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by feifan 6y ago
I'll try that tonight! Any suggestions for testing/seeing how the anti-aliasing works when I don't physically have non-retina screens?
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by feifan 6y ago
Sure, but then you'd have the "config" for a job separate from its implementation. If I'm looking at the code for a job, how do I easily find when it's scheduled to run? If I'm looking at the config database, h
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by feifan 6y ago
Oh this sounds cool! When I was writing this post I was thinking about ASTs and transforming them into domain-specific semantic graphs. E.g. that `run_config` example would be a generic "method call" node in an AST, but a domain-s
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by feifan 6y ago
Yep, I had a brief chat with one of their engineers a few days ago: https://twitter.com/FeifanZ/status/1361392018514010116
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by feifan 6y ago
Whoa, this project looks really cool. I'm trying to read the docs though, and there's a lot of broken links — e.g. all the "Backend Documentation" links here: https://github.com/aquametalabs/aquameta
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by feifan 6y ago
This is totally understandable! Thanks for pointing this out.
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by feifan 6y ago
I think I fixed for Firefox — let me know if you're still seeing 1.4 contrast/super-light text.
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by feifan 6y ago
The future's already here, just not evenly distributed :) I wrote this in part to surface these ideas to new people!
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by feifan 6y ago
Yep, that's it. Turns out, Safari/Chrome change the page background automatically based on your OS setting. FF seems not to.
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by feifan 6y ago
Geez, have you heard of being nice? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26161659 > author here — sorry about that. I don't use/didn't test with Firefox, but it looks like it's not setting the page ba
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by feifan 6y ago
Hey, author here — sorry about that. I don't use/didn't test with Firefox, but it looks like it's not setting the page background properly in dark mode. I'll get that fixed!
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by feifan 6y ago
FWIW, I actually prefer those 90s UIs, not because the borders and shadows are "pretty", but because they're dense. Flat UI also came with big gobs of whitespace and padding … to me it feels like bubble-wrapping everything.
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by feifan 6y ago
Sorry, I don't use/didn't test on Firefox. I'll fix that.
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by feifan 6y ago
Sorry, I don't use/didn't test on Firefox. I'll fix that.
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by feifan 6y ago
I could've been more clear: the "using the computer" part (what you might call incidental/accidental complexity) should be effortless. The problem itself can be as challenging as you'd like to tackle :)
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by feifan 6y ago
IMO high-level, low-tech DSLs are under-explored. Lots of possibilities there. I don't think you're necessarily limited to just text-based DSLs though; there's interesting opportunities when you pair with a UI. For example, s
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by feifan 6y ago
Oooh this looks cool! I'll check it out, thanks
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by feifan 6y ago
Thank you :) While I personally haven't gotten into board games, I love that Adama exists as a stake in the ground towards "better". And yeah, I agree with that closing sentiment too. This post is meant to be a rallying point
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by feifan 6y ago
You might be right on the first part, but I'm young and optimistic enough to reject the second part.
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by feifan 6y ago
Hahaha fair :) I mean it more in a "flow state" sense — I usually have things I want to get done, and I feel good when I can flow through them effortlessly.
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by feifan 6y ago
Perhaps, if you view it through my ostensible lack of interest in new computing technologies. From my perspective, computers have always been a tool to augment what I can do — gather information that my senses alone can't; crunch data
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by feifan 6y ago
Hello! Author here :) It depends on your definition of fun. This is my blog, so I'll use my definition — "fun" to me is being able to get my computer to effortlessly do things I have to and want to do. Flow state and all that
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by feifan 6y ago
Hello! I'm the author of this post wave This is part of my point — the majority of software time and effort is spent on web-and-related software.
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by feifan 6y ago
> executed on a paired phone One constraint around this is the sheer bandwidth required to do any sort of live processing (either for viewfinding purposes or autofocus) — the latency (and even bandwidth) of anything less than a direct ra
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by feifan 6y ago
Intel is likely planning to purchase some fab capacity from TMSC already: https://www.cnbc.com/2020/07/27/tsmc-shares-jump-as-intel-fa... "…U.S. chipmaker Intel said it faces delays for its next-generati
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by feifan 6y ago
$10m seems … relatively cheap for anything in space?
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by feifan 6y ago
Having spent about a year (so far) building personal projects with both Clojure and Elixir, I think Elixir exposes/requires you to know much less of the underlying Erlang/BEAM than Clojure does for Java/JVM.
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by feifan 6y ago
Elixir seems to encourage simple data structures — everything is made up of basic data structures, and since there's no encapsulation, libraries seem to be built with an attitude of "developers are gonna inspect everything so we m
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by feifan 6y ago
I'm not sure there is a business model or a quantitative framework for measuring its value. I imagine it's just a cool thing they built and put it out there ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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by feifan 6y ago
I imagine the above was a joke

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