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cammil··on Slate EV truck starts at $24,950
Presumably you could reconfigure it easily later. Which seems like a plus
cammil··on Oban, the job processing framework from Elixir, has come to Python
Its not clear to me why youd need a tool to do this. Arent transactions and queue (say with celery) easy to write?
cammil··on How to think about durable execution
I don't see how the frameworks solve anything more than organising some tasks in a sequence. The underlying tasks still have to be idempotent.

Please do refute. I'm genuinely interested in this problem as I deal with it daily.

cammil··on Thin desires are eating life
It bothered me that you called your self promotion nasty. Not sure why. You made something, i see no harm in sharing it.
cammil··on Thin desires are eating life
Just thought this as i glanced your post. See you later!
cammil··on Thin desires are eating life
Tanha is about wholesome and unwholesome desires, ie those that lead to or dont lead to liberation. Its not about desires that do or do not change you, as this article is categorizing it.
cammil··on I hate screenshots of text
Screenshots preserve exactly what the user sees, and for this reason i believe they are the best format for evidence. They also preserve their look when your messaging software starts doing funny things with it. They are immune to accidental edits. They are reliable in the sense that if the original source ever changed, no one would argue that you didnt see what you saw with a screenshot. They wont degrade when the content of a url changes.

We do use screenshots extensively, but alongside links and copied text when necessary

cammil··on Shai-Hulud malware attack: Tinycolor and over 40 NPM packages compromised
Why cant we hash libraries and trusted parties publish security checked hashes?
cammil··on Web Locks API
I assume this is at the browser "session" level? In another browser, or private-session, would the locks be distinct?
cammil··on Founder Mode
You hold the vision, so tell people whatever you want. That's my interpretation.
cammil··on Helen Keller on her life before self-consciousness (1908)
This reminds me of dependent origination from Buddhism.
cammil··on What Monks Know about Focus
I suspect the reason is because Buddhism is lumped in with the other major world religions, and therefore considered a form of faith or belief. If the author knew Buddhism well then they would realise that couldn't be further from the truth.

Another possibility has occurred to me: they know Buddhism but don't want to scare away readers that have the above misconception. Actually I often find myself avoiding Buddhist terminology when I'm asked about my meditation practices.

cammil··on Ask HN: Why do half of Internet users think we are living in a simulation?
How could you know when some phenomenon is an artefact of a simulator Vs an artefact of the universe we are in?
cammil··on Ask HN: Why do half of Internet users think we are living in a simulation?
I find the simulation argument is little different in nature to the argument that because something exists, someone (a god) must have made it.

And I think humans are highly susceptible to creating explanations without evidence.

cammil··on Google Drive files suddenly disappeared
Does anyone have recommendations on how to protect against this kind of thing?
cammil··on Google Drive files suddenly disappeared
This is awful.
cammil··on A software epiphany
My definition of model would include the one in your mind, whether or not it may be communicated.
cammil··on Ask HN: What are you passionate about at the moment?
I'm pretty sure Buddhism is what you want
cammil··on Show HN: Booklet – Async forums as an alternative to chat
No. They are special.

I'm being facetious. Take note all ye.

cammil··on Understanding DeepMind's sorting algorithm
Why is sorting not done by specialised hardware? Or is it already?
cammil··on Starting FORTH (1981)
Out of interest, what other books (in this field) have you read, and would recommend?
cammil··on The mysticism of Alan Watts (2018)
Insight meditation
cammil··on Our conscious experience of the world is a memory, says new theory
Time doesn't exist though right?
cammil··on Ask HN: What do you think when companies ask for gritty people?
I think avoid them. I have worked in maybe 10 different companies as a consultant and I get the feeling that the grit required is often needed to deal with poor internal practices or systems. If the work is simply hard, that to me should translate to needed skilled workers, not gritty ones.
cammil··on The enduring mystery of ‘Jawn,’ Philadelphia’s all-purpose noun (2016)
Isn't "thing" another word that is like "jawn"?
cammil··on Improper Nouns
Is it on purpose that "improper noun" is itself an "improper noun"?
cammil··on Things people blamed on bicycles
This explains so much. Though nothing about bicycles
cammil··on Every action you take is a vote for the type of person you wish to become
Everything begets itself
cammil··on Ask HN: I am losing hope in humanity. What should I do?
These are problems created by concepts. Drop concepts, ideally. Or change your concepts if that is easier.
cammil··on How to manage software developers without micromanaging
I was going to say basically this.

Let me add a thought. You manage something that needs managing, that is to say, problems. If you see people as problems, then you are the problem.

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