For me, all these tools suffer from the same basic question, how can I put proprietary private source into a tool notorious for siphoning up and copying everything you say to it?
Readit Newsdelackner commented on How I write code using Cursor arguingwithalgorithms.com... · Posted by u/tomyedwab
delackner commented on Memorizing a programming language using spaced repetition software (2013) sive.rs/srs... · Posted by u/tosh
I was really fascinated with the idea of space repetition. For a long time.
I only have 1 problem. There is no good space repetition app on for smartphones. Websites & computer apps are just too clunky for me to use the effectively.
I would like to build one, but I really don't have a comprehensive on how the entire concept works and how to implement it.
Does anyone recommend any great books or resources that comprehensively describe space repetition & how to use it effectively
Anki is well regarded and has both first and third party (AnkiWeb) iOS apps
delackner commented on D.C.'s ban on cashless businesses takes effect axios.com/local/washingto... · Posted by u/saguntum
Have you never walked into a store and they said you can't use a CC because their reader is down? It is nice to have a few dollars in your pocket for times like that.
Fun anecdote: I walked into a Capital One (BANK) where they have a Café, and the gimmick is that if you pay with your Capital One card, you get a reduced price.
They said their payment terminals were down so they could not take credit cards. I said oh... I don't have any cash, oh well no coffee for me. They said well... we can comp you one drink per person if you don't have cash.
Neither I nor they considered the option of me walking over to the nearby bank ATM and withdrawing cash.
We had a complaint like this for my dad when he was near the end.
We got in a verbal argument with a care worker who wouldn't do anything when she came to take care of him, wouldn't feed him, clean him, talk or even look at him. Except for the few times where she screamed at him she just waited for her time to leave. After the argument she sent a complaint letter to the local government claiming he was improperly taken care of (even though we cared for him every day in addition to paying people like her to help).
Here is where it gets good: He was put under care of the state until the matter was resolved, with a state appointed curator who received a percentage of his pension as payment and had full control of all decisions related to his care as well as his bank account. That meant we could no longer make accommodations in his house without their approval, every decision we took for him had to go through them. We had to pay for the large costs of care ourselves because it's not remotely realistic to go through the government to expense food, hygiene supplies and everything needed to take care of an elderly man near death. In addition to that we couldn't get rid of the agency that provided the abusive care workers, they made sure to make buddy-buddy with the curator and to paint us as abusers.
We went to his home every day to care for him and we would see the care workers just sitting there doing nothing, perfectly aware we were powerless to change anything or even throw them out. Eventually, after months of legal costs and being treated like abusers, we got in front of a judge and we were put back in charge after my dad begged for it. He was very close to the end then and I will always be bitter at how the state and these people conspired to take him away from us and prevent us from getting him better care during his final months.
What a terrifying experience. This goes into my growing list of reasons why it pays to just take note of negative people's behavior, and quietly terminate their contract without ever discussing anything with them.
Businesses learned this a long time ago, which is why they never tell you why they get rid of you. They just say your services are no longer required.
Couldn’t this just be survivorship bias? We already locked down all the cheap crap from the 60s. It’s only the rare, well-built buildings that are still around.
We’re building more cheap crap, sure, but also a few rare, well-built buildings.
Here's a more real example that is not just one "feeling". In Portland Oregon there are TONS of hundred year old houses that all look fairly similar because they were all built "cheap" back then from mail order catalogs.
Here's a page showing some of those mail order catalogs: https://www.thoughtco.com/foursquare-house-plans-catalog-fav...
Looking from the basement up through to the framing, or from the second story down to the flooring, EVERYTHING was built from really thick timber. If you've walked around a modern unfinished project you can see nearly everything wood is made from fast growing wood or particles of wood just glued together. And that holds true even for "high-end" home projects (aka homes sold as high end because they have fancy kitchen appliances, not solid construction).
Maybe someone here will know how to fix this:
I turned off internet access in my LG WebOS TV settings. On power on, it has no audio for about 5s and then the display blanks, shows LG Logo, and then finally is fully awake. Is there a solution?
delackner commented on Physical buttons outperform touchscreens in new cars, test finds vibilagare.se/nyheter/phy... · Posted by u/eriksdh
So folks are aware: this isn't research, this is a single test designed by Vi Bilägare, which is a Swedish auto industry magazine. And like the US auto industry rags (Car & Driver, Motor Trend) it's dependent for its revenue on advertising business from the industry being reviewed. And Tesla doesn't advertise.
Indeed this "test" is laughable.
"the drivers had time to get to know the cars and their infotainment systems" really though? Like an hour? Is it their personal car?
"...By photographing the same driver in all cars..." How many drivers were involved and how long did they use their car?
A photo of the winning 2005 Volvo V70 shows it is a pure traditional all controls, zero screen interface. So only intentions that are possible in that era are testable. It is not feasible to have a button for every possible command today.
I've been driving Audis for several years, with their rotary dial interface, and it takes a maddening amount of time to do anything, so much that I often just give up and don't do whatever task I was trying to accomplish.
On a touchscreen, I can be driving along, then 1. take perhaps 0.1s to glance at the screen 2. while watching the road, move my hand to hover a finger where I think is the right place. 3. take another 0.1s glance where my finger is. If I was right, just tap and immediately look back at the road. 4. If I was wrong, while watching the road, adjust and repeat.
At no time am I ever looking away from the road for more than a fraction of a second, and since I don't have to think about finding where some "currently highlighted screen element cursor" is, my mind is relaxed to focus on driving, and each glance at the screen is just to look at EXACTLY what I know is the location of the feature I want to touch.
delackner commented on US regulators will certify first small nuclear reactor design arstechnica.com/science/2... · Posted by u/papa-whisky
Wikipedia is right there, if you care.
Links or your argument is just noise. Here is the closest I could find to what you are talking about, explicitly saying an appeals court ruled against a nuclear operator trying to get the refund you are talking about:
https://flarecord.com/stories/511480139-appeals-court-rules-...
""" NextEra is still not entitled to a refund because federal law requires the DoE, not NextEra, to actually dispose of the spent nuclear fuel. """
delackner commented on Amazon more than doubles max base pay to $350k geekwire.com/2022/amazon-... · Posted by u/zedpm
At some point, no amount of money is worth it.
I can hardly imagine earning $350k a year. I've never earned a third of that anually. What I can imagine is a job that places such a demand on my time and attention that I don't have time for a life outside of it.
Just reiterating what some others said. The decision in your career life does not have to be a zero sum balance of low pay vs high stress/hours.
There are several companies where the revenue they create per employee is so astronomical that reasonable work-life balance and high pay are on the table.
delackner commented on Trust-Busting as the Unsexy Answer to Google and Facebook lareviewofbooks.org/artic... · Posted by u/colinprince
In Facebook's case they own some of their biggest potential competitors for attention and deliberately preserve their niches. So splitting them up might make a difference. But if not, requiring an open network akin to the telephone system with standardized protocols might make a difference.
AT&T was split on geographical lines, so maybe FB could be as well, and the regionals would all have to interoperate with open protocols that would allow for regional competitors.
I see geographical splitting being pushed in a few places, but this is a really anachronistic vision of what would really benefit consumers. Even back in the phone days, regional monopolies didn't turn out to be a net win. It just meant that each of those new mini-monopolies dominated their region.
The right way to think about this is what kind of splitting would produce the most competitive landscape. We have a really successful example in the way that ISP competition has played out in various markets.
The US has regional ISP near monopolies in gigabit fiber, since the infrastructural outlay is so expensive. This is analogous to the moat FB has from building a vast and deeply connected network graph.
The ISP outcome has been that the US mostly pays extraordinarily high prices for substandard service.
Other countries have avoided this trap by regulating the enforced splitting of the network itself and the service provider. Since building out the physical network (the fiber, or the friend graph) is extremely hard, great that is a natural monopoly. Maybe you might get a couple of huge players, but the barrier to entry for new players is nearly insurmountable.
Each network graph / fiber provider is required by law to offer access to their network to third party service providers who you can contract with to provide you internet service over the network.
Japan for instance has this setup, with a handful of players that have built national (or regional) fiber networks, and when you buy service, you have a split bill. Part of it goes to pay for access to the physical network. The other part is to pay for an ISP that is routing your packets over the network.
I think this is the proper solution for FB. Break the company apart between the network graph provider, and the CLIENT layer. Let third parties provide their own friend graph client with features that people want.
Then you would see a flowering of competition as people feel free to try the client experience they prefer. * How about chronological news feed? * no ads, but paying your interconnect cost by making you pay a subscription * fine grained control of how many stories you ever see from specific over-talkative people. * delivering a subset of your friends' stories only on keyword-matched topics / hiding all stories that match specific topics.
I am not hopeful the technologically illiterate people writing the decisions will understand this though. Geographic splitting is nonsensical for a graph that is inherently global.