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really well written and generous with interesting details, too.

the ergonomic advantage of left-to-right is that most players use right-handed guitars, so the guitar's cord comes out the right side of your body, and it's most ergonomic for it to be directed straight away from you to the right side of your pedal board, not criss-crossing in front of you towards the left side of your board.

I post at signmaker.dev.

I've never visited this blog before but I really enjoy the synthesis of programming skill (at least enough skill to render quick graphs and serve them via a web blog) and writing skill here. It kind of reminds me of the way xkcd likes to drive home his ideas. For example, "Surpassed by a system that costs one thousand times less than I do... less, per word thought or written, than ... the cheapest human labor" could just be a throwaway thought, and wouldn't serve very well on its own, unsupported, in a serious essay, and of course the graph that accompanies that thought in Jones's post here is probably 99.9% napkin math / AI output, but I do feel like it adds to the argument without distracting from it.

(A parenthetical comment explaining where he ballparked the measurements for himself, the "cheapest human labor," and Claude numbers would also have supported the argument, and some writers, especially web-focused nerd-type writers like Scott Alexander, are very good at this, but text explanations, even in parentheses, have a way of distracting readers from your main point. I only feel comfortable writing one now because my main point is completed.)

that's hilarious. he's out of line but he's right!

I had a positive interview experience with you folks a few months ago when I was on the market, and walked away with a positive impression of the whole team and project.

That seems a bit crazy and like it would lead to unpredictable and hard-to-mantain code. (pardon my candor).

Welcome to the antimemetics division. This is not your first day.

god damn you for thinking of this idea before me

I have a personal convention for books like that - I don't have any Dilberts on the shelf but a lot of Neil Gaimans, plus an artsy TTRPG book ("Maze of the Blue Medusa") that's also made by someone who is now widely considered a serial sexual assaulter - I don't (always) remove them from my shelves but I turn them upside down, like a flag indicating distress.

I need to buckle down and watch a YouTube video on this that gives examples. It obviously comes up in computer engineering all the time, but it's something I've been able to skate by without fully understanding; from time to time I see comments like this one that seem perfectly clear, but I'm sure there's still quite a lot of nuance that I could benefit from learning.

Isn't it always?

Yeah I don't know about this specific situation, but as someone who is on the job market, is a good developer, but can come off as a little odd sometimes, I often wonder how often I roll a natural 1 on my Cha check and get perceived as an AI imposter.

> But maybe it is better to try to agree on what is really going on in real discussions, rather than hypotheticals about candies.

I don't think this is going to blow your mind or anything, but the candy discussion in this essay wasn't actually hypothetical at all. The tic tacs are fetuses and the "fascists" are forced birther conservatives. You might disagree that it's reasonable to call a forced birther a fascist - to call them that certainly seems a bit imprecise to me - but I'm not sure what you're driving at beyond that (valid) semantic point. Begging what question?

TVs and monitors are technologically different. They are constructed to be focused on from different range depths and widths. You can't just buy a TV-sized monitor and use it like a TV.

A better way to express it than a "con" is that it's a price-framing device. It's like listing a watch at an initial value of $2,000 so that people will feel content to buy it at $400.

I was in a programming interview the other day where the interviewers and I were sharing an online code pad (either CoderPad or CodeSignal) that offered a "Vim mode", but when I tried to use a Vim feature, it didn't behave as I expected! Driven by curiosity, I took a deep dive into what Vim features are offered on what sites.

Overall the story is really impressive for most of these sites! I also tried out a couple of IDEs (PyCharm CE and VS Code, both with their Vim plugins set up) and they also performed well overall.

I don't really see how that's related to the article (not trying to be a dick about it or anything; probably I'm just dense).

And EU-only, I see.

If you're on a Mac, your terminal has `say` built in. Lots of Mac users don't know about it but I use `say` a lot.

    $ bash long_build_script.sh; say job done

    $ sleep 1; say job done

> Worse it doesn't even really "work" anymore, giving how most search are flooded with garbage SEO results and payed advertisements "basically" looking like search results ...

I don't understand what you're saying. That's exactly why people append `site:reddit.com` to their searches in the first place, because those search results typically aren't like that.

> ... "discovered" that troubleshooting Kubernetes was a bit like Warhammer 40k Adeptus Mechanicus waving incense in front of machines they didn't understand in the hopes that it would make the problem go away.

I'm so glad you quoted that because I missed it skimming the article and it's the funniest shit I've ever heard.

> If you give people the tools and they still spread what you deem to be fake news, then you've done what you can. Tough cookies for you.

Setting aside the inflammatory tone of your take on this - I think your argument would be strengthened by an example or two of where you're suggesting the line should be drawn - this just is not how running social media sites currently works at all. Companies can and do censor user content all the time, for better or worse. What "tough cookies"? More like tough cookies for people that don't like living in a country where a third of the population believes we're ruled by baby blood drinking reptile people.

More power to him if so. Stupid problems deserve stupid solutions.

That's interesting! Does it work well, e.g. on YouTube ads?

#2 checking in. I pay almost zero attention to what Apple does. I'll pay attention if they start allowing Mozilla to ship add-ons with Firefox so I can run adblock on mobile like on Firefox!

> Whether or not you believe forced arbitration is bad, it seems like there have to be higher value causes to get up in arms about right now.

Yes indeed, but resistance against unfairness is not like a coin purse; it is like a muscle. When exercised, it seems like it increases its capacity.

> The embarrassing security lapse is linked to a book he published on Amazon, which left a digital trail to a private Google account created in his name, along with his unique ID and links to the account’s maps and calendar profiles.

I'm interested to know more about the nature of the lapse here. Is there a bug in Amazon where self-publishers expose their account email addresses? Or was it more like, he shared Google Map and Google Calendar content in the book, not realizing that those features exposed his real email?

That's a smart way to do it. When I was in this situation without having thought of that, I ended up chunking the monster commit into as small changes as possible with `git add -p`, and then used git rebase as my bisect (since I didn't know how bisect worked either) by rewinding through time until i had found the micro-commit that contained the error.

I like it too!