Cyberdog

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by Cyberdog 2y ago
I'd argue that the "toy language" concept was well in place on '80s computers. You could get into BASIC easily and do stuff, but if you wanted to do complex games or fast graphics or anything non-trivial, you had to lear
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by Cyberdog 2y ago
Assuming you're serious for a moment, I don't think AI is really a practical tool for working with big data. - The "hallucination" factor means every result an AI tells you about big data is suspect. I'm sure some o
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by Cyberdog 2y ago
Very good take. CSS is at a point of complexity now where you can't really blame anyone for not knowing everything you can do with it or every new feature that's been adopted in the last couple years, especially for full-stackers
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by Cyberdog 2y ago
From what I can tell it's because some of these "edge" service providers will expect you to give them a WASM binary instead of a PHP script. The other caveats about "edge" throughout this discussion aside, if I need
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by Cyberdog 2y ago
Agreed. I don't have faith they can make a usable device if they can't make a usable web page. Never break, take over, or "fix" scrolling! Never!
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by Cyberdog 2y ago
I remember when "compute" was a verb.
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by Cyberdog 2y ago
For those in the western hemisphere, local time zone adjustment means that midnight on 1970-01-01 GMT becomes some time in the afternoon or evening of the day before.
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by Cyberdog 2y ago
Mac Source Ports is such a wonderful site. It looks like we'll never be a first-class gaming platform again for 99% of major games but at least the projects hosted on this site increases the depth of the back catalog we can play, and i
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by Cyberdog 2y ago
I found it boring and incredibly pretentious, and it's possible to suddenly die for seemingly random reasons - for example, I dropped the game after examining a parked car caused me to die. I don't remember the details as to how t
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by Cyberdog 2y ago
For people wanting to use BSD in desktop systems, they arguably are. For those like me who primarily use it in servers, they’re not.
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by Cyberdog 3y ago
I wonder if another solution would be for channels broadcast a subchannel which has more frequent i-frames, but lowered resolution and framerate to compensate for it in terms of overall bandwidth. When you surf, the TV could first hit up th
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by Cyberdog 3y ago
Could you elaborate? Why would a pilot not know when to turn their engines on, and why is the timing not obvious (eg, "when we want the airplane to move")?
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by Cyberdog 3y ago
Please move to every country on the planet and replicate your work there.
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by Cyberdog 3y ago
Pathologic, a Drupal module which uses some simple heuristics to find and correct broken links and image paths in content which might happen because the content was migrated between servers, the URL of the server it was hosted on changed (s
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by Cyberdog 3y ago
As a web developer of 17 years, I'm dumbstruck at the idea that you're making three times as much doing this as you did at a damned defense contractor. They must have been totally chumping you.
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by Cyberdog 3y ago
My marriage. But for real, the first full-time programming gig I had was at a place that displayed huge tables of stock prices or something like that - I don't recall the exact data or why we were providing it, but I do remember the pr
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by Cyberdog 3y ago
Well… yes, of course those things are copyrighted. I'm a bit surprised you didn't foresee that issue. But still, it sounds like you learned a lot about Stripe and that other API. Those are good skills to have. If nothing else you&
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by Cyberdog 3y ago
What I meant was that two redwood forests in the Pacific northwest will look very similar to each other at the ground level. If you want to find another forest which looks similar to the one that the Star Wars scene was filmed in, they&#x27
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by Cyberdog 3y ago
Okay, my fault for forgetting where I was posting. What I meant to say is this: When you are amongst the trees, one redwood (sequoia sempervirens) forest located in or near Humboldt County, California, looks very similar to any other redwoo
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by Cyberdog 3y ago
The decking in the article was rhetorical. And I admit I was speaking exclusively of the forests in northwestern California. I have no idea what anyone does in British Colombia.
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by Cyberdog 3y ago
They all have value in the environmental sense, but in terms of hiking and camping and sightseeing, it's pretty hard to tell one forest from another once you're among the trees. (Maybe there's an idiom along those lines.)
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by Cyberdog 3y ago
If by "redwood forest" you only mean old-growth forests, sure. The trees being harvested commercially today are only a few decades old. Second-growth and managed forests won't have the occasional ancient giants the old-growth
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by Cyberdog 3y ago
I suppose if you had a fondness for that particular arrangement of trees, yes, it's sad they're gone. But there are other forests in that area which look practically identical to what you saw in the movie, believe me, just waiting
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by Cyberdog 3y ago
And lumber for other parts of houses as well, and wooden furniture, and paper products. And since trees in managed forests are grown denser than they grow naturally, a thicker, more carbon-capturing forest was planted in its place.
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by Cyberdog 3y ago
If it was a commercially-managed forest, it's a bit dramatic to say it was "obliterated" any more than a cornfield gets "obliterated" when the corn is harvested in the fall. Tree seedlings would have been planted in
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by Cyberdog 3y ago
Agreed. “Google is good and Microsoft is evil” is a take from two decades ago.
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by Cyberdog 3y ago
What is the point of using a query builder if you’re only going to support a single RDBMS? Why not write straight SQL and avoid the unnecessary abstraction layer? Is the query builder really going to be easier to learn to use (particularly
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by Cyberdog 3y ago
Hopefully they had comprehensive test coverage. That would have helped greatly in that regard.
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by Cyberdog 3y ago
OmniWeb was great! Loved the vertical tabs. I wish Safari supported them. My screen is far wider than it is tall and vertical scrolling is a natural movement, darn it!
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by Cyberdog 3y ago
I used iCab (the Mac port of CAB) for a few years in the early '00s since it had a very good balance of features and resource usage. It's still around but it's been rewritten to use WebKit so there's not really much poin

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