KPGv2

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by KPGv2 3mo ago
I think Uncle Bob worship by OOP adherents is crazy, but I also think dismissing him this way is also crazy. His work on popularizing methods for writing good OOP is solid. But at the end of the day, he's a guy with a long career in pr
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by KPGv2 3mo ago
> "Focus on debugging your application rather than debugging your programming language knowledge" This sounds like it's made by someone who fears discovering they don't know something more than discovering they made a
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by KPGv2 3mo ago
> However this kind of statement was not released for crypto, or for the Internet. Those were massively impactful technologies. How has crypto been massively impactful?
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by KPGv2 3mo ago
> Department of War n.b., it's the Department of Defense, just like the Kennedy Center doesn't have Trump's name attached, and the large body of water by Texas is the Gulf of Mexico.
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by KPGv2 3mo ago
Thanks for the encouragement. I'm knee-deep in writing three novel-length fanfictions when I'm not being a stay-at-home parent to three young children. One day, though, I'm sure I'll get around to it.
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by KPGv2 3mo ago
It's also infinitely more error-prone. All form-based heuristics are horrible for detecting AI because the one thing AI is damn near perfect at is writing like an actual human. It's the thing it was trained to do. The entire dec
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by KPGv2 3mo ago
This is generally the way it's always been. As evidence, observe the plethora of guides like Strunk & White for the entirety of the 20th century. This time period not only included the moon landing, but also the final decades of th
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by KPGv2 3mo ago
I'm going to write my response using vernacular English so as to avoid AI claims, so pardon my French. > We're experiencing broad scale changes in the sentiment of style in written English. Lol no we're not. The only peopl
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by KPGv2 3mo ago
Is you citation meant to imply that the people who want to improve bureaucracies are motivated by the fact they're evil?
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by KPGv2 3mo ago
WebKit is a rendering engine, not a browser. It's a bit like saying "that isn't original art because you used Earth physics that govern how paint flows and dries.
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by KPGv2 3mo ago
> Imagine if they made Gimp good, I have a vague recollection that twenty years ago GIMP paid some designers to come up with a great UI, but once the design was ready, GIMP was like "nah we don't like that" and kept their
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by KPGv2 3mo ago
Yes, I remember fumblefutzign around in 2000 or 2001, and I can't believe its current state. I'm a writer, not an artist, so I doubt I'll ever get back into it, but I'm so happy to see where it's at.
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by KPGv2 3mo ago
I like https://hardcover.app and the team behind it is really responsive to the community
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by KPGv2 3mo ago
You're shifting goalposts or misunderstanding the discussion. Up the comment chain, the conversation is specifically centered around "the end of humanity." As in, extinction. You're driving at changes to how we live. C
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by KPGv2 4mo ago
> if (!user.email.includes("@")) return false I know this was't meant to be rock solid code, but I still thought it was a great example of why you shouldn't bother validating an email ever by looking at its constructi
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by KPGv2 4mo ago
I have one because I am a professional with a job and don't have time to mess around with Linux on my laptop when I'm not getting paid. That leaves Windows and macOS. I haven't had a good Windows experience since XP.
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by KPGv2 4mo ago
Yeah, and there are kids pooping in litterboxes in Texas schools! /s I would never trust media covering youth trends. It's a bunch of 50yos whose teenager told them something as a joke and they took it seriously. See also: latest
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by KPGv2 4mo ago
> Swiping from random directions achieves different things (and how would you even know you can?) Cultural context, the same way you'd know tapping on an icon opens an app.
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by KPGv2 4mo ago
Nit pick: "nit pick" means to remove tiny bugs from hair, which this is not. Oh, language changes and now "nit pick" means "to make trivial criticisms" even though neither "nit" nor "pick" e
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by KPGv2 4mo ago
Counterpoint: -copter is a perfectly cromulent suffix. https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/-copter gyrocopter, helicopter, quadcopter, hexacopter, octocopter, parcelcopter, and—most famously— roflcopter, https://
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by KPGv2 4mo ago
> AI is and always has been a winner-take-all strategy AGI sure. But I don't think we're going to get there in our lifetimes, if ever. There are too many structural and physical limitations. One everyone seems to be catching on
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by KPGv2 4mo ago
I don't think it's nitpicking. I think it goes to the heart of the issue: people saying "stuff I didn't use when I was a kid is BAD." The term "technology" is just being used as a veil to hide the lack of
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by KPGv2 4mo ago
"back in my day, kids listened to their elders" > all the technology added since has resulted in no discernible improvement in educational results. I would say it's because it's used stupidly (also I'd take a Mil
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by KPGv2 4mo ago
Right. I'm taking personal offense to someone using "leather shoes" so inaccurately. :)
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by KPGv2 4mo ago
I feel like everyone is reading "leather shoe" and interpreting it as "dress shoe," but tennis shoes/trainers are usually leather, too. Sandals, moccasins, etc. Leather is a material. My ON running shoes are leather
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by KPGv2 4mo ago
None of these things are true about the material. They're all true of poorly-made shoes. Also that's a very broad category. "Leather shoes." That's like nearly every dress and athletic shoe that exists. IT's
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by KPGv2 4mo ago
> I'd ban all technology in the classroom. What works is chalkboard and chalk, pencil and paper. You've prohibited technology and then listed four technologies. "Technology" needs a more concrete definition. Calculato
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by KPGv2 4mo ago
Where is this possible? In the US, it is impossible. Non-profit's do not have owners, so they cannot be sold or changed to for-profit ones, so there are only two ways for a non-profit to "turn into" a for-profit: * sell non-p
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by KPGv2 4mo ago
It's not short-sighted. It's a recognition of time being a finite resource. One can't know everything. Perhaps I should've said "this only matters to Albanians because everyone else has significantly more pressing m
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by KPGv2 4mo ago
Those are all open web standards, though. Flash was a proprietary platform. I can't even run Flash stuff anymore because it was proprietary.

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