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ben at blinq dot inc
Engineer in beautiful Denver, CO.
https://www.stictionary.com - The free, no ads, offline dictionary.
I built it after years of manually tracking words i looked up in hopes that i'd retain them better. After having it on my phone for months, i can say it works great.
4090 - $1600
4080 (16GB) - $1200
4080 (12GB) - $900
2. https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/geforce/graphics-cards/40-serie...
If you are in an apartment complex, how will charging look? Is it realistic to have charging ports at every (or even a majority of) reserved parking spots? It feels like there are some obvious logistical concerns for condo parking garages.
It is an offline, ad free, dictionary that remembers words you look up. It gives a word of the day and provides (admittedly underfeatured atm) flashcards to review your word lists. It includes optional syncing to keep your word lists across devices. I've been holding off posting about it while i complete the website[2].
Love to see someone else had such a similar idea. Great confirmation of the unmet need in the space. Really awesome execution as well. Congrats on the launch!
On a personal note, i built Stictionary after tracking all the words i looked up manually for years. Now i have an app that does it for me (and was a blast to build).
1: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/stictionary/id1613214660?platf...
As OP said clearly: a lot of the issues people have with "marketing" are actually issues with "advertising". I wholly agree (as someone who actively avoids ads).
There are marketers who believe their only tool is advertising. There are also technologists who believe that ads are all marketing is. Both of these groups are leaving opportunities on the table. That isn't anyone's fault, it just means these people are missing their chances.
That genuinely may be so, but "this law i broke shouldn't exist" is not an advisable legal defense.
Also, what you call "rent seeking" others would call "return on investment". I do think there is a grey area here, "fair use" being one example, but i think summarily discounting distributors and publishers wholesale doesn't help your stance.
[Elect] Daft Punk - Tron Legacy OST
[Synth] Perturbator - I Am The Night
[Metal] A Skylit Drive - Wires... and the Concept of Breathing
[ ??? ] Postal Service - Give Up
[Synth] Dance with the Dead - B-Sides: Vol. 1Vitalik sitting on non-private flights doesn't meaningfully add to pollution, the flight was already happening. The fuel was already earmarked for burning.
"This person boarded a lot of flights that were going to pollute anyways" is a strange take. Sure he did it a lot, but if an individual contributes no measurable impact by sitting on a plane, then boarding 300+ flights pollutes roughly the same as boarding 0, since those 300+ flights happen anyway.
If you want to argue about market forces, do that. But as a sibling comment said, blaming a consumer here is strange.
If someone said they take ICE public buses to commute daily, my guess is the sentiment would be that is environmentally-conscious commuting.
Is this meaningfully different from boarding a plane? I can see a luxury vs necessity angle, but is that it? Over long distances planes are more efficient. And like buses, the idea that a single person's behavior will impact departure schedules feels wrong.
My intuition tells me the speed particles passively would move through the air would be limited roughly by the speed of sound? That feels like a hard upper bound, though?
The flutter team has proven generally capable of developing UI elements on mobile across iOS/Android. Getting platform stability is a welcome step and i trust them to continue to build out the desktop element set.
Flutter has been my go-to for mobile app dev for years and i haven't considered returning to react native, pure native or cordova since i swapped.
All that being said, i have spent my afternoon debugging an issue with Flutter's first-party camera plugin, so it isn't all roses.
The fact that i graduated as a software engineer says nothing about my other opportunities that i _chose_ not to persue. At scale i can see those effects averaging out somewhat, but i see no evidence that a a fully egalitarian society would produce entirely representative outcomes across all subgroups/occupations.
My ordering is by my mental model of "impact" of the declaration. Generally: Display -> Position -> Box Model -> Text/Font -> Background -> Misc.
/* Example from css file i have open */
.officeBlock .email {
display: inline-block;
padding: 14px 10px 8px;
background-color: #E0EFFE;
border-radius: 50%;
transition: 0.25s ease-out;
}
> people always show that it has never really been about freedom (emphasis mine)
Which people? They always act this way? It was never about freedom, for anyone? Who could possibly say this authoritatively?
I think the last ~5 years has put a bright light onto freedom of speech. It is a complicated topic with some surprisingly nuanced positions. Does it include the ability to say what you want wherever you want? Or without consequence? There are multiple vectors to it.
I consider myself a free speech advocate. But i have no military fetishism that you claim is one of the root causes for free speech support (a weird combo). I support free speech because... i think people speaking their mind freely is a net positive. That appears to be increasingly controversial these days. That's fine, more room for discussion.
To be clear, Display Stream Compression is different from Chroma Subsampling[2], which the parent referenced.
1. "The University of California is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer"
2. "It is the policy of the University to undertake affirmative action, consistent with its obligations as a federal contractor, for minorities and women"
3. "All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, gender identity..."
I doubt that this amount of work overlooked such a common programming font comparison. Any idea why they made them nearly identical?
The US has a history entering conflicts i fervently disagree with. Wars and smaller, more targeted attacks. The idea that my business's production infrastructure could be at risk because some POTUS drone strikes the wrong wedding is exactly the sort of reactionary policy-making i try to avoid when choosing which companies i associate with my production infrastructure. This general neutrality was a reason i became a Namecheap customer many years ago.
I won't say that i can empathize at all with those deeply affected by this war. I fully understand people want to use the means at their control to change the tide here. But as a customer, this move scares me.
OP: "millenia old book makes claim about life that is empirically uncontroverted in 2022" – i agree
Parent: "the bible is a collection of stories and contradictions should be expected" – i also agree
The first half of your comment could indeed be relevant in the right discussion, but this thread was not it. The rest then falls terribly flat and comes off needlessly aggressive and snide.
> Christians are easily confused
I would be embarrassed writing such things in a public forum.
1. Title inflation is a thing. I got my first CTO role in my late 20's and this was partially due to hopping on with a very early stage startup that needed tech direction/leadership/IC work. Getting exec roles in your younger years is much harder with larger more established companies.
2. Learn the whole stack. If you are the VPoE/CTO of a smaller company, people expect you to have the answers for everything tech. You pick the servers, infrastructure, code styles, architecture, frameworks, etc.
3. People are everything on a team. Before you are in one of these roles, spend some time understanding challenges people face in companies you work for, across departments. Grab lunches with people, talk to them about work. Some problems can be solved with an hour of coding a script for them. Most are more complicated, but developing this empathy and willingness to understand was crucial for me.
4. Being able to interview and hire well is an undervalued skillset in the tech industry. Involve yourself in those processes early to start understanding it. Remember that as CTO of a small/mid size company you may have final say on all tech hires as well as being the one who determines when positions are posted.
5. Grow comfortable with the unknown. There is a lot of on-the-job training for your first or second CTO run. Trust that you are smart and deserve where you are. You can figure this out.
I tried making a trend line comparing Vax % by state to Biden vote %. Interesting result[1] that i think supports both of our arguments. A trend line exists to support your claim, though i would argue it's not a great fit and the data is quite scattered.
I should also say i didn't mean to harsh address your comment specifically. I don't dispute the trend you claimed i was more ranting about the larger categorization that my parent comment was asking about.
Linking my sources[2][3] as well.
1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2020_United_States_presidentia...
2: https://www.dropbox.com/s/3rieowmakzvfzuv/vax%20vs%20demo%20...
3: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2020_United_States_presidentia...
4: https://usafacts.org/visualizations/covid-vaccine-tracker-st...
People generally hold sweeping, often negative, opinions of "those people". Over the decades, "those people" has been defined by race, religion, ethnicity, etc. Today in the US it is which political party people perceive you to be affiliated with.
I call this a feedback cycle because in my experience the people using this sort of rhetoric aren't interested in being proven wrong. They have chosen consciously or otherwise to vilify a group, or buy into preexisting vilification. Undoing that is hard work so it just doesn't happen. Absent any pressure, people assume themselves correct and chalk up another datapoint confirming their own biases.
This is readily apparent in response to any mass killing/tragedy. My more politically extreme friends seem to race for any evidence they can find that they perpetrator is Democrat/Republican. Of course this boils down to pure speculation (gun ownership, smokes pot, etc), but the urgency and desire is there all the same.
In summary it is little surprise that the politicians in Washington are so hardlined on their stances and party affiliations. This is effectively the government the voters have demanded. When the citizens of a country start vilify half the country, their representatives reaching across the isle is political suicide. And thus we sit.
I’m reminded of the “software is just ifs and loops” post from weeks back. I had that opinion when I started, lost it for 15 years and find it returning more and more.
Accumulation has been low in both cases, and this year has certainly felt uncharacteristically warm, but i do wonder what constitutes "a measurable amount".
I presume the MIT literature knows more than i do here, but i'm unsure what i am missing. Anyone have an idea?