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People often need a little nudge not to be on the defensive. I usually try to find a point that I agree with and let them know “that’s a good point”. It takes some listening and a …

> because just like in actual fracking, it is immensely harmful to the long-term health and sustainability of anything it is applied to An otherwise good article, but weakened by t…

That sounds legitimately hard and I don’t envy you. Hopefully (to carry your analogy) you can find punctual sports fans who freely share their holiday plans. > Whenever you try to …

There’s a natural desire for people to want to make things. Most of the time it’s physical: homes, crafts, woodworking. But for a few of us it’s ok for it to be non physical. Actua…

This is pretty textbook antisocial behavior. Also, every one of those points is a normal way to deal with someone you don’t like or want to distance yourself from.

I don’t think UI’s natural interface is visual. I think the natural interface is a state machine. The most reliable and performant UI code I’ve written usually tackles this head on…

That sounds like something you fight harder on instead of being defeatist.

Zero shielding may actually help. Shielding acts as an antenna when not properly grounded and continuous, which is more common than not.

> Fonts look fat or washed out Disable font smoothing and restart/relogin. defaults -currentHost write -g AppleFontSmoothing -int 0

I bought one for coding. I no longer can read text for an extended period with lower DPI monitors. There’s a few reasons why. 1. Non integer scaling sucks on Linux. It sucks on all…

> this generated function is not understood completely I think this kind of stuff is OK for the most part. I think it's a thrilling part of computer science: building systems so co…

Lube the road.

Aim to make the road laminar. Every time you hard brake, you're causing the milk jug to glug, making a ripple of entropy as momentum turns to heat from your brakes and those behind…

I recently installed a mini split heat pump in a detached accessory building. The installer upsold me on a more expensive unit because I’d get federal refunds due to its higher SEE…

Yeah, ChatGPT is a tool not a therapist with robot mode on and all memory options disabled. It’s awesome.

Someone did, but they're still slightly more expensive: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solid-state_drive

Yes, exactly. The demo of Gemini's Diffusion model [0] was really eye-opening to me in this regard. Since then, I've been convinced the future of lots of software engineering is ba…

ParaView [0] and VTK [1] are big projects from the same shop that does CMake. [0] https://github.com/Kitware/ParaView [1] https://github.com/Kitware/VTK

America’s entire research and academic industry is rooted in military.

> In fact, we didn’t found Tailscale to be a networking company. Networking didn’t come into it much at all at first. I always just assumed they were building some kind of logging …

Nginx is a state machine that efficiently handles lots of L4-L7 protocols. Seems weird to feel any emotions about it.

Is this similar to what iOS 17 uses for its new autocomplete?

I just listened to a podcast, Huberman, that discussed how to improve your ability to task switch. Apparently, there’s some connection to how your mind perceives time. He mentioned…

Creative works are incompatible with capitalism. We’ve create a thin finicky interface between them with copyright laws, but it hardly works. I’m not saying artists and creators sh…

I’ve gotten to be quite good at the actual coding part after a decade or so of programming. I’m not looking for better code practices, although I’ll obviously still learn and grow …