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Andreas Gursky's Banded Composition(publish.obsidian.md)
2 points by sukruh 5mo ago|0 comments
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by sukruh 7mo ago
Good points, but implicitly equating good design with functional design irks me. You can define your terms as you wish, but at least be upfront about it. > Branding is centrifugal; design is centripetal. Functional design is centripeta
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by sukruh 1y ago
It is.
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The Bouba/Kiki Effect and Sound Symbolism in Clip(near.blog)
2 points by sukruh 1y ago|0 comments
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by sukruh 2y ago
I agreed with almost all of it until: >My stance on this has probably shifted in a negative direction over time, primarily because of my growing awareness of how often technology is used for wealth accumulation. I don’t think capitalism
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by sukruh 2y ago
If you were comparing what the other company was charging your company for their developers: Labor and software services have different markets. Because, among other things, tax/insurance regulations and the expectations of contract lo
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by sukruh 2y ago
Yes, fast-growing companies can grow out of my preference zone and as other commenters said, jumping ship when that happens may be the correct way to go. There are other issues with slow-growing or not-growing companies. When the company is
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by sukruh 2y ago
Most of the people I know who pursue creative/crafting hobbies alongside a software development job have chosen to work for well-known big companies, for prestige and safety, and ended up unfulfilled in their jobs. Most big companies a
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by sukruh 2y ago
Reminds me of Dangerous Waters, a submarine/sonar simulator: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wNFcTKo-eVY&t=447s
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by sukruh 2y ago
This reminded me of the story of the VC who tried to avoid meeting Larry & Sergey when they were looking for investment: > David Cowan’s college friend rented her garage to Sergey and Larry for their first year. In 1999 and 2000 she
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Fan Is a Tool-Using Animal(idlewords.com)
1 points by sukruh 2y ago|0 comments
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by sukruh 2y ago
The discontinuities at the used care sale prices graph seems like an arbitrage opportunity on depreciation. Buy right after a round number, sell right before another, pay less on dep.
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by sukruh 3y ago
They're probably referring to cloc the counting tool. https://github.com/AlDanial/cloc
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by sukruh 3y ago
I hate to be "that guy" but I find it a little bit sexist that the noob is called "Rachel". OK OK I'm gone.
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by sukruh 3y ago
Sure, but most Maths papers are read by like 3 people in total globally, so there's that.
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by sukruh 3y ago
> the same people prefering stackoverflow over rtfm will gravitate towards this way, and more power to them. Oh! I'd forgotten how big a productivity boost over manpages/offical docsites SO was.
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by sukruh 3y ago
My 2019 MBP does not support Windows 11 in Boot Camp.
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by sukruh 3y ago
"Fintech" only exists because the banks can't develop software. Change my mind.
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by sukruh 3y ago
> you know you're "enterprisey" if ... you don't know that you're a software company That hit hard. I've seen so many companies that defined themselves as something else, despite employing more than 1000 pro
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Winners of the 2023 Bulwer Lytton Fiction Contest(bulwer-lytton.com)
2 points by sukruh 3y ago|1 comments
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by sukruh 3y ago
> But don't overoptimize what you're learning. Don't limit yourself to learning things that are already known to be valuable. You're learning; you don't know for sure yet what's going to be valuable, and if
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by sukruh 3y ago
FWIW ChatGPT is pretty good in generating the specific Bash incantations you need to perform if you describe what you want to do in plain English and don't forget to add the specific version of the OS you're using. Unless what you
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by sukruh 3y ago
But that scenario also creates winners and losers, because a loan with an interest rate lower than inflation is wealth transfer from the creditor to the debtor. The privileged, who can access these loans get richer, while others lose access
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by sukruh 3y ago
For what it's worth telling GPT-4 you want it to simulate a text adventure game that lets the user enter their actions and dialogue, and pasting the setting and some characters works much better than AI Dungeon did when I tried it last
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by sukruh 4y ago
OK, now integrate another model that creates a textual description of the scene from the camera, put it together with ChatGPT and the physical robot arm in a game loop and prompt it to make paperclips. For science. What can possibly go wron
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The Tale of Exactly Once Semantics (2020)(dimosr.github.io)
1 points by sukruh 4y ago|0 comments
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by sukruh 4y ago
The brain is a biological organ, and like all other biological organs it has its limits. A human heart can only pump a certain amount of blood per minute. A human liver can only perform certain chemical reactions. The brains's limits i
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by sukruh 5y ago
Cool. One trap worker-owned companies often fall into is to neglect investing into risky/long-term projects and as a result fall behind the industry. When the choice is 2x salary for 3 years or some R&D investment one does not full
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Sparklens: Spark Profiling Tool with Scheduler Simulator(github.com)
1 points by sukruh 7y ago|0 comments
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WarpFlow: Exploring Petabytes of Space-Time Data(ai.google)
2 points by sukruh 7y ago|0 comments

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