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by cfiggers 3y ago
People overuse and overgeneralize the term "trauma" for sure. But it might be helpful to see real actual trauma as only one item in the larger set of "stuff from your past that impacts/has influence on you today, that yo
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by cfiggers 3y ago
Sure, and I agree. But also, CNET has gotten more attention because of this stunt than anything else in the last decade because people WON'T STOP TALKING ABOUT IT. So while this technique probably won't help anyone else the same w
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by cfiggers 3y ago
This blog post is only half of the way to the more valuable and broadly applicable abstraction that is available here, which is about prioritization in general. It goes like this: It's far more actionable (and therefore higher value) t
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by cfiggers 3y ago
I like this. In a way, a program is a paragraph-length name for something.
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by cfiggers 3y ago
I made an edit or two to my original comment, so just to make sure you see it: Your "Bookmark" button conveys very clearly what it is for and what it will do when I click on it. "Bookmark" is a verb and "Bookmarked&
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by cfiggers 3y ago
Some initial impressions: - I really like the flowchart arrangement. Great idea for a top-level organization scheme! I like the way things branch out but then come back together for regularly spaced "Check points". - Everything se
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by cfiggers 3y ago
It's 2023! There's no reason we can't assume gender-neutrality of previously-gendered terms. Maybe the parent commenter finds Prashanth Chandrasekar absolutely smoking hot (despite his seeming incompetence).
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by cfiggers 3y ago
I have seen systems that use frames/screen captures as input (look up sentdex' GTA series on YouTube for an example) but that isn't what's happening here. In this case, it looks like the `dist` function is directly acces
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by cfiggers 3y ago
It looks like the `dist` function is directly accessing key game values by reading bytes out of the emulator's memory in order to "see" the current game state. This is explained a bit under the "Distance" section.
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by cfiggers 3y ago
Hey Ray! Thank you for raylib. I'm learning a ton just from working with it/watching others use it (shout out Tsoding on Twitch—did you see he's been calling raylib from Fortran recently?). Not to impose upon you with a techn
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by cfiggers 3y ago
Yep, that was the turn-off for me too. I only use Twitter and Facebook in a browser, even on mobile—I noticed serious battery life improvements upon uninstalling the Facebook app in particular.
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by cfiggers 3y ago
Assuming you're well aware of something like a shared Google Doc and you need something a little more fully featured... For "easily shared" it's hard to beat Notion. They have a really good mobile experience and the abi
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by cfiggers 3y ago
+1 for Hy. I'm a lowly systems analyst at ${large_employer}. We're allowed to have Python for data analysis and RPA, but I really prefer the syntax, editor tooling, and REPL-driven development style of Lisp. Hy has been great!
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by cfiggers 3y ago
I'm not familiar with running ClojureScript on Node.js, so I can't give a confident answer. :)
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by cfiggers 3y ago
I learned it mostly just by reading through the official documentation[0], but also by looking at code examples in the test suite of the compiler itself at janet-lang/janet[1], the official contrib library at janet-lang/spork[2],
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by cfiggers 3y ago
I started out with Clojure, but recently have been really enjoying Janet.[0] Janet is a tiny (the entire language, core library, interpreter, assembler, and compiler are all < 1 MB combined), some-batteries-included, embeddable Lisp impl
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by cfiggers 3y ago
That definitely seems like a way to address at least this one part of what seems to bother people about omnipresent technological observation of everyone everywhere all the time, yes. :)
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by cfiggers 3y ago
There's an objective asymmetry to it. The person who has a flawless recording of what happened has options that the person who has a lossy recording of what happened (i.e. the one in their head) does not have. If everyone is on the sam
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by cfiggers 3y ago
That's exactly what I do too. 'SELECT * FROM', then write the rest of the query, then double back and replace the * at the end. Is it ideal? No. But it's muscle memory now, so... ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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by cfiggers 3y ago
AFAIU, "list" has a specific technical meaning when used by someone complaining about Clojure not having them. It has to do with the implementation details, not just the semantics of how they're used. Clojure has "sequen
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by cfiggers 3y ago
Re: snaking down the highways—I'm not an electrician, but my understanding is that transporting electricity over distance is costly. First, because you have to run and long-term maintain additional wire, which isn't free, but seco
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by cfiggers 3y ago
Just to play devil's advocate for fun... what follows is not a sincerely held position on my part, just enjoying the dialogue— I don't want a lion to eat me. But I don't have a moral complaint against the lion for wanting t
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by cfiggers 3y ago
It's literally cable all over again. How did we let this happen?
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by cfiggers 3y ago
Nooooo if Python gets faster then all the Mojo demos are going to sound so much less impressive nooo
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by cfiggers 3y ago
AccuBattery is an Android app that gives battery usage statistics and more detailed readouts from the OS w/r/t battery condition and charge/discharge behavior. Their help portal has a research summary explaining their sources
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by cfiggers 3y ago
Tell us you didn't read the article without telling us you didn't read the article
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by cfiggers 3y ago
> The scene is meant to be accepted symbolically, not literally. This is key. The purpose of the scene is to establish within 30 seconds what K's relationship is to the agency he works for, and by some extension, to the rest of the
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by cfiggers 3y ago
The advantages are all minor—mostly it's an aesthetic preference rather than a practical one. But there are a few small things: - The mechanism of a fountain pen relies on capillary action and gravity rather than the mechanical rolling
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by cfiggers 3y ago
Not a presumption, a qualification. If the aforementioned arrangement is not fair, then I'm not going to say it's a good thing. Is that not obvious?
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by cfiggers 3y ago
Entering into and then holding up your end of fair bargains with other people is a good thing to do. We need that a lot more than we need altruistic gestures, in my opinion.

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