Timwi

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by Timwi 4mo ago
That's a lot of assertions with no real argument to back it up.
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by Timwi 4mo ago
I read it too in school. I thought it was super obscure!
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by Timwi 4mo ago
It looks like that has been fixed in the article. Good catch!
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by Timwi 4mo ago
I'm confused by that analogy. Is the “ruler” a 255-inch ruler with 256 points labeled 0–255, or is it a 256-inch ruler with 256 1-inch segments, making L = 256×1?
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by Timwi 4mo ago
> No one cared about accessibility of anything. I'm not dunking on your whole argument, but as for this specific point: as someone who finds the mouse difficult to use and requires the keyboard a lot, the web definitely used to be a
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by Timwi 4mo ago
> He claims that dickovers aren't as bad as the dickbars, but I think they're equal. Just for the record, the author says the exact opposite. Doesn't change your point though.
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by Timwi 4mo ago
I'm out of the loop, what's going on with Substack and nazis?
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by Timwi 4mo ago
I'll be honest, I never quite understood the fascination with daily games that Wordle seems to have sparked. I'll grant that it's probably better than being stuck in algorithmic feeds, but the retention strategies, such as st
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by Timwi 4mo ago
The product? No clue, haven't tried it, not interested. The website? Yeah. Huge unfounded assumptions, nauseating marketing speech, manipulative messaging... the whole shebang. Why did you make it? Does this make you money somehow?
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by Timwi 4mo ago
I agree, but only because YouTube is a wild west of trash, not because children somehow don't deserve to be entertained. I think that distinction should be made. Instead of focusing on barring children from the bad stuff, it might be w
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by Timwi 4mo ago
When someone uses AI to make a video, they either have nefarious purposes (such as scamming) in mind or they don't. That's not a matter of your opinion. It's not hard to picture someone making a video with innocuous intent to
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by Timwi 4mo ago
> But when we assess a machine, we do know everything about it based on its actions. This is obviously false. Every developer has had hour-long debugging sessions to track down a mysterious behavior. Sometimes entire teams are stumped by
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by Timwi 4mo ago
I'm confused. The whole point of the post, as stated in the title, is to nitpick that one movie scene. Why does the inclusion of one specific nitpick bother you when it's completely on-topic?
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by Timwi 4mo ago
I’ll quickly create a GUI interface using Visual Basic to track the killer’s IP address.
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by Timwi 4mo ago
I did. ... Now what?
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by Timwi 4mo ago
> Companies aren't doing anything unusual or evil. You literally just described an evil behavior. It's obviously not evil when you're shopping for gadgets, but if you think that's morally comparable to the livelihoods
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by Timwi 4mo ago
Yeah, they're all taking a gamble and hoping that they, not their peers, will be the lucky ones with the breakthrough.
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by Timwi 4mo ago
I'm not big on law, can someone explain how an Illinois law like this would apply to a company that isn't in Illinois?
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by Timwi 4mo ago
> Like, why can't my sync function await something asynchronous? It can in C# (just call .Result). I'm not sure why other async/await languages, like JS, don't just add that too.
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by Timwi 4mo ago
Edited because I didn't realize how old the article is. Almost everything the article says about C# is wrong: > Sync functions are just called, async ones need an await. No they don't. An async method can be called like any oth
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by Timwi 5mo ago
If due to some technical glitch someone's timestamp is just off by a minute or something, I wouldn't exactly call that “bad behavior” that warrants banning someone, but it does mess with ordering in a chat application...
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by Timwi 5mo ago
Yup, it really is.
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by Timwi 5mo ago
Wild theory: maybe it's because in order to stay focused, passionate and dedicated to a project, you have to have a passionate mind dedicated to a narrower viewpoint. The more open-minded you are, the more likely you accept that detrac
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by Timwi 5mo ago
> Are you suggesting such works should have been paid 7$ just once by one person? No, I think people should just be paid a livable UBI and not have to worry about proving their worth to you to be allowed to live.
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by Timwi 5mo ago
> “This might be a bit wild, but I wanted to see if it could actually work.” That is how esoteric programming languages start.
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by Timwi 5mo ago
> Coding is just one of the task[s] you do in your job But it's by far the most fun part and the only reason to take such a job...
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by Timwi 5mo ago
The statement is valid C#, which has left-to-right execution order and no undefined behavior. The answer is 5 + 7 = 12.
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by Timwi 5mo ago
The Start Menu integrated search would have been real nice if it worked properly, but unfortunately they decided on some kind of “search” algorithm that can't even do a substring match on items in the Start Menu. I have no clue what th
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by Timwi 5mo ago
I'd argue that if you remove the clause you still have the same issue. The problem statement says, “so that there is no square not under their attack”, which in my reading includes the squares occupied by the pieces, and a piece cannot
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by Timwi 5mo ago
> Despite many clones I've never found one that really captured the feel and fun of the original. Not trying to be contrarian, but for factual correctness I'm going to point out that Scorched Earth is a clone of an earlier game

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