Tloewald

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by Tloewald 11y ago
Some frameworks let you stand on the shoulders of giants; others are kind of like being stood on by giants. Many of the Javascript frameworks I've seen seen -- especially those written by people who prefer Java to Javascript -- seem to
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by Tloewald 11y ago
That's in part because Apple was the canonical case of a company whose ROMS were stolen by cloners.
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by Tloewald 11y ago
I've been holding off on buying an iPad Pro until I can walk into an Apple Store and buy one _with a stylus_ (last I checked the wait on the stylus was down to 2 weeks). It seems to me that if you want the stylus, you're in the co
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by Tloewald 11y ago
It says "cross-platform" but every screenshot is Windows, the only installation instructions are for Windows, and there's no mention of any other platform except Android, which is not yet supported. Update: Linux seems to be
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by Tloewald 11y ago
Countering the usefulness of free text search of one's notes with "you can do it manually" doesn't even rise to the level of a cheap shot -- it's ridiculous. Which is my point.
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by Tloewald 11y ago
Ah yes, every scientist has beautifully organized paper notes. Of course. Why use word processors? Quill and ink has served us for generations.
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by Tloewald 11y ago
Cheap shots. Speaking as a huge fan of the Newton MP 2000 (which I kept using for years after the Newton was cancelled): 1) You can search your meeting notes. I had four or five years of meeting notes that could be instantly (well, by late
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by Tloewald 11y ago
Self-driving cars don't need to park at a destination. They just find the next rider. Privately owned self-driving cars can drive themselves to a carpark that's arbitrarily inconvenient to get to (which will greatly increase conge
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by Tloewald 11y ago
If you want to level constructive criticism, then set aside language prejudice. Obviously, if you don't like javascript, move on. It's great you like Python. Use a Python framework. You can point out Javascript's warts and we
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by Tloewald 11y ago
I'm confused. I thought that the Beatles' story is ultimately about how clever their rights management was in the end -- supposedly they only sold the rights for records and tapes, and then when CDs became a thing they got to se
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by Tloewald 11y ago
I repeatedly lost data with early Windows CE and Palm devices for similar reasons. The Newton, on the other hand, was persistent even with dead batteries -- I never lost data on a Newton, even the dreadful (and expensive) original Messagepa
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by Tloewald 11y ago
> Even today, we still don't really have this -- you can't stick JavaScript (or a Java applet) in an email and expect the receiver to be able to run it. We did have it -- it was called VBScript in Outlook and it was one of the
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by Tloewald 11y ago
Given that, at least back when I still used the Amiga, the community Amiga Resource Project (ARP) was free, open source, and superior in all respects to Commodore's "official" AmigaDOS, so much so that it was adopted by Commo
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by Tloewald 11y ago
MacinTalk predates the Amiga release (it was released alongside the Mac in 1984, but not officially supported -- it worked fine; Plaintalk became an official component of the Mac in the early 90s and included [terrible] speech recognition).
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by Tloewald 11y ago
It did all the work the way computers do all the work on jet planes today, yet pilots still made a big difference. Neil Armstrong saved Apollo 11 from catastrophe, flying the LEM by the seat of his spacesuit.
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by Tloewald 11y ago
Agreed on all counts and, fundamentally, while the Bell X1 involved using a whole lot of technology that did not exist in the Wright flyer (rocket engine, metal airframe, rigid control surfaces), SpaceX essentially combined modern computers
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by Tloewald 11y ago
Actually for years if you were a registered developer (which cost ~$500/year iirc) you got a monthly CD-ROM and issue of develop magazine (which was very good). The CD-ROMs periodically had archives of pretty much every major stable
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by Tloewald 11y ago
The best thing I got out of Oberon was the Syntax font (which was the default proportional typeface). It's a really nice font (it's essentially a sans serif font with classic details, hints of serifs, and subtly tapered strokes --
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by Tloewald 11y ago
Actually, I'm sure NASA managed that first a long time ago. In fact, didn't they do it on the moon several times? At any rate, John Carmack's Armadillo Aerospace managed it long before Bezos did. But wait, he didn't
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by Tloewald 11y ago
His argument would be correct if the effect size were tiny, i.e. people got as much satisfaction from gaining $102 as from losing $100, but it's a much bigger effect than that. E.g. I will spend half an hour searching for a lost $5 w
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by Tloewald 11y ago
The amount of hydrogen produced is minuscule. The energy released is given by E=mc^2 where m is the difference in mass between the Deuterium and Tritium atoms and the resulting Helium atom and neutron. Even a hydrogen bomb doesn't crea
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by Tloewald 11y ago
Exactly, so you can express intent with the tag ("this is a major heading") and presentation with CSS ("and it's in Times Bold 24px").
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by Tloewald 11y ago
Or October for non-developers. Was that half a year ago? Oh and it only works for apps targeting the latest APIs, which is how many apps?
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by Tloewald 11y ago
Given that the number of users for whom it's "fixed" rounds to 0 (and the proportion of apps targeting the v6 SDK probably also rounds to 0, so even if you are running Marshmallow it won't work for the vast majority of a
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by Tloewald 11y ago
“We’ve figured out how to phrase the driving problem in ways compatible with deep learning,” Hotz says. OK, maybe it's BS, but he's not saying what you say he's saying.
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by Tloewald 11y ago
Are you saying use <div class="heading"> vs <h1> or even <span class="bold"> instead of <b> or <strong>? because if so I disagree. Just on accessibility grounds this is a terrible idea. I al
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by Tloewald 11y ago
One tiny nit -- the plasma is hydrogen which burns to create water, so there's every chance it will come back as rainwater, it's just not terribly concerning.
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by Tloewald 11y ago
PDF Expert and Notability are in the bestseller lists right now. There have been productivity apps in the charts, although they don't dominate.
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by Tloewald 11y ago
Same here. If only it were a brighter shade of blue!
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by Tloewald 11y ago
In the early aughts I wrote a simulation for training infantry to call in artillery strikes. It relied on compasses and maps for exactly these reasons. Another point is that understanding what the automatic tools are doing for you makes you

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