Izkata

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811.
by Izkata 1y ago
Not really a counterexample, that's a holiday, not a regular date.
812.
by Izkata 1y ago
It's more of a "holding it wrong" situation with the datastores used with React, rather than directly with React itself, with updated data being accessed too high in the tree and causing large chunks of the page to be unneces
813.
by Izkata 1y ago
For a really cursed one that breaks your last comment, check out Kazakhstan on the list by country: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_date_formats_by_countr... > Short format: (yyyy.dd.mm) in Kazakh[95][obsolete
814.
by Izkata 1y ago
It's the US short form, matching the word-month order we always use for regular dates: "August 7, 2025". Note the slashes are important, we don't use dots or dashes with this order. That's what GP was getting at.
815.
by Izkata 1y ago
Throttling is a different thing though. Debouncing is waiting until the input has stopped occurring so it can run on the final result, throttling is running immediately on the first input and blocking further input for a short duration.
816.
by Izkata 1y ago
GP is also wrong anyway, CSS Flex is the wrong thing for creating layouts like this. We now have CSS Grid, which is the actual replacement for table-based layouts (which were used more recently than people like to admit because of Flex not
817.
by Izkata 1y ago
They got the right number with the wrong descriptor. It's about 40% obese (and 78% overweight, last I remember).
818.
by Izkata 1y ago
10x sounds nice which is probably why it stuck, but it came from actual research which found the difference was larger than 10x - but also they were measuring between best and worst, not best and average as it's used nowadays. https:&
819.
by Izkata 1y ago
How exactly do people think those of us who are self-taught got started? I was picking apart other peoples' javascript to see how it worked years before I was taught anything about coding in a formal setting.
820.
by Izkata 1y ago
I don't have dyslexia and was taught to read by my parents by sounding out words using regular childrens' books before I started school (so I don't think it was a full-on phonics method, but it definitely wasn't even clo
821.
by Izkata 1y ago
It was the standard greeting in AIM chatrooms too. It was still a novelty to chat with someone unknown from somewhere else in the world, so it was neat to know where they were.
822.
by Izkata 1y ago
> However, at this point, the Soft Dome design has won out with a rather large, flat top that's filled with dots for texture and an easy grip. I've only ever used the original eraser head and the current soft dome, and remember
823.
by Izkata 1y ago
He's talking to people who don't normally pay attention to politics, but are now because of the economic problems they're facing. He's saying once he fixes those problems, they can go back to not paying attention to pol
824.
by Izkata 1y ago
Apologizing to the mob is more likely to backfire: It's seen as an admission of guilt and that they're right to "cancel" the person.
825.
by Izkata 1y ago
I think it's been almost a decade since it started ramping up. Hard to say when its peak was exactly, but I think it's been finally started dropping off a bit in the past year. It's going to take a long time before the fear
826.
by Izkata 1y ago
Uh no, "Free File" is split into two versions and the second option on there, "Free File Fillable Forms", is available to everyone for free without using a third party. I've been using it for years.
827.
by Izkata 1y ago
Pretty sure they are aware, they included the qualifier "a sizeable majority" instead of implying it applied to all.
828.
by Izkata 1y ago
> and found out that one of the nifty features is that it is scriptable, I.e allows programmatically sending keystrokes to a specific pane In case anyone was curious, screen can do this too with the command "stuff" (read it as
829.
by Izkata 1y ago
> Maybe they should change the button to say, "I am a robot"? Long time ago I saw a post where someone running a blog was having trouble keeping spam out of their comments, and eventually had this same idea. The spambots just f
830.
by Izkata 1y ago
> Don't you think the next step is a programming language that isn't even meant to be human readable? Malbolge is a couple of decades old. Apparently the first working "Hello World" was made by a genetic algorithm.
831.
by Izkata 1y ago
Huh, this looks like the same thing I came up with about three years ago. I'd tracked my weight for a long time and only just started tracking calories, then a month or so in wondered if combining the two datasets would result in anyth
832.
by Izkata 1y ago
> Displaying relative time like “1 day ago” is especially foolish. Does that mean between 0s–23:59:59? Or 24:00:00–47:59:59? Or perhaps 24:00:00–6d 23:59:59? > When you have multiple browser tabs open and switch between them, and you
833.
by Izkata 1y ago
> > Adding non-primitive props you get passed into your component to internal dependency arrays is rarely right, because this component has no control over the referential stability of those props. > I think this is wrong? If you m
834.
by Izkata 1y ago
> In many cases it is much better to send requests more frequently, similarly to how a server side rendered website would behave. Instead of fetching 10,000 products, just fetch a page of products. Much faster. Have endpoints for filters
835.
by Izkata 1y ago
Speaking of speed, don't forget when gmail and google maps first came out: With the data copied locally they could separate the UI from server requests for a lot of interactions so a lot of the UI was actually instant and you could ke
836.
by Izkata 1y ago
I remember suggesting it as a jokey promise over a decade ago, but got curious and tried it myself. It also seems just right to me, and is what I've used in all my personal projects ever since.
837.
by Izkata 1y ago
And that was (one of the reasons) why spaces won: alignment always worked. But the new problem is linters and formatters don't understand alignment, so they always want those extra spaces removed, making a mess.
838.
by Izkata 1y ago
There was a post a decade or more ago, I think written with Java, that used variables like "firstname", "lastname", "fullname", and "nickname" in its example, including some functions to convert betwe
839.
by Izkata 1y ago
It's taking the original idea behind Hungarian notation (now called "Apps Hungarian notation" to distinguish from "Systems Hungarian notation" which uses datatype) and moving it into the type system. To keep buildin
840.
by Izkata 1y ago
That you can exclude them? People seem to have forgotten StumbleUpon had a pretty decent configuration page where you had to manually select what topics you were interested in, and that submitting new pages wasn't as simple as just sub

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