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by afry1 3y ago
Very cool! This issue of the review includes a very cool submission from a few weeks ago which did pretty well on the front page: https://alex.miller.garden/grid-world/
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Human Beings Are Soon Going to Be Eclipsed(nytimes.com)
3 points by afry1 3y ago|2 comments
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by afry1 3y ago
I don't know about incurious, maybe "extreme". A lot of the tools, techniques, etc. mentioned in the article aren't appropriate for ... well, most websites probably. But they do have their roles to play in large, complic
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by afry1 3y ago
One of my absolute favorite YT coding channels, I will second that recommendation! https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCvjgXvBlbQiydffZU7m1_aw
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by afry1 4y ago
For my emacs friends, here's a wonderful package that provides the same functionality: https://github.com/abo-abo/avy And, if you're interested in some historical context for this "type characters and ju
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by afry1 4y ago
The 2:00 timestamp in this Veritassium video on expertise goes into exactly that phenomenon. We acquire expertise by recognizing the patterns in what we do. But once you take the patterns away, a lot of that "expertise" disappears
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by afry1 4y ago
It's the "sadness of mortal men" as Tolkien put it. So many awesome languages in this world, so little time to learn and use them.
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by afry1 4y ago
I wouldn't be so sure! There are companies which are developing ICE->EV conversion kits which put the price point in a pretty reasonable place. This company has it down to 5000 Euros: https://youtu.be/98mlJ1N50DU Th
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by afry1 4y ago
I wish I could find this post again, but one company had a clever approach to the problem. If you can figure out which countries the cracked software is originating from, you can serve up a version of your page where you offer up a free, un
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by afry1 4y ago
That point you make about syntax highlighting being slow while using eglot/LSP-mode is a great one. I've been a bit underwhelmed with eglot, and I think that must be the reason: it feels like I'm programming in a bowl of oatm
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by afry1 4y ago
Indeed. It feels unsafe to follow the "rules of the road" on a bike because the rules were created for an entirely different kind of vehicle. I think about this a lot when approaching a stoplight or stop sign. For any road user, w
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by afry1 4y ago
Decarbonizing the grid will be much easier if we have less of a "grid" to decarbonize. The article mentions this aspect, if you had cared to read it. Modern buildings can use this lattice to reduce the load on their air conditione
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by afry1 4y ago
I have indeed! This is my first year of using Emacs. Previously I was using VS Code, and before that Atom, and before that Sublime. Two things which have contributed to my success: - The System Crafters YT channel. David has an amazing tut
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by afry1 4y ago
Source here: https://graphics.latimes.com/oil-operations/ The investigative research that brought this up was a big development in proving that they knew on an institutional level that the science was real.
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by afry1 4y ago
The mind boggling thing is that he was the right person at the right time. If some other Republican had been in office, they probably wouldn't have pushed as hard as he did to take action on the issue. And where would we be today if hi
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by afry1 4y ago
What a cynical and unhelpful view. Yes, if a person manages to stop a cycle of recurrent bad behavior that is their fault, they should celebrate that. They've recognized a problematic behavior for what it is, and curbed that behavior,
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by afry1 4y ago
One fact from this saga to boggle the mind: a big reason that the international treaties on ozone-harmful chemicals succeeded was because Ronald Reagan, president at the time, had skin cancer removed from his nose right around the time that
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by afry1 4y ago
Submit the evidence to them! I know some friends who work in dictionaries, and they are more than happy to do revisions on things like earliest printed usage of a word, and people frequently do write in providing exactly that kind of eviden
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by afry1 4y ago
So cool! What a fantastically well presented piece. The simple step-by-step explanations of how to interact with and control the various function inputs left me feeling like I actually knew how to do something with it, which is a far cry fr
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by afry1 4y ago
I'll play the role of the insufferable pedantic here and note that drums absolutely have an element of tone in addition to rythm and volume: the tuning of the drum heads, where you strike with your sticks (edge of the cymbal vs center
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by afry1 4y ago
Eesh.
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by afry1 4y ago
I am astounded by the lack of empathy in what you've written.
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by afry1 5y ago
That part about information being condensed down into a tiny form factor (a smartphone screen) hits hard as a frontend web developer: > The diminutive size of the device’s screen further compacted all forms of information. The instant no
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Map from Scratch(andyfry.co)
2 points by afry1 5y ago|1 comments
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by afry1 5y ago
I find Ramda very easy to read! It's a functional Javascript library based on currying and composition. https://github.com/ramda/ramda/ I find a lot of code fairly alienating to read. Lots of codebases requir
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by afry1 5y ago
In theory, I agree with you, but on the whole, this is a rather elitist viewpoint. The vast majority of the world uses a mobile phone to connect to the internet. While I do agree that web-based editors aren't as good as desktop-based e
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Code Review How To: Clarity and Simplicity(andyfry.co)
1 points by afry1 5y ago|0 comments
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Code Review How To: Brevity and Repetition(andyfry.co)
2 points by afry1 5y ago|0 comments
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Code Review How To: Organization(andyfry.co)
2 points by afry1 5y ago|0 comments
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by afry1 5y ago
It would also reintroduce the problem that medallions were invented to solve: traffic congestion. By restricting the number of taxi drivers on the road via the medallion system, it keeps traffic down and the streets driveable. ... granted,

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