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1890s New York Street Photos by Jacob Riis

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DeepDream for voice – Artificially intelligent impressions

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Heroku Adds Node.js WebSockets (Beta)

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3 lata temudiscuss

Yeah this kind of stuff makes my blood boil. One can shame and belt their kid into compliance, and it might even get them (barely, only if they're lucky) all the way through university but holy shit the lifelong damage of self loathing and burnout and broken relationships it creates is im-fucking-measurable.

Taking a neurological imbalance and turning it into a morality thing is abuse. Even if unintentional. This is real. Parents look for simple answers like "give em the strap" but how is that less reductive than "give em the pill"?

3 lata temudiscuss

To add a data point, I used to do Pomodoro timing (25+5 min) but now switched to 15 min timer with a loose 2-5 min break. It's still hard to actually pull out of hyper-focus/anxious perseveration sometimes, but the shorter timer period seems to match my task cadence better. And the non-timed break just vibes better because it doesn't feel like punishment then.

3 lata temudiscuss

Reminded me of one of my favourite text-art/PETSCII adjacent creators I follow - Mrmo - who creates satisfying retro stuff like this custom font/tileset: https://mrmotarius.itch.io/mrmotext

3 lata temudiscuss

Suburbs are not the only place to raise kids though. Probably not the best place for it either.

4 lata temudiscuss

One clever hack I've seen is Yield Prolog (https://yieldprolog.sourceforge.net/) which basically translates the querying/backtracking execution model into mainstream language syntax - such as JS, Python or C# - using the `yield` keyword and loops. Supports things like variable unification, too.

4 lata temudiscuss

I also want to mention the Lichee Pi Nano, though it is much smaller and targeting a different use case: https://www.cnx-software.com/2018/08/17/licheepi-nano-cheap-.... Made an embedded distro Buildroot config for that one some time ago (https://github.com/unframework/licheepi-nano-buildroot).

7 lat temudiscuss

I'd say for 95% of data fetches https://github.com/slorber/react-async-hook works really well without needing generator syntax or explicit promise cancellation boilerplate. I'm not the author but a satisfied user.

7 lat temudiscuss

At least for parsing PDF into table I had decent success with Tabula.

7 lat temudiscuss

The fact that choosing to use Uber represents a certain amount of trust in the driver (basic background check, identity information, etc), makes it more than lead generator or transparent broker.

7 lat temudiscuss

Law as an industry is pretty dysfunctional. Plenty of data governance issues, losing track of documents, etc. A lot is at stake there, for sure, but that's actually the thing that process helps with - reliability and safety. And law is very resistant to incorporating that.

7 lat temudiscuss

I had some success with https://www.beeminder.com/ in my short time of using it so far. Essentially, it moves items from "important + not urgent" quadrant to "not important + urgent" one: by dinging your card $X dollars if you don't comply.

However, I also had to shift my mindset towards trying to progress via small inconsequential chunks, rather than trying to "fix everything". E.g. the idea is to just show up to the gym - not exercise - but if latter happens, then sure, why not (and it usually does). I think it helps snap out of the failure avoidance mode.

7 lat temudiscuss

Apparently, Peter Naur (the N in BNF) wrote this up nicely back in 1985 in "Programming as Theory Building": http://pages.cs.wisc.edu/~remzi/Naur.pdf

9 lat temudiscuss

This is a really neat looking project (and the GH readme references the original HN discussion). For folks who are generally into TTY UIs and dashboards, I also want to point out the Blessed terminal rendering lib and its ecosystem (which even includes a React bridge!):

  - https://github.com/chjj/blessed
  - https://github.com/yaronn/blessed-contrib
  - https://github.com/Yomguithereal/react-blessed

(edited for syntax and also to clarify I am not affiliated with the above, just a fan)

9 lat temudiscuss

Rules like DRY or keeping line counts low are based on surface metrics and definitely lead people to over-fit the model based on incomplete information.

Underlying principle of maintainable code is "simply" that it is a concise and flexible expression of knowledge. The "simply" part is in quotation marks because, of course, it takes a good amount of self-awareness and meta-consideration to understand why some ways to express knowledge are better than others. There is also a limit to how "perfect" it can get, because it really depends on the audience too.

This is also why it's OK to let it slide sometimes and move on to more interesting topics - there are diminishing returns on splitting hairs, once broad strokes of good encapsulation and basic readability are applied.

9 lat temudiscuss

This is an impressively thorough walkthrough.

9 lat temudiscuss

I think one of the biggest saps of motivation in that situation is that even successes are meaningless. Because one instinctively doubts the whole thing then (even a broken clock is right twice a day, but it still doesn't make one feel great).

10 lat temudiscuss

Re #2: - patio11 recently fired off a few tweets about doing away with comments on his blog: https://twitter.com/patio11/status/813895918692876289

Can't say I would disagree. A lot of folks these days just seem to append an HN/Reddit link to posts that get discussions on those sites. There's the blog as an expression of author's personality, and then there's the discussion space as an area with a life of its own.

10 lat temudiscuss

I became so much happier when I realized how much my education-minded parents and my environment gave me a leg up (even in the economically declining Eastern Europe of the time). Helped me chill out a lot and feel less pressure (and hence have much more actual productivity).

Starting advantage does not mean you are not working hard now. Just means that you should do good things with that advantage. Make it shine!

10 lat temudiscuss

Most performance problems with websites/webapps out there are just due to sheer nastiness of the shovelware that they embed. No need to have fine-tuned debugging and profiling when the main fix is "don't accidentally run this jQuery selector 1000 times on every click". Very low hanging fruit.

10 lat temudiscuss

People need to be reminded of obvious things. In this case especially because there is active pressure to collect things - from your typical BigBoxCo flyers, sales, TV doorcrashers, buy-one-get-one events, etc. I know too many people who are simply drowning in junk, so if it takes a half-cultish trend to get them to unload - then so be it.