20/20 (once) - I found that by looking at the edge between the border and color sample that I could usually tell pretty quickly.
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terr-dav commented on Where should visual programming go? tonsky.me/blog/diagrams/... · Posted by u/spiralganglion
When this last round of discussion of visual programming happened I had a minor epiphany.
For a little background, I’ve maintained that visual programming goes absolutely nowhere until we have visual diffs that work (work as in workflow). I’ve been saying that since before the UML Trough of Disillusionment kicked into high gear. Without diffs, without analysis, we are going nowhere fast. Almost every other link of the lifecycle is still intact with visual code but focusing on an editor without diffs breaks the chain. There’s no producing and maintaining commercial grade software without it. It’s either toy programs, or absolutely heroic effort, and what else could you have done with that much energy?
The epiphany was this: motion detection has been a feature of digital video since at least the MPEG days. Someone with a background in video compression needs to tackle the problem of doffing visual code. Figuring out how the code should look (mechanical sympathy) to facilitate this.
Another place where visual diffs would be indispensable is file-system organization. Each node in a file tree contains another graphable data structure: permissions! Especially on network shares where user groups are more common.
As long as there's some structured record of changes made to permissions and structure, those can be visualized.
terr-dav commented on Story points are pointless, measure queues brightball.com/articles/s... · Posted by u/brightball
Ultimately, we are bound by time, not complexity. Why does it matter how complex a task is? The product managers and customers wont care how hard we as engineers have to think or reason about a problem; to them, the only thing that matters is time until delivery.
I think time variability increases with the level of complexity. In this context I see the idea of task complexity being related to uncertainty in the time estimate. This makes it fit nicely with the Fibonacci sequence.
terr-dav commented on WebVM is a server-less virtual Linux environment running client-side webvm.io/... · Posted by u/sebg
There are a few others
VMs
https://jamesfriend.com.au/pce-js/ (https://github.com/jsdf/pce)
https://www.pcjs.org/ (lots of hardware and OSes) (https://github.com/jeffpar/pcjs)
Mac OS
https://infinitemac.org/ (https://blog.persistent.info/2023/03/infinitemac-dot-org.htm...)
https://jamesfriend.com.au/projects/basiliskii/BasiliskII-wo...
Where do the most advanced minecraft computers[1] land on the scale of sophistication compared to all these + WebVM?
terr-dav commented on An Algorithmic Solution to Insomnia ilya.sukhar.com/blog/an-a... · Posted by u/valgaze
Melatonin.
There's loads of wisdom about improving sleep. Exercise, wind down rituals, avoiding caffeine, various diet ideas. Changing bedtime, changing alarm time. Nothing made a perceptible difference. Dropping caffeine was especially useless advice as it has no impact on my sleep but made me much less effective.
Melatonin tablets however are magic. My pet theory is the CYP1A2 genotype which is known to control how effectively you eliminate caffeine also affects how effectively you eliminate melatonin. Being unusually efficient at metabolising melatonin seems likely to present as insomnia.
A word of caution on melatonin supplementation:
https://ai.hubermanlab.com/s/NKoA_QuI
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terr-dav commented on Show HN: Wanderer – an open-source trail database github.com/Flomp/wanderer... · Posted by u/get_flomped
It would be interesting to federate trail condition information, since that's the true value-add of a service like AllTrails.
What springs to mind is the use of Mastodon handles for contributing trail info and discussion of information being contributed.
The only major hang-up is balancing privacy and trustworthiness of the information being contributed.
Perhaps an open solution like this will emerge as people grow tired of profit-driven services like Strava, AllTrails, TrailForks, etc.
Are you advocating for harassment?