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by chowells 3mo ago
The article is about how Apple is underdelivering in browser features and compatibility while pretending they aren't. It's about Apple. Apple. The ones responsible for a great many features not being supported in all browsers. Wha
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by chowells 3mo ago
You can not-quite-trivially download all versions of a game that have been uploaded to steam, as long as you own the game. And that's a download like as an installers you can run, not just overwriting your current active steam install.
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by chowells 3mo ago
Is that actually true? Just because English treats scents as only describable by analogy doesnt mean all languages do. There are a number of languages with scent descriptions for aspects of a smell that are transferrable. [1] That suggests
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by chowells 3mo ago
Improve at what? Pretentiousness? Book people really hate to hear it, but literary fiction follows Sturgeon's law just as much as Sturgeon's own genre. 90% of it isn't worth reading, and that includes 90% of what's fashi
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by chowells 3mo ago
If you think of it that way, you have a real problem. It only takes about 10 meters for the weight of a column of water to create enough downward force that it starts vaporizing, at which point no pumping action works. This is why any deep
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by chowells 3mo ago
No, that's actually more destructive in the short term. That was the OP's point. If they actually become something effective, they will utterly destroy the economy. If they fail, they will drag the economy down around them as they
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by chowells 3mo ago
No, it's correct. The best (short-term) case is that they become eternal parasites. If they fail to do that, they'll bring a lot down with them when they fall.
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by chowells 3mo ago
Oh, it's worse than that. I've seen a rise in mutation testing, intended to ensure any change in implementation is caught by tests. Think about that for a moment. It's giving a fancy name to creating brittle tests than fail i
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by chowells 3mo ago
It's a difference of degree. People expect something that "parallelizes well" to show near 1-to-1 speedup. Double the hardware, double the speed. This is "you can always speed it up, but the hardware requirements can inc
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by chowells 3mo ago
You're describing an interaction with a good server at a good business. (Off of peak hours, if you can take hours and they don'thave anything to say about it.) What do QR codes add except for technical issues? I honestly cannot re
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by chowells 4mo ago
"generally make it flow" is exactly the problem. It's a process of smoothing over any interesting features of the text to replace them with plastic. It's submerging the actual information you wish to convey under a layer
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by chowells 4mo ago
I worked at a company that displayed user-uploaded photos online and in email newsletters. Some small portion of photos displayed very incorrectly only in the email newsletters as displayed by outlook. They were fine everywhere else. After
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by chowells 4mo ago
Everything we experience is far larger in time than space, so of course time effects dominate on scales we perceive. But this just raises the question of what it means to be larger in time than space. You can look at it in terms of multip
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by chowells 4mo ago
Hah. Not sure I've ever seen relational algebra abbreviated that way, but yeah. It makes sense.
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by chowells 4mo ago
The heading saying "Simple (SPJ)" caught my eye, because I'm not sure SPJ has ever talked about simplicity in an especially referenceable way. Were you thinking of Rich Hickey's "Simple made Easy", or did SPJ d
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by chowells 4mo ago
Yeah, 12px is fine (27" 1440p, no display scaling). It is on the small side. I'd go a bit larger for something I made. But it's not a small enough to slow down my reading.
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by chowells 4mo ago
No, I think that ycombinator, who provides this forum... shouldn't. This thing where we've traded societal trust for profits for the companies destroying it is a bad choice, and section 230 is what enables it. Let it all burn. Bri
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by chowells 4mo ago
Hahahaha.... What if the goal of an economic system was to support everyone instead of maximizing the upside for winners? Perhaps that's the sort of change necessary for improvement. Perhaps having billionaires is the failure state.
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by chowells 5mo ago
What's culture got to do with it? If I wanted LLM responses, I'd have prompted for them myself. This is true in every single culture. The very fact that I asked a person means that I want the information they can provide, not LLM
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by chowells 5mo ago
> And the program definitely still does something, whether specified or not. No. It most definitely does not mean this. Go read the series this is part of: https://blog.llvm.org/2011/05/what-every-c-programmer-s
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by chowells 5mo ago
Glad to see Simon Marlow didn't just vanish into Facebook.
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by chowells 5mo ago
It's a very language-dependent meaning. In C, the only type of crash is the OS shutting it down on some sort of trap. Everything else is the result of an explicit code path. Since we're talking about C, it's the definition I&
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by chowells 5mo ago
I think you're using "crash" to mean "exit early". I am using "crash" in the sense of "this program did something causing the OS to terminate it externally". I suppose that's a real point of
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by chowells 5mo ago
But in this case, C is not "good". It is more like "abysmal". "Good" is just producing a correct result or error, with no ambiguity which case applied and no UB. "Perfect" is arguing over the most usa
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by chowells 5mo ago
You report an error and exit cleanly with a proper operating system error code. Crashing is a quick hack, acceptable for throwaway projects but not in software used long-term.
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by chowells 5mo ago
You seem to be operating under the assumption "undefined behavior" means "the compiler authors can decide what to do." That's not what it means. It means "any program that causes this behavior to be triggered i
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by chowells 5mo ago
A large portion of the time, the maintainer notices what happened a few hours later. Maybe they were asleep or off doing other things for a while, but they eventually come back. And these kinds of takeovers frequently aren't complete e
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by chowells 5mo ago
Fastest is usually the wrong metric. But you'd need experience to know that, I suppose...
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by chowells 5mo ago
Because it's centralized . Your project pays the price for every unrelated project that's getting overloaded.
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by chowells 5mo ago
The Steam controller doesn't have Hall effect sticks; they're TMR. Also, my 8bitdo controller does need special software to use a couple buttons on it. And it's the cheapest possible model, not a super advanced one. It just h

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