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by Pxtl 3y ago
I've seen tools that work like this - Microsoft's earlier kicks at entity framework tried to do it for SQL table block diagrams. They would constantly get out-of-sync as merges happened and were generally a pain to manage. I&#x27
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by Pxtl 3y ago
Either way, regardless of whether it's easier - the software world is driven by the power of plain text. Text is king. Text lets you diff, lets you git, lets you pull-request, lets you grep, etc. Look at the popularity of Markdown, a
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by Pxtl 3y ago
Azure DevOps has some of this, it has "pushes". You view the history of a PR per-push, so developers can commit early and often. Still many of the same problems occur. Fundamentally, I think the git emperor has no clothes. Manag
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by Pxtl 3y ago
Isn't range a big factor here? Like, the shortest-ranged brand-name electric kickscooters have a range of like 15 miles, while that's the most you can get out the longest-ranged onewheels. It seems like it'd be possible to o
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by Pxtl 3y ago
"if you don't like me wasting electricity you should institute a carbon tax" is the free-market equivalent to leftists who shout "this happens because we don't abolish capitalism and decommodify housing". The t
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by Pxtl 3y ago
That seems like the best option. Adding a motor to a longboard is just enhancing a known proven quantity. It won't have the maneuverability of a onewheel or the all-terrain ability, but longboards are definitely a proven vehicle for
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by Pxtl 3y ago
When Bitcoin's simplicity means wasting vast amounts of fossil-fuel-powered compute for proof of work, that simplicity is apocalyptically bad. I'm not into crypto currency but I respect Ethereum for trying to move forwards and sol
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by Pxtl 3y ago
What's the life-expectancy of a 79-year-old survivor of colon cancer and pancreatic cancer (which also had to be removed from her lungs)?
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by Pxtl 3y ago
There were people quietly pressuring RBG to retire back in 2013, when the Democrats had a fragile majority in the senate and knew they might not get another chance to keep that seat. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09&#x2F
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by Pxtl 3y ago
Yup. She had an incredible career but her legacy will be about overstaying as a Senator far beyond her time.
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by Pxtl 3y ago
"just" is definitely a 4-letter word here, but yes, I think I'll be getting him a new one and putting LineageOS on the thing to play with.
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by Pxtl 3y ago
It's the WSJ. I'm old enough to remember when they shifted from being the stewards of the economy into a mouthpiece for the Bush side of the Republican party. Any opportunity to dunk on the Democrats will not be missed.
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by Pxtl 3y ago
Yes, but as counterargument: there are battle-tested compression formats that offer pretty-damned-good compression. If anything, this shows some questions of calculus when it comes to risk-vs-reward of embracing new standards for compressi
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by Pxtl 3y ago
Is there any site that shows what phones are still getting security updates? I'm worried that this will be the thing that makes me retire my son's old Moto G... 5 I think? It's probably out of security updates. Which kills
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by Pxtl 3y ago
> I randomly was checking on Fandom's wikipedia page and noticed: "On October 3, 2022, Fandom acquired GameSpot, Metacritic, TV Guide, GameFAQs, Giant Bomb, Cord Cutters News, and Comic Vine from Red Ventures." Enshittific
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by Pxtl 3y ago
Whoa, I had no idea (obviously). Note, that article is out of date, instead of the G icon, now it's a four-square icon. I don't know why they're not just using a standard hamburger icon, but whatever.
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by Pxtl 3y ago
I mean even if you are going to make a self-hosted site for this, like, there's software you can use where you're not using raw html. I use a static site generator that takes markdown. I don't find markdown too hard to writ
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by Pxtl 3y ago
It's actually gotten better since the clipboard key is in autocomplete bar in gboard now. If you have something in clipboard: 1. Place your cursor 2. Yes, I know you fat-fingered the exact position. Drag on spacebar to slide the curso
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by Pxtl 3y ago
In gboard we've already got modal stuff for numerical keypad, emojis, special characters (2 different modal pages), etc. Adding one more modal keyboard page for cursor-editing (arrow keys, ctrl-arrow-keys, home/end, pgup/godo
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by Pxtl 3y ago
> insufficient local storage My phone has 128gb. How is that not enough for photo editing?
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by Pxtl 3y ago
This wouldn't even be hard to fix. Give me a modal button on the keyboard for cursor mode, like how we've the numerical keyboard mode. When pressed, shows arrow-keys, ctrl-arrow-keys, pageup/pagedown, home/end, a delete
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by Pxtl 3y ago
XML syntax is bad, but yaml doesn't have a proper blessed batteries-included built-in schema language afaik. A well formed XML with an xmlns will have validation and autocomplete in a good editor thanks to this. JSON can do it too. N
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by Pxtl 3y ago
They share a lot of code. My understanding is that it was an MS project first, but I might have that backwards. > GitHub Workflows execute on runners. The runner code is essentially a fork of the Azure Pipelines code, so it's very
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by Pxtl 3y ago
Fun fact: Microsoft had a plan to provide that! They canned it. https://github.com/microsoft/azure-pipelines-agent/pull/2687...
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by Pxtl 3y ago
I mean GH Actions is basically a re-brand of Microsoft's "Azure Pipelines". As somebody who used all previous incarnations of TFS/VSTS/AzDO build and release pipelines: they are not good at this . This is not a te
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by Pxtl 3y ago
I mean if it's confined to geothermal vents I'd think bugs would be the absolute outside limit for most complicated life, and realistically it's probably prokaryotic life if anything. That would still be mindblowing, and also
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by Pxtl 3y ago
Yes. I like the NestedText approach, but I do feel like it needs an official optional "blessed" schema description language for type validation, instead of "here's a dozen ways to do NestedText validation in python"
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by Pxtl 3y ago
Yaml convinced me that dynamically typed config & interchange formats are a bad idea. Statically typed schema eliminate the ambiguity and so you get to have your legibility cake and eat your consistence cake too.
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by Pxtl 3y ago
It looks cool as hell (I particularly love the springy demo I'm a sucker for spring physics in GUIs) but isn't usable in Android Firefox. The drag function doesn't work at all.
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by Pxtl 3y ago
Also, I'd wager that you could get something closer to a circle with a naive bezier implementation than with a naive raster implementation, as long as you were willing to spend as much resources on storing curve nodes as you would on r

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