Izkata

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by Izkata 10mo ago
> I know a lot of people want to maintain the history of each PR, but you won't need it in your VCS. Having worked on a maintenance team for years, this is just wrong. You don't know what someone will or won't need in the
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by Izkata 10mo ago
Responding to the title: Made me think of Star Trek TOS food synthesizers (the precursor to replicators). They used floppy-disk-like cards as their main interface: https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Food_synthesizer?f
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by Izkata 10mo ago
Also they attempted their own competitor before buying YouTube, called Google Video. It never got very popular.
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by Izkata 10mo ago
No, they're right. Your description is what you get from outsiders who don't understand what they're seeing. In a creative process, when you really know your tools, you start being able to go from thought to result without
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by Izkata 10mo ago
Side projects on my laptop in one language I use is currently about 200k lines (as measured by "wc -l" so includes blank lines and such). This covers about a decade and a half. This doesn't count all the lines added/chan
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by Izkata 10mo ago
Those are called emoticons, not emoji. "Emoji" came about specifically to distinguish the single-character ones (unicode or proprietary) from what we did before.
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by Izkata 10mo ago
Seems like there's more going on with it than that, it's also affecting the lines that don't have emoji. It kind of looks like it assumes every vertical bar takes up two characters so a space before the bar is missing. Except
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by Izkata 10mo ago
On the exact opposite side, I remember when I first started working and was used to keeping an eye on the clock because of, oh, 16 years of school that had us timed to the minute. I'd walk into meeting rooms right when it was supposed
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by Izkata 10mo ago
Original context: He was reacting to a study about chemicals in the water triggering the natural sex-change ability of some frogs. Sooo yeah, "they're turning the frogs trans" would have been more accurate, but would have so
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by Izkata 10mo ago
For an alternate example, in Illinois you choose one at primary election time and only get that one. This year the options are Democrat, Republican, Libertarian, and Non-Partisan (which means only the referendums, not the elections).
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by Izkata 10mo ago
> I'm far more worried that becoming a glorified code reviewer will atrophy those skills A co-worker who went all-in around a year ago admitted a few months ago he's noticed this in himself, and was trying to stop using the co
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by Izkata 10mo ago
Years ago someone tracked this down by looking at interviews Trump has done over the decades, and IIRC it was the 1980s or so when he switched from "is great" to "was great". They put together all the clips they found on
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by Izkata 10mo ago
> This already "exists", go to a label, tick the top checkbox above all the rows, then "Select all 5,192 conversations in 'ThisLabel'", then "Delete". Also works with any search. > "Exists&
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by Izkata 10mo ago
Work laptop on Ubuntu 20.04 with pipewire, I've used several bluetooth headsets over the years from all different brands and haven't had any issues across Google Meet, Zoom, or Teams. Coworkers with wired headphones (also on Ubunt
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by Izkata 10mo ago
The KEYone was 2017 (I had this up until 2023 or so) and the KEY2 was 2018.
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by Izkata 10mo ago
A decade ago there was a Firefox addon called Tile Tabs that could do any number of arbitrary splits. It died along with all the old-style XUL addons.
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by Izkata 10mo ago
Okay; would you like it to change to inline-block or block or grid? Width and height are meaningless for inline elements, but automatically changing the display would be more confusing, not less.
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by Izkata 10mo ago
"I'm creating my own version of something so I don't have to rely on an external source." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Not_invented_here
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by Izkata 10mo ago
> I wish the double colon syntax didn't exist and we'd just use single colons, but as you say, it is what it is Single-colon is a pseudo-class, for targeting elements based on some external state. I learned these as "pseu
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by Izkata 10mo ago
> Well, to be precise, it does exactly what you want for the first week that you have designed it and have not started adding all sorts of other widgets to a site. Such that, inevitably, you just want to have large swaths of text that ar
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by Izkata 10mo ago
> 1. Many early web engines used `display: content-box`. So the padding was actually considered to be outside of the box itself. IIRC this was actually the spec, and IE decided to ignore it and do something saner, while the box-sizing at
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by Izkata 10mo ago
The very earliest versions weren't like that. For example, "healthy at every size" was originally "health at every size" - it was supposed to be encouragement that you are succeeding in improving your health by eati
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by Izkata 10mo ago
> I’m sure I’ve had the experience of being told it’s a duplicate, without resolving my problem. And when that happens you're invited to edit your question with more details so that's clear, to get it reopened.
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by Izkata 10mo ago
Lost was for its first season or two. It just got steadily worse instead of suddenly worse like Game of Thrones .
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by Izkata 10mo ago
> Maybe collectively those "actually the villain is just misunderstood" movies I hear are becoming a thing recently? This trend is a good decade or more old. First one I can think of offhand was the 2013 movie Maleficent .
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by Izkata 10mo ago
Some of them are also just badly written, like The Scarlet Letter - the impression that stuck with me was it took way too long to get to the point, so much so that the second half of the book contained needed context for the first half to
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by Izkata 10mo ago
> I don’t know its English title, but roughly translating the Chinese title back, it’s California Gold. It’s about the son of a miner who dreams of striking it rich; step by step he becomes a wealthy man in California. The story has some
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by Izkata 10mo ago
Iran is already in revolution, started a few days ago.
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by Izkata 10mo ago
> Search “centre a div” in Google Aaand done. Very first result was a blog post showing all the different ways to do it, old and new, without any preamble.
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by Izkata 10mo ago
> That is what OP is saying: HN users, in order to promote their personal politics, are being concerned for a people that don't want and actively reject your concern because they are happy with the outcome. > (b) claiming they kn

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