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vantassell··on Effect 4.0
I had the same thought, until I realized the posted link is for their 4.0 release rather than their homepage.

Their main page makes the product pretty clear.

https://effect.website

vantassell··on Shopify is moving from React Native back to Swift and Kotlin
>Spotify has progressively gotten much worse over the last 15 years, all while the size of their engineering team has ballooned.

Spotify or Shopify?

vantassell··on How bicycle coaster brakes work (2018)
Biggest advantage is that they keep your hands free while braking.
vantassell··on PostgreSQL for Everything
I tried PostgREST and regretted it. I ran into many situations where I wanted a thicker backend between my webapp and db.
vantassell··on Herdr: One terminal to rule them all
> I can't copy/paste in wezterm using the keyboard/vim keys because it is constantly drawing the screen and unselects my selection.

Oh wow, that's bad. Copy/paste between terminals is a significant part of my workflow.

Do you know if that's specific to wezterm (my daily terminal emulator) or applicable to any terminal emulator that's using Herdr?

vantassell··on Factorio 2.1 Experimental Release
I just use small buffers. I don't know if that's technically JIT or not, but a smaller restricted buffer with high throughput works great for me.

> keep everything flowing and accept spoilage Yeah, I still have to do this too though.

vantassell··on Why Japan has such good railways
> Japan is one of the only countries to have privatized parking. In Europe and North America, vast quantities of parking space is socialized: municipalities own the streets and allow people to park on them at low or zero cost. Initially with the intention of encouraging the provision of more parking spaces, Japan made it illegal to park on public roads or pavements without special permission. Before someone buys a car, they must prove that they have a reserved night-time space on private land, either owned or leased.

This is got to be a huge factor. Making everyone pay for "free parking" through inefficient use of space is such a waste. I strongly recommend everyone to read Donald Shoup's "The High Price of Free Parking".

vantassell··on Autism's confusing cousins
> For a while tourette syndrome was all the rage and the platform was filled with kids faking tics.

Kind of like all those kids in Le Roy, NY who began experiencing involuntary tics. IIRC, it was interesting that it was mostly girls who were affected by the "craze".

https://www.npr.org/2012/03/10/148372536/the-curious-case-of...

vantassell··on How AI is creating a rift at McKinsey, Bain, and BCG
https://archive.is/mJJOx
vantassell··on California went a record 98 days with 10 hours of electricity from renewables
Once MD has a few 100k+ acre wildfires that the power utility is liable for, I’m sure your rate will go up too.
vantassell··on California went a record 98 days with 10 hours of electricity from renewables
Rates are high because we’re paying for all the wildfires the electric utilities have started.
vantassell··on Is the world becoming uninsurable?
You’re a fire management expert? What did LA do wrong?
vantassell··on Is the world becoming uninsurable?
You’re comparing apples to oranges.

A Santa Ana wind is extremely dry and this one hit 100kmh (not 50). And it hasn’t really rained for 8 months (since May 2024). And we had a very wet winter last year, so there’s extra growth to fuel any fire. And finally, there’s 10 million people live in LA County, it’s a target rich space.

Please let me know where else is having the same sort of fire without destroying homes.

vantassell··on D&D is Anti-Medieval
If you like at the skills of each class then it's pretty obvious that wizards, rangers, halflings, elves, dwarves, and orcs are modeled after Gandalf, Aragorn, the hobbits, etc.

Gandalf calls Aragorn the world's best hunter, and Aragorn literally listens to the earth (in the pursuit of Merry and Pippin) like the Ranger class skill. If D&D isn't based on LOTR, weird that so many of the classes are 1:1.

Then look at the way Dragons in D&D affect their environment (e.g. the weather changes as you get near a dragon's den) and it's even more obvious that D&D is based off LOTR. Not to mention the assault on Minas Tirith beginning with a change in weather due to the power of Sauron (or the way Saruman changes the weather on Caradhras). Or look at the mechanics of being frightened, that's pretty much the core class trait of the Nazgul.

Reading LOTR after reading through the Player's Manual makes it extremely obvious where each of the class skills came from - the came from events in LOTR.

vantassell··on EUCLEAK Side-Channel Attack on the YubiKey 5 Series
What's the alternative? What do you use for your base "recovery account" email?
vantassell··on Use a work journal
Reminds me a lot of Cal Newport's ideas re: Slow Productivity. He talks a lot about how Context shifts are death for knowledge work and that a lot of offices operate via a "hyper active hive mind" that doesn't allow or value deep work.
vantassell··on Use a work journal
I'm getting the below instead of an image

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vantassell··on Your Driving App Is Leading You Astray
https://archive.ph/owhhT
vantassell··on Sound-suppressing silk can create quiet spaces
> I have to say that I can't see how that would work.

Isn't that exactly why this is a notable discovery?

vantassell··on Kobo announces color e-readers
There are e-ink license plates in California now.

https://arstechnica.com/cars/2022/10/digital-license-plates-...

vantassell··on ASCII Theater
Reminds me of that old star wars ascii site.

https://www.asciimation.co.nz

vantassell··on Warner Bros. Keeps Cancelling Finished Movies
Sadly the article doesn't really answer the question as to why, but it's probably because they keep making bad movies that they don't think will perform well.

To be extra clear, IMO this is not the fault of the creatives -- but the fault of the execs who ordered things to production.

vantassell··on WeWork Goes Bankrupt
Regus has actually taken over a few WeWork leases in my town. Seems like they're picking up inventory for pennies on the dollar.
vantassell··on The worst programmer I know
Reminds me of the adage of “solving the problem is the hard part, the hard part is figuring out the right problem to solve”.

I always remember as “questions are harder than answers”.

vantassell··on The Wizard of Oz Approach (2016)
This is great advice for everyone but Theranos.