fiddlerwoaroof

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by fiddlerwoaroof 1y ago
Well, as I remember, the thing about solid is it’s a protocol. So, if you don’t trust one vendor, you can trust another vendor or implementation without losing interoperability. So it goes the opposite direction of consolidation because it
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by fiddlerwoaroof 1y ago
A degree is too big for the effect, the division of the degree into 60 arcminutes and the arcminute into 60 arcseconds is the standard subdivision of degrees as an angle measurement going back to the Sumerians.
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by fiddlerwoaroof 1y ago
I’ve never really used Google flights: I tend to buy delta tickets either on my desktop via the website or via the Delta mobile app. I prefer the Apple Weather app on desktop and mobile to weather websites, though; and, I prefer the Google
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by fiddlerwoaroof 1y ago
> It's too bad because it's not like the web is incapable of providing a beautiful ux for those products. I’ve never seen a web app I was happy with being a web app. I understand that a lot of people prefer web-based tools but
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by fiddlerwoaroof 1y ago
I agree with you: I always use native apps where they exist, on mobile or desktop and only use web apps if I’m forced too.
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by fiddlerwoaroof 1y ago
Spring has some compatibility shims for EE but my understanding is it’s always been its own thing and was originally formed in reaction to EE
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by fiddlerwoaroof 1y ago
I don't understand how you'd fix this, in general, for the browser: the browser can't just assume certain animations will never affect layout.
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by fiddlerwoaroof 1y ago
And nearly all of them are annoying and disrupt my flow.
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by fiddlerwoaroof 1y ago
It’s just not true that users don’t like making things opt-out. HN Users tend not to like it but I think a lot of users dislike the alternatives: either because they’re undiscoverable (toggle in settings or a menu) or intrusive (various sor
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by fiddlerwoaroof 1y ago
I knew .git can be a normal file because of worktrees. But most of the weird states have to do with the working tree not the repository. Even rebasing isn’t weird as far as the file formats go: it just is replaying commits on top of a new
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by fiddlerwoaroof 1y ago
There aren’t that many weird states a git repository can be in: the on-disk format of the repository is too simple for that. The hard part has to do with the various protocols for transferring objects around.
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by fiddlerwoaroof 1y ago
I wrote a nearly complete implementation of git file format parsers in Common Lisp over like a month of evenings and weekends. I’m sure there are hard parts between where I am and a full git implementation but you can get quite a bit of uti
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by fiddlerwoaroof 1y ago
Yeah, that was one of the pieces of research I was thinking about. Another is this review of the evidence, such as it is, for static types: https://danluu.com/empirical-pl/ So far, Fred Brook’s “No Silver Bullet” remai
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by fiddlerwoaroof 1y ago
Although, from what I can tell, there’s a lot of new evidence that the Dunning–Kruger effect is an artifact of the experimental protocol and not some interesting fact about psychology.
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by fiddlerwoaroof 1y ago
I think just about every developer hack turns out this way: static vs dynamic types; keyboard shortcuts vs mice; etc. But I think it’s also possible to over-interpret these findings: using the tools that make your work enjoyable has importa
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by fiddlerwoaroof 1y ago
I looked around and it seems like Smalltalk didn't make modifying literals UB, the way Common Lisp does but I'm not an expert. Still, for both languages, most implementations won't stop you if you modify string literals, you
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by fiddlerwoaroof 1y ago
Common Lisp and Smalltalk have mutable strings, I think. So it’s not too surprising that ruby does too, since it was pretty heavily influenced by these languages.
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by fiddlerwoaroof 1y ago
My point is that no one is a new user forever and so I think we need to come up with a better solution than UI taking up screen space for things people end up doing via shortcuts. Menus and command palettes are great for this because they a
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by fiddlerwoaroof 1y ago
I sort of disagree with this: once I’ve internalized the gestures, I really appreciate the lack of UI for them. It’s like vim and emacs: the sparse ui creates a steeper learning curve but becomes a feature once you’ve learned the tool
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by fiddlerwoaroof 1y ago
Static analysis is worse and limits the programs you can write in annoying ways?
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by fiddlerwoaroof 1y ago
I think it oversimplifies, though and I think it’s shortsighted to underfund the (harder) crafted systems on the basis of this observation because, when you’re limited by scaling, the other research will save you.
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by fiddlerwoaroof 1y ago
I’ve never had an unroutable IP in the US
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by fiddlerwoaroof 1y ago
My point is that this might just prove that Harry Potter is the sort of prose “fancy autocomplete” would produce and not all that original. EDIT Actually, on rereading, I see I replied to the wrong comment.
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by fiddlerwoaroof 1y ago
Or else, LLMs show that copyright and IP are ridiculous concepts that should be abolished
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by fiddlerwoaroof 1y ago
The alternate here is that Harry Potter is written with sentences that match the typical patterns of English and so, when you prompt with a part of the text, the LLM can complete it with above-random accuracy
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by fiddlerwoaroof 1y ago
I don’t think it’s true that “consumers don’t care about quality” but rather that their concern for quality doesn’t really manifest itself in those terms. Consumers care about critical tools being available when they need them and businesse
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by fiddlerwoaroof 1y ago
My impression is they’re basically trying to end third party kernel development; macOS has been making it progressively more difficult to use kexts and has been providing alternate toolkits for doing things that used to require drivers.
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by fiddlerwoaroof 1y ago
Yeah, it probably would be feasible to dust off the FreeBSD Linux compatibility layer[1] and turn that into native support for Linux apps on Mac. I think Apple’s main hesitation would be that the Linux userland is all GPL. [1]: https:&#x2F
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by fiddlerwoaroof 1y ago
I like all the computers in my house appearing to remote servers as a single remote host. Avoids leaking details about my home network.
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by fiddlerwoaroof 1y ago
I don’t: NAT may have been a hack at first, but it’s my favorite feature provided by routers and why I disable ipv6 on my local network

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