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by eyelidlessness 4y ago
I just recently did some work in a much less sophisticated area of this. For folks who want to efficiently juggle image data into and out of canvas, ImageBitmap is a little known web API that does it very well. Unlike most web APIs dealing
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by eyelidlessness 4y ago
I don’t think either the IRS or SEC can raise taxes. They can enforce regulations within their purview, and they can be corrected if they step out of that. But neither organization sets tax rates or even tax policy. If they move to enforce
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by eyelidlessness 4y ago
You’re right, thanks for the correction!
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by eyelidlessness 4y ago
FWIW, it can almost certainly be moved off the main thread with OffscreenCanvas, but that has its own set of added complexities. Edit: word wires got crossed in my brain
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by eyelidlessness 4y ago
> A hilarious example of this is seeing Microsoft use Macs to design UIs for Windows which then look too light because taking the same image file across to a PC shifts the brightness curve. Oops. (Showing my age I’m sure) I distinctly re
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by eyelidlessness 4y ago
A few things that immediately come to mind: - you can preload the placeholder but still lazy load the full size image - placeholders can be inlined as `data:` URLs to minimize requests on initial load, or to embed placeholders into JSON or
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by eyelidlessness 4y ago
What I mean is that if you’re anticipating counter arguments you should anticipate the arguments you can expect, not the ones you want to advance yourself. Edit: in HN culture this is commonly phrased as “steel man”, but in basic exchange o
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by eyelidlessness 4y ago
I have no idea about you being recorded, but I have to admit I’m sincerely not understanding the moderation still. Is it really not enough to say something true? That saying something true which has been true for 10 years warrants moderatio
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by eyelidlessness 4y ago
Can you elaborate on what you found wrong with the above comment?
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by eyelidlessness 4y ago
The todo app isn’t meant to be inspiring, it’s basically the “hello world”/fibonacci/word count for web UI stuff, tightly coupled to benchmarking, and even more tightly coupled to demonstrating DX to the already-familiar. It’s bas
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by eyelidlessness 4y ago
I didn’t mean to suggest any two states I mentioned are necessarily different from each other (or similar to each other, either). That said I did find Iowa felt pretty distinct from Minnesota when I lived in the latter, largely because MSP
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by eyelidlessness 4y ago
I’m cautiously curious which, erm, quadrant(?) the following fall into: Virginia, Montana, Maryland, New Mexico, Minnesota, Tennessee, Kansas, North Carolina, Iowa. Despite having a more than vague sense of the cultural spectra you’re descr
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by eyelidlessness 4y ago
My rule is that they’re free wherever they roam but if they’re on my body I’m also free to be irrationally afraid until I get them somewhere safer. When I live with other humans, I try to encourage being similarly comfortable with their pro
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by eyelidlessness 4y ago
They provide some resilience, assuming their fallback usage includes multiple formats. Which isn’t a safe assumption, but even granting it, there are other problems with removing a codec. The most obvious being abruptly increasing the bandw
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by eyelidlessness 4y ago
I’m just a HS graduate who should’ve failed my senior year, and I may well have dropped out of HS if I could go back and do it again. So, an enormous grain of salt should accompany what I’m about to say. I think the benefits of a liberal ar
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by eyelidlessness 4y ago
I don’t read it that way at all, FWIW. I read it as using static types as an obvious example of language features which have been shoehorned onto JS because the language doesn’t provide a thing code authors strongly wish it did. I would r
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by eyelidlessness 4y ago
I don’t particularly like React, but I don’t think it’s horrible either. I also think it has introduced a lot of important concepts to a space that wasn’t particularly predisposed to them. It’s an overall good, even if it’s not my preferenc
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by eyelidlessness 4y ago
I don’t have a dog in the AI fight, but it seems pretty plausible that React’s core concepts would have been part of a hypothetical 20 years ago training set. All of these were part of at least academic discourse: - Algebraic effects - DSLs
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by eyelidlessness 4y ago
Heck, MDN doesn’t even have full documentation for >10 year old tech Mozilla was tightly coupled to in the same time frame. Try discerning how to use XML-related features in a browser and you’ll very quickly find yourself trying to extra
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by eyelidlessness 4y ago
My chihuahua-pit mix loves people, and gets excited about other dogs just to try to get people introductions started. Once she’s met the other dog she loses interest and just wants to hang out and see how the humans get along. She’s clever,
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by eyelidlessness 4y ago
There has to be more genetically going on than physical dimensions alone. Boston terriers have almost identical dimensions, so much so they’re frequently mistaken for each other by people not familiar enough with either or both breeds, but
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by eyelidlessness 4y ago
> You suggested exactly that. I not only didn’t, I stated exactly the opposite.
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by eyelidlessness 4y ago
I don’t write Go, so I’m similarly not qualified to address how this particular implementation satisfies the dependency. But my hunch is that it’s implicitly an import of a singleton. Which is basically a global, but a fairly common Java-is
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by eyelidlessness 4y ago
Most of the post resonated with me, but the initial analogy and its concrete example give me pause. > The dependency (oil, in this example) is an argument, not because anyone cares to customize it, but to simplify the implementation. Thi
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by eyelidlessness 4y ago
So GP was relevant because that’s exactly what GitHub is doing: dynamically picking arbitrary colors and trying to put appropriately contrasting text on them.
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by eyelidlessness 4y ago
Sure, but I didn’t suggest having no effect. I suggested there are external effects and they should be part of the analysis. I even went further and suggested I would not do anything differently under the circumstances.
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by eyelidlessness 4y ago
My point is that it’s important to recognize the external impact of decisions alongside the internal, particularly if you’re making decisions on principle and evaluating them on that metric.
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by eyelidlessness 4y ago
> shouldn't be paid the same Okay this is only the second response I’ve gotten to but we’re batting 1000 on misrepresenting what I was very careful to not say, and contradicting what I was very careful to say. I understand my commen
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by eyelidlessness 4y ago
> should be paid less Please reread what I posted and recognize that I did not remotely suggest this. I expressly supported the policy, and want to add a frank recognition of its trade offs because its absence seemed important in the pos
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by eyelidlessness 4y ago
> The truth is that companies pay people less in other geographies for a simple reason: because they can. We at Oxide just don’t agree with this; we pay people the same regardless of where they pick up their mail. So, look. I completely

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