Sameer Ismail
101 posts
Sameer Ismail
@sameersismail
https://t.co/HV6HtjyMsN
San Francisco, CA Beigetreten Mart 2018
532 Folgt135 Follower
Inflation: From bills of 100 bills to bills of 100,000 in less than 50 years.
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I'm playing with Zeal/Dash so I can view stdlib docs offline.
(I've been coding on public transport recently, without a reliable data connection.)
Anyone have tips for making the most of this setup? AFAICT docsets are basically HTML underneath.
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Okay, fine, moving my antilibrary back to Obsidian.
x.com/kepano/status/…
kepano@kepano
Hardcover book effect for Obsidian Bases
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@MJewkes Lovely! Bruce Liu’s is a favourite, youtube.com/watch?v=s_ST3h…. (Last International Chopin winner too.)
YouTube
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@sameersismail Arthur goes down listening to Nocturne No. 20 in C♯ minor every night. I hadn't realized how widely the interpretations differ!
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@geoffreylitt Good extended discussion of this hot take: feelingof.com/episodes/060/
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"interaction is an essentially negative aspect of information software"
One of the greatest hot takes ever.
I revisit Magic Ink all the time, and you should absolutely read it if you're serious about design:
worrydream.com/MagicInk/
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@Malcolm_Ocean @saulmunn (Was *just* about to post this exact thread.)
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thread about memoria.day, an unconf geared towards nurturing a scene around memory systems - not so much even the tools, but the practices (tho also the tools)
my main goal was to get a workflow going with LLM-generated flashcards & reviews—and I succeeded
Malcolm Ocean 🏴☠️@Malcolm_Ocean
got really excited about the automated anki-decks.com for generating some flashcards so I could better internalize core concepts from The Unaccountability Machine but it keeps pulling out trivia, or details from case studies that are completely irrelevant to core points
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@ekzhang1 > I had seen this somewhere online, with a person showing off their tiny OS with Firecracker microVMs over public SSH. Unfortunately I don’t remember where I saw this
I remember this! github.com/nuta/kerla (Thanks to shell history.)
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What if when you ssh'd somewhere, it greeted and started up a microVM on-demand, just for you :)
ssh eric@vmcity.ekzhang.com
"simcity for VMs" — this weekend I made this ekzhang.substack.com/p/ssh-hypervis…
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Does anyone who follows me work at TSMC Arizona?
Would love to film a tour/interview to understand what it takes to produce the most complicated things humans have ever built, and to do it at scale in the US.
DMs open.
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Two years now since we uninstalled our doorbell and put up the “baby sleeping” sign and zero regrets. Literally zero solicitors. I talked to an architect about removing the front door and they told me I legally can’t do that lmao. This sign is staying up forever.
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@pyrodiscus Memorisation is underrated. pearlleff.com/in-praise-of-m…
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A long time ago, a team I was on had an outage
We temporarily patched it with a script running on an engineer’s laptop while rolling out the real fix
Half an hour in, the outage was back! Pagers beeping! Panic!
Someone had unknowingly closed the laptop
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In all seriousness, this is the only productive mindset. If you think that something is “impossible” to do, you are very unlikely to succeed in doing it.
There are even accounts in history where someone thought someone else did a thing (but they actually didn’t) and did that thing because it seemed more possible.
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So far my attempts at capitalism (black friday) have involved buying things with good textures (a fluffy bathrobe, crisp new bedsheets, perhaps new pajamas)
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