wibblewobble123

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by wibblewobble123 5y ago
AGI is a faith based proposition like “the sufficiently smart compiler” - it turns all technical discussion into drivel.
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by wibblewobble123 5y ago
“Genius” comes from genus meaning source/give birth/produce, a genius is a prolific source of original work. If you are only prolific, or only original, or neither, you may be a clever person or highly skilled, but a genius you ar
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by wibblewobble123 5y ago
Performance reviews are similar. My company did a bi-yearly performance review one year and my manager wrote up their views of where I did bad on each thing through that half of the year. I spent the whole time annoyed that rather than tell
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by wibblewobble123 5y ago
The dramatic irony is highly overrated. Deepness before Fire is way more enjoyable.
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by wibblewobble123 5y ago
Pandoc markdown had footnotes in 2008 when I was blogging with it.
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by wibblewobble123 5y ago
To some degree it overlaps with Inflex https://twitter.com/inflexhq But the inspirations differ https://inflex.io/blog/bibliography
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by wibblewobble123 5y ago
Be careful with these grip strength thingies. If your finger tendons are overworked, using those will exacerbate the problem. I tell from experience. It’s brutal. Tendons aren’t muscles, they don’t fatigue and recover in the same way as mus
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by wibblewobble123 5y ago
Your comment shows you didn’t read the page fully. I miss when people had time to read a whole page. The author already wrote about blogs that are trying to get views with various tactics vs old proper blogs that were just people rambling a
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by wibblewobble123 5y ago
There are literally a hundred startups that GRIDS is like, don’t be ridiculous.
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by wibblewobble123 5y ago
You should also add blank text until the pointless web font loads.
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by wibblewobble123 5y ago
For a modern take on this you might like Paul Chiusiano’s work http://pchiusano.blogspot.com/2013/05/the-future-of-software... And that culminated in https://www.unisonweb.org/ Essentially all cod
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by wibblewobble123 5y ago
All CEOs are contrite when they respond to being publicly shamed on Hacker News. It’s somewhat of a Hacker News trope at this point. It’s amusing, but it doesn’t mean anything. I’ve commented on both Stripe and DigitalOcean’s terrible suppo
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by wibblewobble123 5y ago
Observable does. So does Julia’s Pluto.jl. You’re not paying attention to the space but recalculating notebooks are gaining popularity.
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by wibblewobble123 5y ago
Relations don’t provide sum types in a first-class way. If you want a list of employees each of which have different roles, and depending on the role you have different fields guaranteed to be available (not null), this is not possible to e
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by wibblewobble123 5y ago
C++ was invented by Bjarne Stroustrup who is Danish. But otherwise your list is mostly accurate.