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by Zababa 4y ago
I wouldn't call Slate Star Codex complicated, to me it's more like having some of fun along the way instead of being straight to the point like Paul Graham. That fun, to me, keeps me engaged and allows me to read long articles eas
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by Zababa 4y ago
This is basically how I use twitter. I follow a few friends and some stuff I like. I retweet stuff that I like and that I think they might potentially like. They do the same. Add to that some microblogging, and conversations that emerge fro
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by Zababa 4y ago
I wish this kind of warning would come with a link to a website like dobackups.org that would document how to actually do them and test them. Something like a front page with different "profiles" like "Windows user", &qu
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by Zababa 4y ago
i3 and dwm have a system of tabs/tags, which are kind of like virtual desktops/workspaces. The default keybinds are something like windows+0 to see tag 0, windows (called "mod") + 1 to see tag 1, etc. mod + f will make t
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by Zababa 4y ago
> It's not clear to me whether it's one of the _least_ complex languages (there are various warts I'd get rid of if I were in control), but it's certainly not more complex than English Anecdotal, but considering how o
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by Zababa 4y ago
If we're bringing accenting into this (as with ghoti, that uses the "o" from "women"), then syllabaries are far from optimal as well, since Japanese has different ways of accenting each word that are not encoded int
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by Zababa 4y ago
Arms race are not really an issue, you've managed to make your student work, one way or another.
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by Zababa 4y ago
I think that students know they need to be educated, but they also know that grading/academic success, in the form of good grades and going to prestigious universities, matters more than actual knowledge in the real world. And the funn
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by Zababa 4y ago
I like the idea, but I think one issue is that the database is the easy part. If I look again at the list of requirements, most are not about the database but about how to put data from external source in the database, how to edit the datab
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by Zababa 4y ago
> The main source of slowness in modern software is memory access I don't think it is. Memory access patterns matters a lot when you want to squeeze every last bit of performance, or when you want to update old code that was optimiz
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by Zababa 4y ago
> I feel like the UX designers don't pay any attention to the user experience anymore. The worst offender here is android. The clock app especially feels like it's been made intentionally to be terrible. For example, when you d
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by Zababa 4y ago
I don't really understand. From the discussion, it seems that JPEG-XL is better in every way than AVIF. Or maybe just don't add anything if they don't bring much. WebP is already a pain for no real benefit.
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by Zababa 4y ago
A well known problem? An article saying "Some parents have limited knowledge concerning their children's OHRQoL.", a new york times article, a psychology today article and a tvtropes page? This is extremly light evidence. You
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by Zababa 4y ago
They're all waiting for your pull requests.
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by Zababa 4y ago
Why do you assume that writing is made for other people? Or even to be read?
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by Zababa 4y ago
I think the original is more readable. I especially don't like "return thing;" when it could be "thing" instead, as I prefer expressions.
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by Zababa 4y ago
Thanks a lot for the detailed writup, I'm currently investigating similar stuff but didn't really know whereto look, this will help me a lot.
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by Zababa 4y ago
> But if you look closely you'll notice that `zip` and `map` were called directly on an array here and not actually on an iterator. No, I don't think that's true, unless we're talking about two different things. In th
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by Zababa 4y ago
If the goal is to be as compact as possible, I think we could say that a board is read in a very specific order, always the same, that a single bit at 0 is an empty square, and that a bit at 1 starts a block of 4 bits that encode a single p
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by Zababa 4y ago
> Sometimes people will engage in performative angst in comments about companies as a way to signal they are part of the "in-crowd" that totally hates everything corporations have "ruined". These views are not represe
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by Zababa 4y ago
> Projects in C/C++ seem to be making much faster progress eg. SerenityOS than the Rust community. What is holding Rust back in this area? This is a genuine question, not intending to inflame the discussion. I think one element is m
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by Zababa 4y ago
Fun to play with, good job! I wonder if the exact opposite exist: give it a playlist, and it'll give you some kind of description for it. I always have a hard time answering "What kind of music do you listen to?", maybe AI co
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by Zababa 4y ago
> including the uppercased common nouns that refer to specific branding decisions. Some people have sometimes capitalization for common nouns that "seem important" or something like that (I don't know their actual reasonin
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by Zababa 4y ago
The `zip` and `map` functions used here are actually functions of the module std::option, and not std::iter. While they are the same idea "in essence", they have different implementation. The std::option ones are a simple pattern
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by Zababa 4y ago
The first one is very clear, I agree. However if I wrote Rust daily, I would probably be familiar with the second one and would prefer it. Here's an article kind of related to that, in this case talking about APL, that I think explains
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by Zababa 4y ago
Exactly my feelings, altough it would be with Windows 2000 and XP since I wasn't born before. The file explorer, dolphin, is a good example of that, and a pleasure to use.
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by Zababa 4y ago
> Unless you're auditing the source code and building it yourself, you're trusting the developers as much as any other piece of software. The thing is that you probably have to trust someone at some point. Better focus on those
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by Zababa 4y ago
I don't agree with the storytelling being awkward and the characters wooden. I do feel like the novels don't leave much to do after you've finished them, while in some other works you can dig and dig and dig and never stop, b
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by Zababa 4y ago
Focusing on the pizza box seems to be the wrong way of looking at the problem. Since we have insulated bags, pizzas don't spend too much time with the pizza box being the only thing standing between the pizza and the outside. What abou
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by Zababa 4y ago
Silencing of journalists, banning accounts for saying mastodon, for saying anything negative about tesla or criticizing Musk in any way is a net positive to my twitter experience. I'm on twitter because some people that I follow and so

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