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by wgj 2y ago
Off topic, but Douglas Self is also the author of several remarkably good audio electronics books. For example, http://www.douglas-self.com/ampins/books/ssad3.htm .
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by wgj 2y ago
I've used prosemirror enough to have written custom nodes, commands, and custom code around its collaboration model. I got good results with all of this and I don't know any other platform that could have matched it. The docs are
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The Physics of Vim(robertames.com)
22 points by wgj 2y ago|2 comments
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by wgj 3y ago
> tends to score high in agreeability, >> Hard disagree. “Maximum confrontation and/or defiance” has never been a goal of good leaders
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by wgj 3y ago
> Pretraining a GPT 4-class model from raw data requires trillions of tokens and millions of dollars in compute, And millions of documents authored by people that weren't compensated. The difference is consolidating all of that valu
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Zulily shutting down offices and laying off 292 employees(geekwire.com)
6 points by wgj 3y ago|1 comments
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by wgj 3y ago
(2018)
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by wgj 3y ago
They hire an attorney with good relationships at USPTO.
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by wgj 3y ago
As a beginner gardener, I'm curious. How is this applied in practical terms? (eli5)
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by wgj 3y ago
> implementations in various languages Rosetta Code is a good resource for that. https://www.rosettacode.org/wiki/Rosetta_Code
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by wgj 3y ago
This is a pretty good description. "The primary distinguishing characteristic of systems programming when compared to application programming is that application programming aims to produce software which provides services to the user
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by wgj 3y ago
This is what they're referencing with that comment. I don't know that there's a "Japanese" style of Ruby, as much as there is a style that looks and reads more like systems code. https://github.com/r
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by wgj 3y ago
I started using Foam[0] a few years ago, but the more I used it, the more I dropped all the tedious bits, and it became nothing more than a big, evolving markdown repo. I switched from vscode (back) to vim, and it has worked as well or bett
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by wgj 3y ago
If you're using Chrome, there's Scroll To Text Fragment, and it works on any page regardless of its markup. https://chromestatus.com/feature/4733392803332096 Doing this manually is tedious, but a browser exte
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by wgj 3y ago
There's a lot more interesting detail in the wikipedia article, including a full description of the algorithm, and Perlin's own improvement of using simplex noise. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perlin_noise
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by wgj 3y ago
All those domains can still be pointed at the same deployment. The only extra cost is registrar and DNS, which is not much. Usually the reason for this kind of setup is better SEO.
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by wgj 3y ago
I'm confused. You're better with the C Diff infection?
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by wgj 4y ago
Your written English is good! Good blog too.
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by wgj 4y ago
Scalability doesn't matter until it does. “How did you go bankrupt?” Bill asked. “Two ways,” Mike said. “Gradually and then suddenly.” ― Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises
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by wgj 4y ago
Slack replaces in-person conversations, which have the same deficits, and many of the same benefits. It works best for remote and hybrid teams, where the in-person discussions aren't possible. It can even work well for in-office teams
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by wgj 4y ago
You can cellar your own wine. Lots of people do it, but cellar conditions matter and it's an expensive hobby. It's nice to not need to know five years in advance what you will feel like drinking tonight. Optionality is worth somet
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by wgj 4y ago
It looks like no one has said this yet. Many of the higher price/quality wines are expected to be cellared for a certain number of years after release. Opened too soon, they will have too much tannin and/or acidity. It costs money
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Twitter, amid compliance officer exodus, could run afoul of FTC rules(cybersecuritydive.com)
23 points by wgj 4y ago|0 comments
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by wgj 4y ago
Wow, it worked on me. I didn't see this until I just now searched for it. https://www.cybersecuritydive.com/news/twitter-ciso-resigns/...
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by wgj 4y ago
https://www.recurse.com/about
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by wgj 4y ago
Junior/mid devs will rewrite something they don't understand, rather than analyze and understand it. Everyone wants a green field project.
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by wgj 4y ago
https://patents.google.com/patent/WO2022073055A1/en
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by wgj 4y ago
https://archive.ph/WZiZf
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by wgj 4y ago
> Language JSON is only a data _format_, not a language. I agree it's awful for maintaining configs. YAML has issues with the more complex parts of its spec, but it's great for the stuff JSON gets used for.
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by wgj 4y ago
The article answers that several different ways.

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