Zarel

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by Zarel 7y ago
Wait, we know what kind of data companies sit on? I've always opted into telemetry because I assumed companies just use it to improve their products. I guess I've never actually been in the inside of a big company, though. Do they
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by Zarel 7y ago
Another poster mentions that you can transfer/spend it in a way that's difficult to recover: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21275859 But even if that wasn't true, you could still compare expected value.
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by Zarel 7y ago
Fair. I switched from MySQL Workbench to Sequel Pro because Workbench didn't support Percona TokuDB, but I missed safe mode (warn before sending queries other than SELECT/EXPLAIN, by having edit/commit be separate steps). So
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by Zarel 7y ago
What do you like about it that makes you prefer it to TablePlus?
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by Zarel 7y ago
Android's Google Keyboard comes with Colemak built-in. iOS requires a third-party keyboard, unfortunately.
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by Zarel 7y ago
This one has a significantly less sensationalized title than the other two, though.
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by Zarel 7y ago
For the record, Chrome is switching to the same content blocking mechanism (declarative blocking) as Safari is currently using. I do personally think this lends some plausibility to Google's assertions that they're doing it for pe
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by Zarel 7y ago
Sequel Pro crashes every time you close it (supposedly 1.2 fixes this, but it's still not released yet), and doesn't support asking for confirmation before committing changes (so a typo can accidentally make an unintended change).
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by Zarel 7y ago
https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=410328... I've been tracking this drag-and-drop bug from five years ago; it's still not fixed. I think most browser manufacturers mostly gave up
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by Zarel 7y ago
Honestly, all my sites are quite accessible and it was pretty easy for me, but I still feel nervous about this ruling. The problem isn't so much "how do I make my site accessible?" but "what counts as accessible in the e
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by Zarel 7y ago
Pokémon Showdown uses a two-column layout on desktop, where you can drag panels between the columns: https://play.pokemonshowdown.com/ I don't have a good sense of whether or not users actually like it, though.
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by Zarel 7y ago
Yeah, like I said, a lot of the difference seems to be that yours is a Precision 5820 and Gizmodo's is a Precision 7920. Understanding the reason for the price difference there is probably pretty relevant to this.
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by Zarel 7y ago
No, while this is sometimes used for private properties/methods, TypeScript never used it. TypeScript's private properties/methods are just compile-time errors, they're still public in the generated code.
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by Zarel 7y ago
If all you're doing on catch is forwarding to `console.error`, you could just write: // code Outputting errors to console is the default behavior.
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by Zarel 7y ago
When Gizmodo tried, the Dell they built cost $8000: https://www.gizmodo.com.au/2019/06/is-the-new-mac-pro-hands-... If I were to guess the reason for the difference, I'd notice: - Your Dell has a SATA SSD, th
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by Zarel 7y ago
I don't think that specific part fucks over Facebook; Facebook doesn't sell data (it sells ads based on the data, which, having skimmed the law, it doesn't seem to cover).
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by Zarel 7y ago
I really like dependent types as a concept! But they're not really in any mainstream languages, so I haven't had much opportunity to play around with them. :(
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by Zarel 7y ago
Their initial explanation is bounds checking specifically. While most abstractions are zero-cost, bounds checking isn't. I do wish there were a way to track expectations about integer ranges in a type system, but there currently aren&#
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by Zarel 7y ago
Weirdly enough, I had an easy "Mark as spam" button on iCal as well as in Google Calendar. I never needed to turn off the auto-event feature because it went away when I marked one as spam. I wonder if you got a different type of s
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by Zarel 7y ago
If _all_ he had said was that he had made a conscious decision to go retro, well, a lot of people _are_ responding to that. "It's possible to go retro without looking bad" is a common sentiment in this thread. But more import
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by Zarel 7y ago
I don't think that's quite as marginal of an opinion as you think. If someone is vegetarian/vegan for ethical reasons, it's because they want there to be fewer factory farms. This would of course mean that the animals th
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by Zarel 7y ago
Don't have any substantial amount of important data between 0.45 and 0.55? The biggest tree is in that range! How is that not low-contrast detail in the mid-range? https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-H-1I69V29VM/XVWeDrO7EPI
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by Zarel 7y ago
I'm not sure which test image you're talking about. This one seems to have low-contrast detail everywhere in the data range: https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-H-1I69V29VM/XVWeDrO7EPI/AAAAAAAAE... https:/&
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by Zarel 7y ago
The lightness plots midway through Google's blog post are made with CIECAM02-UCS, which is the same color space Matplotlib's video talked about using. It looks like Turbo is just Jet, but plotted in CIECAM02-UCS (instead of Jet&#x
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by Zarel 7y ago
The question, when you see something seemingly very dumb, is always "what am I missing?" It seems unlikely that well-funded scientists are _that_ stupid. It's more likely either that we're missing some reason why solar r
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by Zarel 7y ago
I personally like XML a lot for rich text (I like HTML better than TeX) and layout (like in JSX for React), and it's not horrible if you want a readable representation for a tree, but I can't imagine using it for any other purpose
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by Zarel 7y ago
I didn't say it was a _good_ reason, or that all companies make it hard for people to repair their products. I'm just saying that if a company _does_ make it hard to repair their products, and you sat in on the meeting where that
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by Zarel 7y ago
I'm pretty sure those are because they dislike it when people who aren't their employees repair them, because they dislike getting blamed when someone else messes up a repair job and blames them for it. It's the same reason m
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by Zarel 7y ago
Chrome does have guest profiles: Click your user icon, and there'll be an "Open Guest Window" button. > "You’re browsing as a Guest" > "Pages you view in this window won’t appear in the browser history an
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by Zarel 7y ago
That's weird. In my experience, products advertising "made using recycled materials" tend to be more expensive than without (with the exception of aluminum, which tends not to be advertised as recycled at all). Are there cost

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