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by catapart 11mo ago
> It’s like we’ve chosen to ignore the truth in favor of a good story or a good feeling. Aww, man. I've got some bad news for you about literally any fact you know that isn't derived from math. And even that is still, philosoph
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by catapart 11mo ago
lol It's hilarious that you seem to think that what you suggested is tantamount to what I suggested. You also don't seem to have actually worked with the government or requested any information via foia requests, based on your des
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by catapart 11mo ago
Sorry it seems naive to you. But if someone is going into business with me (a part of the public), I expect to be able to see EVERYTHING that business has communicated with "the public" (which includes me). Like the other commente
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by catapart 11mo ago
re: your edit - My downvote was to indicate that I reject your implication that there are legitimate reasons to keep his communications with government officials private. "Government" is, in most instances, replaceable with "
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by catapart 11mo ago
The thing I love most about the "why am I not just saying the boring, clumsy thing I'm actually thinking, instead of assuming everyone already understands it" rabbit hole is that once you actually commit to it, everything bec
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by catapart 11mo ago
Hey, take it easy! It's not nice to pick on those poor developers who can only read text that has been piped into their preferred TUI.
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by catapart 11mo ago
Literally just started building a game engine with .NET 9, so naturally there's an update within a week. -_- Seems like a good update, though! And I'm glad it's early enough that updating the framework probably shouldn't
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by catapart 1y ago
Oh, cool! I never used it past simple single-person filing, so it's good to know that it's still solid for more complicated situations.
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by catapart 1y ago
If anyone's interested, the CashApp tax prep section (kind of its own app, but its contained within the CashApp app) is a feature they have purchased from CreditKarma when CreditKarma got bought out by Intuit (turbotax pricks). So I ha
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by catapart 1y ago
Any interest in honorable mentions? I've got a (pretty basic) kanban-style taskboard manager app clocking in at just under 715kb.[0] When I finish the project and switch to using the minified code, I think I'd still be a hair over
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by catapart 1y ago
lol
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by catapart 1y ago
Right on. Buy a car with a heavier motor, then. I took this out to the shop floor yesterday and asked the guys what they could do with 10 fewer pounds in the leafs we have around, and believe me - I'm so much less excited about being v
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by catapart 1y ago
No, it's literally - by the discussion partner's own estimation[0] - cutting the motor size in half. That's not a tiny improvement, it's a half-weight reduction for the motor. It's not as big as I naively estimated
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by catapart 1y ago
Oh, sweet! This is an awesome-looking app! The tree-view of the discussion subjects or threads is pretty inspired. I really like that idea, especially as a way to moderate a thread that is purely managerial, rather than punitive or rewardin
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by catapart 1y ago
My last remaining social media account was with bluesky and when many of their visible employees took the opportunity to belittle and dismiss their community with that "waffles" horseshit, a month or so back, I dropped off of that
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by catapart 1y ago
10 lbs per motor in an aircraft is huge. And the fact that they can do it WITHOUT having to use more expensive materials or manufacturing or amenities is the thing that is huge about it . It's a fair take on your responses because t
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by catapart 1y ago
You're missing the forest for the trees. Dropping 10 lbs per motor is HUGE. Dropping 30 is amazing. Whatever is dropped, it's significant. Pretend that it isn't all you want, but anyone doing production work knows how importa
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by catapart 1y ago
I'm not reading anyone's marketing material. If you want to dispute the shipping weight, feel free to correct this website whom I assume charges for shipping based on weight [0]. I'm sure they'd love to know they have it
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by catapart 1y ago
It drops a buck fifty per motor . That IS a game changer. It can make cars cheaper, or longer range, or faster, or any number of other designs based on what the manufacturer is looking for. But to OP's point about flight - stacking 6
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by catapart 1y ago
Just like any other modern app: first you make it work using frameworks. Then, as soon as the "Core" product is done - just a few more features - then we'll circle back around to ripping out those bloated frameworks for somet
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by catapart 1y ago
Good UX is not about reducing complexity, nor is it about hiding complexity. It's about surfacing the exact utility a user needs in the exact context they are best suited to understand each of its inputs entirely (with the least fricti
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by catapart 1y ago
yes, really. If you think what I'm describing cannot enter text into a cli, you are thinking about what I am describing wrong. There's nothing you can put onto a command line with a keyboard that cannot be put there by an app usin
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by catapart 1y ago
Anything you can do in a terminal can be done with what I suggested because what I suggested was literally using buttons to write a terminal command.
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by catapart 1y ago
Yeeeep. My response to this article is the same one I have to anyone out here screaming "it's so easy to just do it my way!": if it's so easy, then do it for me! The ffmpeg fans are the loudest screechers I've found
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by catapart 1y ago
Just fyi: the writing style is a meme. I think it's following the "just use html"[0] format (though, that may be its own riff on the meme). Not to detract from you point; just to say that the author is probably not as angry a
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by catapart 1y ago
I was unsatisfied with the discussion of transparency. You mention to "jump to png", but I just scrolled to the heading and it tells me why jpg is better, in some cases, than png, not how to satisfy turning a png with transparency
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by catapart 1y ago
I can't figure out why people who write articles like this seem to be oblivious to the very practical argument about the US second amendment that goes along the lines of "guns don't kill people, people do". To everyone w
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by catapart 1y ago
Oh, awesome! Yeah, that's a great introduction. Seems like it introduces a new abstraction that allows a single mesh to be mapped to much smaller groups of vertices so you can take advantage of BVHs and stuff like that on a more granul
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by catapart 1y ago
This sounds pretty cool, but can anyone dumb this down for me? Mesh shaders are good because they are more efficient than the general purpose triangle shaders? Or is this something else entirely?
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by catapart 1y ago
I actually don't think you are wrong, but I'm not backing that up with any actual data. I happened to know it because of how the hyperHTML micro-library works; the author went into great detail about it and a ton of other topics.

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