Brian Cavalier

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[Brian Cavalier @briancavalier]

@OralB I use one of your electric toothbrushes and it works great. I ordered replacement brush heads and they arrived in this irresponsibly wasteful packaging. Is there something you can do about this? Otherwise, I feel I have to buy a different brand next time.

[Martin Kleppmann @martinkl]

✨New educational materials!✨
Today I'm announcing two new, free resources I've written: an 8-lecture course on fundamentals of distributed systems, and a 30-page tutorial on elliptic curve cryptography. https://t.co/afIJbOm271

[Brian Cavalier @briancavalier]

@adriancolyer I want my computational dyson swarm

[Adrian Colyer @adriancolyer]

"Towards an API for the real numbers", Boehm, PLDI'20. https://t.co/UX8rTWXi8B #themorningpaper

Floating point numbers that actually have the basic mathematical properties of real numbers!

[Prof. Feynman @ProfFeynman]

You cannot get educated by this self-propagating system in which people study to pass exams, and teach others to pass exams, but nobody knows anything.

You learn something by doing it yourself, by asking questions, by thinking, and by experimenting. 🧠

[Brian Cavalier @briancavalier]

Familiarity and habit are strong attractors, but in my experience, repeatedly trying harder at an approach that hasn’t been working isn’t a viable answer. It may seem counterintuitive, but it’s time to pivot: stop, reevaluate goals, priorities and approach; make a new plan

[Brian Cavalier @briancavalier]

> npm install
… a million lines of C compiler output …

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[Brian Cavalier @briancavalier]

Make this trend today: #USPSProtests

(It’s not enough to retweet. You have to type the hashtag for Twitter to count it.)

[Rep. Don Beyer @RepDonBeyer]

So many of you are writing, calling, and urging us to act to protect the US Postal Service.

We share your anger and frustration about what Trump is doing and your alarm about what it could mean for the election.

And we ARE working to stop him.

Some things worth following: 1/

[Brian Cavalier @briancavalier]

I’d be happy if, basically, we just ban the words “basically” and “just” from all software development related conversations for a few years

[Brian Cavalier @briancavalier]

@gregturn Hahaha 😂 But then again, those who don’t know history …

[Brian Cavalier @briancavalier]

I’d be very interested to hear the story of this API design:
new Date(2020, 2, 0).getMonth() === 1

[Brian Cavalier @briancavalier]

@BrendanEich @CWMma Great read, esp thread at https://t.co/YwaJIk77RK The thing that was confusing me was the 0 day implying last day of previous month. Thank you 🙏

[You and 52 others @bahstgwamt]

@BrendanEich @connorjshea @larrythefox @destroytoday I dug into this a couple of years back. It turns out that the problem (tm_mon being 0-based) came via C, but is in Unix predating C.

[Brian Cavalier @briancavalier]

@BrendanEich @CWMma Thanks. love learning about API design choices/evolution over time. Wondering about the 1-based input vs 0-based output, specifically

[Brian Cavalier @briancavalier]

@CWMma It’s the 1-based input vs 0-based output for the month that’s interesting. Java’s Date Javadoc says both are 0-based. So the overall shape of the APIs seem clearly related, but the indexing “oddity” seems JS-specific: https://t.co/KNiSn0BeIc

[Brian Cavalier @briancavalier]

coding: the thing you do in the 5-10 minute gap that google calendar’s “speedy meetings” setting leaves before your next meeting

[Brian Cavalier @briancavalier]

We own 2 flashlights and 2 lanterns from https://t.co/FIj0g4Dh9V. They’re fantastic. Broke the lens assembly in one flashlight & contacted them to buy a replacement part. They responded within a few hours and sent me a new flashlight at no charge. Amazing. Thank you!

[Brian Cavalier @briancavalier]

2010: set work chat to never away so people know you’re working

2020: set work chat to always away so you can get actual work done

[Brian Cavalier @briancavalier]

TIL: const x = 1 as 2 #typescript

[Brian Cavalier @briancavalier]

TIL: JS-less form submit button enable/disable with just html input validation, :invalid pseudo-selector, and css pointer-events. Declarative ftw: https://t.co/KUm5rdQBU1

[Dave DiCello @DaveDiCello]

What a day. After nearly 5 hours of waiting on the West End Overlook, I finally got the view I was hoping for. An absolutely incredible double rainbow filled the sky over #Pittsburgh, towering high into the colorful sky. One of the most amazing sunsets I've ever seen in this city