RobertKerans

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by RobertKerans 5y ago
Because if it's fixed, can, starting with the first character, go through the text adjusting the space between words and letters (carefully and subtly so that optically it doesn't look as if there has been adjustment unless you lo
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by RobertKerans 5y ago
[edit, not quite what GP was referring to, but] At the minute, via [depending on context] a combination of generics/conditional types, unions/literals, type constructors, and [more recently] string templating you can get close i
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by RobertKerans 5y ago
It's got nothing to do commercialisation. It's illegal in well over half the countries in the world, so issues are legal and logistical. And it's going to a bit hard to persuade, say, the UAE that it should be added to the li
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by RobertKerans 5y ago
Due to status, a. there is no huge global demand and b. large-scale global supply of medicinal cannabis is flat out impossible. And I'm not saying that's a good state of affairs, but it can't go on a list of essential medicin
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by RobertKerans 5y ago
Not quite sure what you're trying to say: that applies in similar ways to basically every academic speciality. And what the parent quoted: it's just an observation based on theory, similar historical trends, and his own practice.
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by RobertKerans 5y ago
It can be, and generally is, both (if by "arthouse wankery" you mean design theory).
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by RobertKerans 5y ago
Because design/illustration can be demonstrably meaningful and/or useful and/or informative &c. Whereas this is a nullification: at this point in time [as it reaches a kind of saturation point] it's a mass-produceabl
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by RobertKerans 5y ago
Had it licensed from Linotype since the very early 1980s I think? It's literally one of the reasons for the Helvetica's cachet, Linotype were clever with their licences (Apple, Adobe, Xerox & it's a core postscript font).
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by RobertKerans 5y ago
Oh, sure, not to going to disagree! I don't think it's being sarky to compare the two (although NFTs have slightly different cultural precursors), no offence taken. I also think that in this case many commenters [being human] ha
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by RobertKerans 5y ago
Natural, as in what would commonly be referred to as a real diamond (yes, I realise they're they're chemically and structurally the same). Edit: As I said in another reply, there's nothing illogical about it. If value is plac
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by RobertKerans 5y ago
Nah, I don't think so. + it's not an irrational reaction, can't logic out of it.
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by RobertKerans 5y ago
Well, if you ever want an example of advertising working... (I realise it plays enormously on preexisting traditional cultural notions of value, but still, as mentioned, de Beers did quite the job). I had similar conversations pre-engagemen
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by RobertKerans 5y ago
Apropos of that, Yarn allows use of Prolog to ensure constraints across dependencies
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by RobertKerans 5y ago
Yep, I needed to put together a Webpack build tool chain for React last month & thought it was going to be a bit of a nightmare and it just...wasn't. Tiny bit of fiddling, but generally easy -- that was with a fairly complex setup
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by RobertKerans 5y ago
Tree shaking isn't sorted, so can't currently get an bundle optimised to same extent as you do with Webpack/Rollup et al. It'll come, but not quite there yet.
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by RobertKerans 5y ago
Yes, yes, it is similar, and I maybe didn't get that across as well as I could have. JS is the default (for good reasons!), but IME if we're talking about game engines aimed at beginners that are suitable for getting programming c
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by RobertKerans 5y ago
When you're teaching beginners: what you're talking about won't really make any sense. It's an implementation detail (and a complex one at that). A beginner at basic level, that's "what's a variable",
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by RobertKerans 5y ago
What point are you trying to make? Nowhere in the post does it say the job doesn't pay enough to cover rent. If you are spending a large amount of life employed, it's reasonable to trade off a percentage of the maximum possible re
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by RobertKerans 6y ago
Yes, default environment is the browser, that's a given and that's fine: if you are a beginner, making stuff happen there is easy and rewarding. Everyone has easy access to it [I apologise for being a little snippy here]. I don&#x
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by RobertKerans 6y ago
Great. I have no idea what "global await" means, but anyway, what's Node? [shows them Node] Oh, It's a calculator. Wow. I mean, wow. That's emm, really impressive. [No, it's a runtime environment for JavaScript
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by RobertKerans 6y ago
Yes, but it isn't the core way the language works -- you don't need to approach asynchronicity very early on as you do with JS, and it's not all closures. At some point someone learning Python will have to do something async.
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by RobertKerans 6y ago
I'd take that as a given for 99% of cases. As fibre takes over from piggybacking off copper, IME actual internet issues seem to be pretty rare: [UK and] I haven't noticed that kind of service issue for a few years now, whereas use
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by RobertKerans 6y ago
No. This is drastically missing the point of what The Economist (or almost any media org) is. It isn't trying to be an average from 20000000 other publications, or what an average of readers think, or what had good engagement stats (th
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by RobertKerans 6y ago
> It would just have to reinforce the right patterns and fuzzy connections that lead to success in writing _credible looking articles_ We're probably at a point where we can manufacture shallow fakes of the current writing style,
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by RobertKerans 6y ago
It's not even vaguely similar to a person, so how would that work? ln this example, if you had a hypothetical AI that understood the UK class system + the political system + the press system + the way these interlocking relationships w
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by RobertKerans 6y ago
Ah apologies, I thought it was just a "hoho isn't node_modules big" comment. Yeah, its output: 150Mb seems hyperbole, but afaics it's not far off an order of magnitude larger than a normal React app.
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by RobertKerans 6y ago
Uses Knuth/Liang hyphenation algorithm, which prioritises prevention of incorrect hyphens over perfect output (which is not practical -- dictionary size has to be limited). It's never going to be completely correct, the trade-off
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by RobertKerans 6y ago
No, nothing to do with frontend code, as in auto-generation of application code. There are a vast plethora of tools for generating code that have nothing to do with web frontends: why are they somehow less threatening?
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by RobertKerans 6y ago
I mean we've had these tools for two decades now and yet front-end coding seems fine. There are numerous tools for (eg) mapping UML diagrams to code: I assume you don't feel threatened by those?
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by RobertKerans 6y ago
It's normally slightly larger on average. I get you're joking, but the joke doesn't even make sense. A full build of LLVM + Clang is 15-20Gb, and yet, weirdly, IOS apps are not all that size.

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