MyOutfitIsVague

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by MyOutfitIsVague 1y ago
In an ideal future (read: fantasy), utf-16 gets formally deprecated and trashed, freeing the surrogate sequences and full range for utf-8. Or utf-16 is officially considered a second class citizen, and some code points are simply out of its
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by MyOutfitIsVague 1y ago
The way I envision this working is with something like git filters. Checking out from version control converts it all into text in your preferred formatting, which you then work with as expected. Staging it converts it into the stored rep
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by MyOutfitIsVague 1y ago
That wasn't the argument at all. If I wrote a card game in 3 months, then cloned the repository and used that as a base to implement a different card game, it would be significantly faster with or without LLMs. The argument is that it&
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by MyOutfitIsVague 1y ago
It's not just subsidies, it's also permitting and any other roadblocks they can manage. This isn't just economic or political, it's a weird personal crusade.
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by MyOutfitIsVague 1y ago
You're somewhat mistaken, in that "UTF-32, or UTF-8 for that matter, is perfectly capable of representing [U+D83D U+DE00] as a sequence distinct from [U+1F600]." You're right that the encoding on a raw level is technica
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by MyOutfitIsVague 1y ago
Mostly just zombies and signal handlers. And your software can do it, if it's written with the assumption that it will be pid1, but most non-init software isn't. And rather than write your software to do so, it's easier to j
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by MyOutfitIsVague 1y ago
That's needlessly rude. I just found the sequence of events confusing. If I promise you a cash gift, then some months later demand you to give me something in return for the promised gift, it would be silly to say that I paid absolut
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by MyOutfitIsVague 1y ago
I had seen that, but I don't consider that "paying nothing". That's paying something. I'm also confused how it's a "grant" if it's completely transactional. That's not a string attached, t
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by MyOutfitIsVague 1y ago
> the government made an $8.9 billion investment in Intel common stock, purchasing 433.3 million shares at a price of $20.47 per share, giving it a 10% stake in the company > The United States paid nothing for these Shares, and the Sh
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by MyOutfitIsVague 1y ago
I never have more than one account at a time. I can get addicted to social media, like everybody else, and sometimes I find that I'm wasting way too much time talking on HN (and sometimes having arguments). I also dislike a permanent b
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by MyOutfitIsVague 1y ago
Been here for years (across many different accounts), and this is the first time I've heard of these terms. I am here for programming content, not business.
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by MyOutfitIsVague 1y ago
We're in that era. BitWarden supports them natively, and you can even self-host.
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by MyOutfitIsVague 1y ago
Presumably the tax would be based on some estimated value of the property, and affordability would therefore scale.
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by MyOutfitIsVague 1y ago
Ruby on Rails has a databases.yml that is preprocessed by ERB. I often do something like: field: <%= File.read('/foo/bar').to_json %> Though I have myriad criticisms of YAML, this article's arguments
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by MyOutfitIsVague 1y ago
I don't think they are missing the point, because they're pointing out that the tools are still the most useful for patterns that are extremely widely known and repeated. I use Gemini 2.5 Pro every day for coding, and even that on
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by MyOutfitIsVague 1y ago
Blender doesn't say "start with a cube". Its default "General" scene has a cube. You can add whatever mesh, text, curves, metaballs, grease pencil, volumes, etc you want. As far as workflows go, there are far too
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by MyOutfitIsVague 1y ago
Very many of us are quite critical of all authoritarianism, and don't feel like we've been represented by any presidential administration for our entire lives. Centrist liberalism isn't flashy or popular, though, and it does
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by MyOutfitIsVague 1y ago
The median wage for programmers is about 5x the average minimum wage. You're paid significantly higher than the average programmer.
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by MyOutfitIsVague 1y ago
There's no block scope in Python. The smallest scope is function. Comprehension variables don't leak out, though, which causes some weird situations: >>> s = "abc" >>> [x:=y for y in s]
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by MyOutfitIsVague 1y ago
> Compare with the if statement, where the variable in the expression being tested will necessarily be defined. if False: x = 7 print(x) print(x) ^ NameError: name 'x' is not defined Ruby
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by MyOutfitIsVague 1y ago
Nope, it's more complicated than that: e = 'before' try: x = int('cat') except Exception as e: e2 = e print(e) print(e2) # <- This works! print(e) # <- NameError:
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by MyOutfitIsVague 1y ago
> psychophancy Sycophancy. I don't usually correct misspellings, but this one is pretty unique.
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by MyOutfitIsVague 1y ago
The library should serve the entire community, not a loud minority or even exclusively the majority. If 20% of the community wants LGBTQ books, 30% don't, and 50% don't care, why should the 30% be able to decide that the other 20
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by MyOutfitIsVague 1y ago
Public parks don't turn profits. Public roads don't turn a profit. Food stamp programs and housing assistance don't generate a profit. Public goods can increase efficiency and well-being in a way that indirectly translates
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by MyOutfitIsVague 1y ago
I don't think your understanding is accurate. Their positions are overwhelmingly in support of freedom of information, freedom of speech, privacy, and the public domain. They're opposed to anything that locks down and restricts
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by MyOutfitIsVague 1y ago
I don't care for the current admin nor RFK Jr, but this is a bit disingenuous. Floride toothpaste and floridated drinking water are different things, and RFK hasn't said anything about attacking the former. This jab doesn't
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by MyOutfitIsVague 1y ago
Rust's compilation is slow, but the tooling is just about the best that any programming language has.
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by MyOutfitIsVague 1y ago
I dislike framing art as something unimportant. Art is a vital part of being a human and part of a culture. We've grown accustomed to our culture being commoditized and rented back to us, but that doesn't mean the culture is uni
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by MyOutfitIsVague 1y ago
> The HN crowd dislikes brick-and-mortar landlords but often sides with charging rent for certain bits. Which side will prevail? I don't think that's exactly the case. A lot of the HN crowd is very much against the current ite
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by MyOutfitIsVague 1y ago
nushell does that out of the box: > history | get 82076 ╭─────────────────┬──────────────────╮ │ start_timestamp │ 2025-06-24 16:46 │ │ command │ mpc play │ │ cwd │ /home/work

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