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>> Abstractions often really do speed up production, but you pay the price in maintenance later on.

> What? I don't know what this means. Good abstractions allow us to better maintain code. Maintaining something that hasn't been structured into appropriate abstractions is a nightmare.

100% agree with this. Name it well, maintain it in one place ... profit.

It's the not abstracting up front that can catch you: The countless times I have been asked to add feature x, but that it is a one-off/PoC. Which sometimes even means it might not get the full TDD/IoC/feature flag treatment (which aren't always available depending upon the client's stack).

Then, months later get asked to created an entire application or feature set on top of that. Abstracting that one-off up into a method/function/class tags and bags it: it is now named and better documented. Can be visible in IDE, called from anywhere and looped over if need be.

There is obviously a limit to where the abstraction juice isn't worth the squeeze, but otherwise, it just adds superpowers as time goes on.

Not sure on their reasoning, but subtitle files _are_ an attack vector:

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/fake-one-batt...

https://mashable.com/article/subtitles-hackers

Standardized selectors was the big use case for me

I do as well, and agree 100%.

Funny story, the lead on our Eastern European team told me a while back that he had to tell his team:

When the North Americans ask at the beginning of a meeting "How's it going?", they do NOT really want to know how you are doing. It's just social lubrication before getting to work.

Before that, we were getting to learn that their mother in-laws in town or different medical issues.

I've had my domain and some business ideas ready for 20 years now (since Rainbow's End).

Still waiting for the ecosystem to mature a little more and the "early" movers to consolidate the APIs. Also, I love my job so not super motivated.

The only business "secret sauces" I know are creativity (market value depends on what you're selling) and implementation (if what you're selling works). Customers will follow.

IMO: Go For It! The more the space matures, the better for all of us.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rainbows_End_(Vinge_novel)#Aug...

They also try to do it by design: The Menil Collection in Houston keeps their storage on the top floor to avoid damage from Hurricane flooding.

I like this workflow a lot, actually. Docker is great and all, but depending on the project, Vagrant helps "keep it simple".

Thanks

Keeping in mind with Vagrant: if you are using a synced_folder in your host as a source folder in the VM, those files in the synced_folder will be modified on the host.

Additionally, he later concluded that the tool of politics was a total waste of time to do that work. He then focused solely on science and design.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Design_science_revolution

https://archive.org/details/operatingmanualforspaceshipearth...

Computronium! Kurzweil goes into this in the Singularity is Near.

I've always wondered if Warlock from the New Mutants was made of it.

Husqvarna's awesome. Literal Testing Harnesses:

https://youtu.be/VzGYYcbVwt4?t=766

I've been learning my way through this the last few years. Started small and cheap, have gotten to "good enough for me" and cheap. Bought about 5 <$200, and a ~$400 low-end epson.

Looking to do outdoor video graffiti and VJing.

You appear to be thinking in terms of resolution, where you'll get better details/sharper focus the higher you go.

For projectors, I've learned to move up in lumens. 6-7k minimum.

Keeping in mind: the higher the luminous flux, the more expensive.

All of everything. Some NSF*. It all culminates on New Year's Eve, with the ULTIMATE "Auld Lang Syne" playlist.

Jolly Ol' Soul https://somafm.com/jollysoul/

Xmas in Frisko (NSF*) https://somafm.com/xmasinfrisko/

Christmas Rocks! https://somafm.com/xmasrocks/

Christmas Lounge https://somafm.com/christmas/

Department Store Christmas https://somafm.com/deptstore/

There's some really cool stuff going on in the "tape delay loop" space. People make and sell all sorts of cassettes for many different "sample lengths". The designs of how they fit the tape in the box are pretty amazing.

https://www.etsy.com/ca/market/cassette_tape_loop

Reminds me of when I was kid - one of my moms Vietnam vet friends kept his weed in a reel-to-reel box. Which seems even better than an LP.

Ugh, tell me about it. In Canada, Chapters put the knife in the independents. They used to have a great selection. Once there was no competition, they reduced their selection by turning half their floor space into selling pillows and candles.

Luuurve Wendy Carlos! Watched "The Shining" again this Halloween, and her soundtrack is what really takes it over the top.

Went down the rabbit hole.

And having found: https://dynomight.net/thanks-4/ #18

Can't agree more. Thank you

Thank You !

Couldn't get green beans, so had to pivot and made Green Pea Casserole.

Subtle, but the very last line of 1939's "Hounds of the Baskervilles" is "Oh, Watson - the needle!".

One of the Rathbone/Bruce films in the 40s has Holmes chasing Nazi's for some microfilm. I understand "supporting the fighting spirit" of the times, but still find it difficult to reconcile.

Not to mention (but to mention), Marvin Minsky (MIT AI Lab) and Joichi Ito (MIT Media Lab) both got donations from him.

Minsky even had an AI summit on Epstein Island.

Me neither. Similar to the drill floor on oil rigs where there's tracking of every tool in use to make sure it is non-sparking.

I've watched this probably 5 times since it was released. It's all-the-way-around incredible.

"Don't trust anyone over 30"

"Back in the day" I crawled Craigslist to get the urls for every location served in north America. Craigslist allowed you to create an rss feed from a search, so I scripted rss links to every location's jobs section with the search "freelance telecommute lamp developer".

Looking through that every day, got many contract jobs and 2 full time 10+ year "careers".

Low tech, but when it got to the sales calls was able to push the "creative problem solver" and "time/cost aware" angles, in addition to my tech resume. There was literally hardly any competition in many of these markets, because everyone else was on monster or whatever. Ymmv

Interesting to me about this place is that they were isolated for hundreds of years (on an island). When you listen to their English, it is uncanny like Cajun English, who were isolated for hundreds of years (in a swamp)

The 30's is where it really got kicked up a notch. amazing stage performers, state-of-the-art film tech, and a world full of life. "Captains Courageous" shows how incredible many fish were in the water. "You Can't Take it with You" is an homage to the artists soul. "Tonight or Never"'s perfectly balanced pre-code saucy love story. The effects in "Ssh, the octopus" and "the old dark house" still stand up

I often init a bare repo on single-use server's I'm working on.

Then, have separate prod and staging clones parallel to that.

Have a post-commit hook set on the bare repo that automatically pushes updates to the staging repo for testing.

When ready, then pull the updates into prod.

Might sound strange, but for certain clients hosting situations, I've found it allows for faster iterations. ymmv

I started with that one , too

1 GB Hard Drive in a Performa from Circuit City

wrt the topic, Kurzweil's exponential "Law of Accelerating Returns" used disk space vs. dollars over years as one of his predictive analysis metrics. Haven't looked into his stuff in years, so not sure how it has all turned out.