danielbarla

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by danielbarla 4y ago
I don't mind it if someone writes me an email - it costs them time, and I am happy to spend my time to read it. But I do mind if someone uses a script to scrape my address and opts me into a recurring distraction without my consent. It
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by danielbarla 4y ago
Ah, this brought back "fond" memories of trying to reverse engineer a 3-way chat in Teams, and trying to figure out why I didn't understand the conversation. It turned out that Teams would have a kind of eventual consistency
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by danielbarla 4y ago
It seems very likely that the market cap for high-end wooden sets is not large enough for automation. It makes sense that for this particular niche, they'd be hand made. To fill in some other bits: The pieces need to be rather precisel
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by danielbarla 4y ago
Fair enough. I am also generally against jumping to conclusions and mob justice, though I am not sure if a GPL2 violation is such a gray area in this format. It's a device shipped to a user, and the license states they need to be provi
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by danielbarla 4y ago
A company is willfully behaving unethically, and someone chooses to vote with their wallet - I'm surprised that this is an argument you don't get. Granted, different people have different ideologies, triggers, etc, but the princip
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by danielbarla 4y ago
Technologies like this can lower the cost of production, opening the door to more competition essentially due to a larger talent pool. Quality can also go up as a result, not just quantity.
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by danielbarla 4y ago
Alternatively, he could have been thinking about his next hit YouTube video already, titled "See, this is why I always jump with two fire extinguishers on me!".
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by danielbarla 5y ago
I agree, though I suspect fines for "repeat offenses" might be less easy to ignore.
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by danielbarla 5y ago
Indeed! And I wonder what happens if there's a delay (weather, repairs, etc) or change of plans, some countries are fairly strict about entry dates and that type of thing.
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by danielbarla 5y ago
Object oriented programming and design patterns in particular get a bad rap these days, however, the original Design Patterns book [1] has a case study chapter about designing a WYSIWYG document editor. Also, one of the authors, Erich Gamma
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by danielbarla 5y ago
From my own (anecdotal) experience, stress most definitely plays out in physical ways in your body. Throughout the day or night, you can be tightening muscles without knowing it. They can eventually fatigue and set off a chain of other musc
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by danielbarla 5y ago
A somewhat surprising and interesting side effect of this can be found in the blog post "Hacking GitHub with Unicode's dotless i" [1], which is now fairly well known. [1] https://eng.getwisdom.io/hacking-githu
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by danielbarla 5y ago
I agree that publicly available large datasets / statistics become fairly rare below the 1600, above that level they are fairly common. But anecdotally, I once messed around with a bunch of large datasets for the purpose of comparing h
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by danielbarla 5y ago
What worked well for me was [1]. It is a general pencil drawing course that covers the basics. Having said that, there is an exercise in the beginning that has you draw a human eye region by following the presenter, and the results for me w
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by danielbarla 5y ago
This is a hobby I took up as well a few years ago, couple with a few Udemy courses, etc. It's good fun, and, as somewhat of a legendary "anti-talent" at drawing (mostly according to my family), I found that it's surprisi
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by danielbarla 5y ago
From [1] attitude, in the context of spacecraft, means: > Attitude is part of the description of how an object is placed in the space it occupies. Attitude and position fully describe how an object is placed in space. So, basically, its
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by danielbarla 5y ago
Working without a framework in a team, you can easily have a situation where each developer comes up with novel solutions to various basic and essentially common problems. I've seen it happen that each dev invents their own way of work
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by danielbarla 5y ago
Yes, I can get behind this argument, it's significantly different from the standard opinion that Electron apps are trash quality in terms of performance. VS Code is generally either seen as a counter to that argument, or as the excepti
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by danielbarla 5y ago
I am curious if people would generally consider an editor / IDE a productivity app. If so, VS Code's popularity seems to be more than "many people do", in certain segments, it's the leading development environment [
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by danielbarla 5y ago
Even as a style guide, it's unnecessarily terse in some cases. IIRC, there's a line that says (paraphrasing): > Don't use continue. I've never seen a loop with a continue that wouldn't be better without it. An
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by danielbarla 5y ago
While there's definitely been a drop in the purchasing power of lower and middle classes (though [1]), monetary inflation alone does not seem to explain this trend in a satisfactory manner. In all honesty, most software developers I kn
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by danielbarla 5y ago
That's an interesting direction, and I'll keep an eye on it. Unfortunately in this case though, it's probably too far off the company's beaten track to use, as we have to integrate with plenty of other teams' work,
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by danielbarla 5y ago
Cool, thanks! It makes sense that VS Code would have this down already.
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by danielbarla 5y ago
This kind of came up for me in a recent discussion, as my team is converting a trusty desktop application to a web-based system. The existing app is fairly complex, and is aimed at expert users who spend a significant amount of time in this
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by danielbarla 5y ago
The reality is that humans have a rough sweet spot for the amount of complexity they can reasonably consume, and a high-level, somewhat vague diagram that has been cherry picked by someone who intimately knows a system is a great introducti
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by danielbarla 5y ago
Sure, but this is based on the idea that the innate uses and value of gold would be similar (or "relatively high") after such a transformation of the world. This is not clear to me at all, compared to say, a similar wealth investe
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by danielbarla 5y ago
> All it takes is for someone to sue Zillow for exposing their private images online for automatic blurring technology to magically appear. Honestly, I would expect such an event to lead to an indemnity clause magically appearing in thei
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by danielbarla 6y ago
Sure, but if the simulation is starting to walk like a duck and talk like a duck, this argument runs out of gas very quickly.
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by danielbarla 6y ago
I've often wondered why this kind of confirmation couldn't be conditional on the confidence that the click / touch was intentional? As an example, my favourite pet peeve was using Visual Studio with old-school, upfront lockin
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by danielbarla 6y ago
Indeed, and I've found that for trickier niche questions, it's not uncommon for there to be 3-4 answers which completely miss the boat, but to inspire you to dig even further. It does feel somehow wrong to snub all those who answ

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