vantassell

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by vantassell 6d ago
>Spotify has progressively gotten much worse over the last 15 years, all while the size of their engineering team has ballooned. Spotify or Shopify?
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by vantassell 15d ago
Biggest advantage is that they keep your hands free while braking.
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by vantassell 28d ago
I tried PostgREST and regretted it. I ran into many situations where I wanted a thicker backend between my webapp and db.
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by vantassell 2mo ago
> I can't copy/paste in wezterm using the keyboard/vim keys because it is constantly drawing the screen and unselects my selection. Oh wow, that's bad. Copy/paste between terminals is a significant part of my wor
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by vantassell 3mo ago
I just use small buffers. I don't know if that's technically JIT or not, but a smaller restricted buffer with high throughput works great for me. > keep everything flowing and accept spoilage Yeah, I still have to do this too t
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by vantassell 5mo ago
> Japan is one of the only countries to have privatized parking. In Europe and North America, vast quantities of parking space is socialized: municipalities own the streets and allow people to park on them at low or zero cost. Initially
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by vantassell 9mo ago
> For a while tourette syndrome was all the rage and the platform was filled with kids faking tics. Kind of like all those kids in Le Roy, NY who began experiencing involuntary tics. IIRC, it was interesting that it was mostly girls who
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by vantassell 1y ago
https://archive.is/mJJOx
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by vantassell 2y ago
Once MD has a few 100k+ acre wildfires that the power utility is liable for, I’m sure your rate will go up too.
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by vantassell 2y ago
Rates are high because we’re paying for all the wildfires the electric utilities have started.
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by vantassell 2y ago
You’re a fire management expert? What did LA do wrong?
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by vantassell 2y ago
You’re comparing apples to oranges. A Santa Ana wind is extremely dry and this one hit 100kmh (not 50). And it hasn’t really rained for 8 months (since May 2024). And we had a very wet winter last year, so there’s extra growth to fuel any f
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by vantassell 2y ago
If you like at the skills of each class then it's pretty obvious that wizards, rangers, halflings, elves, dwarves, and orcs are modeled after Gandalf, Aragorn, the hobbits, etc. Gandalf calls Aragorn the world's best hunter, and A
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by vantassell 2y ago
What's the alternative? What do you use for your base "recovery account" email?
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by vantassell 2y ago
Reminds me a lot of Cal Newport's ideas re: Slow Productivity. He talks a lot about how Context shifts are death for knowledge work and that a lot of offices operate via a "hyper active hive mind" that doesn't allow or v
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by vantassell 2y ago
I'm getting the below instead of an image ![/img/2024/focus.png]
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by vantassell 2y ago
https://archive.ph/owhhT
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by vantassell 2y ago
> I have to say that I can't see how that would work. Isn't that exactly why this is a notable discovery?
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by vantassell 2y ago
There are e-ink license plates in California now. https://arstechnica.com/cars/2022/10/digital-license-plates-...
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by vantassell 3y ago
Reminds me of that old star wars ascii site. https://www.asciimation.co.nz
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by vantassell 3y ago
Sadly the article doesn't really answer the question as to why, but it's probably because they keep making bad movies that they don't think will perform well. To be extra clear, IMO this is not the fault of the creatives -- b
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by vantassell 3y ago
Regus has actually taken over a few WeWork leases in my town. Seems like they're picking up inventory for pennies on the dollar.
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by vantassell 3y ago
Reminds me of the adage of “solving the problem is the hard part, the hard part is figuring out the right problem to solve”. I always remember as “questions are harder than answers”.
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by vantassell 3y ago
This is great advice for everyone but Theranos.