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ever since lion began the ipadification of macos, apple's Happy Path™ has been native full screen (even though it's an objective downgrade from the scuffed fullscreen mac apps of yore, since you have to sit through a swipe animati
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the article does a good job of explaining why something like the flake system was necessary, but man oh man does the particular thing we wound up with have issues. you can smell from a mile away that they were engineered to solve widely-exp
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3y ago
"real UML has never been tried" significantly more interesting technological failures deserve dibs on this excuse
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3y ago
>maybe not on /g/ weeeeeell, people did spam lolicon and gay furry porn in like 2011 for a couple months but the mods swooped in and it's been a well-enforced blue board since the real problem with /g/ in the cu
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> they usually define identity elements for all primitive functions > using reduce with non-primitive functions can result in domain errors ml-style folds in the presence of ad-hoc polymorphism solve this rather handily -- in haskell
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3y ago
this strongly reminds me of circa-2011 4chan enhancement scripts, in a really good way, right down to the column approach. makes me nostalgic for when the mainstream considered “unobtrusive javascript” viable & scripting/dynamism b
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3y ago
can i just point out the sublime, crystalline irony of something called “vanilla os” using one of the most spuriously patch-happy distros in existence as a base?
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4y ago
in the absence of serious conditions such as borderline personality disorder, it is actually possible to have thoughts that differ in connotation, implied tribal signals, or whether they intuitively paint some given thing as “good” or “bad”
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4y ago
for what it's worth, this is the guy who took the open source efforts of the homebrew community, who try their absolute hardest to avoid association with piracy (and by extension nintendo's hammer), and sold modchips to enable the
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4y ago
i find the layer system in, i.e. blender layer painter to be perfectly sensible; this should be the case for anyone who's had cause to work in separate RGBA channels in normal graphics apps i more meant the interface to armorpaint'
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4y ago
v0.9 might have changed a thing or two, but my prior experiences: - irritating camera controls, difficult to account for unit scales outside of unity/unreal expectations (good luck painting something measured in HU), overall anaemic 3d
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> They were first published in 1860 > Perceived loudness/brightness is proportional to logarithm of the actual intensity impressively forward-thinking for the time, considering we went on to use dB for all sorts of ampl
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4y ago
i'm not really a security guy but... is ibm poland ok? that's one hell of an outlier
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4y ago
i stumbled across an invite-only social network a while back. the front-facing branding was all about change, being the face of tomorrow, yadda yadda. like some 20th century industrialist's idea of a eugenic utopia where they summon sc
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4y ago
in the same way that flakes address build-time (and hence, nix project) boundaries, i want to easily control runtime boundaries does a service need to see all of the store? no; just its closure. all of /proc? probably not. i would love
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4y ago
nixos missing 2/3 is what's behind my repeated insistence that nix is in sore need of a plan 9-esque host system. perhaps with fuchsia there's hope yet. cgroups and linux namespaces are great and all but pervasive namespace a
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i do not want my shell to depend on whatever idea of package management python has this week, nor do i necessarily want to warm up the jit of a ~proper~ general-purpose scripting language in the process of execing a one-line script
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4y ago
the top voted answer lectures OP about ackshually having an X/Y problem, coupled with with a cheeky boomer pull-yourself-up-by-your-bootstraps “you're part of the problem; be part of the solution” to downplay any responsibility on
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4y ago
even if going by chomsky's choice of qualifier -- “biological system” -- DNA still fits the bill for an abstraction as broad as “digital infinity” pointing to it as a profound and unique aspect of language feels like something a colleg
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out of curiosity, what sort of tampering/issues? in my experience such changes are largely to accommodate nix's admittedly alien expectations (runtime dependencies living in the store, etc etc) and beyond that things behave more v
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> in the strictly browser realm > much more idiomatic OCaml style dammit, that's it -- time to go and whip up something that fills the “actual ocaml realm”/“idiomatic ocaml style” quadrant
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4y ago
contemporary firefox with several APIs intentionally disabled for fingerprinting/annoyance prevention. it would likely be worth throwing up a specific error box stating “TigYog requires the [...] APIs to function. Please update/en
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4y ago
this is why i'm happy my dad is a programmer and my mom uses a macbook
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4y ago
the page flashed an apparent hint of actual content before vanishing and going: Application error: a client-side exception has occurred (see the browser console for more information). the error in question suggests that there are no
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stuff like this really brings us closer to the dream we all had back when we served largely-static content with some scripts thrown in -- of being able to say what we meant in the css and keeping the markup ~semantic~ now that we throw our
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4y ago
elixir takes the operational characteristics of the beam, which are by historical serendipity very desirable for implementing http servers, sands the rough edges off erlang's tooling, and gives the language a syntactic facelift that is
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4y ago
arch itself had a similar reputation for half-assing security etc; package signing was a big sticking point back in the day this is a plausible consequence of “whoa what if arch infra + polish/friendliness” turning out more popular tha
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sorry, going to have to go with a joe armstrong truism here -- make it work, then make it beautiful, then if you really must, make it fast. note the order of the first two a large codebase is akin to a mathematical proof iff you are using
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4y ago
name is eerily similar to `nixpkgs`, i.e. the monorepo that defines all packages and one of the underlying technologies here. i get the play on buildpacks, but still, as a nix user it makes me do a double take reading the name this is neat
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thank god honestly i really dislike the prospect of a search engine turning into a one-stop shop; im convinced (intuitively, with absolutely zero hard evidence), that settling on an instinctive default of "punch it into google" ro
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