Kootle

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by Kootle 1mo ago
In Japan they have the abbreviation “NG” (“not good”) that’s often used as the opposite of “OK”. I always liked how, when I worked for a Japanese machine learning company, classifiers would be between “OK” and “NG”. Maybe semantically “okay
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by Kootle 11mo ago
In nix packages (derivations) are so lightweight that your store has tens of thousands of them, many with the same name, or with no meaningful name at all. On the rare occasions that you need to look in the store for a package you’re much m
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by Kootle 3y ago
Best way to deal with the sense of doom imo is to actually use it. You'll find how dumb it really is by itself, and how much of your own judgment/help/editing is still necessary to get anything usable. It might look like magi
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by Kootle 3y ago
more of a comment really
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by Kootle 6y ago
Why would I print my chat window
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by Kootle 6y ago
> As an American, sitting down next to a European on vacation for more than a few minutes is never fun. Once they inevitably ask "Where are you from?", they follow it up with a lecture on American politics before I can even fin
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by Kootle 7y ago
I asked my Japanese colleagues for what the correct way to say 'koin ikko ireru' would be, but none of them thought it sounded funny.
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by Kootle 8y ago
Haskell's type system works because of purity, and purity doesn't generally mesh well with performance-oriented applications like game engines. There are some type-driven approaches to gamedev, like https://github.com&
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by Kootle 9y ago
Have you seen the KOMA-script or memoir latex classes? They are very suited for typesetting books and have great documentation.
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by Kootle 11y ago
The author, some of the comments here and especially the author of the Gizmodo article seem to lament the fact that passwords aren't stronger. I have no idea about whether or not that is justified, but a list of the most common passwor