Timwi

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by Timwi 2y ago
They are major and numerous enough that I wondered whether they are intentional and part of the strategy.
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by Timwi 2y ago
Anyone remember T_PAAMAYIM_NEKUDOTAYIM?
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by Timwi 2y ago
We're gonna need a bigger rock.
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by Timwi 2y ago
Sounds like an awesome article, but it's unreadable on mobile (cut off on both sides) so I'll have to wait to read it until I get to a PC. Might be worth fixing
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by Timwi 2y ago
Mastodon does not restrict the posting of URLs and it does not look like “the spam folder of a compromised email address” at all.
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by Timwi 2y ago
I looked at the backlinks for a website of mine and none of them actually linked to my site, so I was very confused...
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by Timwi 2y ago
I'm so excited to see that the idea of creating new programming languages is getting more popular. There is definitely a lot of space in which to explore more creativity; we haven't even remotely begun to scratch the surface of wh
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by Timwi 2y ago
Amen! That was my first thought as well when I saw this.
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by Timwi 2y ago
> you should block every single corporate blog out there. That is indeed something I'd want. > This looks like someone's personal list not a serious effort. It is the OP’s personal list and they were completely open about
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by Timwi 2y ago
What makes me skeptical here is that the author claims that fields have a property that is necessary to explain this, and yet physicists have not given that property a name, so he has to invent one (“stiffness”). If the quantity appears in
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by Timwi 2y ago
Thanks for that! That gives me more hope that this hype train is going to die down like the others did.
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by Timwi 2y ago
The article is allowed to use moderate amounts of copyrighted material for illustration and commentary. In the US this is called “fair use”.
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by Timwi 2y ago
I think I understand this perspective somewhat. It's coming from a mindset where it's easier for the author to imagine the end of human civilization than it is to imagine a world without capitalism. They don't really want to
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by Timwi 2y ago
The article only uses the word “correct” twice: once in the context of aspiration (_per_ should not be pronounced as _pher_) and once when talking about the Latin _r_, which is markedly different from English _r_. In the rest of the article
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by Timwi 2y ago
I can see some texts in Sanskrit but I couldn't find any ruby annotations, nor a way to add/suggest any.
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by Timwi 2y ago
I love this mode of reading very much. I think this could be great for any language, not just Latin, and any target language, not just English. The only difficulty is sourcing good texts that are both fun to read and also suitable for langu
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by Timwi 2y ago
Thank you, I was going to point that out myself. To let you not feel alone, I'll be “that guy” with another one: The article talks about “when the dinosaurs roamed the earth”. Even ignoring for a moment that they're still roaming
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by Timwi 2y ago
The article makes a mistake conflating accessibility issues with pedantry. Keyboard navigability isn't just a “nice to have”; it's something that makes the difference between usable and unusable for a minority of users. Now imagin
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by Timwi 2y ago
This sounds like you haven't dealt with much moderately complex code in JavaScript. It sounds like you've never run into a situation where innocuous-looking code like if (isAuthenticated) { ... } behaves strangely a
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by Timwi 2y ago
I really don't see how your comment helps reduce complexity. It seems to me that you're introducing a new concept, “ranges”, just to maintain traditional 1-based ordinals, instead of realizing that when you count from 0, counting
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by Timwi 2y ago
Amen! I wonder how many people have to take long detours around these houses to avoid sensory overload and meltdowns.
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by Timwi 2y ago
What you mean is from a capitalist perspective. Not all software developers are focused on exploiting their users.
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by Timwi 2y ago
I once wrote a sentence with a double “in” in it — it was something like “let's see what state this is in in two weeks’ time” or similar — and at least two people commented thinking that it was wrong and needed an “in” removed...
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by Timwi 2y ago
Not only is “completely” the definition they're quoting from the dictionary, it is also exactly what is exemplified by the examples, so I'm not sure what you mean by “don't fall under it”.
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by Timwi 2y ago
“some math software called Maple”. I still use a version of Maple that I bought in 1998. I found subsequent versions of it much harder to use and I've never found an open-source software that could do what it can do. I don't need
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by Timwi 2y ago
I honestly think that most of the problem arises from the fact that we just culturally start counting at 1 when talking about everyday things. As it stands, we're all used to it that way, and then computers come along and show us that
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by Timwi 2y ago
If you cut up a circle into n slices (maybe you're drawing a diagram on screen), it's vastly more helpful to think of one of the segments as segment 0 because then the start angle of every segment is index*360/n and the two s
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by Timwi 2y ago
That's generally true, but you also have the ability to stop and look closer if you want to. If someone asks you to count the letters in a word, you will stop to look at the letters individually. If you see an unfamiliar word like Soli
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by Timwi 2y ago
Would this imply that humans’ propensity to keep pets is also an association error in the brain?
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by Timwi 2y ago
Doesn't that mean you only get recommended the most popular stuff? If your taste is completely mainstream then I suppose it's fine, but it means it won't find anything for you related to even a mildly niche interest.

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