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by graypegg 4mo ago
I get the concept, but I have a feeling this might not be any more comprehensible when picking a colour than other additive colour codes with a fixed range and components. It would be neat if you could express colours as a mix of arbitrary
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by graypegg 4mo ago
I have a smart TV that's never spoken to the internet after exiting the factory, but it's a pretty tenuous state of affairs. I have this fear that someone staying over is going to see the "Services unavailable, press [menu] t
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by graypegg 4mo ago
I mean it's not a HUGE issue by any means, just sort of inconvenient. Like, most mascots aren't in gendered pairs normally (like your dog example!), you just have 1 option to represent the thing. People see Laila the dog and think
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by graypegg 4mo ago
With all due respect: it is just a picture of a cute lizard. Thinking practically, having a male and female lizard is sort of inconvenient for a mascot, since leaving one out is a message in itself. Having a genderless mascot with art asset
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by graypegg 4mo ago
The last month or so, I've been watching a lot of clabretro's videos. If you find this sort of thing interesting (old enterprise software, and possibly the old servers/equipment that would run that software), you'll defi
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by graypegg 4mo ago
Eh, everything these days is coated in a thick sheen of polish. I think maybe the thing that's off about this is the irony in someone announcing that they will no longer be announcing anything... but even then, I don't see how tha
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by graypegg 4mo ago
I don't think I've ever known of a captcha that handles the actual result decision in the front end. It's universally just the javascript required for some fancy puzzle UI, which forwards the state to some other endpoint to d
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by graypegg 4mo ago
I know it's been talked about many times, but I think the reason we don't see an obvious Rails-like framework take off in JS is because Rails derives a lot of it's magic from Ruby. It's a lot harder to capture the same e
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by graypegg 4mo ago
A while ago, a band I really like (King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard) made a choice to remove their music from Spotify. I'm all for it! I'm not a huge fan of Spotify or something, but the legions of fans then making a huge deal o
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by graypegg 5mo ago
Huh! Thats really interesting, though I’m sorry you had to go through that. Losing a whole sense for a few days is scary. I’d say that me poking at you over the internet saying it’s cool isn’t exactly nice of me, so apologies for that. I gu
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by graypegg 5mo ago
I think that back-of-the-throat feeling is what I’m talking about actually. Pain vs flavour. I feel like this guy supposedly saying he could eat VERY spicy curries and not notice means that either 1) burning from spicy food uses the same me
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by graypegg 5mo ago
I don't think JIRA is fully capable of being truly awful without people adding most of the awfulness to it. A awfulness-vessel rather than awfully-complete, but it is certainly part of the torment nexus humanity is building for ourselv
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by graypegg 5mo ago
> The dad-of-two, from Litchfield, Staffordshire, could eat the spiciest curries with no effect I know this is probably just a bit of "editorial spice" because it's an obvious example for "what would you do if you cou
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by graypegg 5mo ago
> However, as AI experts hypothesize about when, and if, AI will disrupt white-collar work, the technology thus far has made only a small splash in professional services. [...] Any returns the economy is seeing are largely confine
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by graypegg 5mo ago
I think the thing these "old internet revivals" miss is sites looked the way they did because they were outsider-art. I don't think they have to reuse precisely the same layout tools, but non-developers butting heads with tho
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by graypegg 5mo ago
It's been a personal favourite of mine to sprinkle into replies to clearly LLM generated textual diarrhea, it scores a laugh like, 1/10 times haha.
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by graypegg 5mo ago
I've found the smoking gun ⸻ it's not your work, it's your prompt.
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by graypegg 5mo ago
For all of it's history (up to and including now possibly?) Github was a big Ruby on Rails monolith. [0] Obviously some things run in their own service, but I'm seeing the core github features fall apart which should be the featur
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by graypegg 5mo ago
IMO, they're reaching the point of no return. I don't think they can horizontally-scale their way out of the hole they dug themselves unless they separate their free and paid infra maybe... which doesn't seem likely consideri
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by graypegg 5mo ago
Playing amateur detective here, but "A huge thank you to the community!" blurb was added to the repo on March 20th [0], just before the hockey stick inflection point on the 21st where they got exactly 1800 more stars... then exact
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by graypegg 5mo ago
Just to make it clear, I genuinely think they offer a crap deal. They justify being expensive, but what the end user gets in return is not worth it IMO. Do not host anything on Vercel if you can avoid it. The point I'm making is that t
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by graypegg 5mo ago
The wheel you have to spin to have a chance of seeing a new paragraph is so uniquely aggravating it almost feels satirical, like those overcomplicated volume slider UI concepts people were making a while ago. [0] [0] https://news
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by graypegg 5mo ago
I'm not a Vercel fan, but the whole pitch of PaaS is you get more than just a provisioned server for your application. The 20$/month/dev is vercel's own concept of what that Dev Experience costs with a profit margin + av
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by graypegg 5mo ago
For industrial systems, PLC controllers programmed visually [0] are an alternate to text-based programming. It's surprisingly capable! I think this sort of fits the situation better, since every state the program can be in is visible a
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by graypegg 6mo ago
They seem to attribute lower-than-average participation in their kickstarter campaign for Build Awesome to this: https://blogfontawesome.wpcomstaging.com/pausing-kickstarter... That feels a bit weird to me. If you were send
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by graypegg 6mo ago
They (tend to) open up to big spaces on the inside! So they feel like... bunker cathedrals maybe? I find them to be interesting spaces! https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Station_Radisson_Met... I'll accept t
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by graypegg 6mo ago
Oh man... I've never worked with concrete, but I would love to make a desk stand that looked like a little montréal métro station. They're all rather brutalist, and have flat tops haha https://commons.wikimedia.org&#x2F
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by graypegg 6mo ago
> The problem is... what if I want to make ice cream? I end up hoarding things for the same reason, and the mental gymnastics I try to play with myself (using that ice cream machine as an example) is to think of cases where I would be wi
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by graypegg 6mo ago
> the Prompt and Pray method can be brought to bear on any software easily even the air traffic avoidance system. I guess that's why I see it as a separate profession, as in we have to actually profess a standard for how a professio
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by graypegg 6mo ago
I think I'm finding a pretty good niche for myself honestly. IMO, Software engineering is more so splitting into different professions based on the work is produces. This sort of "prompt and pray" flow really works for people

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