truffdog

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by truffdog 4y ago
Substack's pitch to high profile journalists and columnists is "come here, bring your fans, get supported directly, and make way more money". This is bad for the NYT and low profile journalists. From the horse's mouth-
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by truffdog 4y ago
My experience is that IDEs do not really support that sort of clean separation- you're always fighting to get it to support your VM or Dockerfile.
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by truffdog 4y ago
> the witnesses at the single-panel hearing include Sallie Krawcheck, the CEO and Co-Founder of ‘Ellevest’, Marceau Michel, Founder of ‘Black Founders Matter’, Abbey Wemimo, Co-Founder and Co-CEO of ‘Esusu’ and Maryam Haque, Executive Di
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by truffdog 4y ago
Pointers are hard.
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by truffdog 4y ago
In more detail than you wanted: https://constructionphysics.substack.com/p/construction-phys...
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by truffdog 4y ago
If you don't own the full industrial and agricultural stack, in times of stress it will be yanked from under you. See international news from 2020-2022.
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by truffdog 4y ago
My favorite analogy here is the old sex education trope- "wear a condom or you are exposed to all of the STDs of all of your partner's partners". Only in the cloud, the arrow of time is reversed. Everything you share you have
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by truffdog 4y ago
In California it's mostly renewable with a small amount of natural gas and nuclear. Occasionally over 90% renewable depending on the time of year.
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by truffdog 4y ago
> Silicon Valley politicians I talked to lamented the political apathy of busy rank-and-file tech workers who live in a bubble. (The Musks and Thiels are a different story.) “They don’t get involved,” a public official told me. “They don
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by truffdog 4y ago
There were a bunch of famous "scientific agriculture" disasters in the 20th century caused by simplifying assumptions being too simple. The pendulum of worst or best practice swings both ways and it's difficult to adjudicate
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by truffdog 4y ago
Small market :/
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by truffdog 4y ago
Well- if they cement their hold on the separatist regions, expand them a little, and ensure a fresh water supply for Crimea, they can probably spin it as a win and declare victory. Ukraine is also suffering a lot from this war, even if they
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by truffdog 4y ago
> railroads were always hyper-focused on increasing throughput. Throughput optimization destroying latency- sounds like bufferbloat!
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by truffdog 4y ago
A common criticism of that high level view of US manufacturing is that it is a bit of a lie, and a lot of it is about hedonic adjustments for new Intel chips being faster than old ones. Without that, the graph of manufacturing output in dol
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by truffdog 4y ago
There's a company selling a cartridge-esque razor that you refill with DE blades- https://leafshave.com/ It is maybe a little less foolproof than a Mach 3, but it's pretty close. Looks shiny too.
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by truffdog 4y ago
I thought my CS education at UC Davis was pretty worthwhile. Just learning C and C++ in those two intro courses was really useful for understanding everything built on top of those in a modern stack. The seams show all the time. That said,
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by truffdog 4y ago
https://mathstodon.xyz/@ColinTheMathmo has a nice mix of intro to Mastodon stuff and interesting math and science stuff
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by truffdog 4y ago
That's an amazing battery life.
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by truffdog 4y ago
Honestly I kind of prefer it to the usual Unix date clone format.
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by truffdog 4y ago
This is a pretty standard film criticism- you can't make a movie about something bad without glorifying it. Scorcese comes in for that a lot, Fight Club, people reading or watching Liar's Poker and feeling inspired, the list goes
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by truffdog 4y ago
i3/sway style tiling window managers
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by truffdog 4y ago
A lot of Patreons and Substacks are very reliant on Twitter to drive traffic too- Twitter should have a natural advantage in the space.
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by truffdog 4y ago
> Lack of type-ahead search1. Believe it or not, triggering a full-blown recursive search doesn’t replace the ability to focus a particular file in the current folder by simply typing (part of) its name. I suspect 90% of users—especially
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by truffdog 4y ago
But I want to use the current folder as a namespace limiter :(
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by truffdog 4y ago
Separate DB instances doesn't scale as well cost wise, and generally means onboarding takes a few minutes instead of being instant. It is very common though.
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by truffdog 4y ago
A podcast interviewing someone making this kind of music: https://gimletmedia.com/shows/reply-all/j4he7lv/183-the-veno...
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by truffdog 4y ago
As a bush-league history buff, it's been sort of annoying to see the popular conception of the American past do this violent swing from treacly hagiography to a house of horrors. I guess nuance or detail is too hard.
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by truffdog 4y ago
You can always store energy by pushing rocks uphill.
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by truffdog 4y ago
The door refused to open. It said, “Five cents, please.” He searched his pockets. No more coins; nothing. “I’ll pay you tomorrow,” he told the door. Again he tried the knob. Again it remained locked tight. “What I pay you,” he in
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by truffdog 4y ago
BART cleaning arguably involves insanely hazardous materials- https://www.nbcbayarea.com/news/local/bart-janitor-made-270k...

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