James_K

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by James_K 1y ago
It may genuinely be the case that slower humans are not generally intelligent. But that sounds rather snobbish so it's not an opinion I'd like to express frequently. I think the complaint made by apple is quite logical though and
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by James_K 1y ago
Programming for systems, duh.
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by James_K 1y ago
Every year, it becomes more and more apparent that the philosophy of tech companies is to break or avoid the law and hope you're too big for the government to do something about it.
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by James_K 1y ago
Zero-calorie sugar is on of those things that's just too good to be true. It's either gotta taste awful or give you cancer.
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by James_K 1y ago
Perhaps nested for loops should be some kind of compiler warning.
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by James_K 1y ago
If only there was some sort of mechanism to easily enable talent sharing between the UK and the rest of Europe.
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by James_K 1y ago
I'd assumed the point of them was that you can take the several cars of a tram and split them up to have more frequent services. Though I suppose this would compound with the cost of having a driver on each car, potentially cancelling
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by James_K 1y ago
Which leads to the exact problems defined in this article. Many programs using many library versions. It would be much better from both a security and size perspective if these disparate packages could be served by a single shared object us
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by James_K 1y ago
Put out fewer versions of things. It is entirely possible to write a piece of software and only change the interface of it at rare intervals. The best solution I can think of though would be to allow one version of a package to provide mult
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by James_K 1y ago
Won't the browser still append the "Origin" field to WebSocket requests, allowing servers to reject them?
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by James_K 1y ago
What would be the advantage of that? Killing the animal comes with the risk of being poisoned, and no reward. It's best to just ignore them.
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by James_K 1y ago
Yes. This is what she pointed out in that quote you just gave.
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by James_K 1y ago
She has. It says it in the paper which you chose not to read.
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by James_K 1y ago
Talked about in what way? The text you quote says that error messages "may have negative impacts" on people, which seems undeniably true.
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by James_K 1y ago
These recycling efforts can be quite bad in the long run because they recycle plastic into materials that cannot themselves be recycled. Not sure if that's the case here, but it's something to watch out for.
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by James_K 1y ago
Use of LLMs to program really doesn't make much sense. The very nature of computer software is that it's a small effort from a small number of people that is multiplied out to massive productivity gains for a large number of peopl
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by James_K 1y ago
There is an Emscripten library which cross-compiles things to WASM. The means you can generally just pull in a dependency for font rendering, such as SDL_ttf.
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by James_K 1y ago
There are people who don't know how to program, not necessarily because they are young, but because it hasn't been relevant in their lives yet.
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by James_K 1y ago
I've recently started trying to do a bit of basic game development targeting the web through WASM+OpenGL+SDL, and I must say, I'm shocked with how easy it is. I spent more time fiddling with CMake files than I did trying to the co
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by James_K 1y ago
The image does have LaTeX source as it's alt text, so should be at least somewhat understandable for screen readers.
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by James_K 1y ago
It is rather depressing to be reminded of the scale of cultural shift that needs to take place in order for us to live even somewhat sustainably. I get what the degrowth people are on about, now. It certainly seems that we should do more wi
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by James_K 1y ago
I was expecting it to end up in landfill, so it getting burned was a pleasant surprise.
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by James_K 1y ago
The argument that DNS is too hard doesn't really appeal to me. There are a billion and one WYSIWYG websites that let you register a domain and host some static site on it, all from one convenient web interface. I see loads of adverts a
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by James_K 1y ago
My keyboard fits in my pocket. I never have to deal with using a computer that doesn't have it. And, as a bonus feature, you look like a mega-hacker when you take some hand-soldered circuit-board-looking keyboard out of your pockets wi
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by James_K 1y ago
There are developers whose wrists explode after years of holding down the shift and control keys. I honestly can't recommend a split keyboard enough from an ergonomics perspective. It's even more practical than a regular keyboard.
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by James_K 1y ago
What actually has way more of an impact that that is having the home-row keys set to the modifiers. The best part is that it works even with regular keyboard, you just need to have some kind of hot-key tool running on your computer.
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by James_K 1y ago
I've been doing a similar thing for a while now, but I have a 36-key board. I take a slightly different approach to the one in this article, namely I just have the space key on the left thumb cluster to raise to a layer with the number
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by James_K 1y ago
I don't for a minute believe that walking is a better exercise than running, by any reasonable definition of the word "better". This strikes me as a "surprising health benefits of wine" type article. I suppose it ma
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by James_K 1y ago
The fact that none of these companies want to tell you how much power they're using should be enough to reason that it's utterly horrible. If it were anywhere reasonable, they'd be boasting about how low the number is.
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by James_K 1y ago
Perhaps all this human thought will finally uncover what the question is.

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