tomlagier

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by tomlagier 3y ago
> Why is it catching on? In the best light because it actually is a tremendous productivity accelerator. In the worst light, because we live in a world that incentivizes "fake it til you make it". It's great at a few thing
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by tomlagier 3y ago
Honestly, I've had a great experience because I've read a lot of experiences like yours and stuck with pages router & Next 12, which works nicely for everything I've needed it to do. There might be a point where app route
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by tomlagier 3y ago
My counterpoint to this is just that DDB is not a super usable piece of software (it's slow, buggy, and expensive). It's got the massive advantage of having the rights to sell D&D content, but there's definitely room for
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by tomlagier 3y ago
Nit: Foundry uses Pixi.js for rendering, so it's using more or less standard JS gamedev tools to draw on a WebGL context in a canvas. Edit: See https://foundryvtt.wiki/en/development/guides/pixi Edit2: F
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by tomlagier 3y ago
For me, the reason I prefer Google to GPT is that it's much easier for me to assess the credibility of a Google answer vs a GPT one. There are so many signals in any primary source. Some obvious ones are things like number of upvotes,
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by tomlagier 4y ago
I wonder if there's something that you can do as you're nearing the end of the context window to summarize the "state" of the world so far and put it into context so that the model always has context on the most importan
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by tomlagier 4y ago
It doesn't even "understand" basic math - trivial to test if you give it a sufficiently unique expression (e.g. 43829583 * 5373271).
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by tomlagier 4y ago
Not a dumb question! They cover different needs - Tailwind is a low-level CSS library that provides a different (and some claim better) way of styling HTML. It doesn't provide markup, interactivity, etc. AntD is a high-level component
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by tomlagier 5y ago
I wonder if AWS will make more or less money from these outages? Will large players flee because of excessive instability? Or will smaller players go from single-AZ to more expensive multi-AZ? My guess is that no-one will leave and lots of
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by tomlagier 5y ago
Morally, I'm very pro-high density housing. Just like I'm pro-public transit. But in reality, my expressed preference is a single-family house with a yard and the convenience a car brings. I'm not sure how to square these thi
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by tomlagier 5y ago
The issue I have with these automatic "backend from your DB" service is: * For the simple case, they seem like they are as good as a simple backend service, albeit easier to set up. * For more complex cases (e.g. external dependen
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by tomlagier 5y ago
Maybe not quite the answer you're looking for, but I'll throw it in anyway. - I planned on quitting my FAANG job in February 2020 to go travel the world for 9 months (midlife crisis, sabbatical, whatever you want to call it). - CO
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by tomlagier 5y ago
The US seems to struggle with a balance between security of property and police violence against minorities. I can't believe that we can't have a save and secure society without extreme police violence. It seems like many other co
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Ask HN: Best resources on learning to be a better teacher or mentor?
2 points by tomlagier 5y ago|0 comments
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by tomlagier 5y ago
Very cool! We use Postman collections extensively to internally document our APIs and make handoff between frontend and backend easier. We're waffling a bit on backend schema (currently using Yup & Typescript to export request&#x2F
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NextJS, WebAssembly, and Web Workers(medium.com)
1 points by tomlagier 5y ago|0 comments
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by tomlagier 5y ago
I'd guess that a lot of the WSB crowd has some exposure to crypto, which isn't doing so hot recently.
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by tomlagier 5y ago
Is there any downside to writing deterministic games? It seems like the only sane way to do it, but I guess it adds some complexity overhead for the initial write otherwise everyone would do it by default?
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by tomlagier 5y ago
Probably referring to this story: https://krebsonsecurity.com/2019/12/the-iphone-11-pros-locat...
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by tomlagier 5y ago
Just listened to a Revisionist History episode that called out the harms of over-consumption of linoleic acid. Apparently the shift away from animal and towards vegetable oils in the '70s and '80s caused a lot of adverse health ef
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The Algorithmic Beauty of Plants (1990) [pdf](algorithmicbotany.org)
146 points by tomlagier 5y ago|14 comments
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2D Web Rendering with Rust(medium.com)
1 points by tomlagier 5y ago|0 comments
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by tomlagier 5y ago
Huh, TIL. I had assumed the thickness of the iron would have lead to better heating, but it looks like both aluminum and steel heat much more evenly. I still argue that the care regimen is overblown, you can scrub with soap and a sponge and
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by tomlagier 5y ago
That's just not accurate. See https://chiacalculator.com/ for more. 3-4 months is currently around 18 TB. EDIT: 100 TB would get a coin every ~ 18 days on average.
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by tomlagier 5y ago
You can just use it like a normal, heavy duty pan. The difference in use and flavor between seasoned and unseasoned is pretty minor, IMO. The real advantage is that they're so cheap relative to their utility. They heat evenly and stand
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by tomlagier 5y ago
Seems like a pretty low ROI to me. Generously, we're talking about ~$100/hour, my guess is it was actually a lot less than that, maybe as low as half or a third, and this is for an idea that got some traction. That could be a good
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by tomlagier 5y ago
These cards are marketed at kids, and kids also buy junk food and soda which are high-markup items.
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by tomlagier 5y ago
To add to this, cooks are often more economically precarious than front of house & so less likely to stay at home if they are sick.
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by tomlagier 5y ago
I just worked through them so it's a bit of a fresh wound. I wanted so badly for there to be a big satisfying payoff!
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by tomlagier 5y ago
This is a great idea and caused me to go down a rabbit hole of learning what it would take to actually register a new gTLD. Short version: The ICANN would need to do a new round of gTLD registrations. This is unannounced but rumored to begi

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