jwandborg

Joined 14 years ago

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Full-stack hacker.
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Comment · 5 months ago
Comment · 2 years ago
Experts deeply understand their subject.

- Experts that tailor their answers to meet the audience are experts, but not only experts, they also have the luck of finding good analogues for parts of a system or topic, and a skill, or luck, of story telling and structuring teaching.

- Individuals who use analogues and simplifications to describe a system or topic are not necessarily experts, they can also be lucky or skilled imitators, or just teachers.

- Experts who are experts by the definition of having a deep understanding of the subject, but who are incapable or unwilling to simplify and/or structure the story well (in your subjective opinion), are still experts, but unless you also become an expert on the topic, it will be hard for you, or anyone else, to trust their expertise.

Comment · 3 years ago
Every person is part of the definition of the average person. Of course, you can take a look at the outliers, but they are rare, by definition.

If you start segmenting the set of people along all possible dimensions in order to find "local outliers", then eventually, everyone will become an outlier in one of the sets.

I think it's reasonable to say that everyone should do as well as they can, and if everyone does that, the average person will have an impact.

Comment · 3 years ago
Imagine debugging hyperoptimized machine code. - Or would you just blame yourself for not stating your natural language instructions clearly enough and start over? I guess all of these complex problems would somehow be solved for everyone within the next 21 years and 364 days.
Comment · 3 years ago
Comment · 3 years ago
Could be unnecessarily costly unless the files are written ahead-of-time. I propose some kind of GraphQL-like interface to only read what you need.
Comment · 3 years ago
Just take the Unix philosophy and replace the word "file" with "JSON file".
Comment · 3 years ago
Could be that I missed the joke.
Comment · 3 years ago
In fact, 10 in any base represents the base number.
Comment · 3 years ago
10 in binary _is_ 2 in decimal. I think you've made an off-by-one error in your critique.
Comment · 3 years ago
I think it's a breath of opportunity to hear that there is tooling for Rust to write Kubernetes operators, previously my impression is that there is no match for Golang when it comes to writing operators, and that has invited me to try and learn Golang and the codegen that comes with writing operators, but I never enjoyed trying to learn things about Golang, the language feels like an exercise in ambiguous minimalism to me personally.
Comment · 3 years ago
I've had motherboard, screen, keyboard, 4G modern swaps, all at my office.
Comment · 3 years ago
> Apple has great support.

Apple does not have support good enough for professionals, my colleagues are suffering with defective MacBooks until they can justify a full replacement, because Apple repairs cost a lot of time, while Lenovo sends a repairperson with tools and replacement parts to my office.

Comment · 3 years ago
I can't download any iOS apps. Sometimes I try but it doesn't work, even though I'm using the latest web browser.
Comment · 3 years ago

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