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"Scar Tissues Make Relationships Wear Out"

04/26/2103. From a lecture by Professor John Ousterhout at Stanford, class CS142.

This is my most touchy-feely thought for the weekend. Here’s the basic idea: It’s really hard to build relationships that last for a long time. If you haven’t discovered this, you will discover this sooner or later. And it's hard both for personal relationships and for business relationships. And to me, it's pretty amazing that two people can stay married for 25 years without killing each other.

[Laughter]

> But honestly, most professional relationships don't last anywhere near that long. The best bands always seem to break up after 2 or 3 years. And business partnerships fall apart, and there's all these problems in these relationships that just don't last. So, why is that? Well, in my view, it’s relationships don't fail because there some single catastrophic event to destroy them, although often there is a single catastrophic event around the the end of the relation

58 bytes of CSS to look great nearly everywhere

When making this website, i wanted a simple, reasonable way to make it look good on most displays. Not counting any minimization techniques, the following 58 bytes worked well for me:

main {
  max-width: 38rem;
  padding: 2rem;
  margin: auto;
}

Programming as Theory Building

Peter Naur

Peter Naur's classic 1985 essay "Programming as Theory Building" argues that a program is not its source code. A program is a shared mental construct (he uses the word theory) that lives in the minds of the people who work on it. If you lose the people, you lose the program. The code is merely a written representation of the program, and it's lossy, so you can't reconstruct

Because cross-compiling binaries for Windows is easier than building natively

I want Microsoft to do better, want Windows to be a decent development platform-and yet, I constantly see Microsoft playing the open source game: advertising how open-source and developer friendly they are - only to crush developers under the heel of the corporate behemoth's boot.

The people who work at Microsoft are amazing, kind, talented individuals. This is aimed at the company's leadership, who I feel has on many occassions crushed myself and other developers under. It's a plea for help.

The source of truth for the 'open source' C#, C++, Rust, and other Windows SDKs is proprietary

You probably haven't heard of it before, but if you've ever used win32 API bindings in C#, C++, Rust, or other languages, odds are they were generated from a repository called microsoft/win32metadata.

	#!/home/djacoby/webserver/perl/bin/perl

	# This program is used to download a Dropbox directory onto a machine
	# without Dropbox tools installed

	use strict;
	use warnings;
	use utf8;
	use feature qw{ postderef say signatures state };
	no warnings qw{ experimental::postderef experimental::signatures };

	/**
	Create pagebreaks in exported Obsidian PDFs.

	Example:

	# Heading 1

	Lorem Ipsum is simply dummy text of the printing and typesetting industry.
	Lorem Ipsum has been the industry's standard dummy text ever since the 1500s,
	when an unknown printer took a galley of type and scrambled it to make a type

	/**
	* Sets up a DOM MutationObserver that watches for elements using undefined CSS
	* class names. Performance should be pretty good, but it's probably best to
	* avoid using this in production.
	*
	* Usage:
	*
	* import cssCheck from './checkForUndefinedCSSClasses.js'
	*
	* // Call before DOM renders (e.g. in <HEAD> or prior to React.render())

	require 'set'

	def read_most_common_words
	File.read('100_000-english.txt').split("\n")
	end

	def read_etymologies
	File.read('etymwn-20130208/etymologies.tsv').split("\n").map do \|line\|
	parts = line.downcase.split("\t")
	[parts[0], parts[2]]

	javascript: Promise.all([import('https://unpkg.com/[email protected]?module'), import('https://unpkg.com/@tehshrike/[email protected]'), ]).then(async ([{
	default: Turndown
	}, {
	default: Readability
	}]) => {

	/* Optional vault name */
	const vault = "";

	/* Optional folder name such as "Clippings/" */

	// ==UserScript==
	// @name Prevent link mangling on Google
	// @namespace LordBusiness.LMG
	// @match https://www.google.com/search
	// @grant none
	// @version 1.1
	// @author radiantly
	// @description Prevent google from mangling the link when copying or clicking the link on Firefox
	// ==/UserScript==