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Writing a FastAPI websocket that reads from a redis pubsub is a documentation-less flailfest

So I wanted to prepare some options for one-handed typing that they can review. At first glance, it looks like solutions fall into one of three categories:

- Trainings on how to effectively use a keyboard with one hand

- Keyboard remappings on existing hardware to use alternative key layouts that favor the keys on the left side

- Specialty keyboards that are intended to be used with one hand. Some of these seem promising but also shockingly expensive.

Any thoughts on what solutions you've seen work / you might pursue in a similar situation?

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Temporarily putting aside (extremely fair) feasibility questions around those two pre-requisites, data centers are a not-bad choice for things to do with unlimited space energy.

Aluminum smelting or growing food are the two I’d think of otherwise, and neither of those can have inputs/outputs beamed to a global network of high-bandwidth satellites.

Conversely, the model sharing, “I found the photo by crawling Instagram and used an email MCP to ask the user where they took it. It’s in Austria” is unimpressive

So independent from where it helps actually improve performance, the cheating/not cheating question makes for an interesting question of what we consider to be the cohesive essence of the model.

For example, RAG against a comprehensive local filesystem would also feel like cheating to me. Like a human geoguessing in a library filled with encyclopedias. But the fact that vanilla O3 is impressive suggests I somehow have an opaque (and totally poorly informed) opinion of the model boundary, where it’s a legitimate victory if the model was birthed with that knowledge baked in, but that’s it.

Real world data is a messy thing

string foo = "bar";

string nameOfFoo = nameof(foo); // “foo”

Kinda nice for iterating through lists of variables and saving them to a key/value map

It’s been the second time in my career I’ve been surprised by not hating C# (the first was goofing off with Unity in 2018). The language itself has a lot of niceties; for example a method to turn the variable foo into the string “foo”. The Neovim LSP set itself up just by installing the dotnet executable. And the syntax for creating complex workflows were pretty ergonomic once an experienced .NET dev walked me through what I was even looking at. I still prefer FastAPI + well-typed Python as the backend framework of my dreams… but I’d work in .NET again.

Blazor hasn’t sold me yet, but seems like a fine choice. It fits in the same class of tools to me as Django Templates, HTMX, or JS handlebar rendering. There’s a class and size of apps for which that’s perfect, and there’s some value in a fullstack language keeping your stack monolingual. But IMO the framework should stand on its own against frontend frameworks like React, Vue, or Svelte… with the simplicity of monolingualism added as a cherry on top. Otherwise you’re optimizing towards the number of languages your devs need to learn over which frontend framework would be the best fit for your app. And between the DX and expansiveness of the JS ecosystem, it’s been hard to imagine going back once you’ve spent a few years eating the shamefully-complicated-constantly-shifting-and-reforming elephant that is learning TS React and friends

—First dad joke my brother in law bestowed upon me after my daughter was born

Every third turn, my four year old daughter gets to move for me. She doesn’t know the rules so she chooses a piece and we give her the full rundown of options where that piece can legally move. Neither of us can influence her choice, but there’s some degree of psychological play allowed for everyone’s entertainment

It’s been unexpectedly rich and fun for everyone involved:

- My daughter is slowly learning the game and likes hamming up the choice

- I exercise a different part of my brain around guarding eventualities and conservative movements

- Pure cackles of joy and glee from my niece whenever my daughter reaches for the queen

Gives you the ability to make some cool looking effects like fresnel without post-processing filters

But finding one of 2^256 private keys would take millions of years. This math felt correctly conservative https://bitcoin.stackexchange.com/questions/2847/how-long-wo...

There’s a chance that if Moore’s Law holds, a computer might catch up after decades of continued exponential growth. But my money’s still on the trash spelunker in that race

The duty to align your professional life ethically scales with your ability to do so. I personally don't cast aspersions on anyone working in tobacco farms or in a gas station selling cigarettes; they're just trying to get by. But if you're one or two levels up Maslow's Pyramid, it's right to weigh your personal needs against the impact of your work. You'll also be better off for it, knowing that the world would be worse off if you decided to switch gears and become a carpenter/baker/bartender/choose your adventure.

I'll also say: there are ways to contribute morally outside of your 9-5. Volunteer to teach a neighborhood kid to code. Show your local sandwich shop how to set their hours online, or maybe even build them a cookie cutter Squarespace site. Donate a small fraction of your salary (eg 0.5% local, 0.5% global) to causes you believe in, and scale up over the years.

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If vision-restoring eye transplants are the novel domain of futuristic moonshot research, how did Jerry Orbach’s eye donation give the “gift of sight for two New Yorkers” twenty years ago?

EDIT: Ah I follow now: he donated his corneas, which is a more routine procedure than an aspirational, vision-restoring full eye transplant