Timwi

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by Timwi 1y ago
Both your link, and the “Live Demo” link in the GitHub readme, are dead links.
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by Timwi 1y ago
Indeed! I was disinclined to even look at this project because it said ASCII when the box-drawing characters are obviously a lot more suitable. It should say “text-only” or “plain-text” or similar instead.
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I'm with you on #2, but even more than that, I'd rather live in a world in which detrimental laws are easier to change/fix...
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The article didn't even bother to provide the Japanese characters (kanji) for the supposed meaning of “Satoshi Nakamoto”, much less any breakdown of how it's supposed to mean that. This is screaming conspiracy theory so hard.
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by Timwi 1y ago
Aw man, no mention of Funciton :) [0] I believe I understand where the designer is coming from. Traditional languages use a 1D syntax to express a structure that is really not 1D (the parse tree). However, I don't think it's reall
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by Timwi 1y ago
When I “blast” a website design, it's for practical reasons, not because I dislike the design. Since I mostly read HN on my phone, every website that is slow, laggy or unreadable on mobile just stands out negatively.
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Flat roofs are good for greenery and solar panels.
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by Timwi 1y ago
OK so if I understand you right, you're implying that it's only “technically” illegal but it won't be enforced?
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by Timwi 1y ago
Wow, this is terrible and dangerous advice. There are multiple laws that prohibit this, some of which are in place to protect people from danger (such as the high voltages involved or the possible risk of injury to yourself or others) while
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by Timwi 1y ago
Unfortunately you left out the fact that despite his good intentions, it's illegal, and he would have been arrested if caught.
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by Timwi 1y ago
Hi! Looks like I expressed myself very ambiguously here. Sorry about that. I am not a Rust evangelist. I've never written any code in it and barely know its features on a theoretical level. I have also not dissed on anyone's decis
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by Timwi 1y ago
> Pick your own variant of example where a seemingly-malign action is actually benign in the long term. Parents like to believe that all of their seemingly-malignant actions towards their children are actually that. In reality, they on
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by Timwi 1y ago
I have a theory that what we need to reduce conflict in the future is not more speed of communication but more fidelity. At present we can only communicate in spoken or written human language, and this language is not just imprecise and a
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by Timwi 1y ago
> their algorithm is basically as good as it gets in terms of showing you what you want to watch and getting you hooked on it It is? Are we talking about the same YouTube? I get absolutely useless recommendations, I get un-hooked within
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by Timwi 1y ago
I wonder that too. Are they saying that objects with integer-looking keys are serialized as JSON arrays?? Surely not...?
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by Timwi 1y ago
No, the purposes of asm.js versus 'use strict' are completely different and in conflict with one another.
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by Timwi 1y ago
ASM.js and 'use strict' have completely different purposes. One is a performance thing and is (or was supposed to be) used as a compiler target. The other is all about making the programmer’s life easier by disabling features that
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by Timwi 1y ago
I am indeed tired of JS; however, I'm not a fan of PHP either. I like the new pipe syntax as a concept, but when added to an already uncomfortable overall programming environment, it can only provide mild relief.
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by Timwi 1y ago
Readability (and hence, maintainability) is definitely a factor in decisions like this. In the particular case of the pipe operator though, the article does mention something it lets you do that you couldn't do before: in a context whe
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by Timwi 1y ago
The section where the article mentions function composition implies that it doesn't. The article says that compositing the functions before passing them into map would be an optimization. I take that to mean that without the compositio
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by Timwi 1y ago
Nit-pick: Windows 95, actually. The vertical taskbar was an option in its very first version.
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by Timwi 1y ago
I did, and I do genuinely find your project (and approach) commendable! I'm sorry I didn't say that because of the focus of my comment. I was merely responding to the kind of language you used to describe it. You call it the langu
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by Timwi 1y ago
Correct. Since the dawn of radio, people have speculated that every new communication technology will “revolutionize education” and it never has. It boggles my mind how long that can keep happening before people consider that the problem mi
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by Timwi 1y ago
None of those are anything like Discord. Mastodon and email aren't even realtime and don't have a voice chat. When I asked for an alternative, I was asking for a suitable substitute for how Discord is actually used. Until the open
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by Timwi 1y ago
Mandarin written in pinyin comes to mind as another example. Do you discount that because pinyin is not the primary writing system used for that language?
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by Timwi 1y ago
“Old growth forest” is incorrect in any formulation of English grammar that I'm familiar with. It's not about fixed phrases. It's about using an adjective+noun pair (in this case, old+growth) as an adjective modifying another
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by Timwi 1y ago
You're getting way too strung up on the specific example of cleaning toilets. You know what job vastly more people will want to do? Installing and maintaining a self-cleaning toilet. Bang, massive benefit to the local community. Focus
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I did actually watch a friend compile and run it, and we tried it on a couple of simple web pages and were impressed with the results! However, there are two barriers to me building it myself and submitting PRs. The first is that it's
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I like your naive guess. Mine was that it's indexes into the input string and the skipped indexes are expected to be spaces. Edit: another naive guess is that the numbers are actually in base-9 (to achieve the notational advantage you
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by Timwi 1y ago
> what would be the biggest life lesson (in coding, or anything general) Pursue what interests you and what fires up your passion, not what grown-ups tell you is “lucrative”, “prestigious”, “profitable” or somesuch.

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