Izkata

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by Izkata 2mo ago
The halo effect: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halo_effect I was gonna say "this is decades old", it's over a century old.
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by Izkata 2mo ago
For most of my life I thought no apostrophe was always wrong, since that's how you do both contractions and possessives in general with a name or noun. For some reason all throughout school people would say "it's" as a p
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by Izkata 2mo ago
> let alone keep remembering it for years. This one for me. I have my own viewpoints and when elections come around I look up the candidates to see who best matches, then once the election is over forget pretty quickly. Unless politics i
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by Izkata 2mo ago
I think some people are talking past each other because programmer/programming means different things to different people.
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by Izkata 2mo ago
Sometime in the past 10-20 years there was a prestige shift where people started using the term "developer" for what you're describing as "programmer", relegating "programmer" to what you're describin
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by Izkata 2mo ago
Those aren't the only two options. Like GP I don't like f-strings, but there was something introduced before that: the format function. "The thing is {foo}, and also {foo} again".format(foo=x+y) It also supports p
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by Izkata 2mo ago
Same with ublock origin on firefox, been years since I've seen any ads. There was a period where they tried to break through the blocking and occasionally I'd see one, but it kinda seems like they gave up.
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by Izkata 2mo ago
Heatmap of the past year: https://isgithubcooked.com/ It got worse around April/May this year, while that graph stops at February.
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by Izkata 2mo ago
> because a small group of hateful fucks pretended it meant something else. That was a 4chan op designed to make leftists overreact and look stupid. There were also like a dozen other common hand signals with similar contrived meanings,
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by Izkata 2mo ago
See this other top-level comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49207498 The github page links to web.archive.org, the malware was caught immediately, and in response it lied about the merge request contents. Then
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by Izkata 2mo ago
"Developer" became popular to mean all three to distinguish from "programmer", only the first one.
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by Izkata 2mo ago
The original site is long gone, but the image still exists at similar URLs. Though from the description on KnowYourMeme, apparently no one has duplicated the original site, so there's a second image that has been forgotten.
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by Izkata 2mo ago
The whole point of the 2025 one is that they found the self-reporting to be significantly inflated, which is why self-reported surveys like this one are hard to trust.
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by Izkata 2mo ago
> Or reducing meeting load. Well, I expect when you've vibed too much and lost track of the code, and can't answer questions in meetings anymore, you'll stop getting invited to them.
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by Izkata 2mo ago
Aww, looks like the magnetometer web API was abandoned: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Magnetomete...
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by Izkata 2mo ago
Translations? Not far enough, got to include rotations: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Device_orie... (And yes, CSS can rotate around all three axes, so you could make a div that resis
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by Izkata 3mo ago
A woman's DNA match to a dead baby from before she was born led to the arrest of her grandmother: https://www.cnn.com/2024/12/12/us/baby-garnet-cold-case-mich...
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by Izkata 3mo ago
To repeat their last two sentences: > Even before LLMs we were aware if it: we knew people moving to managerial/PM roles eventually get their coding skills rusted. Well, now we are all in those managerial roles...
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by Izkata 3mo ago
I think visual mode has existed as long as vim existed, and vi was what didn't have it. When I first started at my company, we did all work on shared VMs, and the system vimrc had that "mouse" setting enabled. Something an em
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by Izkata 3mo ago
> Then you have people that start using AI as their guiding light, with every question on how to live and interact with others going though the AI. And even people replacing human relationships with AI. We don't know the full costs
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by Izkata 3mo ago
The Whispering Earring might be closer: https://croissanthology.com/earring
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by Izkata 3mo ago
It was already a thing two years ago: https://www.reddit.com/r/CuratedTumblr/comments/1dn81b5/ai_a...
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by Izkata 3mo ago
It's a simplification of the original icons which both looked like and were called menu icons/buttons, so it makes some sense if you were around long enough: https://www.theregister.com/on-prem/2010/07&#x
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by Izkata 3mo ago
Here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49114450
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by Izkata 3mo ago
And Network pages which you were automatically included in based on your .edu domain, designed to facilitate real-world activities at that location.
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by Izkata 3mo ago
> There are practically no town squares. In the mid-2000s, my hometown decided to build a town square. They put it at the edge of town next to the train station, where it would look nice for commuters but not where people lived so it was
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by Izkata 3mo ago
> Conclusion! I will give them one positive though: They didn't actually label it "conclusion". That's always been a signal to me that someone doesn't know how to tie their thoughts together and is just blindly f
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by Izkata 3mo ago
> It took 17,600 actions, tested many paths that failed, switched channels when they were blocked, and repeatedly returned to earlier leads. Something I've been thinking for a few weeks, that I think is becoming clearer, is we'
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by Izkata 3mo ago
> quality is an event that occurs before you mind has differentiated yourself from the thing subject/object you're admiring - and in that moment, quality arises from the care you give it. there must exists energy and care towar
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by Izkata 3mo ago
Apparently Firefox needs to add an API for it first: https://github.com/tridactyl/tridactyl/issues/5349

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