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by gfody 7mo ago
super playable on ff but I got stuck here https://imgur.com/a/6nXbPY3
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by gfody 7mo ago
yep that ones quantized to the system palette with no dithering, better version here: https://peakd.com/pixelart/@zelet/pixel-art-series-3-homage-...
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by gfody 7mo ago
I suspect mysql over rails.. I imagine the push for azure is to facilitate migrating from mysql to sql server (azure sql)
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by gfody 7mo ago
not anti-capitalist, just a subtle preference away from capitalism
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by gfody 7mo ago
enshitification should be a new certainty along with death and taxes
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by gfody 7mo ago
"to generate copious amounts of source code that looks like it came from an offshore chop shop that whip cracked a thousand underpaid programmers to complete tasks under threat of violence so they'll fake the tests and cut corners
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by gfody 7mo ago
doesn’t forcing your agent to think in ruby put it at huge disadvantage though? since the language isn’t that popular it can’t have learned it as well as say python or Java?
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by gfody 7mo ago
the talk page behind the utf-16 wiki is actually quite interesting. it seems the manifesto guys tried to push their agenda there, and the allusions to "real text" with missing citations are a remnant of that. obv there's no s
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by gfody 7mo ago
> I wonder what the best way is to handle this disparity for international software. It seems like either you punish the Latin alphabets, or the others. there are over a million codepoints in unicode, thousands for latin and other langua
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by gfody 7mo ago
implicit casts should only widen to avoid quiet information loss, if the optimizer behaved as you suggest the query could return incorrect results and potentially more than expected, with even worse consequences
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by gfody 7mo ago
it certainly isn't the best choice for sql server, see: https://sqlquantumleap.com/2018/09/28/native-utf-8-support-i...
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by gfody 7mo ago
hn often makes me want to scream
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by gfody 7mo ago
utf16 is more efficient if you have non-english text, utf8 wastes space with long escape sequences. but the real reason to always use nvarchar is that it remains sargeable when varchar parameters are implicitly cast to nvarchar.
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by gfody 7mo ago
yikes.. there should be the cli equivalent of that warning banner at the very least. combine this with something like gitc0ffee and it's downright dangerous
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by gfody 7mo ago
I guess it's somewhat known that you can trivially fake a repo w/a fork like this but it still feels like a bigger security risk than the "this commit comes from another repository" banner gives it credit for: https:&#x
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by gfody 7mo ago
<3
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by gfody 7mo ago
some folks prefer the aesthetic of lowercase and find capitalization unnecessary and ugly
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by gfody 8mo ago
just getting knoll's law'd or gell-mann triggered as HN does, "modern enterprise security" is a 20-layer cake of serious itu and nist cryptographic protocols like radius and x509 kerberos (which we're depressed abou
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by gfody 8mo ago
it's too late, we're in chrome monoculture era for a while now
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by gfody 8mo ago
I think about eg the "using" section at the top of a .cs file where order doesn't matter and it's common for folks to use the "Remove and Sort Usings" feature in VS.. if that were modeled as a set then diffs wo
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by gfody 8mo ago
I've had this idea too, and think about it everytime I'm on a PR with lots of whitespace/non-functional noise how nice it would be if source code wern't just text and I could be looking at a cleaner higher level diff ins
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by gfody 8mo ago
nothings faster than turbo pascal
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by gfody 8mo ago
I noticed this as well, presumably nuked from orbit by a hoard of Superbox
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by gfody 9mo ago
this right here, not just overmoderated but the mods were wrong-headed from the start believing that it was more important to protect some sacred archive than for users to have good experiences. SO was so elite it basically committed suicid
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by gfody 9mo ago
probably trying to repro the crazy success of vscode, surely electron is the magic sauce and not the dream team of devs. azure data studio should've proved that you can't just sprinkle electron dust and get a winner. sadly I loved
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by gfody 9mo ago
having a daft punk themed morning, was just looking at this old answer on SO https://stackoverflow.com/a/10760494
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by gfody 9mo ago
I just put Asahi on an M2 Air and it works so incredibly well that I was thinking this might finally be the year linux takes the desktop .. I wasn't aware of the drama w/Apple but I imagine M2 hardware will become valuable and sou
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by gfody 10mo ago
"structured query language" is actually a backronym, SEQUEL is indeed a programming language and the only mainstream 4GL. consider the output of the compiler (query planner) is a program with specific behavior, just that your sql
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by gfody 10mo ago
the best implementation of structured logging I've seen is dotnet build's binlogs ( https://msbuildlog.com ), I would love to see it evolve into a general purpose logging solution
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by gfody 10mo ago
clearly dns requests ought to be batched in this scenario, but we can imagine a smarter mechanism than http2 multiplexing to do it the problem with relying on the wire protocol to streamline requests that should've been batched is that

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