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But you still let the user put in the effort before revealing they'll have to sign up. Just be upfront.

You're absolutely right, and I share the frustration. I'm thinking a possible solution to this signal-to-noise problem is to embrace the longitudinal view: instead of comparing eac…

You are not alone. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wu_wei

Don't "let it" generate tests. Be intentional. Define them in a way that's slightly oblique to how the production code approaches the problem, so the seams don't match. Heck, that'…

Eminently doable, yes. Two notes: - I'm not convinced the graph is necessarily cyclic. Often two codependents are actually dependent on some common bits and otherwise independent. …

Next step: embeddings and similarity.

I sanction this comment.

Although it isn't yet clear how much the brakes did actually brake, it is known they would never be enough. So the cable was a critical component and initial findings suggest it wa…

We shouldn't dismiss the theory of how to do things right just because it is common to do things poorly.

a Dhall configuration file will never: - throw an exception - crash or segfault - accept malformed input - produce malformed output - hang or time out in https://docs.dhall-lang.or…

Different requirements, different guarantees. Principle of least power. Have a look at https://docs.dhall-lang.org/discussions/Safety-guarantees.ht... .

Ban on cash: impose negative interest rates. CBDCs: all manner of restrictions to fungibility.

Sigh. Generally what happens is that: - Everyone is able to prove a transaction's correctness; - There's no way for a third party to track the contents of a transaction adversarial…

Mostly yes. My advice on this topic is to read up on Liberating Structures, which I think are a level up. https://liberatingstructures.com/

A request for a synchronous form of communication is a request for your time. People should earn it first.

Obsidian + GitJournal + NeuraCache. No-cloud (except for git, could be self hosted), local-first, plain data formats solution for note taking, knowledge organisation, text producti…

For a less romanticised, more practical resource on the topic, I recommend The Hitchhiker’s Guide to Online Anonymity https://anonymousplanet.org/guide.html (also, Monero > bitcoin…

Aside from the click-baity article, the actual report puts emphasis on the quality of the existing data about food waste. A bit of an "let's measure this first" attitude, which is …

The version of the API and the version of the artifact that implements it are distinct, not the least because the artifact can implement several (major) versions of the API. Using …

Base64 padding, probably.

Exactly this. One thing is to have (today) the same behaviour, another is to (forever) be the same thing.

Hah! Not seriously, no. > REST is a solid, simple, and powerful transport method and let's maybe do without CORBA moving forward. Chill. :-) The world agrees with you.