Izkata

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by Izkata 4mo ago
SikuliX was a UI automation tool from over a decade ago with an IDE that looked similar to their screenshots: https://avleonov.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/script_windo... The language was just python
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by Izkata 4mo ago
My judgment is that you were lying in your original comment, to draw attention to one of your unrelated projects. Then I noticed your name.
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...Their name might be descriptive...
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I think Shakespeare might just be a badly chosen set of "classics". Romeo and Juliet is so overdone in pop culture there's nothing interesting there, and the one or two others we had to read were just boring. But then I ran
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by Izkata 4mo ago
The "Form data" section is doing two completely different things, the large one is two different implementations of a React component mixed together while the short one doesn't store "data" anywhere for use later li
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At my highschol, "Honors" classes were the ones that didn't get college credit and "AP" classes allowed you to take a placement test at the end to get college credit.
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Even during that time the writing component was optional. I took it twice, once with and once without.
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I may be wrong about the specific security thing involved, but I know it would have broken ajax requests (probably XMLHTTPRequest, not fetch) to different domains had we not made changes to deal with it. They worked without issues before t
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> If you were a web developer before CORS existed, then you understand that cross-domain requests were forbidden all along They weren't though. We had to adjust in the 2010s so existing code wouldn't break. It was something l
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Looks like that largely affected things loaded by <script> tags, and either it was opt-in or didn't affect XMLHTTPRequest/fetch. The big change where we had to start dealing with cross-origin security didn't happen unt
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Indenting that triggered monospace code formatting, which is preventing those from becoming links.
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Other way around according to what GGP quoted, this would get RAM into the US but not out, reducing prices.
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> Part of growing up is learning to question those childhood ideas and beliefs (misunderstandings) and move past them. Yeah, Santa Claus, the Easter Bunny, and the Tooth Fairy were all a sort of mini rite-of-passage when I was a kid, wit
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> Updating rows of text data is going to be more work, because variable-length text can't be updated in-place. If we're still talking postgres, it doesn't update in-place. Update is implemented as delete+insert (where dele
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> Without that, what’s left? The syntax? I ran a small experiment on co-workers around a decade ago and learned that often enough they don't read code, more like they decipher it. Which all of a sudden the obsession with code linter
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I'd put it even lower than that, since there's also the "understand the problem space" portion outside of the external processes and before writing the code.
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> Are you claiming that a rhotic "er" exists in American English, or that the British particle "er" is distinct from the British particle "erm"? Neither. In Amrican English we're fully pronouncing the
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> which isnt even true as chatgpt has been ~ the 5th most popular site in the world for a couple of years now? That part is kind of their point - it doesn't have the distribution issues your other examples have.
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"Er" is definitely distinct as an interjection, it's usually used instead of "um" to indicate a correction and does sound different.
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by Izkata 5mo ago
Ages ago when writing.com was first modernizing its site, they started by hiding story content to display a spinner, waiting a second or two, then re-displaying the content. It was on the page the whole time, they just made it look like it
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For me it's completely different with the same result: I imagine the scroll wheel is on the paper (screen), so my finger going down rolls the wheel and the bottom of the wheel pushes the paper (screen) under it upwards. For whatever re
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ICE is decades old, so yes.
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Reviewing is a very different mindset than writing it yourself. You don't have all the context you would have built up had you done it, and it's much much more difficult to think through all cases. So I'm thinking: The indiv
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> Classic new relationship energy. It’s such a wonderful feeling. On top of the world. Everything in life glows. But NRE runs out. The word for this is "infatuation", and it is well-studied.
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The first one sounded familiar and I've definitely read the plot summary of this before, but not the book so I don't know if the rest of that description applies: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mote_in_God
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A lot of the common patterns people ping as AI (like "it's not X, it's Y"*) are marketing-speak, of which there's a lot of on the internet. It's applying existing patterns in unusual locations, ignoring the or
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Another example, my parents taught me to read at about 4 years old. When I started kindergarten (the year before 1st grade in the US), the teachers and principal didn't believe I could read and I had to prove it by reading a book to t
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The original comment was unclear whether the fan kept spinning while the furnace was running, or if all it did was bypass the safety and the fan didn't continue to spin while the furnace ran. They clarified in their response it kept s
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Thinking along those lines, a desire to "have children" may have even been bad - no built in stopping point. New child every year, resources overwhelmed...
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> Of course when we switched to GH issues, we largely abandoned JIRA and years later the instance got turned off and deleted. Now all those JIRA tags are entirely useless. We did Bugzilla -> FogBugz -> Jira. Almost all the data wa

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