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jtms··on Neural programmer better than Quicksort
Imagine a world where all programmers do is write the tests and the generalized learning algos write all the implementations.
jtms··on The percentage of Americans who are employed has fallen from 61 to 51
Cavities are caused primarily by too much sugar combined with inadequate home care. There is also a genetic component - some people are going to get more cavities than others no matter what they do. Cleanings and checkups don’t really prevent cavities, they screen for them.
jtms··on How Did Vim Become So Popular?
I strongly agree, but would go one step further and just remap caps lock to escape for the entire OS. Caps lock is a relatively useless function that takes up extremely prime real estate.
jtms··on The End of the Redis Adventure
I absolutely love Redis! I really wish more software worked as well and was as easy to use - thank you for creating this absolute gem!
jtms··on Facebook to let users turn off political adverts
I turned off political Facebook adverts by simply uninstalling the app and never using it
jtms··on Lyft to use only electric cars by 2030
Bold of them to assume they will still exist in 2030
jtms··on HSBC moves from 65 relational databases into one global MongoDB database
PostgreSQL still the best sql though :-)
jtms··on The utilitarian pleasures of playing board games by yourself
Splendor, Jaipur, and Seven Wonders: Duel are all fantastic 2 player games that get a ton of play at my house
jtms··on YouTube actively deletes anti CCP comments
Isn't bitcoin, by its very nature, "marked"? Perhaps you should change your conspiracy to use Monero or other privacy focused coins as the medium of bribery. :-)
jtms··on Software will eat software in a remote-first world
Same - trying to free enough extended ram to run various games in DOS on a hand me down 286 was my first experience in troubleshooting and configuring an OS
jtms··on My 2020 desk setup
for me, it is the most interesting thing on the front page right now.
jtms··on Spotify signs ‘The Joe Rogan Experience’ to an exclusive multi-year deal
1 million you say? I dunno... Jamie, pull that up!
jtms··on Toilet Paper Orientation
I’ll add to that and say that if you use Emacs instead of Vim you should probably feel deep existential despair about making such a blatantly incorrect choice
jtms··on Ask HN: What's your quarantine side project?
Not the OP, but figured I’d weigh in... I found it to be extremely productive when I used it for about 6 months. Only downside is that it’s not open source and some of its features are not free.
jtms··on Guitar – Git GUI Client
Just use the cli - it’s faster and more productive
jtms··on Carnival Executives Knew They Had a Virus Problem, but Kept the Party Going
Acted in extremely unethical ways? Definitely. Broken any actual laws that are prosecutable? Unlikely.
jtms··on Urbit for Normies
From the Urbit homepage: "Urbit ID is a decentralized digital identity system. Your Urbit ID is a username, network address, and crypto wallet."

So yes it absolutely involves a blockchain.

jtms··on Ask HN: Great fiction books that have had a positive impact on your life?
I ran into it in my printing of Cryptonomicon at the end of the book... indeed extremely excellent!
jtms··on Urbit for Normies
I have zero motivation to spend any time at all finding this out myself, but let me guess, this somehow involves a blockchain.
jtms··on Urbit for Normies
Yeah agreed... wtf is he even talking about? "terrible way to work" is an absurd thing to say - I use a command line for easily 90% of my work and would argue its a FAR SUPERIOR way to get things done efficiently. This sentence alone makes me dubious of this entire project.
jtms··on How to manage HTML DOM with vanilla JavaScript only?
Just because the APIs remain largely backwards compatible does not mean that they didn't change. Just the fact that querySelector and querySelectorAll was introduced and started actually being usable across all the major browsers is a huge change IMHO.
jtms··on How to manage HTML DOM with vanilla JavaScript only?
yeah seriously... in 2010 i am pretty sure we were still rounding corners via background images in css
jtms··on How to manage HTML DOM with vanilla JavaScript only?
Browser APIs have changed quite a bit in the last 10 years. Yes, the same approaches are still supported, but there have been many additions and modifications to core APIs. Ten years ago you would have never dreamed of trying to build complex front end behavior without something like JQuery, but now it’s totally unnecessary as all browsers mostly adhere to the standards. I guess my point is I don’t think React has changed any more or less than browser APIs - both have just steadily updated best practices just like any other piece of software since ever.
jtms··on How to manage HTML DOM with vanilla JavaScript only?
*right (unless wordplay was intentional)
jtms··on Ask HN: Great fiction books that have had a positive impact on your life?
I think the essay about undersea cables is actually by Stephenson, not Gibson (unless he happened to write one too)
jtms··on Ask HN: Computer Science/History Books?
This is one of my favorite books of all time out of all books, not just tech. No other book has had a more profound impact on how I look at and relate to those (previously) mysterious chunks of metal and plastic that we all spend so much time in front of now.
jtms··on LICEcap: Simple Animated Screen Captures
LICEcap is great software - we use it extensively on my team to share little highlight reels of a given feature in pull requests
jtms··on Bosch develops rapid test for Covid-19
And it even works on people who fully understand it and think they are above it
jtms··on Unclogging Toilets at $400k a Flush Hits Navy’s Costs
Nice hot take on the headline... maybe actually read the article and add something a bit more substantial to the discussion?
jtms··on Our Self-Isolating Future: How working from home could reshape society
Just because you and your specific likes and dislikes don’t agree with WFH everyday as a viable approach doesn’t make it “a joke”. I’m perfectly fine and productive with it.
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