mrblampo

My kids have an Ooma landline and haven't gotten bored with it yet. It's been months. The hype is real.

Me too!

Good feedback, thanks! Gemini got a bit carried away writing the README for me. Toned it down and added a demo GIF

DMA in what sub-field?

This is pretty cool

Got a music degree, decided the career wasn't for me, went to a programming incubator, really struggled with interviewing for a while, got a job at a startup, got a job at FAANG, here I am a decade after the career switch

Yep same. "Teach yourself to eat chocolate."

Fun article! Particularly enjoyed the anecdotal evidence from individual soldier's writing.

Thanks, I enjoyed this and it rings true. This abstract concept of "space" getting filled up thoughtlessly, and that "space" being created by unnecessarily breaking things up into smaller parts that don't really need to be separate, makes a lot of sense and I think I've seen this happen.

The article stops short of proposing a clear plan for how to handle the opposite problem, though: Entrenched monoliths. Once a class (or other abstraction) has grown for long enough (e.g. perhaps someone has read this article and is trying to avoid unnecessary complexity of code structure), it can become very difficult to break it up.

Try not to worry about what others think of you, and definitely don't think about IQ. Judgment is so much more important than speed. Why are you concerned with speedy thinking?

Made me laugh out loud

First example seems odd? The author acknowledges that the two proposed alternatives (printing "<function exit>" or actually exiting) aren't great. The fact that the Python REPL provides a helpful hint seems like extra effort to make your life easier. This is especially notable given that in the next example, the author's complaint is about a command _not_ providing special guidance about the thing the user is probably trying to do.

Yep this happened to me yesterday. In a taxi, the driver was following Google Maps, which showed a 22 min ETA, with one or two alternatives adding a minute or so. My phone was open and showed the same options. He felt certain that he knew a better route—via a highway, not a back road—and when he took that first rogue turn, Google Maps adjusted and the ETA instantly dropped to 14 min.

Beautiful Country, by Qian Julie Wang. Beautifully written memoir about immigrating to NYC as a child in the 90s. Poignant, sweet, honest, easy to read, fun, not too too emotionally heavy, but also full of lessons about trauma.

Sounds like the thing about "ad blocker sabotage" is about replacing the Web Request API with something called declarativeNetRequest. I've been sifting through documentation but have had trouble seeing why this is any kind of a downgrade for ad blockers. Can someone explain?

Yep, everything in this article is right on my money in my experience.

This was invaluable in music school.

How could it help with anything at runtime? The type system only exists at compile time, right?

Reading https://github.com/total-typescript/ts-reset/blob/main/src/e..., I'm more confused than before. The generic NonFalsy<T>[] looks to me like it should evaluate to never[] if the entire array is false, and to T[] (the original array type, not narrowed) otherwise. But I can see that the test case demonstrates that it works. What am I missing?

Interesting! The example

[1, 2, undefined].filter(Boolean). // number[]

is interesting because it makes use of the fact that the types of individual array members are known at compile time. I can think of some times when I have dealt with arrays that are defined at compile time, but not where I've needed to call .filter on such an array. Is there a common use case here?

Cool! Separate question: What makes people decide to use a mail client instead of webmail? What can I do with a client that I can't do with Gmail web?

I guess one option would be to use the same music streaming apps I would use on a phone, but use the download feature aggressively for playing music offline.

Fascinating. To use such a thing, where would I get downloadable DRM free music these days? What software do I use to sync it to an Android device? What software do I use to browse and play it on an Android device?

(I am asking these questions excitedly, not dubiously)

This was super interesting, and it would seem Bill Gates absolutely predicted the effect that not Java, but ultimately interactive web apps in a broad sense would come to have by making it less important to have one operating system or another.

Interesting that the reply mostly implied that there wasn't much reason to worry, and that the future and dominance of web apps was still uncertain. But we are reading this email exchange now I think largely because of how well placed Bill Gates's worries were. I wonder how many technologies he and other executives lost sleep over that did not amount to anything in the long run.

Relax and enjoy leisure!

Most prominent European composers from the last 500 years must be suffering for eternity I guess?

Huh. This page makes it sound like that quote was actually describing Lutherans: https://choralnet.org/archives/592923

Apparently he has attended both Lutheran and Episcopal churches: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garrison_Keillor

Where did you find the Episcopalian version of the quote?

"blue" in Vim. Great contrast, sufficiently aesthetically pleasing, strikes a nice balance that seems to work in high or low light.

I like reading them. Forces small chunks of information/opinion, fun rhetorical style.

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