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by athenot 6y ago
HyperTalk existed before unicode, however it's conceivable that a modern implementation would return... the number of actual characters in a string. For contrast, JaveScript's .length definitely does not count the number of charac
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by athenot 6y ago
I'm on a "low Google diet" myself as I'm not at all a fan of how my data gets scooped up and resold. That being said, while I disagree with their business practices, I think their information security is one of the best.
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by athenot 6y ago
Right until you open the AppleCD Audio Player… Music apps never followed the UI guidelines. :(
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by athenot 6y ago
The thing is, increasingly I'm catching it returning wrong answers. A few days I was looking up the approximate weight of a cup of flour to do a recipe conversion, and the "helpful answer" was pulled from some random site and
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by athenot 6y ago
A good therapist is a debugger. Debuggers show you a step by step at a low level, but some are better at highlighting "interesting" modes of operation that are not necessarily what we expected. Just like race conditions and those
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by athenot 6y ago
> Which led me to realising that my intellect and conscious part of my mind is probably only in control of 20%-30% of me. That I'm not a fully logically creature and that I needed to come to peace with my body's needs and messa
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by athenot 6y ago
The font helps to reinforce a branding identity. This is why the fries example has a unified face. The copy is also seconday to the brand, which is the first thing the eye sees. Contrast with he curry one where the branding is taking a back
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by athenot 6y ago
I'll add to this thread that I was largely against OKRs, having seen them implemented in the style of "we need a quantitative measurement for success so let's make something up hastily", only to fall prey to Goodhart&#x2
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by athenot 6y ago
At the risk of sounding obvious, it is always a good idea to get labs drawn first and then consider supplements if needed. Blindly taking supplements can cause issues in the opposite direction. Most of us taste our food before deciding wh
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by athenot 6y ago
One of the best pranks I've seen is people getting endorsed for git on LinkedIn, from coworkers who don't think quite so high of them as pretended during office hours.
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by athenot 6y ago
Same at Webex. And yes, coming up with meaningful indicators and objectives is the tricky part. But it's a work of refinement, and over time (with enough persistence), the measurements can converge to cover what really represents the e
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by athenot 6y ago
This feels like I got off a well-travelled freeway and got on the beautiful and quirky back-roads, seeing a whole different side of the web. It's also making me realize how dependent† I've become on search engines. Don't get
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by athenot 6y ago
The point here is to be able to offer suggestion without leaking search intent / keywords to a search engine that happens to use it for ad profiling. But the way Apple is doing it is an uphill battle because without much context, it&#x
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by athenot 6y ago
In this analogy, here's the vintage vinyl version (for those who can understand French): the College de France, free since 1530. Adding some irony to the metaphor, their courses are available online via streaming. https://ww
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by athenot 6y ago
Stay with low power. (Low tension and low intensity.)
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by athenot 6y ago
Off-topic but I was (pleasantly) surprised to see an old-school web page, with its minimal formatting and instant load. Very refreshing!
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by athenot 6y ago
I don't know the specifics and I'm no lawyer but for the amount involved, could Small Claims court be an option? No lawyers involved and if Amazon doesn't send a rep, there can be a default judgement.
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by athenot 6y ago
It's no rumor. Pine trees do acidify the soil, but a pH of 5 (which is typical) is not a problem as there are many other plants that are happy to thrive (and even require) a more acid soil. Blueberries are one such example.
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by athenot 6y ago
I don't know the details of this project—and the UAE's affinity with grand projects certainly warrants a grain of salt—but I've often thought these baby steps could be useful for space exploration. Sure, Mars, the Moon, etc.
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by athenot 6y ago
When I first learned about MySQL replication in 2000, the terminology of Master/Slave seemed really odd and a bit shocking. 20 years later the terminology is still peculiar to me. Even though it's an accurate representation of wha
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by athenot 6y ago
I have several compact fluorescent bulbs each outputting 8,600 lumen. Since the bulbs measure about 10" long, the only fixture I found to work is suspend a bare socket and attach a giant paper lantern. When selecting light, I pay atten
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by athenot 6y ago
Dark mode has 2 main advantages: - Better rendering of hues. This comes in nice for things like syntax coloring, or photo editing. The eye is evaluating a color next to the absence of light, instead of next to washed out light. - Less eye s
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by athenot 6y ago
You are probably being downvoted because of the oft-repeated argument in favor of surveillance of citizens by some form of authority. However it's interesting how flipping that argument around would cause all sorts of discomfort by the
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by athenot 6y ago
Indeed. It might be evidence that there are simply way too many guns in the wild in the US; and that statistically, the likelihood of violent conflict is therefore higher in the US than in other countries.
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by athenot 6y ago
> if you needed protection due to crime coming your way/your family's way... you wouldn't call 911? There is a set of the population for which this is a reality. In time of need, their call for assistance gets met with pre
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by athenot 6y ago
This is why I always come back to Apple's humble Notes app after trying the others. It's simple and dumb enough that it gets out of the way and just lets me write notes on my mac or my phone and everything is quietly synced for of
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by athenot 6y ago
Here a video of it in action. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JQfm6qYADw4
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by athenot 6y ago
> We need some sort of standard for software engineering quality. I contend we need defined SLAs because ultimately that's what matters. Create the software in Visual Basic or Rust, I don't care. But it needs to work. Define SL
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by athenot 6y ago
I did the same, with the EGO line of tools. It's so much more enjoyable to do landscaping tasks without the noise. I recently got the Ryobi riding mower, which is a glorified golf cart (lead-acid batteries) but works really well as a r
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by athenot 6y ago
That would have likely ended in something along these lines: https://www.nytimes.com/2016/03/22/world/europe/boaty-mcboat...

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