ash_091

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by ash_091 11mo ago
MIG is for hobbyists. Real programmers use TIG.
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by ash_091 11mo ago
Is this generally true for laptops / phones? I've often wondered why I can tell by touch whether a device is charging or not from the slight "vibration" sensation I get when gently touching the case.
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by ash_091 1y ago
> we just didn't care. Upper management seemed happy enough This is very relatable. Management want X, engineers recognise X is dumb and deliver something that sorta looks like X, management see something that looks like X and are h
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by ash_091 1y ago
Are we sure this guy isn't trolling us? The advice about theming while using a yellow-on-black blog format, the "dark mode" toggle which makes the whole page black except for a spotlight focused on the mouse cursor... I'
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by ash_091 1y ago
> Close your eyes (not yet! Finish this sentence first) and try to remember what color your color theme uses for class names? Can you? If the answer for both questions is “no”, then your color theme is not functional. I'm sure this
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by ash_091 1y ago
Agreed, I had to check a couple of other pages on his site to make sure it wasn't ironically done for just that particular post.
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by ash_091 1y ago
As someone with no understanding of whatever this field is, it reminds me of the Retro Encabulator https://youtu.be/RXJKdh1KZ0w?si=ARMURmLUqvZZ8kd9
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by ash_091 1y ago
It's a "paperclips" situation. Someone vibe coded this with the prompt "write a webapp which shows the effects of rising sea level as accurately as possible". The AI decided that the way to determine the outcome as
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by ash_091 1y ago
The "thinking & coding" vs "thinking & fixing" graph is interesting. I've found this to be the case recently as I've been trying out Codex. I expected to spend a lot of time fixing the AI's code. W
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by ash_091 1y ago
Come on, HN. Let's not pretend brador is reading our replies. Who could justify the time at $500/hr?
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by ash_091 1y ago
I said "pivot point", as in the center of rotation. All rotations have a pivot point. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pivot_point
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by ash_091 1y ago
Yes. I clarified that "you" meant something different from the usual meaning in the comment you're replying to. Are you making a joke? I feel like I'm being whooshed.
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by ash_091 1y ago
GP is talking about third person perspective games. "You" (the character you're playing) aren't the camera. You are the character the camera points to. The camera is hovering somewhere above/behind the player charac
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by ash_091 1y ago
IIRC Halo had a neat system for setting inversion like this. Instead of asking the player "do you want inversion or not", it instructed the player "look up" and observed their input.
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by ash_091 1y ago
If the lever is on your side of the pivot point, you'd have to invert both horizontal and vertical axes. I don't have any data, but I certainly don't know anyone who plays with both axes inverted (in first person games).
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by ash_091 1y ago
> Or that can cut through bread easily without a serrated edge? Yes. Absolutely. IME a quality sharpened chefs' knife is far better at cutting bread cleanly than a serrated knife, which by contrast will leave a rough edge and loads
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by ash_091 1y ago
I spent a solid ten minutes researching this and couldn't find any suggestion that there's any problem with the title. Could you explain how it's ungrammatical?
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by ash_091 1y ago
I played a lot of DOTA2 in the past and I've often thought that big tech could learn something from Valve's patch notes. Especially in the context of process changes, stuff you should know, etc. Expecting folk to read a series of
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by ash_091 1y ago
Maybe your bowl is bigger than OPs? Those microwavable bags generally contain multiple servings.
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by ash_091 1y ago
I recently went to an aquarium in Exmouth, Western Australia, which had a giant wall mounted display with a tablet which allowed kids (of all ages!) to draw a fish and "release" it into the tank.
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by ash_091 1y ago
Pretty sure Japanese toilets support this use case natively.
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by ash_091 1y ago
A well aimed wind-compensated tshirt cannon.
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by ash_091 1y ago
Are people really running three loads of laundry a day?
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by ash_091 1y ago
I dropped in/out of a series of Comp Sci / Info Tech degrees (due to mental health challenges + undiagnosed ADHD) before getting a job in frontline ISP support in my mid twenties. After I got that job I decided to take a break fro
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by ash_091 1y ago
Terrible in what sense? I had no complaints with my Prius C.
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by ash_091 1y ago
Seems to prove GPs point? There are satellites on a polar orbit, which will cover connections at the poles, but those satellites still cover a lot of non-polar ground. If polar orbiting satellites are still working we'd expect to see i
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by ash_091 1y ago
How is income tax regressive?
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by ash_091 1y ago
In both Australian and American English a billion is 1,000,000,000 (one thousand million).
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by ash_091 1y ago
A friend of mine spent an entire workday figuring out how to ensure he created the millionth ticket in our help desk. Not sure how he cracked it in the end but we had a little team party to celebrate the achievement. This was probably fifte
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by ash_091 1y ago
The comment you're replying to is talking about the need to actually speak a language to learn it fully (as opposed to just reading/writing), which could definitely be fulfilled by talking to a smart fridge. They're not sayin

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