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by creesch 2y ago
It only seems fair to also include the previous block: Ultimately, what we realized was that there had to be some visual way to bridge the gap between professional expertise (often confined to academic papers and reports) and public unders
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by creesch 2y ago
> you need to have at least a surface level understanding of the topic to recognise if the output is wrong. Often overlooked point. The only reason I even consider LLMs a useful tool for my work is because for the things I request fro
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by creesch 2y ago
Well, I'd say that in the author's case it might be more useful. ;) I never really had the inclination to grep for data like the author does. I generally work from an IDE anyway, where it is clear that I am working with a value th
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by creesch 2y ago
I fully understand the point the author is making. However, I am not going to sacrifice good JSON and make it flat just so someone can search for it more easily. With the example they give, it is still readable because it is a simple data
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by creesch 2y ago
Thank you, that's something I also never have understood myself. For inline anonymous functions like callbacks they make perfect sense. As long as you don't need `this`. But everywhere else they reduce readability of the code with
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by creesch 2y ago
> People really want something more reactive like Discord. Citation needed :) This feels like you are parroting either your own preference or something you have heard other people state as fact.
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by creesch 2y ago
Sure. I do not live in the terminal. But, I work with Linux enough to comfortably navigate around, read various shell scripts with relative ease. With the exception of awk. Which to me signals that, at least in my case, awk has a higher bar
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by creesch 2y ago
No, they are pretty far away as far I understand it. Based on various tests available to see how far along a browser is with specific standards. Also makes sense as Ladybird is a much younger project, even with the hiatus in development wit
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I think that a lot of the vocal people are not the ones with the big money. Or even organizations with that kind of money. And some of the organizations that do have that kind of money have thrown in the towel. Like Microsoft, who switched
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by creesch 2y ago
Agreed, they still have a long road to travel before they are a true alternative to other browsers and engines. But I think it is good that there are genuine efforts in developing alternative browsers and engines. Ladybird browser is even f
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by creesch 2y ago
> No. That is actually the ideal internet. Browsers are user agents, users should be rendering web pages as they see fit. Alright, fair if that is your base stance I can understand your reasoning. If we are talking about the territory of
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by creesch 2y ago
Yeah, no. I am not about to resize my browser window every single time when I switch tabs. Line width is not something a designer came up with and just decided to force on to people. It is well-supported by research and actually proven to m
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by creesch 2y ago
Yup, the portrait display of mobile phones means that text taking up the whole width of the screen (assuming normal font sizes) often lands neatly around the 70 characters mark.
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While I am sure some websites leave that space for ads. There is decades worth of research regarding readability. The amount of characters on a line influences readability a ton. Certainly, on 16:9 ratio displays, text taking up the entire
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by creesch 2y ago
Woah, this must be an old website. I was going to grumble about the text width being the entire page, but then had a look at the code. They are still using the `face` attribute for fonts. This website must be well over two decades old at th
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by creesch 2y ago
Tell you haven't read the article without telling me you haven't read the article.
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Well, you presented your use case as an "on the other hand" counter argument for me saying what sort of fonts generally work better. Which it isn't, it is just a specific use case where monospaced fonts happen to be used and
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by creesch 2y ago
This is very close to how I often use LLMs [0]. A first step in deciphering code where I otherwise would need to, to use the authors words, power through reading the code myself. It has been incredibly liberating to just feed it a spaghetti
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by creesch 2y ago
This looks really neat! I never really dabbled with firefox customizations on this level as it is a bit of a hassle, easy to mess up and easy to forget the details. Having it all in a json based format where you can easily reapply it on a f
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by creesch 2y ago
Most research points to sans serif fonts working best for large bodies of text on most screens. So simply good old Arial or Verdana actually is a very safe choice (though a bit boring) choice which will cover the greatest audience. On moder
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by creesch 2y ago
Your comment is a perfect example of why the wheel gets reinvented so often. Part of it is preference, sort of. A specific crowd of people, many of who visit HN, are used to looking at monospaced fonts. So, they have effectively been train
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by creesch 2y ago
> They may not be the theoretical best way, but let's not let the perfect be the enemy of the good. Sure, but this being the web and the font choice literally being one line of CSS it is not that hard to make things slightly better
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by creesch 2y ago
> typewritten mss (some with handwritten greek) Not sure what you mean by that. Also, just because you spend a lot of time reading information formatted with monospaced fonts doesn't mean they are the best way for you to receive tha
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Alright, before I continue my comment. I love the look and overall feel of the website. From an aesthetics point of view, I think it looks awesome. However... this sentence > Maybe we’re just brainwashed from spending years in terminals
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Same reason you might write out other specifications or maybe make a flow diagram of states something might go through in your application. Certainly, with complex relations between various tables, having a design tool like this can help yo
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The thing you linked starts with > The phrase "patches welcome" has come not to be. Which I am already missing context for to make sense out of. Where was this phrase used, by who? I get a general idea of what it is about and w
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by creesch 2y ago
Sure. Doesn't that depend on the complexity of the code you are looking at though? In many cases you can go through code, find the bit you are looking for and have pretty good idea of what it does. Which sometimes is all you need.
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by creesch 2y ago
Before commenting you should read the article. It very explicitly makes it an economic value question. Which is the context in which I wrote my answer.
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They probably shouldn't, what unique value does anyone bring? Which is also why I am not even going to entertain the idea in earnest. This is just some creative rephrasing of the countless books out about being the best performer, the
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by creesch 2y ago
Not entirely, at least that is not how I read it. Although I agree, I initially got the same impression. Then I stumbled upon this sentence. > The study reveals that employers must treat things like fair compensation and flexibility as

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