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New comment by grahamplace in "Slop Cop"

grahamplace — Sat, 18 Apr 2026 00:34:50 +0000

As the saying goes: “If I had more time, I would’ve written a shorter letter”

New comment by grahamplace in "Google, Nvidia, and OpenAI"

grahamplace — Mon, 01 Dec 2025 17:11:16 +0000

See: https://lmarena.ai/leaderboard

New comment by grahamplace in "The key points of "Working Effectively with Legacy Code""

grahamplace — Tue, 09 Sep 2025 03:27:27 +0000

I’ve seen Martin Fowler call something like what you’re describing the Strangler Fig pattern

https://martinfowler.com/bliki/StranglerFigApplication.html

New comment by grahamplace in "YouTube's New Hue"

grahamplace — Thu, 13 Feb 2025 04:51:27 +0000

Same problem, Safari / iOS - pausing the video at the top and then scrolling seems to resolve

Edit: Nevermind, seems related to how far you scroll. Scrolling further got me past the first few paragraphs that kept jumping back. Ugh

New comment by grahamplace in "AI realtime mock interview tool"

grahamplace — Wed, 05 Feb 2025 01:24:30 +0000

For phone screens: https://www.wayfaster.com/

New comment by grahamplace in "Finland's zero homeless strategy (2021)"

grahamplace — Fri, 10 Jan 2025 23:59:04 +0000

Charles Lehman was on the Ezra Klein show recently[1] and had a useful definition for disorder, re: your first point.

This may not be exactly the quote, but it was something like "Disorder is domination of public space for private purposes."

As an SF resident, that really resonated; day-to-day quality of life here (for me, at least) feels much more impacted by that type of "disorder" than "homelessness" generally (obviously we need housing solutions too)

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2024/10/18/opinion/ezra-klein-podcas...

New comment by grahamplace in "Digital consumption keeps me from getting better at my job"

grahamplace — Tue, 10 Dec 2024 21:45:21 +0000

Check out https://www.flow.club/

New comment by grahamplace in "What I wish someone told me about Postgres"

grahamplace — Tue, 12 Nov 2024 20:09:05 +0000

For checked-in SQL queries, we follow: https://www.sqlstyle.guide/

The combination of all caps keywords + following "the river" whitespace pattern dramatically improves readability in my opinion

New comment by grahamplace in "Kurt Vonnegut's lost board game published"

grahamplace — Sun, 20 Oct 2024 19:50:23 +0000

For any Vonnegut fans who find themselves in Indianapolis, I recommend checking out the Kurt Vonnegut Museum and Library: https://www.vonnegutlibrary.org/

When I visited for the first time this year, I learned about GHQ and the upcoming release

New comment by grahamplace in "The Costco of Housing is Costco? The retailer's plan to use CA housing laws"

grahamplace — Sat, 15 Jun 2024 01:16:41 +0000

The Trader Joe's they just opened in Hayes Valley in SF was put in under existing residential units: https://locations.traderjoes.com/ca/san-francisco/226/

New comment by grahamplace in "Reasons not to take Lumina's anticavity probiotic"

grahamplace — Wed, 15 May 2024 17:24:49 +0000

Gene driving is the specific technique you’re referring to:

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10795774/

New comment by grahamplace in "OpenAI is too cheap to beat"

grahamplace — Thu, 12 Oct 2023 19:00:58 +0000

> OpenAI is clearly going to compete in that market with its upcoming phone

What phone are you referring to? A quick google didn’t seem to pull up anything related to OpenAI launching a hardware product?

New comment by grahamplace in "Karaniya Metta Sutta: The Buddha's Words on Loving-Kindness"

grahamplace — Tue, 10 Oct 2023 15:47:28 +0000

Any recommendations for where to start learning?

New comment by grahamplace in "In a Git repository, where do your files live?"

grahamplace — Thu, 14 Sep 2023 22:37:03 +0000

I’d definitely read this if you’re able to share it publicly

New comment by grahamplace in "Show HN: 77 Year old launches SaaS platform today. Seeks feedback"

grahamplace — Sat, 17 Jun 2023 03:29:51 +0000

I came across this property on my own just by zooming out the map from my location — you might make a more clear example listing like “123 Test St” with lorem ipsum in the listing description

I thought it was a mistake to leave this data in production, not an intentional example listing.

Congrats on the launch! The site looks great

New comment by grahamplace in "Bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki (2014)"

grahamplace — Sun, 28 May 2023 05:18:41 +0000

The Star Trek story you describe sounded exactly like The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas — indeed the “References” section of the Wikipedia article mentions the Star Trek episode taking inspiration from it

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Ones_Who_Walk_Away_from_...

New comment by grahamplace in "Wearing an eye mask during sleep improves episodic learning and alertness"

grahamplace — Thu, 04 May 2023 03:01:27 +0000

I have used (and loved) the Alaska Bear Silk mask for years, but it does come off occasionally. I’m absolutely going to try the double strap one now, thanks for sharing!

New comment by grahamplace in "A mutual aid auto shop in Alabama"

grahamplace — Tue, 25 Apr 2023 02:07:46 +0000

Is there a word for a “bad man”? The anti mensch, as it were?

New comment by grahamplace in "Theory-building and why employee churn is lethal to software companies"

grahamplace — Tue, 10 Jan 2023 21:51:04 +0000

At least one CTO has actually tried exactly that: https://danlebrero.com/2021/06/30/cto-dairy-lucky-lotto-chao...

New comment by grahamplace in "Plover: free, open-source stenography engine"

grahamplace — Sun, 08 Jan 2023 18:35:49 +0000

I've always said ploh-ver (rhymes with clover), but that comes not from any birding experience, but from drinking Andytown's Snowy Plovers[1]. I believe the staff there has always said ploh-ver as well, but it's been a while and I could be mistaken.

Seems like jury is out amongst birders[2]

[1] https://thebolditalic.com/the-snowy-plover-is-the-tastiest-d...

[2] https://www.10000birds.com/ploverpronunciationpoll.htm