbard 8mo ago
I think the problem with this hypothetical is that technology was the main constraint back in 1900, not marketing. Battery technology was significantly much worse. Lithium batteries were only discovered in the ‘70s. Gas engines were far mor
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by singingbard 8mo ago
If only people knew how much of Microsoft Windows has been secretly powered by HTML pages for 20 years… In Windows 95, Microsoft let you set a HTML file as your wallpaper and let you set up “channels” that were web-based widgets. This was t
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by singingbard 8mo ago
“Good” is some mix of taste and skill. People without taste hide behind skill. They do everything technically correctly and still make something bad. This is the threat of new mediums to them — it takes away their only strength. But at the
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by singingbard 8mo ago
The founders were skeptical of direct democracy because it assumes people have time and expertise they mostly don’t. People should not be voting based on their understanding of tariffs. It’s why we ended up with a republic. But social media
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by singingbard 8mo ago
Looks like a Frecciarossa 1000 derailed in 2020 but it was due to a manufacturer defect in a track switch replaced the night before. The defect was not caught by the manufacturer or the system operator. It was due to two crossed wires in a
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by singingbard 8mo ago
I think the underlying approach seems sensible. The problem with Gas Town is how it was presented. The heavy metaphor and branding felt distracting. It’s a bit like reading the Dune book, where you have to learn a whole vocabulary of new te
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by singingbard 8mo ago
This took me a long time to work through: 1. People’s beliefs are strongly shaped by upbringing and social environment. 2. A belief feeling “natural” or common does not make it correct or benign. 3. What’s most commendable is the effort to
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by singingbard 8mo ago
People had already ditched writing HTML for years before Markdown came out. People were just using other markup languages like rST. Other attempts had already proven HTML to be a bad language for rough documentation. Someone then just neede