Timwi

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by Timwi 2y ago
That's beside the point. Walking/running requires energy and is exhausting. The car provides its own energy, so driving is easy and relaxing. I know which one I'd prefer!
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by Timwi 2y ago
Unfortunately it seems that every online explanation of QR codes always leaves out the Reed-Solomon error code calculation. The author here describes it as “long, tedious, and not very interesting”, but since everyone seems to think that, i
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by Timwi 2y ago
“private companies and/or private individuals making money” is the core and quintessential foundation of capitalism.
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by Timwi 2y ago
The article perpetuates the widespread misconception that dinosaurs are extinct. In reality, (some) dinosaurs survived and evolved into modern birds. Everything from penguins to ostriches, hummingbirds to albatrosses and woodpeckers to eagl
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by Timwi 2y ago
The dinosaurs were not “wiped off”, by which I mean they are not extinct. This is an extremely widespread misconception that popular science articles like this one keep perpetuating. We should do better and help people understand that (some
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by Timwi 2y ago
> As much as I love capitalism, I don't really sympathize with private companies and/or private individuals making money. As much as I love boxing, I don't really sympathize with athletes smashing each other's heads i
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by Timwi 2y ago
Sci-fi is probably in its training set.
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by Timwi 2y ago
If that video really existed and was as shocking as they imply, they would have linked to it.
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by Timwi 2y ago
In terms of the programming paradigm this is not dissimilar to Funciton: https://codeberg.org/Timwi/Funciton https://esolangs.org/wiki/Funciton
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by Timwi 2y ago
While you're conceptually right, in practice I think it bears mentioning that in C# the two syntaxes compile differently. This is because C#’s target platform, the .NET Framework, has always had a function called `string.Format` that l
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by Timwi 2y ago
I doubt that Funciton, in its current form, could be useful in education. It doesn’t embody the most widely used programming paradigm (procedural) but instead is a declarative functional language, which makes any skills obtained by studying
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by Timwi 2y ago
Somebody already mentioned this inside of a thread, but I want to point it out separately: neither the blog post nor the original image mention what counts as a “passing grade”. It's not wild to think that this was very different in 19
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by Timwi 2y ago
Website requires signup.
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by Timwi 2y ago
I invented a programming language where you use Unicode box-drawing characters to draw a structure of boxes and lines: ╓───╖ ║ ! ║ ╙─┬─╜ ┌───╖ ╔═══╗ ┌─────┴───
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by Timwi 2y ago
I would like to see an in-depth treatise explaining why existing bytecode VMs (LLVM, JavaVM and Ecma CLR) were never seriously considered for the world of browsers. These VMs already exist for numerous platforms, have been optimized to deat
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by Timwi 2y ago
Which is ironic because I use Google Sheets a lot and occasionally run into problems when it doesn't support BigInt calculations. Sheets is the best excuse Google has for keeping BigInt support in the language.
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by Timwi 2y ago
Although that's a good call as I hadn't considered that, I still don't see why you want to use a mask. Surely you just need two tiny SVG files and show only one or the other. And since they're tiny, I would absolutely em
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by Timwi 2y ago
Please stop posting websites that show only half the article. Post a full article or none at all.
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by Timwi 2y ago
But that's the thing, if it pops up a plea for ratings (or an ad or anything else unwanted and annoying), then I really, genuinely and honestly DON'T like the app.
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by Timwi 2y ago
What makes me really sad is that you've identified a problem with capitalism but decide to push it onto your customers. It's true that most users won't rate unless asked, but that just means they don't want to and it&#x2
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by Timwi 2y ago
I invented a programming language where you use Unicode box-drawing characters to draw a structure of boxes and lines: ╓───╖ ║ ! ║ ╙─┬─╜ ┌───╖ ╔═══╗ ┌─────┴───
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by Timwi 2y ago
It's already been mentioned that instead of box-shadow perhaps outline is a better choice for the image frame. For the icons, I don't understand why the author believes that they need to have two copies of the icon inside the SVG.
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by Timwi 2y ago
While you're not technically wrong, this is no reason to stop trying to improve the world for everybody.
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by Timwi 2y ago
Yep, that's what happens on mobile when each paragraph is in a <pre> tag of its own.
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by Timwi 2y ago
Thank you. I tried the emoji URL but Fennec on Android doesn't accept it and just runs a web search.
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by Timwi 2y ago
I have two super nitpicky things to say. 1) The website is slightly wide on my phone, so it wiggles left and right when I scroll. I usually fix this by pinch-zooming out the tiny amount necessary to align it to my viewport width, but your w
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by Timwi 2y ago
Yes. Not literally of course, but it can be deleted/decommissioned, which is even more effective than temporary imprisonment (it's equivalent to death penalty but without the moral component obviously).
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by Timwi 2y ago
My apologies. I will provide links next time. For now, my sibling comment will do the trick. Birds are dinosaurs, so dinosaurs are not extinct.
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by Timwi 2y ago
I'm not the OP you're replying to but I think you missed some of their points. 1) multiple outlines: with your strategy, you can no longer edit the shape as a single shape afterwards. 2) varying thickness: it sounds like you'
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by Timwi 2y ago
I would assume you got downvoted because you feel for a particularly implausible myth.

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