DecoPerson

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by DecoPerson 3y ago
Good advice! I go one step further with buttons in my own React UI library, and I wish all UI libraries did the same: When a button is “disabled”, it should show why either on hover or on click. It’s a common frustration in software, especi
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by DecoPerson 3y ago
If you look at history, the biggest changes that allow people more free time to spend with their children or otherwise, are technological ones. Look at the mechanical loom (industrialisation), pesticides (agricultural yield increase), penic
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by DecoPerson 3y ago
I have 15 debtors, a few dozen creditors, and 5 employee credit cards. There’s enough transactions that for the 3 years I’ve been reconciling the accounts I have wanted to either write an if/elseif/else-based reconciler assistant,
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by DecoPerson 3y ago
Hey wheybags, this is not deterministic lockstep. That is an algorithm for peer-to-peer games, where each peer waits for the input from all other players before advancing the game simulation. The deterministic part is because players share
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by DecoPerson 3y ago
This significantly disadvantages good money. Good money being: any company that tries to do things properly (or, relatively properly). Bad money being: profit, profit, profit. Take risks and misreport. Don’t put anything in writing. Pay bon
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by DecoPerson 3y ago
If an animal consumes poisonous food, is injured by the poison (but not killed), then is butchered and none of the poison remains in the meat, then the animal has “filtered” the poison for us. Our livers and such do filter such things out,
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by DecoPerson 3y ago
Not without potentially creating a scandal. “IGA coordinates anti-consumer buyout of Woolworths milk” “Why is IGA skimming your milk?” “Woolworths vs IGA — Calf scalps bull’s milk”
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by DecoPerson 3y ago
JavaScript has this with template strings. I use it often: s = `something ${cond ? `(${v})` : ''} something`
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by DecoPerson 3y ago
The banks provide 4G-enabled speakers either for free or very cheap. These speakers automatically read out any credit into the account. Even a vendor who can’t read can use UPI to reliably receive payments.
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by DecoPerson 3y ago
The backpack I keep in my car boot (“trunk” for the Americans here ;) ) has: a set of ”work” clothes (rugged trousers, breathable shirt, high vis rain jacket, also boots but not in the backpack), USB battery pack, old AirPods, a few handker
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by DecoPerson 3y ago
Overall, I’ve found JetBrains IDEs to be “nicer” than VS Code. There’s a level of polish and thoughtfulness in the design that I’ve not found in VS Code. It’s hard to put into words, because it consists of lots of little things. Definitely
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by DecoPerson 3y ago
If you haven’t already, try the desktop apps when you can. They’re marginally better.
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by DecoPerson 3y ago
A database is typically an alive, running program that requires maintenance. There is a strong coupling for most “databases” between disk format and executable code. It’s not easy to read from a random Postgres database sitting on disk. You
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by DecoPerson 3y ago
Spinny-dial-based input, with the dial located just behind the shifter (just in front of where the cupholders usually are), is the best input method developed for cars so far. The forces the UI to be a flat list in terms of navigation (rath
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by DecoPerson 4y ago
The target audience is less-tech-savvy game devs (paper designers, artists, narrative designers, fx, sound, etc). They don’t have as much familiarity with camelCase or snake_case as us programmers do. CapitalCase is friendlier to a wider au
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by DecoPerson 4y ago
Paying award rates is a requirement of all companies, but in reality many small and medium businesses don’t. Small business pay under the table, offering certain perks to employees that make them OK with the arrangement. Medium businesses u
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by DecoPerson 4y ago
By its nature, the strong two-tier economy that exists within Australia is not captured within analyses like this. The “law abiding” tier that pays employees the award rate, pays something resembling proper GST & income tax, and doesn’t
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by DecoPerson 4y ago
In production ;) But my app is for six users at one site, it’s not mission critical, and the sqlite DB is backed up hourly. Life’s too short for (unnecessary) testing.
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by DecoPerson 4y ago
The issue is that V8 unhandled rejection logic doesn’t wait until the promise is awaited. If a promise is rejected, has no awaiter (.then/.catch/await), and persists in this state for some amount of time/event-loops (that the
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by DecoPerson 4y ago
I don’t believe this will resolve the issue. - Promises are created: 1,2,3,4 - The for loop awaits promise 1 - Promise 3 is rejected - Promise 1 is resolved - The for loop awaits promise 2 - … Somewhere in this,
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by DecoPerson 4y ago
But it’s software defined, so it’s much quicker to work around failures of those centralised points.
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by DecoPerson 4y ago
Try Narwhal for Reddit on iOS. It’s a very good experience.
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by DecoPerson 4y ago
I was expecting them to say “..as easy as riding a bike.”
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by DecoPerson 4y ago
A nice thing about earlier forums (email chains, vBulletin), is that there was a defined order to the replies, unlike Hacker News, Reddit, or others, where each comment thread exists as its own thing, unconnected to the comments around it (
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by DecoPerson 4y ago
This feels like a good hook to me. Imagine how many executives and team leaders have heard “hydration” as an excuse for why a particular feature is difficult/late/complicated. Bypass hydration, problems go away. It doesn’t matter
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by DecoPerson 4y ago
Something under some heavy NDAs, apparently.
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by DecoPerson 4y ago
Haha, in his recent video on Australia’s LNG export dilemma [1], I thought he was a bit too right-wing! But like you said, he provides a lot of well-researched facts that allow a viewer to form their own opinion. [1] https://yout
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by DecoPerson 4y ago
I’m a fan of the monotone delivery. My brain understands the words better when it’s like that.
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by DecoPerson 4y ago
I'm thankful for people like this. They make apparent the systemic flaws that we--the people of the earth who depend on those systems--may otherwise be unaware of. I see this as a form of white-hat hacking. Telling off white-hat hacker
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by DecoPerson 4y ago
Beautiful. This is something I’ve thought about too. Thanks for making it! One of the most beautiful light effects I’ve seen while being a passenger in a car is the reflection of oncoming headlights on the underside of powerlines, whether t

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