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by ggorlen 3y ago
Having flagged hundreds of such answers before SE suppressed LLM moderation, I can vouch that they stick out like a sore thumb: - they're all written in the same style ("It looks like you're trying to do convert a string to a
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by ggorlen 3y ago
I agree that `run()` is more readable than an IIFE if you remove all context and history from the analysis. But the IIFE is a well-known idiom to JavaScript programmers, so readers will not have to pay a cognitive "what is `run()` do?&
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by ggorlen 3y ago
> It's kind of related because AI tools are for better or worse going to eat up a bunch of these question/answer responses from tools like Stack Overflow for developers, particularly for trivial things. I don't see the con
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by ggorlen 3y ago
I'm not sure if this comment is a joke or not, but please don't do this. Stack Overflow is trying to curate a resource of high-quality questions and answers. The rule is that content is created by humans, generally subject matter
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by ggorlen 3y ago
> I don't see any signs of that though. Even if we take it for granted that package downloads are hidden, how should we account for the ~40% drop in new questions in the Angular tag on Stack Overflow since its peak in 2018? https:&
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by ggorlen 4y ago
Good point about strict mode. However, I've collected a few gotchas[1] that I don't think strict mode helps with (as seems to be the case with languages that offer strict mode, it's not enough). If you're curious and hav
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by ggorlen 4y ago
Small nitpick: if !encountered[elements[v]] == true { is a double negative and hard to understand. I'd write it as if !encountered[elements[v]] { or if you must use the bare bool, if encountered[elements[v]] ==
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by ggorlen 4y ago
The point is, if a developer is resorting to another language just to write a 20 line script with a data structure, a loop and control flow, that's a failure of the shell. I don't want to have to use anything other than PS to scri
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by ggorlen 4y ago
Case sensitivity isn't a major deal, but it's another example of the designers trying too hard to be clever and "user friendly". A good scripting language should try to reduce friction relative to other programming langu
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by ggorlen 4y ago
The author has a few good points. I want to love PS as well, but in practice it has too many gotchas and pitfalls that seem to pop up every time I write a script more than a few lines. Sure, all languages have these, but the ones in PS feel
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by ggorlen 4y ago
Their code uses Date.now() but wouldn't it be better to use the high-resolution timestamp[1] passed as the parameter to the requestAnimationFrame callback[2]? [1]: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web&
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by ggorlen 4y ago
Unsubscribing after this spam didn't seem to work. I still received their follow-up apology.
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by ggorlen 4y ago
PKD was largely a product of his time in terms of gender roles, but his short story "The Impossible Planet" may be a counterexample.
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by ggorlen 4y ago
> Also annoying that a single new line doesn't do anything, you need to have two. Doesn't make sense at all. This is how markdown works, so it feels natural to me (although then the differences from markdown become apparent...)
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by ggorlen 4y ago
It might be worth editing the title as well. I clicked in to figure out what it meant. Bachelor's degree didn't make much sense...
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by ggorlen 4y ago
More sculptural instrument recordings: - https://www.discogs.com/master/1368351-The-Wind-Harp-Song-Fr... - https://www.discogs.com/lists/sculpturalunique-instrumentsso... - https://www.
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by ggorlen 4y ago
Looks fantastic! I can't read the post, but I think you can simplify the 10 print Python code to while True: print(choice("\\/"), end="") (the `format` call doesn't seem needed and `choice` works on