SeanDav

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by SeanDav 1y ago
Teams / Slack etc allow instant code snippet sharing. As far as syntax highlighting goes - 5 seconds after someone receives your code snippet they can copy and paste into their own editor. No need to install YAVSCE (Yet another VS Code
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by SeanDav 1y ago
>> "ChadGPT" There actually is a ChadGPT but I assume the OP meant ChatGPT
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by SeanDav 1y ago
Thereby proving that Coke Bottle and BIC pens are meeting a need. They are not perfect (what is) but they are good enough to sell billions upon billions of product. Pretty hard to argue against overwhelming success.
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by SeanDav 1y ago
100 Billion sales means there are some things to like ...
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by SeanDav 6y ago
Phone games are largely a nightmarish morass of ads-to-progress and pay-to-win.
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by SeanDav 6y ago
This is small potatoes. When the UK government really puts its mind to it, it can screw up far more royally: How about 10 - 12 billion GBP (depending on who you ask) for a National Health Service computer system that never worked and was n
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by SeanDav 6y ago
Not sure I agree. Most coding is maintenance. Far better to adapt to whatever the coding style convention is. I also believe that formatters should be "light-touch" and not have an opinion about every last thing. At that point I s
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by SeanDav 6y ago
> "DDG Privacy Essentials does a simple object property lookup based on the request domain, an operation that is practically instantaneous" This sounds interesting. A bit of searching is not providing much enlightenment - any
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by SeanDav 6y ago
You are fine. New people with low karma are most at risk. Once you are a little established, you have to do something very upsetting to get shadowbanned, or be consistently unpleasant. Once established, a few controversial posts with negati
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by SeanDav 6y ago
Looks like a kind mod un-shadowbanned you. Welcome to the land of the living!
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by SeanDav 6y ago
Parents "lie" to their kids about things like Santa because they remember the magical world that was created for them from their own childhoods, before the reality of a world with no Santa, murder, disease, death etc intruded on t
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by SeanDav 6y ago
> "That or he will feel tricked and betrayed and wonder what other things in his reality were crafted for him by his parents." Don't agree at all. Do you feel betrayed that Santa is not real or there is no such thing as
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by SeanDav 6y ago
Brilliant. Bookmarked. Of course some of the choices are personal opinion as to how good they are - especially items like UI Designers, but still good to have the choices in the first place.
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by SeanDav 6y ago
You seem to be disagreeing with the OP about how to explain Monads, yet the link provided by the OP is referred to as a "non-explanation". It is true that Monads are a pain point in Haskell. They are extremely powerful but not eas
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by SeanDav 6y ago
Awesome! Thanks so much for this! I will take a look just as soon as I can.
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by SeanDav 6y ago
> "I did find some download links for various things labeled as "borland sidekick", but I'm going to guess you've been down this road already" Thanks for your efforts! Yes I did go down that route, but not
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by SeanDav 6y ago
While on the subject of old games, does anyone have access to a working version of "Vogon Poetry"? This was a shoot-em-up game bundled with Sidekick Plus. https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/business/1
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by SeanDav 6y ago
Seems like an obvious business model. Sell OTC drugs at fractions of current prices and still make a large profit... What is the catch?
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by SeanDav 6y ago
Interestingly, there is this article in the same publication: "Core progress in AI has stalled in some fields" https://science.sciencemag.org/content/368/6494/927
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by SeanDav 6y ago
The Reuleaux triangle is for some measurements (for example material used), more optimal than a circle, while still able to roll smoothly. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reuleaux_triangle
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by SeanDav 6y ago
It is probably just me, but I have noticed a marked drop in rank for Stack Overflow links in search results, even on programming-type questions. If in fact this is more of a general trend and not my little bubble, then I wonder if this is c
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by SeanDav 6y ago
As a fully paid up member of the tab collectors club, I mourn the demise of Tab Mix Plus. Not found anything which beats it, although some of the tree-style tab solutions are not bad.
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by SeanDav 6y ago
https://psmag.com/magazine/a-year-in-the-heart-of-the-addict... https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/to-your-health/wp/2016/1... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ru
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by SeanDav 6y ago
Another tool for difficult-to-scrape sites is OCR. There are a few decent free/opensource options available: https://source.opennews.org/articles/so-many-ocr-options/
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by SeanDav 6y ago
I can't go on any revolving fairground attraction or use VR for more than a few seconds or I get nauseous and generally feel unwell and disorientated. This feeling can last days in extreme cases (more from an intense fairground ride th
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by SeanDav 6y ago
> "... the way you look up or look down when you're trying to recall how you solved a particular problem" Are you talking about NLP here?
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by SeanDav 7y ago
The article appears to end prematurely - last item I see is "Start Slowly"
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by SeanDav 7y ago
Fantastic. I especially liked the speed of light button. One of the interesting things I originally missed because I eventually used the shortcut buttons was this gem (from the source code): > "If the proton of a hydrogen atom was
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by SeanDav 7y ago
> Imagine half the plasma in your body moving to your digestive tract the second you eat something Actually this is not too far from what really happens soon after you eat a big meal. The blood flow to the stomach-related arteries grea
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by SeanDav 7y ago
> I would counter with the fact that in physical endeavors it's apparent to us that we are not #1 - our household cats are more agile than us. Not in the case of our household cat. He isn't called TheBlob for nothing (out of

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