Google Maps has a pair of buttons for you to confirm or deny that a hazard like a stopped vehicle is still there. But they're right next to each other. Two buttons that do the opposite from each other, irreversibly, and…
On one hand I've always been irritated by car reviewers complaining that a car has 'weird' controls, failing to take into account that most of us aren't driving a new car every week and will just adjust to what we use.…
Even if we achieve that, there are still closed-gardens to open
Dishwashers are quite noisy. Honestly, have you had your ears cleaned recently? It could change your life.
That pseudo-potentiometer is sick
Then there are infinity-x engineers, because some problems just aren't solvable by the worst engineers. Or even typical engineers. It wouldn't take them 10 times as long as Linus to make Linux or git, social context and…
The same reason shows why the bimodal and 'branded' name is such a strange thing to focus on. Why only 10x? And why not try to make your 1x into 2x? It's like if sports fans spent all their time talking about a…
This reminds me of this oddity in Nottingham: https://osm.org/go/eu8S4TeKc?way=50459468 (right-hand drive)
It seems this would solve the problem with normal roundabouts where you have a lane you should be following but know that a vehicle in an adjacent lane is likely to infringe on yours.
>Anyone that ... has had a physical job knows that doing something 26 times in a row is basic stuff of any worthwile endeavor. I have. There were an awful lot of electric tools doing things that used to require manual…
The unspoken assumption about salaries are that we picture earning that amount for the rest of our careers. $500k at one job feels much more secure and mortgage-able than $500k dependent on maintaining an illusion and…
IME it feels like companies/managers haven't realised the power this gives them. Some are still using formal probation periods - remember, a probation can't remove legal rights, only delay additional rights - and…
In TFA, it's 3rd-party software.
>if the idea is to maximize the open space / city size while maintaining a fast transit system Then it's Goodhart law in action. A fast transit system is desirable because it's a proxy for low-friction travel. This has…
Terraria's dev being (temporarily) burnt by this was the catalyst for my de-googling. There are high-quality alternatives for everything.
There's a narrative around game budgets and timelines that seems to assume that they're increasing due to it being inherently more expensive to create them. The reality is that the technology has massively raised the…
It's not that exciting - I was already halfway out the door for unrelated reasons. It's a problem that almost any company in that space shares. It's made me put a strong premium on working for companies that sell a real…
>It also forces you to keep pivoting and finding a cash cow rather than assuming your initial plan was any good. Formative experience: working at a startup, coming upon a fundamental technical problem that will prevent…
For the latter, LSP support in neovim is primordial but exciting.
And it's still enough to include Jeanne Calment's supposed age.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/We_begin_bombing_in_five_minut...
I find the more recent ones more fun because a) it's a shifting target, so you can find something new and b) you get to make people feel old! Let's see... the release of the film The Day After Tomorrow is closer to 'We…
Having gone from C to C++, there's a stark difference between the communities in what is considered 'readable' i.e. what the future reader is expected to grok. In C-world, ternary-ifs are too spicy and C99 is…
Rage where?
Following my initial, post-compiler-upgrade disgust, I do think it's a wise tradeoff. I can't use clock_cast yet - so the workarounds are kludgy - but it's that kludge that itself tells you you're dealing with something…
Google Maps has a pair of buttons for you to confirm or deny that a hazard like a stopped vehicle is still there. But they're right next to each other. Two buttons that do the opposite from each other, irreversibly, and…
On one hand I've always been irritated by car reviewers complaining that a car has 'weird' controls, failing to take into account that most of us aren't driving a new car every week and will just adjust to what we use.…
Even if we achieve that, there are still closed-gardens to open
Dishwashers are quite noisy. Honestly, have you had your ears cleaned recently? It could change your life.
That pseudo-potentiometer is sick
Then there are infinity-x engineers, because some problems just aren't solvable by the worst engineers. Or even typical engineers. It wouldn't take them 10 times as long as Linus to make Linux or git, social context and…
The same reason shows why the bimodal and 'branded' name is such a strange thing to focus on. Why only 10x? And why not try to make your 1x into 2x? It's like if sports fans spent all their time talking about a…
This reminds me of this oddity in Nottingham: https://osm.org/go/eu8S4TeKc?way=50459468 (right-hand drive)
It seems this would solve the problem with normal roundabouts where you have a lane you should be following but know that a vehicle in an adjacent lane is likely to infringe on yours.
>Anyone that ... has had a physical job knows that doing something 26 times in a row is basic stuff of any worthwile endeavor. I have. There were an awful lot of electric tools doing things that used to require manual…
The unspoken assumption about salaries are that we picture earning that amount for the rest of our careers. $500k at one job feels much more secure and mortgage-able than $500k dependent on maintaining an illusion and…
IME it feels like companies/managers haven't realised the power this gives them. Some are still using formal probation periods - remember, a probation can't remove legal rights, only delay additional rights - and…
In TFA, it's 3rd-party software.
>if the idea is to maximize the open space / city size while maintaining a fast transit system Then it's Goodhart law in action. A fast transit system is desirable because it's a proxy for low-friction travel. This has…
Terraria's dev being (temporarily) burnt by this was the catalyst for my de-googling. There are high-quality alternatives for everything.
There's a narrative around game budgets and timelines that seems to assume that they're increasing due to it being inherently more expensive to create them. The reality is that the technology has massively raised the…
It's not that exciting - I was already halfway out the door for unrelated reasons. It's a problem that almost any company in that space shares. It's made me put a strong premium on working for companies that sell a real…
>It also forces you to keep pivoting and finding a cash cow rather than assuming your initial plan was any good. Formative experience: working at a startup, coming upon a fundamental technical problem that will prevent…
For the latter, LSP support in neovim is primordial but exciting.
And it's still enough to include Jeanne Calment's supposed age.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/We_begin_bombing_in_five_minut...
I find the more recent ones more fun because a) it's a shifting target, so you can find something new and b) you get to make people feel old! Let's see... the release of the film The Day After Tomorrow is closer to 'We…
Having gone from C to C++, there's a stark difference between the communities in what is considered 'readable' i.e. what the future reader is expected to grok. In C-world, ternary-ifs are too spicy and C99 is…
Rage where?
Following my initial, post-compiler-upgrade disgust, I do think it's a wise tradeoff. I can't use clock_cast yet - so the workarounds are kludgy - but it's that kludge that itself tells you you're dealing with something…