danellis

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by danellis 5y ago
> Airbnb, on the other hand, operates a website and app and has zero involvement in operating or designing physical assets Not entirely true. There's Airbnb Plus, in which they have, to quote what the article says about Hilton, &quo
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by danellis 5y ago
I wonder how it would look if the speed of the arrows matched the speed of the wind. Perhaps they'd be too slow to be useful when zoomed out.
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by danellis 5y ago
The first time I saw this, it was a blind person on a train counting stations. Personally, I would need a lot of practice to gain that dexterity.
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by danellis 5y ago
So the same as the HTTP protocol (i.e. switching from a website like Twitter to another, similar, website).
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by danellis 5y ago
This may be a dumb question, but what _precisely_ does it mean to track someone? If I give you a session cookie when you log in, am I tracking you? If I give you a cookie when you visit without logging in, am I tracking you? What about if I
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by danellis 5y ago
> Usually, if you are thinking about generics you are reaching for abstraction when you don't need to be. That's pretty laughable considering the language designers included type-parameterized collections in the language. Appar
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by danellis 5y ago
Interesting. I would reach for `grep` and `diff` in those cases, so it's not much of a leap to imagine similarly using a tool for a binary format. After all, I only need the textual representation of the thing I'm searching for, n
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by danellis 5y ago
> When you say Pop could be more lightweight, are you talking about CPU or memory usage? Memory usage. I haven't noticed an issue with CPU usage, because I usually only open it briefly and tend not to be doing anything else intensiv
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by danellis 5y ago
> The author is not forced to use csvs. But some people are. There are entire industries built around the exchange of CSV files, and the producers and consumers don't necessarily talk to each other.
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by danellis 5y ago
The worst I've seen is CSV in which some of the fields contain CSV.
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by danellis 5y ago
Not everyone has the option of rejecting it, though. Sometimes you need that data and have no control over how it's being generated.
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by danellis 5y ago
What are all these hypothetical humans doing with CSV files? I've worked with them a lot, and the only time I read one manually is to find out why it isn't parsing properly. I'm not writing them by hand. I'm not extracti
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by danellis 5y ago
> Yes, we’re building on Electron I hope you'll reconsider as your team grows. Developers look at their own app and think the extra resource usage isn't too bad, but the more this happens, the more Electron apps I end up runnin
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by danellis 5y ago
Reminds me somewhat of Teletext graphics, whose character set included 2x3-cell blocks that could be displayed either joined up or separated. https://channel26.uk/teletext-design/
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by danellis 5y ago
It gave me a very peculiar feeling. Some of them triggered a memory I can't quite recall, due to how young I was at the time. Quite unsettling. But then at the age of three or four I was quite scared of the vinyl cover of "ABBA: T
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by danellis 5y ago
Not making a thousand new "Top 10 Frameworks to Learn in 2021" videos every week would be a good start.
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by danellis 5y ago
With the library I'm using (Quill), the DSL is mostly a copy of the standard library's collections, so other than a little boilerplate, it's mostly already familiar.
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by danellis 5y ago
According to the article, it's still there, but they just renamed it to .yarn.
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by danellis 5y ago
> I also don’t like being forced to donate free labor to AI companies to help train their visual-recognition systems. Then you are free to not use the service that you are not paying for.
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by danellis 5y ago
Whenever I see his name, I always think of this. I forget who it's credited to. Steve Weinberg returning from Texas Brings dimensions galore to perplex us But the extra ones all Are rolled up in a ball So tiny they barely affect us
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by danellis 5y ago
They're quite enjoyable in the context of being in a car with the windows rolled up.
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by danellis 5y ago
Right click -> Open -> Open That's not needing Apple's permission; that's me giving my permission.
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by danellis 5y ago
> Apple's authoritarian hold on what software can be run and distributed for that platform What does that mean? I've never needed Apple's permission to run any software on macOS.
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by danellis 5y ago
> As long as everyone agrees i see absolutely no problem. They didn't all agree, though. Now there's Ethereum (the people who agreed with the fork) and Ethereum Classic (the people who didn't agree).
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by danellis 5y ago
Who is this actually for? Programmers need clarity and precision, not "fun" analogies stretched past their breaking point. (I mentally facepalmed when it got to the glass floats. Why even bother with the river at that point?) And
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by danellis 5y ago
> almost no branches I wonder whether the author is suggesting that (potentially) nine branches is a small number, or they overlooked ternary expressions and function calls and are just counting the if statement.
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by danellis 5y ago
Yeah, "Game that ran on an 8MHz Arm in 1993 running on a 40MHz Arm in 2021" wouldn't have been as attention-grabbing.
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by danellis 5y ago
That said, it's surprising to see Zap on a list without StrongEd.
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by danellis 5y ago
Absolutely. joe has been my to-go terminal editor for over 20 years.
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by danellis 5y ago
What kind of operation would they be running if they did that?

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