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I was about to recommend the same book - lots of good nuggets of wisdom in here, without the dogma you sometimes find in this kind of literature.

Re: your experience teaching synths in university, do you feel there is certain knowledge/concepts that are difficult for those self-teaching sound design? I do the same "no preset…

That sounds like my ideal job. The longer I've been a developer, the more I've come to dislike work that doesn't address problems faced by end-users/the org.

This is a coldly economic take. Does the sole motivation of writing have to be for the consumption of others?

Two economists are walking in a forest and they come across a pile of shit. The first economist says to the other “I’ll pay you $100 to eat that pile of shit.” The second economist…

I was not expecting panpsychism to pop up on HN. Years ago I explored the topic out of curiosity; at first it seems pretty absurd, but you can find some interesting discussions and…

It's odd to me that you chose color as an example of something objective, since so much about perception is subjective. Even if we think about it in more quantitative terms, with r…

Sometimes I wonder how many criticisms of JavaScript frameworks are driven by a nostalgia for an internet that no longer exists. Not this post per se, but many seem to forget why t…

I would guess that you're either not around junior engineers, or people are very good at hiding their confusion.

Minor nitpick, but I wish this post started with defining what we mean by logging vs tracing, since some people use these interchangeably. The reader instead has to infer this from…

This or bran cereal are both good options in my experience. Just make sure to watch for how much sugar is in it; some brands will sneak in sugar even in granola.

You're setting up a binary between advanced/primitive; I would hesitate to speculate that they would conform to our ideas of these concepts. The other thing to consider is, we migh…

On a higher level, software development is a process of converting unknowns to knowns. We can't estimate or act upon what we don't know; as we uncover details, we can more accurate…

> How is being “leaky” in any way bad or even good? Information-gathering is a common early step in any attack against a system; knowing the language & libraries involved (especial…

Thank you for the context - I thought that sounded off.

I know this is just an example, but is this an accurate representation of what these arguments are like? > Western societies are structured on Enlightenment-era philosophy that fun…

I wonder if the speed/frequency of discourse has soured some of the potentially good ideas that critical theory can put forth. In college I had a deep interest in critical theory, …

100% agreed. On reddit, I've always felt there was an inverse relationship between the quality of content and the number of users on a subreddit. Personally, interactions feel more…

Happened just this week: https://www.forbes.com/sites/conormurray/2023/07/27/twitter-...

When I used Python for Advent of Code a few years ago, I found that Python makes unit testing fun . Coming from .NET 6 development, I'll do what I need to do when it comes to flesh…

I wish I remembered the exact error; it was just with podman though. Podman desktop being newer, I hadn't really tried it out much. FWIW, it could simply be chalked up to M1 weirdn…

I switched from podman to Rancher Desktop at work recently, and it's been a very smooth experience - thank you for your work!

To me, docker compose is simply a more readable way of running docker commands; anything you can do with the docker cli, you can run as a docker compose file. Just like how a shell…

At work I was initially using podman on an M1 MacBook, but switched to Rancher Desktop + dockerd a couple months ago after having too many issues with podman. Many in my org are al…

The beginnings of a western WeChat?