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Tinfoil hat time but I think they definitely did _something_ at that time that "changed" the system. It's the Cambridge Analytica/Trump time and I believe that FB definitely "chang…

This is what I don't understand about this policy. There's no way a senior has enough spare capacity to be the gate keeper on every PR made by AI below them. So now we are just mak…

Early in my career I tried very hard to "be concrete, cold, and direct" because that's what I thought a good communicator would do. It was seen as attacking to anyone below me and …

This feels like such a valid solution and is how past $dayjobs released things: send to the free users, rollout to Paying Users once that's proven to not blow up.

I've become a huge fan of A.E. van Vogt and have been slowly collecting all of his pulp books.

This is the reason I left the "main" social media and what keeps me from engaging too much with Reddit/HN or any of the other new hotness like Mast, nostr, BlueSky, etc: it's just …

This is a good callout/distinction you're making. How we view the goal of the experience determines our experience itself. The guitar analogy is really good because if your goal wa…

they have concepts of a product

I am getting > "error": "Text to speech is not available. Please set Azure speech credentials in .env"

Cannot agree more to this sentiment. I call it "throw away code" and it's always seemed like the easiest to change in the future, and we all know everything is gonna change in the …

BM25 is definitely a big deal when you're doing FTS. It's one of the reasons I've switched to Arango as my DB for the project I'm working on that needs FTS. The fact it also comes …

Oh this brought back memories! Getting a PS file, using px for everything to "match the designs", random jQuery snippets to get a hamburger menu. Not a damn clue what I was doing b…

We played tag or hide and seek at a school one time after dark. We were probably 16 or 17 since at least some of us could drive by then. Cops called all of our parents and said we'…

For the right price, I'd sell every bit of data I produce!

I really like this concept of `flex-grid` because that's exactly what this display would be.

I was making music in the early 00s and those indie Internet radio stations were the only place I ever got played. Made me feel like a hot shot!

What if you try to treat people the way they want to be treated instead of how you want to be treated? I think the "golden rule" has been often misinterpreted as " treat people how…

I read somewhere long ago that there's some chemical released when you talk about your plans, similar to the chemical that gets released when you complete your plan. So when you ta…

I can definitely second janus. At previous job, we used that for video calls/streaming mixed with FFMPEG for some transformations along the way. Really reliable stuff.

I 100% agree with this. Have always called it `throw-away development` where you build a prototype just to understanding what it is that you are actually solving/building. Then, on…

> while providing nothing of value you can't get from a game that's not for stakes. When I play poker, I don't get the same fun value when it's for nothing but the clay chips or ev…

It is all hevel, vapor. There is no sense to anything, no _meaning_ to anything. It just _is_. Eat, drink, and find satisfaction in your lot.

Three Scientists and their Gods is such a good book! Almost anything by Robert Wright has been a must buy for me ever since!

I think, if I'm recalling it correctly, that the component that is defining it in the docs can be either client or server and by marking the functiom as server only, Next knows to …

Fellow Volunteer here so totally empathize with the summer sun making the runs even harder! I used to be far more systematic with my life many moons ago, in my late teens and early…