Starlevel004

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by Starlevel004 1y ago
> I believe what is happening is that those images are being drawn by some script-kiddies. If I understand correctly, the website limited everyone to 1 pixel per 30 seconds, so I guess everyone was just scripting Puppeteer/Chromium
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by Starlevel004 1y ago
The code viewer is completely unusable for any file longer than a hundred lines. I have to clone it and browse locally instead. It's been like this for at least a year. Does nobody at GH actually use their own website?
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by Starlevel004 1y ago
Oh cool. I wrote this. 100% hit rate on random posts of mine ending up on HN.
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by Starlevel004 1y ago
It's way easier to do market manipulation if your product is the one fucking things up.
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by Starlevel004 1y ago
Correction: Lots of people like feeling like an asshole. They don't like being called out for it or being wrong.
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by Starlevel004 1y ago
I have a similar typing style, with two finger typing for nearly all keys except shift with uses my little finger. I too am at around 100wpm on average with peaks of ~130wpm depending on keyboard. It's cool to see somebody else out the
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by Starlevel004 1y ago
TfL spends close to 100% of its income on operating costs. It does not get any other money.
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by Starlevel004 1y ago
> Is there something I'm missing? Am I just not using it right? The talk about it makes more sense when you remember most developers are primarily writing CRUD webapps or adware, which is essentially a solved problem already.
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by Starlevel004 1y ago
Kotlin has this, but it's basically only ever used for tests. I've never seen a real world method with a backtick name.
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by Starlevel004 1y ago
> Now we've had two religious popes in a row Aren't they all religious? That seems like a mandatory part of being a pope.
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by Starlevel004 1y ago
It's a lot easier to be less sedentary when your knees aren't carrying 1.5x their rated weight and you don't become 50% sweat by mass after an hour.
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by Starlevel004 1y ago
> Not because Rust is doing anything wrong here, but because the first well-known language to really get some of these things right also happens to be a fairly low-level systems language with manual memory management. It also has half im
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by Starlevel004 1y ago
There's no substance in this post. It goes from "I put it in a decompiler" to "Let's setup a toolchain" to "here's the mod". How did you write the mod?
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by Starlevel004 1y ago
It used to be 12 videos until about a year ago. If you zoom in and out the thumbnails don't change size! The worst casualty of the current design is the search. You get three videos before it inserts completely irrelevant and unrelated
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by Starlevel004 1y ago
The actual problem with this is how to add it without breaking type inference for literal numbers.
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by Starlevel004 1y ago
It's not exactly a secret that the 2000s nintendo console homebrew scene is based on leaked SDKs.
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by Starlevel004 1y ago
I've never had this behavior cause a bug.
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by Starlevel004 1y ago
Truthiness and falsiness is one of my more used features. ``if not collection`` comes up in nearly every project multiple times.
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by Starlevel004 1y ago
If context managers are considered advanced I despair at the code you're writing.
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by Starlevel004 1y ago
> The thing that struck me then, and continues to seem true, is how much they just don't really seem to care and that they singularly focus at being good at innovating where it matters: games and differentiated hardware. Innovating
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by Starlevel004 1y ago
Nintendo's networking is bad no matter what console somehow
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by Starlevel004 1y ago
Well well well, if it isn't the consequences of my own licensing choices.
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by Starlevel004 1y ago
Lifetimes add an impending sense of doom to writing any sort of deeply nested code. You get this deep without writing a lifetime... uh oh, this struct needs a reference, and now you need to add a generic parameter to everything everywhere y
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by Starlevel004 1y ago
It's because ``asyncio`` is a dogwater library that's barely functional and full of footguns. The ecosystem is about the same quality too.
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by Starlevel004 1y ago
Unfortunately the text in the preview shows up in ctrl+f.
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by Starlevel004 2y ago
> It just trails in productivity and income. It's like a comfortable, house paid off retiree with a part time job, mostly living off accumulated wealth and prestige. Britain is a retirement home with a handful of warships attached.
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by Starlevel004 2y ago
"Inheritance tax, is broadly speaking a voluntary levy paid by those who distrust their Heirs more than they dislike the Inland Revenue" - Roy Jenkins MP
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by Starlevel004 2y ago
> It’s not clear from that description how it differs from interface inheritance in OOP. Remember, when people talk about "OOP" what they're actually talking about is Java EE 6.
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by Starlevel004 2y ago
> Personal preferences from the 1800s taken as gospel by grammatical extremists, to the point where they're taken as some kind of solid rule in a vain attempt to forcefully shape language to a personal preference. This is also true
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by Starlevel004 2y ago
I refuse to care about this. A single dash is all I will ever use. I see no possible reason to use the other two.

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