MrJohz

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by MrJohz 3y ago
> If you can get into Harvard, you're supposed to be an A student. This seems to presuppose that the grading system is universal across all universities - i.e. that we would expect the vast majority of Harvard students to get an A,
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by MrJohz 3y ago
This is pretty common in education, at least in the teacher circles I've known. I know in Germany, they talk about the "Anforderungsbereiche", or requirement levels, where the first level is being able to repeat facts, do cal
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by MrJohz 3y ago
They are also typically browser-specific extensions that were never cross-platform in the first place, features added based on proposals that were not in the end accepted (such as the Object.observe/unobserve API), or features from the
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by MrJohz 3y ago
That post feels... very 2006, and it may be worth revisiting CSS with fresher eyes, because almost none of that seems to true to me any more. Cross-browser compatibility is very rarely an issue that I actually run into any more; flexbox a
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by MrJohz 3y ago
I interpreted that line to be two separate clauses: firstly, a note that the statement that the correct generalisation for for loops is iterators, which were introduced in Alphard; secondly, an unrelated point about how the C-style generali
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by MrJohz 3y ago
My partner and I tried that this year, the Berlin to Brussels route, with mixed results. It definitely works, we got to our destination on time and we were mostly happy with the result. However: * We booked a sleeping compartment, but then
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by MrJohz 3y ago
All programming languages - all computers even - have very clear rules. The complexity in software development usually has less to do with getting a computer to understand its own rules, and more to do with the boundaries between humans and
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by MrJohz 3y ago
The article makes some interesting points, although I suspect the main thrust that boardgame play has a complex set of in-world and out-of-world goals is not especially controversial amongst the hobby. Indeed, expand the definition of board
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by MrJohz 3y ago
This is the fundamental limitation of the current built-in API, and the reason that Temporal is necessary: a Date object has no concept of timezones, and there is no way to inject that into it. It can kind of comprehend that UTC exists, and
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by MrJohz 3y ago
I'm not really sure this is the case, and I think most people who say this haven't tried Tailwind out in anger. Tailwind is really just a DSL over CSS. Which means you need to know and understand CSS to write it. The syntax is per
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by MrJohz 3y ago
To a certain extent yes, but really no. Tailwind is basically just a DSL for CSS. You write these Tailwind classes like "pl-4" or "items-center" and the compiler converts these into real CSS like "padding-left: 16px
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by MrJohz 3y ago
Fwiw, the only video of hers that I remember watching is the economics one because of the discussion it sparked, but I didn't get the impression there that she was communicating her ignorance or bias well at all. Rather, she made a bun
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by MrJohz 3y ago
I assume that the Svelte 5 output is smaller because more stuff is being handled internally by signals, rather than the compiled output. Does that mean that the shared "runtime" code is larger, or have you just managed to shrink e
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by MrJohz 3y ago
I think the main thing is the existence of alternatives. Svelte is cool, but it has the key flaw that the more Svelte you write, the more compiled code appears - generally, Svelte compiles to a size somewhat larger than the original source
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by MrJohz 3y ago
Well the important part for me is what confidence levels I have, which is why I wrote the rest of the comment about why I try to distinguish between my opinions and my facts. But yeah, when I'm reading things, I take them with a grai
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by MrJohz 3y ago
I find that tends not to be true, although this may be a cultural thing. When people say "A is B", what I find they usually mean is "I think that A is B, but I have not questioned this opinion particularly strongly and do not
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by MrJohz 3y ago
It's almost identical to vanilla DOM, though, which does use className and htmlFor. I'm not sure that the compilation aspect is relevant - pretty much all modern frameworks using a template language have a compilation step. ngFor
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by MrJohz 3y ago
I really like the idea of a framework designed from first principles around the idea of islands and progressive enhancement. That said, this feels like a lot of potential misleading marketing. Firstly, I don't think the comparisons wit
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by MrJohz 3y ago
That's pretty much the whole point of the data ownership concept in the EU, though - force these companies to tell you exactly what they're using, and exactly how they're using it. I don't really think there's a fea
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by MrJohz 3y ago
Virtual scrolling is a very common technique for rendering large tables or lists in HTML (and pretty much any other environment), and is by no means unique to iOS...
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by MrJohz 3y ago
*simpler -> similar, I can't edit the comment any more unfortunately.
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by MrJohz 3y ago
I was going to write a simpler comment but referencing uFuzzy instead! It's one of my favourite fuzzy search tools, but possibly even better than uFuzzy itself is the fuzzy search comparison tool they built. When I have a project that
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by MrJohz 3y ago
I remember The Secret Life of Bletchley Park by Sinclair McKay being very interesting, and that was my first real introduction to Bletchley Park.
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by MrJohz 3y ago
Boys tend to be more active and do more sports, which causes a bit of a virtuous cycle where because they're more active, they get better at things like sport than girls simply because they're practicing. Girls raised with brother
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by MrJohz 3y ago
I think React is always going to be a big hitter. Someone else mentioned jQuery - I don't think that's the perfect comparison, because part of what made jQuery kind of obsolete is that the browser APIs improved to the point where
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by MrJohz 3y ago
Unless you've changed the URL, neither Rust nor any other mark appears to be in either the domain name or a subdomain. The term "rust" appears in the path, but that has never been an issue. I have my reservations about these
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by MrJohz 3y ago
That is a very unusual definition of worker co-ops.
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Coops also use banks and can have investors.
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That's true of conventional businesses too, though. It's not like banks hand out loans to anyone who walks in off the street with grandma's best bolognese recipe.
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by MrJohz 3y ago
And yet evidentially, they aren't so very fragile. Clearly there's something about coops that make them viable businesses, even if that goes against our intuition for what viable businesses ought to look like. I think part of it i

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