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padolsey
4,466karma·578submissions·June 29, 2011
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I'm James. Living between Beijing and London. I like coding. Also plants. Stroke survivor & disability advocate. My dog's a whippet/iggy cross and is called Ducky. He's a beautiful lunatic.
* website: [j11y.io](https://j11y.io) * building: [nope](https://nope.net) * bsky: [@j11y.io](https://bsky.app/profile/j11y.io) * contact: https://tally.so/r/waYPvE * twitter: [@padolsey](https://x.com/padolsey) * book recommendations: [ablf.io](https://ablf.io) * me = founding eng @ [collective intelligence project](https://cip.org)
My work email is my first name at cip dot org.
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recent activity (578 total)
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I reckon there's a kind of broken rationale where people think, "ok well this value will mutate over time so I can't possibly use a const", even though a new block scope is initial…
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lol I just sang this to myself, just brilliant
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I see this is about point-to-point navigation optimization but it's very curious this article doesn't mention grid cells – essentially, neurological ~1:~1 representations of physical space. …
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It's been interesting to see bitcoin and blockchain migrate from tech infrastructure to the mainstream. I had a chat to an electrician recently who lost an apprentice because they wanted to go &#…
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Yeh fair. I wonder what duration of outage would cause a spiral of the mentioned economic and social effects. I'm sure a fix made within a few days would not set the course of the economy on a di…
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I'm the last person to claim any knowledge in this area but isn't this analysis completely missing the possibility of a more accidental fundamental lower-level OS or networking bug that casc…
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I mean, not an RCA per se, but info more akin to cloudflare's blog post would be v welcome IMHO: https://blog.cloudflare.com/october-2021-facebook-outage/ …
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Likely relevant as WhatsApp does not always see eye-to-eye with mother FB, notably on privacy issues. Source: used to work there.
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What perf issue have you spotted with hooks? My biggest bugbear with them is just the sheer cognitive exhaustion that comes with figuring out "when" stuff is happening -- especially if you&#…
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It's not binary. There are thousands of variants, thousands of paths to matestasis. Some cancers are already, for most intents and purposes, "cured" (prostate, thyroid, testicular etc.)
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TBQH I have a real dislike for the relativistic thinking that people apply to this. Everyone does struggle, yes. But the degree of struggle, for some, is exponentially more. To just participate in the…
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I think I agree with part of what you've said. I often think that disability is something imposed by the external world; it is society's expectations of functionality that are encoded into h…
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Reflecting on how this applies to the tech industry, IME we're still very behind in accommodating those with chronic illnesses and disabilities. The 40-hour work week is still, on the whole, the …
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Surely the human factors at play are not incomparable.. ?
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Agreed -- it is certainly inheritance that mostly takes the blame here, since it allows massive advantages to accrue, unchecked. However, I do think that there's something to be said against even…
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These conclusions seem to spit in the face of "meritocracy". It's always puzzled me that this idea of meritocracy, especially in tech (notably USA), is so pervasive, bleeding into our c…
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Bravo!!
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I'm trying out Amazon affiliates yeh, tho no commissions as yet .. :/ I'm also exploring commercial licensing and API access possibilities.
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Thanks for sharing, I hadn't seen this project before. It's great!!
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Heya I've been working on ensuring that the results reflect the age-range of the queries, so hopefully you'll now get slightly less children's books. In terms of your latter point, it m…
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Heya, can you try refreshing? If it still fails would you mind pasting the URL here? The DB is struggling a bit under the strain but it should be back to normal now, fingers crossed.
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Hi Sam. Thanks for pointing out this oddity. I've now implemented a "children's book" anchoring score which I can now promote or demote results based on. Please try your search aga…
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It's something I'd really like to do yes, though was not sure where to source the synopsis from. I wasn't sure on the copyright ramifications of scraping from the likes of Amazon/G…
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Ah that may be related to an expired CSRF token. Could you try refreshing? Hope that works!
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Glad it's brightened your day! Baldwin is wonderful to experience. Re: moving people from one chamber to another, one hopes that enough chamber-hopping might give people the broad perspective we …
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Indeed. It's a real struggle as the nature of how this operates on intersections ("people who like Foo also like Baz") mean that escaping a "bubble" really just means moving t…
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Unfortunately there will be some books missing, either because of lacking data on them or lacking intersections with other books, or because they're too new. There's also a difficulty in whe…
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Agreed I would like to somehow do that. At the moment it's a bit tricky as some books we might classify as for children are more broadly enjoyed (e.g. The Little Prince). One way, I suppose, woul…
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Ah yes I'm working on a fix for this right now : )