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by cousin_it 1y ago
I read the title as "MS MacBook Pro" and prepared for a surprise.
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by cousin_it 1y ago
This reason doesn't make much sense to me. Let's say I write a non-idempotent custom function. It makes the spreadsheet behave weirdly: recalculating a cell twice leads to a different effect than recalculating it once. Does it mat
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by cousin_it 1y ago
> I think that’s a consequence of the fact that multiple users can simultaneously edit a sheet. No, it's not. Built-in functions like SUM recalculate instantly, and custom formatting rules (e.g. "color green if above zero"
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by cousin_it 1y ago
I spent some time with Apps Script a few weeks ago. It has some strange design decisions: 1) Everything runs on the server, including triggers and even custom functions! This means every script call requires a roundtrip, every cell using a
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by cousin_it 1y ago
> 02020 Funny how this "long now" date format will stop working in 99999, but the normal way of writing years as integers will keep working just fine.
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by cousin_it 1y ago
Yes! The Gavotte en Rondeau from the 3rd Partita is probably my favorite Bach piece, beating out even the cello suites. Here's a lovely performance by Kavakos: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UNy9fH7VaV4
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by cousin_it 1y ago
My favorite recording of the suites is by Enrico Dindo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a03He2x15qk&list=PLTzGkNV1IX...
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by cousin_it 1y ago
How about textproto? And the proto definition gives the schema.
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by cousin_it 1y ago
Btw, there's a pretty well known origami version of the SR-71 by Toshikazu Kawasaki. One square, no cuts, the usual. I folded it as a kid from diagrams in "Origami for the Connoisseur". It's not as detailed as the paperc
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by cousin_it 1y ago
I think Hollow Knight and Silksong are mostly special for their art style, the movement feel is pretty average. Among 2D platformers in general, I think the medal for best movement feel goes to the Fancy Pants Adventure series. (You can sti
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by cousin_it 1y ago
The ads won't be for the product which will bring you maximum value. They will be for the product that will bring the advertiser maximum profit (for example, by manipulating you into buying something overpriced). The products which are
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by cousin_it 1y ago
This is a great point. Everyone who has talked with chatbots at all: please note that all contents of your past conversations with chatbots (that already exist now, and that you can't meaningfully delete!) could be used in the future t
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by cousin_it 1y ago
This sounds right to me: most of the comments I've written, on most sites, haven't been useful to me socially. The people I was talking to were strangers and remained strangers. But sometimes the act of commenting helped me unders
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by cousin_it 1y ago
Nobody mentioned nested data in BigQuery? It's a superset of SQL where fields can be arrays of structs (so basically nested tables) and there's some extra syntax to nest/unnest things, so you can often get everything you want
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by cousin_it 1y ago
I think if the animation "helps you understand what's changing and why", sometimes that's a sign that the change could be redesigned - moved to a different part of the screen, for example - so that it becomes clearer wit
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by cousin_it 1y ago
I think the main contribution of Bear at first was centralizing and codifying a certain visual style: minimalistic, with a single narrow column. It's basically "the Medium layout, but indie". And the thing is, that style in i
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by cousin_it 1y ago
Location: Europe Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: No Technologies: Web stuff Resume/CV: https://vladimirslepnev.me Email: vladimir.slepnev@gmail.com This is a long shot but yolo. I've scrubbed my corporate experience,
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by cousin_it 1y ago
Yeah, I put it somewhere in the same category as unicycling, or playing a guitar with your teeth. In fact I'd double down on the "strictly better" bit. There's an instrument that's literally strictly better than the
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by cousin_it 1y ago
I think the theremin remained a curiosity because it's both hard to control and low-dimensional. Something like the cello or saxophone is just strictly better: there are more dimensions on which you can control the sound, and at the sa
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by cousin_it 1y ago
Good example of evil technology. Required reading: https://buttondown.com/monteiro/archive/how-to-not-build-the...
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by cousin_it 1y ago
I've wished for years that there would be an actual e-ink only laptop. Or (even better) an aftermarket e-ink screen for my current laptop, because I'm quite happy with the rest of the machine.
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by cousin_it 1y ago
That'll work but you'll get flash of content I think. (Or layout shift, idk what's the right name for it.) The way I did it, the common elements are defined in common.js and inserted in individual pages, but the insert point
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by cousin_it 1y ago
I realize JS might not be to everyone's taste, but I think I've found the absolute minimal JS solution to reuse headers and footers: https://vladimirslepnev.me/write It's almost exactly like PHP but client si
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by cousin_it 1y ago
I wonder if there's a more intuitive way to define an elliptical arc given 2 endpoints. Dimension analysis shows we need 3 parameters. The SVG spec uses rx/ry/rotation, plus a couple booleans, but maybe there's a better
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by cousin_it 1y ago
If the blocks are thin enough, I think it's possible. Stack three blocks. Position the left edge of the stack on the edge of the table, so it's hanging downward at a slight angle, and stack enough blocks on top that it holds. Now
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by cousin_it 1y ago
Yeah. At the end of the post I mention another method (document.currentScript) which allows you to do many of the same things, with no risk of messing up the parser. Realized it only after writing the post and talking a bunch of people abou
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by cousin_it 1y ago
Yeah. The way I think about it is there's a good outcome where we end up as pets, a bad outcome where we all die, and a very bad outcome where we end up as cattle. There's no outcome where we end up as peers - we can't be equ
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by cousin_it 1y ago
Maybe off topic, but I was really inspired by this article and started thinking about other ways to have "in-browser templating". And then realized that the old function document.write() is actually very convenient for this. Tried
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Document.write(vladimirslepnev.me)
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by cousin_it 1y ago
Good analogy. There's a flip side to it though. You can be a great comedian on the level of individual jokes, or short bits, but be unable to write a story. And you can be a great jazz musician when it comes to soloing, but be unable t

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