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by brlewis 7y ago
>The underlying problem IMHO is that these frameworks are unwilling to create major breaking changes (since that would hamper marketability) so it's easier to just shove things into the unused edges of the semantics space until they
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Yeah, people back then should have written angry replies to Google's and Facebook's advance warnings about the tracking they were planning on doing. /s
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An example would have gone a long way toward helping people internalize.
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This could really use an example of an invariant that couldn't be elegantly enforced with property descriptors[0] and decorators[1]. Without such an example it's just flamebait. [0] https://developer.mozilla.org/en
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We need a committee to form standards for sarcasm indicator use in various contexts.
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> I have 2 baro altimeters and an old Garmin GPS, but the iPad's GPS is usually more precise to indicate current height above ground I had a boss who was a pilot, and he told me this riddle: Q: How do you measure altitude with a bar
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by brlewis 7y ago
The way email was used when gmail was launched in 2004 meant that the 1GB (at that time) limit would not be reached by normal email users. Large attachments became a thing later. About the initial 1GB limit: https://en.wikipedia.
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> It's unfortunate that this will be used as ammunition for climate skeptics. On the contrary, skeptics' argument that climate science is being suppressed and manipulated just took a heavy blow.
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That may be a side effect of German culture. In Boston, Massachusetts the bike lane in the sidewalk near North Station does not work fine at all, even though it's very clearly marked.
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Thank you for providing those links. In both cases gitlab is partnering with a non-profit organization that AFAICT is not lobbying to pass or repeal laws. I understood "politics" in the context of this article as being about elect
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To be clear, the flat earth theory is wrong, I don't subscribe to it, and yes I'm defending flat-earthers. I reserve the right to defend people I disagree with, and to point out ways that wrong ideas can occasionally translate int
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I use their model of reality all the time when arranging things in my house. Like Newton's formulae it works well in certain contexts, even though Einstein proved Newton wrong.
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> What organization or individual ever in history could claim to have this kind of power over world affairs? If I could find my copy of the book, "The Media Monopoly" I could give you numerous answers.
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> Press releases are preferable because when they tell falsehoods, they can be fact checked in the press. I would question whether social media posts are immune to fact checking, but you didn't post an official press release, so app
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I've done reading where my varying enjoyment of different parts was essentially intermittent rewards.
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As an alternative to the python code in the article, there's this command-line tool: https://linux.die.net/man/1/exiftran
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by brlewis 7y ago
I'm hoping a toolbar along the bottom does not work for your app, because I think the Start menu thing is brilliant. Your users have trouble with the hamburger menu that's common in newer UIs, so give them an older UI!
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> In the past, in the US, capital gains wasn't taxed at all because it was considered double taxation (since the investment was already taxed) The same thing can be said about every tax ever. Every time you tax money as it changes h
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by brlewis 7y ago
Is there reason to think it's aptly named? From 5 years ago, same title: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A_W1VF6Yj4w
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> and if you say "no", they're screwed This is false. If it's ever true, the crime is confined to the perpetrator's mind.
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by brlewis 7y ago
Professional sports have well-defined skills and roles to compete for. Diversity of backgrounds/perspectives/ideas is not as valuable in athletes as it is in an academic community.
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If finding a string involves popping up a modal dialog I can understand navigating by the minimap. Finding a string in emacs is really fast - Ctrl-S, start typing the string, and you're there before you know it. The minibuffer is way b
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by brlewis 7y ago
> Am I the only one that's skeptical of the claim that "300,000 people are reading books this way"? You are not. Instagram is likely set up to count views of a post, not full reads.
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> the idea that you simply don't need to see a file tree is nonsense Have somebody who uses emacs show you sometime how they navigate the file tree. The "modern UI" graphical representation with a little icon for each node
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> the minimap is super useful Is that really something you use all the time? I tried to switch from emacs to vscode in 2017, but in practice the minimap didn't do that much for me. Nor did the graphical file view to the left. The em
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Have you seen a variation on this comment from someone who left gitlab? I'm curious how much people's affinity for remote work depends on the way the company does remote.
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From the article: At GitLab, we don't force you to work from home, if you want to work from an office, we’ll pay for that. You can probably find an office space pretty close by, so you don't have to commute long. A lot of people w
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Subtle changes during scrolling seem way preferable to me than hiding content that, according to standards, should be shown.
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To expand on the CYA reason why blaming causes problems, people who want to avoid blame want to say there's nothing they could have done that would have prevented the incident. In a blameless environment people are more likely to figur
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I'm not Leo, but I'll give my own opinion. Mithril solves all those issues well except animations, where it's just OK. Interestingly, even though the Mithril community seems to be a home to people who dislike JSX, Mithril sup

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