t8sr

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by t8sr 4mo ago
I’m really not a fan of the therapy speak and everyone trying to diagnose everyone. Historically, this kinda medicalization of everyone you disagree with has not led to good things.
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by t8sr 8mo ago
Emphasis on global blocks. Meaning everywhere in the world.
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by t8sr 8mo ago
I read the tweet twice and I don’t see any mention of free speech. What he’s describing, when you look past the rhetoric, sounds ridiculous: a single medium sized country is demanding power to institute global blocks of content on the inter
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by t8sr 8mo ago
Something about the way the author expresses himself (big words, “I am so smart”, flowery filler) makes me unsurprised he finds it hard to have satisfying conversations with people. If he talked to me like this IRL I wouldn’t be trying to h
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by t8sr 10mo ago
Two things: 1. I basically agree with everything you say, I only think the limit should be ~50-100% higher. Not 10x, but 1.5-2x. 2. For some reason, concise writing is the hardest thing to teach and demand consistently. I think a part of is
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by t8sr 10mo ago
No, I think a reasonable limit is around 100 with the mode being around 80. 50 is not a reasonable limit for a commit message in English.
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by t8sr 10mo ago
Yeah, I specifically think 50 is too short. I am a big fan of brevity, but I think the sweet spot is somewhere around 100. Consider that all of these messages exceed the 50-character limit: [startup] Don't drop uid until all contro
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by t8sr 10mo ago
I've worked with 5 different SCMs and I'm convinced that the reason why git repos often have such poor commit messages is because of the git commit style guide. So much of it only makes sense once you realize it's been opti
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by t8sr 10mo ago
It surprises me how many people working as software engineers absolutely despise programming. Consider that if you must “grind” through leetcode questions, maybe you will be unhappy in the job itself. There are other roles, technical roles
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by t8sr 10mo ago
My friend, it renders at 15 fps on a literal supercomputer. It takes 30 seconds to load. The time between clicking a button and something happening is measured in seconds. It may be successful, but it is not good. The problem is that you’ve
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by t8sr 10mo ago
Abstraction for its own sake, especially with js frameworks, doesn't make anything more readable or maintainable. React apps are some of the most spaghetti style software I've ever seen, and it takes like 10 steps to find the code
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by t8sr 10mo ago
The problem with React apologetics is that you need to only take a cursory look at literally every production app written in React to see it's terrible and must be abandoned in the long-term. To see how fast a properly engineered app c
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by t8sr 11mo ago
1. Your argument is about the grammar of a sentence about black holes on Wikipedia? This isn’t some kind of gotcha. 2. I missed the dwarf part, but think about what you’re arguing: the mass range of a loosely defined category (the lower bou
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by t8sr 11mo ago
I’m admittedly a few years out of date in this, but weren’t those already kinda ruled out? I’ve never met anyone who took MOND seriously - it looks like it’s a pet project of a small number of people who cite each other, and people in diffe
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by t8sr 11mo ago
Berlin’s tech industry is to Zurich and London as Berlin’s art scene is to New York or Paris. And yes, Switzerland, but especially Zurich, is on another level compared to the rest of Europe. (Except maybe London.) I’ve been a hiring manager
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by t8sr 11mo ago
I’ve done hiring in tech, and the availability of broad spectrum talent in Europe really only exists in London and Zurich. There are hubs for different fields, but only those two places have everything, IME.
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by t8sr 11mo ago
Definitionally, yes. It’s inert but lenses light around it. The paper is more about the technical achievement of detecting it, IIUC. It’s not the first dark matter inference we’ve had, and doesn’t really tell us anything new about the stuff
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by t8sr 11mo ago
(I’m an astrophysics undergrad.) Black holes aren’t composed of anything, they’re just defined by their charge, spin and mass equivalent. Dust clouds have those mass ranges. It’s not a galaxy-scale mass by any measure. This thread has a lot
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by t8sr 1y ago
Name one other place on the continent that has: 1) At least token engineering presence by every major tech company 2) Tech-savvy VC, legal, audit and tax services you can get on a short notice 3) A pool of talent to fill any engineering pos
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by t8sr 1y ago
Zurich and its environs are basically the Bay Area of Europe. Probably explains the huge concentration of HN users.
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by t8sr 1y ago
That’s a good point. I remember that in the earlier days of Go, there was a lot more optimism about the compiler’s future ability to statically decide more about the program than it currently does. It’s unfortunate that the language never g
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by t8sr 1y ago
I've taught programming to some people who had no previous experience with it, and I can tell you that the list of concepts you have to learn at once is basically as long for Python, the quintessential "beginner" language. Th
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by t8sr 1y ago
Yes, but there’s nuance. We each assume a version of events and nobody really knows. In my experience, big tech companies attract a certain type of person (among others) who will not only think of stuff like this, but actively fight for it
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by t8sr 1y ago
I have never said and rarely thought this before, but I really hope the person who came up with / approved this idea got fired for it. It’s rare that you see something so unbelievably stupid and destructive of the shared pool of trust,
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by t8sr 1y ago
Any evidence you'd care to offer, or are you just being racist on the internet?
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by t8sr 1y ago
Would you rather work with (hire for your startup) someone who: 1) Always pleased middle management in a large bureaucracy by moving metrics, then bailed out just before the project collapsed 2) Ignored the noise, fixed real problems and le
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by t8sr 1y ago
I don't like mechanistic explanations of particle physics - they're an attempt to relate what's going on to our macroscopic experience, but they usually fall apart when you look too closely. I find it much easier to understan
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by t8sr 1y ago
Yes and my yoga teacher has an even better theory where the electrons are stopped from falling in by spirits of their time-traveling ancestors.
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by t8sr 1y ago
Directly imaging an exoplanet has been done about 20 times (maybe more, by now). If you're asking how far are we from resolving an exoplanet to more than a single point of light, the answer is we will never be able to do that from this
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by t8sr 1y ago
When I did my 20% on Go at Google, about 10 years ago, we already had a semi-formal rule that channels must not appear in exported function signatures. It turns out that using CSP in any large, complex codebase is asking for trouble, and th

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