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codeisawesome··on 25-Dec. Shout-out to everyone else at work
> “the India and China immigrants”

While factually correct, a more elegant wording to express this would be “colleagues from India and China”.

codeisawesome··on Ask HN: Those making $500/month on side projects in 2021 – Show and tell
This one I think https://github.com/inlets/inlets-operator
codeisawesome··on Ask HN: Those making $500/month on side projects in 2021 – Show and tell
Getting a 404, the URL is case-sensitive: https://espotek.com/labrador works.
codeisawesome··on Why start a new database conference?
I’m digging the idea of the remote conference pattern in TFA: 10 min talk, followed by audio/video free form chat, to simulate the dynamism of a meatspace conference.
codeisawesome··on Plans you're not supposed to talk about
> the bad form just normalizes something that is common at the time.

Exactly. I think there should be a blanket negative to customs, practices or systems that objectively cause harm. It would be reprehensible to see someone try to defend, say, Female Genital Mutilation… using “Chesterton’s Fence”. Just don’t fucking do it to people; stop doing it right now, the “why” might be for anthropologists to ponder at a later date.

codeisawesome··on How to rest well
Had us in the first half…
codeisawesome··on Boox Mira Pro – 25.3" E Ink Monitor
I would love to be a fly on the wall when the unit price calculation for some high tech item is made. I wonder if it just goes like “component x + y + margin%”… what those components are in stuff like processors, screens etc must be so interesting!
codeisawesome··on Father-son duo helped techies ‘hack exams’, earn top scores for big payday
Thanks for pointing this out to me! I went through the HN thread and their front page and the project looks extremely promising!

I will wait for the project to be open sourced (as per their stated intention in their FAQ) just for that extra bit of peace of mind, and reluctantly suffer with Safari in the meanwhile.

codeisawesome··on Father-son duo helped techies ‘hack exams’, earn top scores for big payday
I love Safari's battery-life preserving ability, but I hate that it doesn't support a JavaScript Allow-list (you can only nuke JS across the web or have it always-on). uBlock Origin (my favourite and solely-trusted ad blocker) doesn't support recent Safari versions. Anyone know of any good options in this scenario? Either a trustworthy and working ad-blocker for Safari - or a battery preserving browser for the Mac with an extension set like Chromium/Firefox's...
codeisawesome··on M1 Pro First Impressions: Core Management and CPU Performance
I run two 5Ks and my 2019 Intel feels quite sluggish. I still pay that price for the real estate.
codeisawesome··on M1 Pro First Impressions: Core Management and CPU Performance
I’ve wondered for a while if the fans coming on due to dual monitors is a software / driver issue that could be fixed by a patch. It would save me from buying a new machine right now.
codeisawesome··on Multitasking Doesn't Work
Hmm - this seems to cover the aspect of taking classes serially - but nothing in the website talks about graduating much quicker as a result?
codeisawesome··on The Fugate family of Kentucky has had blue skin for centuries (2017)
Or Kree in MCU!
codeisawesome··on Multitasking Doesn't Work
I would sign up tomorrow if this existed.
codeisawesome··on Anil Seth Finds Consciousness in Life’s Push Against Entropy
Yes, I’m definitely not supporting colonisation. I’m from a country who’s prospects were stunted by merciless resource extraction. I wish it didn’t happen. I’m simply saying that, it’s the “lowest common denominator” means of achieving progress and geo-local maxima by causing ethical global minima. Hence, space exploration is a noble alternative in comparison - extract your resources from dead zones in space and have a human utopia for all here on earth.
codeisawesome··on The Software Industry Is Still the Problem
What is the equivalent of open source software in the physical engineering world that this author respects so much? How is it regulated?

If there isn’t such an example, then perhaps software is a category of its own and thus its problems can’t be solved by legacy regulatory tooling.

codeisawesome··on Anil Seth Finds Consciousness in Life’s Push Against Entropy
> Which means that ordered systems must create disorder in order to maintain their own order, and the place where you find the greatest order to disorder is in other actively ordered systems.

Wow, that also nicely explains how colonisation & impoverishment of some human groups is necessary in the current framework, so that high HDI can be achieved in other human groups (which then explains various historical facts).

This makes space exploration and attempts of automated resource extraction from celestial objects a noble goal, something that can achieve world peace (assuming the results are distributed).

codeisawesome··on The Great AI Reckoning
I definitely like the metric as better fitting, once multiplied by time! Thanks for sharing!
codeisawesome··on Things Unlearned
Hmm. But isn’t there some merit to the idea that groups of people behave differently when put together vs. how they would act individually?
codeisawesome··on The Great AI Reckoning
Somewhat off topic, and I ask out of genuine curiosity - when did the “this computation will take sifting through more combinations than there are visible atoms in the universe” meme emerge?

I’ve never quite understood why that’s an important metric for considering processing. Does it have an actual impact on the computability of something, or is it just a visualisation to help human minds scale the grasp of something?

codeisawesome··on Apple didn't revolutionize power supplies; new transistors did (2012)
I thought this was a new "ML powered" charger of some type until I googled... interesting find.
codeisawesome··on Socialist Cyborgs
I think one would run into trouble with the local hard-power gatekeepers in most places with this approach. I believe South Africa had a problem where activists tried to improve water supply infra but got blocked by the local government (which was and is doing a terrible job).
codeisawesome··on Show HN: 40k HN comments mentioning books, extracted using deep learning
What a fantastic site and application of ML! This is an inspiring project :)

Wonder how “Focus” went under “Christian Books & Bibles”, though.

codeisawesome··on The never-ending product requirements of user authorization
Interesting project, the post resonated, there are more architectural considerations here: https://docs.cerbos.dev/cerbos/0.6.0/index.html
codeisawesome··on Who Needs Expats? End of the Traveling Circus
What are some examples?
codeisawesome··on Apple unveils new iPad mini with breakthrough performance in new design
> It seems like the more free the platform is, the less interesting it is for users.

The web is a clear counter-example.

codeisawesome··on The complicated reality of doing what you love
How do you prevent that from slipping down to the nadir (imo) of “nobody is entitled to survival”? Or is that also a part of your belief system..? (Not meaning to judge)
codeisawesome··on Your Brain Is Not a Computer. It Is a Transducer
This website is exactly like the “How I experience the web now” post from the other day.
codeisawesome··on How I Experience Web Today
I think the "Leave site????!" Popup at the end is such a beautiful, excellent, delightful little touch! This is indeed how we experience the Web now :D
codeisawesome··on Tech Interview Handbook
I believe you are experiencing a 'sarchasm'.
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