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by travisd 19d ago
The AI generated images are classic slop to the point of being actively distracting.
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Judge orders Kalshi cease Washington operations (starting August 20)(atg.wa.gov)
9 points by travisd 28d ago|1 comments
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by travisd 7mo ago
I found two separate bugs in GCP products. One with gVisor where it would sometimes null-truncate large network packets (this was very hard to diagnose – why is my JSON full of null bytes?) and one where Cloud Run broke sudo sporadically (s
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by travisd 8mo ago
At $DAYJOBSTARTUP, we do hackathons twice a year. At the most recent one, an engineer sat down with a designer and set him up with Cursor. The designer looked like a kind in a candy shop, he was so excited to be able to rapidly prototype wi
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by travisd 8mo ago
packets udp bar walk a into
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by travisd 9mo ago
Many of these package managers get invoked countless times per day (e.g., in CI to prepare an environment and run tests, while spinning up new dev/AI agent environments, etc).
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by travisd 1y ago
Starbucks is airport drink/food for me. Being able to order as I enter the TSA line and pick it up on the way to the gate is unmatched convenience, and the coffee options at airports generally aren't great.
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by travisd 1y ago
Of course! It helped your friend realize what kind of person you are and hopefully spurred them to find better friends who possess actual human empathy.
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by travisd 2y ago
Making an HTTP request and dealing with JSON data is a weed-out question at best. Not sure if you are interpreting the grandparent comment as actually having them write a JSON parser, but I don't think that's what they meant.
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by travisd 2y ago
I don’t want to disparage your work, OP, but micro-optimizing text files is often not very effective, especially after gzip. I’m curious to see if there’s any noticeable difference for a representative gzipped CSS file (since these assets a
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by travisd 2y ago
Thanks! I hate it!
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by travisd 2y ago
I highly highly highly recommend the book “Two Wheels Good: The History and Mystery of the Bicycle.” It explores the origin, the various social implications across various cultures (it often became a symbol of perversion due to its associat
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by travisd 3y ago
Based on the article, it sounds like this doesn't activate a device's microphone at all. If it did, most (all?) browsers would give a pop-up requesting permission for that.
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by travisd 3y ago
Pardon the pedantry, but this reflects the casual/conversational uses of “hash function” not the more general definition. To be a hash function, it just has to map a set to another set of fix sized values (usually some finite set of th
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by travisd 3y ago
It's worth noting that it's much less of a problem in Python due to the lack of ergonomic closures/lambdas. You have to construct rather esoteric looking code for it to be a problem. add_n = [] for n in range(10):
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by travisd 3y ago
Curious to know -- how do these kinds of things affect accessibility for visually impaired people? If you're using a screenreader, do these kinds of things work?
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by travisd 3y ago
Yep, I think those things are all related.
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by travisd 3y ago
Go generally is pretty conservative about that kind of thing (namely, compiler optimizations). Go generally abides by a “what you write is what you get” kind of thing, especially when it comes to “non-local” optimizations. It’s generally op
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by travisd 3y ago
I suspect this is a bad-faith argument, but just to be clear, NPR get's a tiny fraction of its funding from the government *and* maintains editorial independence. > The news organization says that is inaccurate and misleading, given
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by travisd 3y ago
We’re not talking about why Seattle is far from Miami. American city sprawl is largely a recent phenomenon (post WWII) and was enabled by the rise of the personal automobile. Even the sprawl-iest of cities (Houston, TX) used to be respectab
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by travisd 3y ago
Parent comment is concerned with privacy, not authenticity. They're not worried that someone modified their code, they're worried that someone saw it.
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by travisd 4y ago
The author just spends the final paragraphs… guessing? > TypeScript… JavaScript… Going to guess it's similar. > I haven't touched Java for almost a decade > I don't really know enough Rust to be able to comment with
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by travisd 4y ago
Oil is a decently interesting “competitor” in this space. They’ve also acknowledged the dual nature of shell as REPL and programming language. https://www.oilshell.org/blog/2021/01/why-a-new-shell.html
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Don't Deploy Applications with Terraform(medium.com)
4 points by travisd 4y ago|0 comments
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Stacked PRs: code changes as narrative(aviator.co)
3 points by travisd 4y ago|0 comments
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by travisd 4y ago
Since the author is responding to comments here: are there any changes coming soon that necessitated this?
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by travisd 4y ago
Lot of people confused here -- the "running JavaScript when the browser is idle" part is a bit misleading. It doesn't run stuff when you're the tab is backgrounded (browsers already heavily reduce what sites can do when
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by travisd 4y ago
I also hate this about Go, but its (partial) saving grace here is the `x, err := NewX()` pattern which (at least for me) tends to prevent a decent number of these issues in practice since usually either `x` is non-nil xor `err` is non-nil
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by travisd 4y ago
With my Google Home speaker, I’ll tell it to turn off the lights (which it probably has maybe 95% accuracy of getting right in the first place…). But it will then say “Okay, turning off 5 lights. By the way, you can ask me how long your mor
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by travisd 4y ago
I’d flag this if I saw this in a code review. It’s to cute and hard to see what’s happening. Would much rather just see someone prefix with an underscore if they don’t need the variable (const [id, _email, name] = loadUserInfo(…); is prefer

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