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by dgreensp 2y ago
I can’t say it’s not possible there is symbolism such as “the scarecrow represents farmers,” so when the scarecrow is elevated to the position of Ruler of the Emerald City, that symbolizes something. At the literal level, though, the govern
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by dgreensp 2y ago
By this article’s own standards, I can’t really fault it for jumping to half-assed conclusions, as long as a casual reader might not notice or care. I’m not being glib. Devaluing quality is a choice, and if it’s fashionable to say it’s fi
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by dgreensp 2y ago
I found this article a bit disappointing. The link at the bottom doesn’t work. The grids shown do not follow the well-known rules of (American) crosswords: every square is part of two words of three or more letters each. Coming up with a pa
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by dgreensp 2y ago
I had that impression when I joined Coda; not so much by the time I left.
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by dgreensp 2y ago
The site CSS is a little broken on iPhone, causing elements to hang off the screen or overlap. FAQ link gives a 404. Technically, I think this is against YouTube (for example) TOS, though I don’t expect that would be enforced against end u
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by dgreensp 2y ago
It’s also worth noting that engines with JIT, like V8, don’t box intermediate floating-point numbers in calculations after optimization has been performed. Arrays of (only) numbers also don’t box the numbers (though all numeric object pr
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by dgreensp 2y ago
Yup, it's a sketchy-sounding concept. Is it for "your own videos," or TikTok videos? Why does it have the TikTok logo in it?? It looks like it's a fork or repackaging of someone else's TikTok "clone." Th
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by dgreensp 2y ago
Came here to say this. And even in the case where the company's decision is arguably just "bad," it still might not be a problem from the company's point of view. Companies (including start-ups) create buggy products all
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by dgreensp 2y ago
Full disclosure, I'm a YC alum whose last start-up was acquired by Google, who applied to this batch and didn't get an interview. YC is not the stamp of quality it once was, to be sure, though it still works as social proof, becau
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by dgreensp 2y ago
It takes a LOT of reading to find out what the actual point is here, and the concept of a “fractured” “ecosystem” is brought up a dozen times without being explained. A “venus fly trap that is designed to fracture”? What in the heck. VS C
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by dgreensp 2y ago
Ok wow, that was not clear from the article. It also seems kind of confusing and unfortunate that Apple is using so many different image formats.
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by dgreensp 2y ago
You don’t come across visitors every day, and they aren’t something to reach for instead of a simple switch, but if you are writing a Webpack or ESLint plugin or something like that, you might encounter them for traversing an AST. It’s not
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by dgreensp 2y ago
I filed a GitHub issue two weeks ago about a bug that was enough for me to put it down for a bit, and there’s been not even a response. Their development velocity seems incredible, though. I’m not sure what to make of it.
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by dgreensp 2y ago
Wait, so the idea is in the future, fonts will contain arbitrary full-color vector and bitmap images, they will contain Web Assembly code that needs to be run, and they will be streamed over the network? I’m probably missing a few other pr
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by dgreensp 2y ago
Where on the roadmap is GPU compositing? In modern browser programming, I kind of take for granted that I can control the rendering “layers” and certain CSS properties, like “transform,” will be accelerated. Edit: In Blink, the layer/
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by dgreensp 2y ago
The author doesn’t deliver on the promise made early on the essay to examine the question: Why have UIs gotten so sparse? It’s like entire web design world decided more whitespace is better, and won’t hear anything about it. And now some d
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by dgreensp 2y ago
They don’t really mention the ongoing developer experience impact (even if it is outweighed by the popularity of TypeScript) of losing Skew’s niceties, they just talk about the one-off transpilation of them when migrating the codebase. For
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by dgreensp 3y ago
I’ve been a fan of PostSecret since the beginning and bought the (first?) book. Many years later, Facebook sent me some PostSecret posts. Do not read the Facebook comments. There isn’t the “art therapy” safe space that you usually feel w
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by dgreensp 3y ago
What I meant was, the case will be decided by applying the law to the situation, so in order to discuss from the sidelines what could, should, or might happen, we need to look at what it says and how it might be interpreted.
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by dgreensp 3y ago
I want the government to have a case, here. I want the DOJ to be able to push back against what companies like Apple are doing. However, in court, you have to compare what a company is doing to the letter of the law. It seems US anti-trus
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by dgreensp 3y ago
It really doesn’t have to be this way. Capitalism is like a game. For rich, greedy bastards, it’s literally a Monopoly game, while for the less fortunate, it can be life or death. But the point is, it has rules. Trying to change the rule
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by dgreensp 3y ago
> The idea behind the site is that it's very difficult to get people to agree on what moderation rules should apply to a platform There's a big difference between "what moderation rules should apply" and "how do
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by dgreensp 3y ago
Well the claim is that if HN isn’t bullish on crypto in 2024 it must be inside a strange “negativity bubble.”
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by dgreensp 3y ago
People who aren’t in the tech/VC or crypto echo chambers can see that it’s (still) overhyped and mostly scams. They don’t really care or have more positive sentiment than HN.
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by dgreensp 3y ago
I agree that seeing where someone is reading (with blobs moving around in your visual field while you are trying to read) is not good. It doesn't correspond to any physical experience of being in a room with someone, or any positive,
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by dgreensp 3y ago
Yes, this. The notable thing in Austral is not that linear types are used somewhere, it’s that it’s all linear, even when destruction is just deallocation and could easily be done by the compiler (even in the presence of exceptions).
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by dgreensp 3y ago
As someone working on a language myself, I found this to be very high-quality material! It aligns with a lot of my thinking, and it’s educational. A random part of interest: I followed the link about how linear types and exceptions don’t m
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by dgreensp 3y ago
I think it’s worth emphasizing that the C spec’s love of undefined behavior—if you do X by accident, anything can happen—and the apparently massive amount of memory-unsafe software that has been written that will just allocate 16 bytes on t
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by dgreensp 3y ago
I played with this stuff in high school and college. Principle Component Amalysis (PCA), as another commenter said. One small quibble, with JPEG you don’t “lose” the “high-frequency” data; that would blur the image. You approximate it, so
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by dgreensp 3y ago
One can go very deep in making universal statements about compression, or images, probably deeper than you realize, but it will never be so simple and wrapped up with a pure-mathematical bow as you are implying.

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