Timwi

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by Timwi 1y ago
One gripe I have is that the result of map/filter is always an array. As a result, doing `foo.map(...).filter(...).slice(0, 3)` will run the map and the filter on the entire array even if it has hundreds of entries and I only need th
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by Timwi 1y ago
Well in JS you have to convert to arrays instead. You can't do `document.querySelectorAll(...).map(...)`.
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by Timwi 1y ago
Only 10% of people who use computers have a job with any professional requirements. All of those expert tools are faking their usage statistics and market share research.
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by Timwi 1y ago
Replace “Ubuntu” in your comment with “Windows” and “distro” with “operating system”. (Maybe also “your community” with “the world”.)
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by Timwi 1y ago
I disagree. I don't think LLMs use em-dashes any more than typical professional writing does. It only seems a lot to someone who only reads online chatrooms and social media.
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by Timwi 1y ago
> “I’ve noticed that I have personal quirks. Must be autism. Couldn’t be that everyone has their own personal stuff to deal with.” I would love to live in a society in which everyone is allowed to have personal quirks and their own perso
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by Timwi 1y ago
The TikTok feed is an amalgamation of posts from lots of people who aren't collaborating. The Song of Ice and Fire is a single work by a single author (or so I assume). So it's more like you're reading a single humongous post
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by Timwi 1y ago
I use em dashes in my regular writing — mostly because I consider them good/correct typography — and now I have to contend with being accused of using LLMs or being a bot. I think this societal development is damaging.
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by Timwi 1y ago
I am dismayed by the implication that humans are now no longer able to use certain tropes or rhetorical devices or stylistic choices without immediately being discounted as LLMs and having their entire writing work discredited.
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by Timwi 1y ago
> Why? We got attached to pleasant sounding but made up story. We didn’t question it enough to allow the evidence before our eyes to update our thinking. It bears mentioning that this isn't simply a matter of “everyone was wrong unt
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by Timwi 1y ago
If you think that there are specific resources, you can just post them here. The fact that you didn't, and instead linked to a corporate walled garden, is very suspicious.
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by Timwi 1y ago
What I found most exciting while reading this article was the promise that you can “up and leave” and take your data with you without breaking links, because the links are based on a domain name you control. This is not so in ActivityPub. T
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by Timwi 1y ago
I already have that on and it didn't catch this. It doesn't really seem to catch any pop-ups much.
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by Timwi 1y ago
It's a cool idea but it kind of bothers me that with all this effort, you still only get a boolean worth of information (it was either accessed or not). No clue about who, when, where or why.
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by Timwi 1y ago
That is true, and I did think about that, but the current implementation is more than adequate for my years of playing Kyudosudoku, so I considered it not worth the implementation effort.
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by Timwi 1y ago
Now you missed my point as well. I didn't say it wasn't interesting, and I didn't say anything you said was wrong on a factual level. I said, “Your comment does not contribute to the discussion.” Interesting or not, it's
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by Timwi 1y ago
Please read the other response to the comment before blindly copying it...
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by Timwi 1y ago
> I see that this has got some downvotes, but I'm having trouble figuring out why. If you read this and didn't like it, I'd be very grateful if you let me know what problem(s) you see. Thanks! Sure thing, I'll try. Yo
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by Timwi 1y ago
I do something like this in Kyudosudoku[0] to store the undo history in localStorage, but I took it a few steps further than this author as I was pursuing different goals: * I don't use bit or byte boundaries. If I need to store a fiel
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by Timwi 1y ago
I'm pretty confident it's intended to be read as a portmanteau for “instant satisfaction”. I appreciated the clever wordsmithery and wouldn't jump to the assumption that it shows any kind of lack or failing. But maybe that&#x
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by Timwi 1y ago
Even if I were to make a document editor in SVG, I would still use the <text> element with a font, rather than positioning every character separately or even rendering every letter as a path. That would be incredibly wasteful I think.
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by Timwi 1y ago
> found that in Firefox performance started to degrade beyond a few thousand elements Strange, I've used SVG a lot and I've not seen that kind of performance problem except when overdoing it with the SVG filters (esp. gaussia
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by Timwi 1y ago
> will render notably different in different browsers (and renderers like Batik/Inkscape/SalamanderSVG/etc). I've run into this too, but only with SVG filters, not with basic elements like text, although you do have
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by Timwi 1y ago
There was a 60-hour-long power outage in parts of Berlin, Germany, just 5 days ago. However, to be fair, it only affected like a quarter of the city, and it was caused by an intentional attack (arson) rather than a malfunction.
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by Timwi 1y ago
I didn't mean my suggestion to imply that the DB would be barren of information and you'd have to go to multiple websites to compare products. However, I think the information in the DB, even if provided by the company, should be
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As did Ukraine!
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by Timwi 1y ago
I found my interactions on LiveJournal reasonably nuanced and meaningful while it lasted (2000s/2010s). It technically still exists and hasn't changed much in terms of how it works, but it just seems that all the people I knew bac
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by Timwi 1y ago
> every one of us who attended schools without devices learned to pick up that skill some other way. Everyone? You sure? That has not been my experience at all. (It's also a very bold statement on your part to be speaking for a wh
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Proof by fiat?
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by Timwi 1y ago
> However companies can publish information about their products and services only through the database. Since we're already dreaming, I'd modify this to say companies can publish information about their products and services o

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