Paul Butler
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@NYPD114Pct
“obeying VTL laws isn't just for cars” (shows picture of 11 cars disobeying VTL laws and one cyclist getting a ticket)
lmao this one is a bit too on-the-nose
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It’s so nuts to me that people used to get in giant wood boats and shoot metal bowling balls at other giant wood boats to sink them for a job. Really puts writing yaml files in perspective.
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@JRehling
@realDonaldTrump
People will just buy tires from other American companies, oh wait
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Compared to the US system, going to Waterloo feels like a cheat code. No SATs, no acceptance coaches, no grinding out extracurriculars to stand out.
You can just get decent grades at a public school, apply, and end up with a degree that Silicon Valley and Wall Street respect.
highest signal for ability to generate shareholder value
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@ZoeSchiffer
@aravreby
Calling people waving nazi flags “nazis” just divides us, says someone who definitely isn’t arguing in bad faith.
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It sucks for me that stackoverflow is down, but it *really* sucks for the brave soul who has to fix stackoverflow without using stackoverflow.
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@BenBonnema
@TraderJoesUnion
Infuriating. As a customer, mandating masks and enforcing it is NOT a policy “against customers”! Most of us don’t want to be in the store with someone without a mask either, that’s why the vast majority of us wear masks without huffing about it.
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@roseforbeto
@meenaharris
I love the little glance towards the camera at the end, as if to say “see what I'm dealing with?”
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@Powergannon
@Liv_Agar
I’m 90% sure this is either a modern “no soap radio” joke, or a way to game the TikTok algorithm by confusing people into increasing their dwell time.
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Untitled work, 2021
Text on meme template
(donation from the artist)
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@melissamcewen
This is perfect as a troll gift. The bug, the color scheme, the mixed alignment, the emoji variable name. Definitely ordering a few of these to give out when a programmer wrongs me.
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One thing nobody tells you about programming in Rust is how much you'll accidentally learn about car maintenance as you google for things.
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@kentlind
@AshokaTheBear
@KCGrock
The funny thing is, this novelty limited-edition collectable bike is still significantly cheaper than the oversized F-150s that people have no problem considering “working class”.
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TIL JSON supports multi-line comments if you hate yourself enough
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Blogs that regularly do well on Hacker News -- , Supabase, Tailscale, etc. -- usually don’t have cookie consent banner. I don’t think this is a coincidence.
It’s not that they flout GDPR, either. Fly and Supabase don’t set a single cookie on blog landings.
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@0xdjma
@TheStalwart
Buy 50 tomatoes. Plant the tomatoes.
Send the broker 50 tomatoes every month.
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Mathematically, (y / x) - ((y / c) / (x / c)) = 0
But if you calculate it on a computer, you get tiny differences due to numerical imprecision. If you magnify the differences, cool patterns emerge.
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@kyle_teamjoe
@carriesheffield
It jumped the shark at the Total Landscaping fiasco. Wake me up if they top that one.
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@paul_winginit
@JakeAnbinder
That is a falsifiable date, unlike domain registrations, which shows that most of those sites are under 10 years old. The oldest, bucketlist dot net, was registered about three months before the release date of the movie.
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When I get frustrated with Rust and work through it, I come out feeling like I learned a new fundamental truth about the universe.
When I get frustrated with JS and work through it, I feel like I spent so long at a carnival game that the operator gave me a toy to get rid of me.
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Wasm actually delivered a cross-platform and cross-architecture bytecode, a legitimate technical feat, and the best thing we can find to do with it is deploy code on x86-64 Linux instances in us-east-1.
Like using a particle accelerator to make toast.
It will never stop being funny to me that WASM, a technology ostensibly to let you use different languages to write browser apps, is primarily used for backend systems running in the cloud
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@Dr_Memory
@2AvSagas
The "flat fare" also doesn't include tolls and random fees that the TLC adds (rush hour, etc.) Last time I was tricked into a $52 flat fare it ended up being something like $80-90 with fees and tip. The price transparency of Uber/Lyft is worth something to me.
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Rust’s selling point for me is not memory safety, or speed, or traits, or cross-compilation, it’s this.
Everything else is icing on the cake.
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@ElizabAdams
@NYCferry
@NYCEDC
Wait, the ferry service depends on private property owners allowing use of piers on an at-will basis? They set up ferry routes without contracts in place for continued use of those piers? What are lawyers even for if the city can't get this right?
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@TheAquaFresca
@madrid_mike
@ProjectLincoln
Nothing says "fuck the coastal elite" quite like getting arrested on a $28M 150 foot yacht owned by a Chinese billionaire off the coast of Connecticut.
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It’s crazy how kids these days don’t realize that an “encyclopedia” used to be a physical thing.
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I went down a rabbit hole to learn that:
The G in GStreamer stands for GLib.
The G in GLib stands for GTK.
The G in GTK stands for GIMP.
The G in GIMP stands for GNU.
The G in GNU stands for GNU.
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I wrote a blog post on parallels between play-to-earn web3 games like Axie Infinity, and the book Bullshit Jobs by David Graeber.
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@Gothamist
My favorite is where they pat themselves on the back for finding a “safe resolution”. The dude has a can of spray paint and they’re taking as if it’s Ruby Ridge.
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@BradDFelix
@coryzapatka
That's where my head went too -- is this a sales tactic so he can do a mea culpa and offer a “really good deal to apologize”?
Probably not, but bold move if so.
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@JuliaCarmel__
On days like today it’s hard enough to make eye contact with a driver from outside the vehicle. Distracted driving is rampant. Please don’t make it harder for pedestrians to protect themselves out of a misguided confusion between UV light and the visible spectrum.
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@MidwitMilhouse
@krrishd
Ah, so the bots are run by the original account and are meant to draw the bank into the conversation so that to the algorithm it looks like a non-bot engaging with the original post?
So far that’s better than any explanation I can think of.
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@djco
@mycoliza
@withoutboats
Ahh I had to look for myself and his attitude is worse than I thought — not only obtusely ignoring the concern, but saying “Rust isn’t for you” if you disagree.
He didn’t even write the original code, he came into an existing library and borked it.
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@AllManicHamlet
@Lis_Smith
@splinter_news
"the candidate's stance on gay marriage is that it's going well so far thanks for asking"
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People underestimate how many New Yorkers moved here in their 20s and are now stuck here because they forgot how to drive.
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One thing I learned today is that it’s apparently gotten harder to get into. Now I feel like one of those people who bought a house for $40k in the 70s and wonders why young people don’t just do that.
Compared to the US system, going to Waterloo feels like a cheat code. No SATs, no acceptance coaches, no grinding out extracurriculars to stand out.
You can just get decent grades at a public school, apply, and end up with a degree that Silicon Valley and Wall Street respect.
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Visualizing 1.4GB of data in the browser without breaking a sweat, by migrating to cloud rendering at the flick of a switch. I’m super excited about this tech.
When visualizing massive datasets, you hit the limits of WebGL. We built a way to seamlessly migrate a local visualization to a more powerful remote GPU, without leaving the browser.
Preview the docs at , and reach out if you have a use case.
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@bryanfcasey
@Boenau
I live in NYC and this street was on my (walk/transit) commute for years. What I notice about this video is all the people you *don’t* see crossing. Strollers, wheelchairs, people over ~35, dog walkers, people with heftier builds who can’t squeeze through those tiny gaps, etc.
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@Jack_Forge13
@t_NYC
@TractorLaw
@JulieMFaenza
Probably also results in people staying further back, so I imagine it actually does “work” on some level!
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Wow you can’t even like a tweet that says “su*stack”. How quickly things departed from the “free speech” facade.
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Prompt engineering? Yeah, I’ve been training for that my whole life.
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@irish_jezebel
@LinderSheldon
@oneunderscore__
He used to tell the story of the Scorpion and the Frog on the campaign trail. He Scorpioned them and they didn’t even see it coming. It’s almost poetic.
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@JeniferRajkumar
@nysdmv
This will create hoops for law-abiding riders while the reckless riders just ignore it. We know this because it’s already the case with mopeds, which already require licenses but 90% don’t have them.
The people cheering on this policy just have a grudge against all bikes.
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@dbi60
@ProjectLincoln
He knows everything about everything until it's convenient not to, then he knows nothing about it.
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A garden-path sentence is a grammatically correct sentence that starts in such a way that a reader's most likely interpretation will be incorrect; the reader is lured into a parse that turns out to be a dead end or yields a clearly unintended meaning.
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@cliffordlevy
I am sure tenants will still pay for some of this in the form of rent, but I'm very curious to see how much. I don't usually doubt markets, but 1+ month tent always seemed out of whack in a world where tenants are doing their own searches on Street East.
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Happy 10th anniversary of the time TechCrunch called me “Smarter than You”
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@arb
@ADR62288
@LeahPilcer
Yep. Not to mention how all the arbitrary and unwritten rules of interviewing for a job/writing a resume are primarily proxies for social class.
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@NJ4Pete
@MaxLewisWSBT
@wpmagazine
@NickMerrill
Lots of people who already favor another candidate were looking for a reason not to like Pete. I don't think anyone in good faith believes that he flubbed here.
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@tylercowen
Sounds good in theory but I invite you to come for a walk with me and see the situation on the ground.
At rush hour on Canal or Broome, pedestrians need to weave through traffic on their own light. Enforcing “don’t block the box” laws would be a stochastic congestion tax.
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@pushtheneedle
Yes, living in a pod that you never leave sounds just awful.
Amazing how this comes within an inch of self-awareness.
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I’m used to being roasted on HN, but I’m being roasted on the Kubernetes subreddit right now and it stings way deeper because they actually read my post first.
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Why am I excited about QUIC? Just look at the handshake protocol.
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Life update! We have amazing neighbors who helped us put together a rooftop wedding when our original plans were postponed.
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Later-stage companies often get bogged down by the weight of legacy code, which is why we’ve instituted a policy against writing legacy code.
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@uhshanti
@JeffMerkley
I’ve rented from a large corporate landlord (title aside, the text of
@JeffMerkley
’s bill covers many large SFH landlords, not HFs specifically).
After renting from individual owners and deadbeat local building collectors, the big corporate landlord is my preference.
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@nwilliams030
IIRC the most economical speed to fly a commercial passenger jet at is below the maximum speed, so I’ve always assumed that they actually do fly faster if they are behind (because the cascading logistical costs of being late are more expensive than the extra fuel burn).
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@dobroslav_dev
@TheUnicornist
@peer_rich
Sneaky. When you access the fake URL with the Twitterbot user agent, it sends a redirect header to , tricking the twitter bot into thinking that that’s where the link goes.
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@Lesleyab
@davidmackau
The motivation is really weird to me. Even if you’re the most anti-vax person about yourself and your family, surely you’d want other people to get vaccinated so you don’t have to. Even if you think it’s just a flu, I don’t understand the downside.
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@bee_thorp
@JamesFallows
Geez, I didn't realize wearing my “you are secretly a Marxist, get a Twitter” pin in public would have such an effect.
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@ncweaver
@ahcastor
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@dgolumbia
I've been surprised how often I hear from engineers at blockchain companies some variation of “I don't believe in the tech I'm building, it's depressing, but there is a ton of money in the space and it pays the bills”.
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@markjeffrey
@AndrewYang
Life: does the government act to protect life, or merely not take it? When does life begin?
Liberty: does my liberty entitle me to dump sewage in a lake override your liberty to swim in a clean lake?
Pursuit of happiness: not clear to me what this conveys that liberty does not
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Imagine going back to 2004, when Microsoft had 95% of the browser market share, and trying to convince people that 15 years later Microsoft would ditch their rendering engine for a fork of a fork of a fork of KDE’s file manager’s built-in browser.
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“what would stop someone from rendering a spreadsheet with WebGL backed by an Arrow dataframe compiled to WebAssembly”
turns out, nothing.
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@evgeniyzhe
@alex_peys
Yeah. Seems like the mistake of the interviewer was to just say “no numpy” instead of asking about performance as the graph scales, and then asking follow ups.
So much signal is lost when you just throw out arbitrary constraints to get the candidate on a predefined path.
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@BadLegalTakes
Loss of smell is a symptom, so if you can still smell malpractice suits you probably don't need to be tested.
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@iamdarcinc
@ArmandDoma
Some of them didn’t even make a mistake, from what I understand. They just scooped up any names they could find associated with the clubs that signed the letter, even if they had already graduated or had no say in the signing.
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This week I turned in my badge at Two Sigma. It's been a treat working with incredibly capable and kind colleagues over the last four and a half years.
Now I'm taking some time to double down on tech that excites me: Rust, WASM, GPGPU, and their use in data-intensive interfaces.
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@neighbours_wifi
Dumb question but I’ve never been to a Chick-fil-a, why do they need to be outside in tents? Surely there is an inside nearby where they prepare the chicken? Is this a cult?
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@wokshovel
@Very__Regular
My mind went to the same place, but to be fair, the egg in the video looks perfectly evenly undercooked.
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Developers are all like “use boring technologies like postgres!” and then get up in arms when a reporter calls postgres boring.
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@fishkiller1989
@ClareCoffey
Hereditary aristocracy is predicated on benefiting from the actions of your ancestors, hence the irony.
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@AlexHilke
@grynbaum
@rpyers
It's true that it would cancel out on average, but it also introduces randomness that impacts the polling error, potentially pretty dramatically.
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@d_feldman
There’s a neat connection between the measures of centrality and L* norms that isn’t taught in school. IIRC median minimizes L1, mean minimizes L2 norm, mode minimizes L∞ (in the limit)
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New blog post up outlining my (smallish) bet against Bitcoin, have at it 🍿
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@Murga3119
@AndrewYang
@StreetsblogNYC
If I couldn’t bike, I’d get a car, and then there’d be more congestion.
It’s simple geometry, there’s not enough space in NYC for everyone to have a car. Drivers should be grateful that so many of us opt for smaller vehicles instead.
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A few months back I was at a coffee shop. A recognizable billionaire sat down, tapped on his phone for 20 minutes, and left. I later checked his twitter profile and he had been on here arguing with anon trolls with 50 followers.
I think it’s neat that we have the same hobby!
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I like to imagine that the “C” in C-level roles at early startups stands for “chief”, but in the sarcastic sense. Like the same meaning as when the deli guy says “cheese on that, chief?”
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