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alexambarch commented on Microsoft forced me to switch to Linux   himthe.dev/blog/microsoft... · Posted by u/bobsterlobster
alexambarch · a month ago
As an Ableton user myself, I’m pretty surprised that this musician could just… switch from Ableton to Bitwig. Goes to show how dire the situation was I guess.

I still have yet to hear any non-technical person I know encounter issues on Windows and seriously consider switching away. The learned helplessness instilled by Microsoft is very difficult to get people to shake off.

alexambarch commented on Levels of configuration languages   beza1e1.tuxen.de/config_l... · Posted by u/kaycebasques
alexambarch · a year ago
I’d argue Terraform/HCL is quite popular as a Level 4 configuration language. My biggest issue with it is that once things get sufficiently complex, you wish you were using a Level 5 language.

In fact, it’s hard to see where a Level 4 language perfectly fits. After you’ve surpassed the abilities of JSON or YAML (and you don’t opt for slapping on a templating engine like Helm does), it feels like jumping straight to Level 5 is worth the effort for the tooling and larger community.

alexambarch commented on 1M Lazygit downloads, one embarrassment at a time   jesseduffield.com/Embarra... · Posted by u/jesseduffield
alexambarch · a year ago
I really like lazygit when I need something quicker and more ergonomic than the VSCode git extension.

I’m still partial to magit over everything else but lazygit has replaced a lot of my CLI usage of git. Thanks Jesse.

alexambarch commented on HyperCard Simulator   hcsimulator.com/... · Posted by u/metadat
alexambarch · 2 years ago
As someone who’s too young to have been around for HyperCard, what was the main draw? Was it the accessibility of the tech or was it just really well executed?
alexambarch commented on Waymo One is now open to everyone in San Francisco   waymo.com/blog/2024/06/wa... · Posted by u/ra7
ra7 · 2 years ago
Add freeways and airport rides, both of which they are very close to doing, Waymo will become much more of a complete service and a true Uber/Lyft replacement.

In a year's time, we could genuinely see them operating at scale in 6-8 major cities (SF, Phoenix, LA, Austin and new cities), especially with their new dedicated robotaxi from Zeekr. A possible hold up would be China import tariffs imposed by the US government.

alexambarch · 2 years ago
If these vehicles tackle the roads of Boston, there will be no stopping this company. That place has one of the most confusing road networks I’ve ever seen in addition to some of the most confused drivers.

NYC is another obvious challenge but Boston seems like a challenging middle ground.

alexambarch commented on Double-entry bookkeeping as a directed graph   matheusportela.com/double... · Posted by u/mportela
Octokiddie · 2 years ago
Every explanation of double entry accounting seems to do the same thing. If I'm trying to understand the double part of double-entry bookkeeping, what exactly does the "double" refer to? What's being "doubled"?

How would you salvage the article to actually explain the "double" part in detail? Could you do it purely from Bob's (or Alice's) perspective?

alexambarch · 2 years ago
From what I got out of the article and my own limited understanding of double entry bookkeeping, the "double" seems to be referring to the part where we split a transaction into credits and debits as opposed to a transaction with positive or negative balance. The doubling is happening with the labels we use to describe what's happening with the money.

From an individual account perspective, there's a doubling of the number of columns you could enter a transaction's amount into.

alexambarch commented on What's the fastest language in the world?   atlasobscura.com/articles... · Posted by u/ColinWright
alexambarch · 2 years ago
The most interesting takeaway from this article for me was that there's an inverse correlation between the number of syllables spoken per second and the bits of information conveyed in that time.

> Japanese, for example, has an extremely high number of syllables spoken per second. But Japanese also has an extremely low degree of complexity in its syllables, and much less information encoded per syllable.

It seems like our brains might only be capable of processing ~39 bits of spoken information per second. Now I want to see a comparison of the information throughput of other forms of communication!

alexambarch commented on FBI: U.S. lost record $12.5B to online crime in 2023   bleepingcomputer.com/news... · Posted by u/mikece
PopAlongKid · 2 years ago
>tech/customer support and government impersonation scams, targeting mostly the elderly, led to more than $1.3 billion in losses.

And in the U.S. at least, many of these elderly are very interested in trying to deduct these losses from their taxable income. As a skeptic, I think it is too tempting to claim "I was scammed out of $200K in digital assets" (which may have been purchased in the first place as part of the alleged scam) in order to actually hide those assets from family and/or the government.

alexambarch · 2 years ago
Oh boy I sure hope I receive my grandmother's Monero cold wallet in her will!
alexambarch commented on Keycloak: Modern Authentication and Access Management   medium.com/@zaam.oussama/... · Posted by u/kaikimax
alexambarch · 2 years ago
As someone who has managed keycloak in production for work, it's a solid solution but boy is it easy to make mistakes that cause difficult to debug issues. It's a headache that does what it says on the tin.
alexambarch commented on An introduction to the theory and practice of poker (2020)   hopkinspokercourse.com/... · Posted by u/Igor_Wiwi
alexambarch · 2 years ago
I stopped being interested in poker when I realized that by far the best strategy is simply to play with the worst players you can find. Everything else pales in comparison to simply playing with new players.

I understand that these are people who are willingly coming to play the game and putting up their money but I just don’t feel comfortable intentionally seeking them out to take it from them.

Pretty sure that means I’m simply not cut out to play the game but the theory is definitely interesting.

u/alexambarch

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