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Posts by Nick Williams

Yeah... It's a niche use case that has been somewhat solved in user space for at least a decade. Didn't feel like it needed standardisation

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Excerpt of a book relating to Palantir UK:

> Through a friend, he was introduced to Palantir, and after several rounds of interviews, he flew to Palo Alto to meet with Karp. As soon as Mosley took a seat, Karp began reciting a fiery speech that Oswald Mosley gave in 1939 demanding that Britain seek peace with Nazi Germany. ("Our generation shall not die like rats in Polish holes. They shall not die but shall live to see above their heads the English sky, to feel beneath their feet the English soil, and to enjoy the fair English countryside....") Karp didn't just repeat a few sentences; he went on for minutes, reproducing the speech from memory. Mosley sat in stunned silence. When Karp finished, he executed a few tai chi moves and walked out of the room without saying goodbye. A shaken Mosley figured that his family's dark past had torpedoed him again. But it hadn't: he was hired and ended up running Palantir's UK business

Excerpt of a book relating to Palantir UK: > Through a friend, he was introduced to Palantir, and after several rounds of interviews, he flew to Palo Alto to meet with Karp. As soon as Mosley took a seat, Karp began reciting a fiery speech that Oswald Mosley gave in 1939 demanding that Britain seek peace with Nazi Germany. ("Our generation shall not die like rats in Polish holes. They shall not die but shall live to see above their heads the English sky, to feel beneath their feet the English soil, and to enjoy the fair English countryside....") Karp didn't just repeat a few sentences; he went on for minutes, reproducing the speech from memory. Mosley sat in stunned silence. When Karp finished, he executed a few tai chi moves and walked out of the room without saying goodbye. A shaken Mosley figured that his family's dark past had torpedoed him again. But it hadn't: he was hired and ended up running Palantir's UK business

I saw this absolutely wild paragraph relating to Palantir UK earlier today

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A low angle shot of the ornate Santa Justa lift in Lisbon, as seen from the steps at its feet

A low angle shot of the ornate Santa Justa lift in Lisbon, as seen from the steps at its feet

I do enjoy a leading line

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An old looking yellow tram car descending a hill. The hill curves and the buildings on either side of the street are curved to match

An old looking yellow tram car descending a hill. The hill curves and the buildings on either side of the street are curved to match

Lisboa

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Might be nice from a sugar perspective. But I think the upcoming inherit() function would make it trivial without needing to pass values around

.border-auto {
border-radius: calc(inherit(border-radius) - inherit(padding));
}

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I don't think our brains are built to operate in an environment where everything is possibly a lie. We'll just check out mentally. If the truth cannot be discerned why bother trying to discern it. Have you seen Adam Curtis' Hypernormalization?

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I think LLMs will expose the truly crushing weight of Brandolini's Law. It's possible - quite trivially - now to flood the zone on a biblical scale. And we do not have an Ark

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I feel like they wrote the song first then worked backwards to produce a game befitting of it

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Ah that makes sense. Was asking as someone in the UK

2 days ago 0 0 0 0

Fair enough. I was confused by the GMT mention

3 days ago 0 0 1 0

Worse yet, "ours" and "theirs" gets reversed depending if you're merging or rebasing 😭

4 days ago 3 0 2 0

(East coast only I mean)

4 days ago 0 0 1 0

The role is US only?

4 days ago 0 0 1 0

Having some private third party for sending money around - for any use case! - is beyond bizarre

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It's not code - it's an ad-hoc, informally specified, big ridden, slow implementation of half of a programming language

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Cover art for the game Öoo

Cover art for the game Öoo

This has some of the best game/level design I've ever encountered. Each puzzle teaches you something which you apply to the next (or sometimes earlier) puzzle. Without a single piece of text. So many whoa moments

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The best thing about LLMs is that they will brute force a solution to anything

The worst thing about LLMs is that they will brute force a solution to anything

1 week ago 2 0 0 0

Interesting! Thanks.

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Yes! I even go as far as to frame my frontend tests in terms of keyboard use. That way baseline keyboard usability is maintained bsky.app/profile/wick...

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The answer is to learn to use screen readers and/or other assistive tech. Testing with real users is of course always going to be valuable. But at least learning the tools gives you understanding and empathy for the people trying to interact with whatever you build

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Z - Trip - BBC Radio1 Hip Hop Takeover Mix (Unedited)- *Download* Here's the mix I did for the BBC Radio 1 - November was HIP HOP TAKEOVER month. I did an exclusive mix for the "Semtex Show" alongside Mixmaster Mike. A few other DJ homies who did mixes were DJ Craze

Today's gym jam: Z-Trip - Hip Hop Takeover Mix. Heavy one this soundcloud.com/z-trip/z-tri...

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Ok no worries! I saw a lot of beta releases on GitHub and wasn't sure if things were changing Not sure what bunny ears is?

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@yoav.codes is there a changelog available for electrobun anywhere? Just curious what's changed since I last looked at it

1 week ago 1 0 1 0

Seems pretty interesting. I think it's missing a "why?" section, explaining what it does, how it does it differently etc. macros are pretty unique among frontend frameworks. Some insight about this stuff would be appreciated as the reader

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Would you consider signals to help allowed for pre declarative UI? I feel like they allow you to get much further without the need for declarative rendering

1 week ago 0 0 0 0

I think because I worked on design systems exclusively for years my bar for UI is much higher than whatever LLMs can do. I almost always have to intervene, so I may as well do the work myself

1 week ago 1 0 1 0

Without an agent for sure. I find them very poor at UI

1 week ago 1 0 1 0

Looks incredible I must say. Going to look into it now :)

1 week ago 1 1 0 0

I've always wanted to go up in a hot air balloon. Is it nerve wracking?

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Good? Perhaps not. But passable for a wide array of laborious coding tasks? Yes imo. I thought otherwise up until around the end of last year. What's crucial is giving it some automated feedback loop - whether that's linter, compiler output, tests, or whatever else makes sense for the use case

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