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traviswt··on Texas Passes Ban on DEI Offices and Tenure Reform at Public Universities
Should we stop public funding of education? It feels like that monetary link is what provokes governments to interfere.
traviswt··on Meta’s next round of layoffs starts next week
Some things are impossible to achieve at small scale.
traviswt··on Angular v16
Generators, yield, Iterator?
traviswt··on To comply with a new sesame allergy law, some businesses add – sesame
Doesn't have to be actually difficult to comply for them to do this. It just has to be more expensive to comply compared to the cost of adding the allergen and the lost revenue from people who avoid due to the allergen.

It's like an auto maker evaluating the cost of a recall compared with just paying out settlements. There's no morality or logic involved, it's just numbers.

traviswt··on Was your degree really worth it?
I regret my degree. It delayed my career, caused me a lot of frustration, then set my career up on the wrong path initially.

We absolutely need to find a better model for STEM fields. Apprenticeships shouldn't just be for blue collar.

traviswt··on Humans in Humans Out: GPT Converging Toward Common Sense in Both Success/Failure
Very fascinating. If we train on every piece of knowledge, then statistically that should average around 100IQ right? It's not perfect analogy, but the model is shooting more for consensus, a bit hive mind.

It feels like to improve the quality of the model, we need to be more selective of training data.

traviswt··on Show HN: ADHD-friendly Pomodoro web app
TV shows I've already seen are my go to as well. Parks and Rec is a staple. Office, Scrubs, That 70s Show, Big Bang Theory are all great as well.

Sometimes I get into phases that need a little extra. The Marvel movies phase 1-3 are solid, as is Breaking Bad.

I swap to prog rock music (again stuff I've heard multiple times before) if I have something particularly creative and demanding to work on.

traviswt··on Show HN: Unknown Pleasures, a tiny web experiment with WebGL
This gave me some nostalgic vibes from http://ro.me
traviswt··on Best printer 2023: just buy this Brother laser printer everyone has, it’s fine
Get out of here, SwearGPT!
traviswt··on Meta is building a decentralized, text-based social network
This is why free speech is so hard to maintain. There are so many cases where you want to ban or censor something obviously repugnant, but once the power is created to do so, it will be abused, probably as soon as someone you don't like is now in charge.
traviswt··on Meta is building a decentralized, text-based social network
This seems like a great case against public education, since the mechanism to address this "whoever is in power decides" situation is of course competition and free choice.

Indoctrination of children is just natural a natural consequence of everyone having their biases. Parents are the ones who should choose, because that is how we have diversity. Home schooling gives parents the most choice, private school a step down, but public school is where the parent matters the least and we end up in perpetual holy wars like this.

traviswt··on Tether elements to each other with CSS anchor positioning
This sounds interesting to me. One of the struggles with sticky table headers is supporting automatic column widths. How does your portal trick support that? Currently I'm using a double rendering trick combined with resize observers.
traviswt··on Tether elements to each other with CSS anchor positioning
Sure, the happy path is straightforward. I'm fine with that (except I don't see why they're pursuing the HTML attribute variant... just keep it CSS).

The complexity comes later in the article when they talk about handling details and oddities. Like `position-fallback`.

Again, maybe this is just as simple as it gets since it's just a hard problem. I really would love a CSS-only solution to this. Use cases are everywhere, and I certainly don't have any better ideas.

traviswt··on Tether elements to each other with CSS anchor positioning
I’m not sure how I feel on this one. The solution looks complicated, but really the problem itself is also complicated.

Maybe this is just as simple as it can get? Either way, avoiding a large amount of quite expensive JS is promising. Looking forward to seeing how this goes. Would love to rip out floating ui dependency.

traviswt··on Nokia launches DIY repairable budget Android phone
I think Asahi Linux is where the progress is. Looking promising but rough. Lots of reverse engineering.
traviswt··on Bun v0.5.7
Exciting! Thanks for all your hard work!
traviswt··on Bun v0.5.7
Do you have a guess when you’ll be stabilizing around 1.0, perhaps a roadmap?
traviswt··on Teardown of the 14″ MacBook Pro M2 with Apple’s Help
How dare they make a product I want to buy!
traviswt··on Substack is (not) now powered by Ghost
Great set of replies and a wonderful example of why hearing both sides is important. You should definitely click and read through Chris' thread, but the final note "We’re definitely up to chat" is a great olive branch.
traviswt··on Censorship by big tech at the behest of the U.S. government?
It would be wild if we find out he was also banned in a similar manner to this Berenson guy.

As for what you’re missing, maybe that Trump was too anti-establishment, like his “drain the swamp” rhetoric? Based on the article this seems like it would be a systemic issue.

traviswt··on Not Perfect, Just Better
Glad you found your peace. Indeed, continuous self improvement is the fundamental concept in Christianity, constantly shooting for but never attaining the ideal of Jesus. It is a very difficult concept to teach, and I think most people get lost along the way during their “fake it until you make it” phase.
traviswt··on Tesla Virtual Power Plant
Any usage will reduce a battery’s lifespan, but this isn’t a donation. The point of enrolling in a sharing program is you get compensated for letting the utility company use your resources. It should much more than offset the extra degradation.

Degradation of lithium batteries is also not constant. It depends on several factors such as C rate, heat, and voltage. All of these factors would be far less during load sharing than just driving your car.

And keep in mind most people wouldn’t want to share their entire batteries. They would want to save most for themselves. If they only offered 10% of their capacity for load sharing, then the shared usage would be far less than a full cycle.

traviswt··on Tesla Virtual Power Plant
Quick math shows a long range Model 3 has about six times as much battery capacity as a Powerwall. I’m willing to bet more people have Model 3’s than Powerwalls. And I’m willing to bet 16% of your car’s battery capacity will impact you far less than 100% of your Powerwall.

F-150 Lightning called it right: EV’s should ship with grid-tie inverting.

traviswt··on The Latest Study on Red Meat and Heart Disease: A Red Herring
> What factors mitigate this in the wild are largely irrelevant

Why? If we find a link indicating exercise reduces or eliminates the cancer risk associated with eating meat, then it would just show another option for behavioral change to produce positive outcome. More options is not a bad thing.

traviswt··on The Latest Study on Red Meat and Heart Disease: A Red Herring
Does that study only look at zoo animals? I would assume carnivorous animals get far more exercise when they have to hunt, chase, and kill their food than when it’s given to them. That confounding factor alone might be large. I’ve been wondering about the relation between nutritional excess and cancer, can’t recall ever seeing this studied.
traviswt··on Ford's answer to EV supply chain hell: Cheaper batteries
Batteries are limited by charge/discharge C rates, which is relative to the size of the pack. Which means not only would your range go down, but so would performance and charge speed.

You can push batteries harder, but they’ll generate more heat and degrade faster (lower cycle life). This ends up counterintuitively in a higher long term cost of ownership.

Good news is C rates are getting better over time.

traviswt··on USB-C Port on iPhone
Here’s a YouTube video of a similar project: https://youtu.be/1yudWXta6dM
traviswt··on Tell HN: We are trying to get tail calls into the WebAssembly standard
Well personally I wasn't questioning the preference itself, I was curious about the purpose of the preference since I've seen people avoid JS/TS both because they don't like it and because it struggles to accomplish certain things. I was simply curious which it was (if either).
traviswt··on Tell HN: We are trying to get tail calls into the WebAssembly standard
Genuine question: is the goal to get something that is not achievable with JS/TS, or is the goal to simply avoid JS/TS?
traviswt··on Webcams aren't good enough
I can’t speak for everyone obviously, but for me, lower quality setups are distracting and make it hard to focus on the material. Good setups “disappear” and let the content shine.

I think we only notice quality setup on video calls now because that one person that cares stands out.

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