intergalplan

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by intergalplan 5y ago
The actual writing from a lot of the golden age and New Wave sci-fi authors is... OK at best, with a few exceptions (Bradbury's distinctively poetic and dreamlike prose, for example). Tons of modern sci-fi authors write stories with
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by intergalplan 5y ago
Huh? That's what HEAD requests and correct HTTP headers are for, surely?
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by intergalplan 5y ago
There's so much stuff in HTML that's almost good enough to replace things we use Javascript for. We should also have had built-in pagination and sorting on tables, like, years ago, with some kind of (optional, if your data aren&
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by intergalplan 5y ago
That loopy-style cursive they taught us in school was so damn ugly, even when done perfectly, and not especially fast. I never understood why they were making us learn it. Its existence only made any sense to me whatsoever when I learned it
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by intergalplan 5y ago
I have writing samples from second grade. My writing was much more legible then.
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by intergalplan 5y ago
YouTube is great for things where the directions for the specific activity you want might not include "basic" things someone who knows it well wouldn't think to list in written instructions, or some little technique or moveme
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by intergalplan 5y ago
I'd assumed anyone with visual impairment—but not outright blindness requiring a screen-reader—was using custom stylesheet stuff pretty much constantly all over the web. Controlling the appearance of sites client-site used to be a basi
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by intergalplan 5y ago
Now that is one of the more interesting perspectives on the situation that I've read, out of all these threads. Thanks.
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by intergalplan 5y ago
Hahaha, see, I'm so terrible at both measuring and cutting that I'd never expect anything I'm building to come out remotely right if I needed to start doing much with angles that aren't 90, 45, or 30, with hard pre-sets
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by intergalplan 5y ago
Approaching 40. Haven't ever needed calculus (or Trig) for anything. Sometimes I make an effort to pick math back up just because I feel like I ought to , but it'd be so purely a hobby with no practical use that I have a hard tim
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by intergalplan 5y ago
Kinda, but Square actually had an alternative way of managing UI flow, enabled by a couple libraries they wrote, and a bunch of other support libraries for basic stuff like making HTTP requests, all of which was so much saner than Google&
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by intergalplan 5y ago
Developing for Android definitely made me a lot more understanding of quirks and brokenness in apps on my personal Android phones (developing for Android and iOS, and so being exposed to many examples of both kinds of devices, ended up co
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by intergalplan 5y ago
I liked the ones that had been auto-closed then manually re-opened like 5 times because it'd survived that many major versions. Entirely not kidding about more than once seeing that someone had pasted a patch file for like a 1-2 line f
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by intergalplan 5y ago
(Information somewhat out-of-date, especially on the Android side) Android's official libraries are often weirdly bad and seemingly incomplete. You'll do a lot of DIY and work-around and looking incredulously at 8-year-old bug rep
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by intergalplan 5y ago
The bigger issue is the Android emulator, which AFAIK still only kind-of works on M1.
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by intergalplan 5y ago
I haven't done Android dev in a few years, but last time I did the best advice a new dev could get was, "ignore any best-practice or how-to element of Google's Android docs. Ignore the old, official way of doing [thing]. Defi
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by intergalplan 5y ago
Yeah, I'm over here going, "oof, I hope they don't do too well by burning VC cash, or they might stifle esbuild and deno and similar efforts, and we'll remain stuck at this embarrassingly-low local maximum even longer&
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by intergalplan 5y ago
> And progressive taxation. Point of order: I'm taxed the same on my one-millionth dollar of income (assuming the same source) as Jeff Bezos is. ... I just don't have a one-millionth dollar of income to tax, but if someone want
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by intergalplan 5y ago
I try to isolate and minimize dependencies on Google due to their habit of abruptly banning entire accounts because one of their bots thinks it spotted something slightly odd on a single service that account is using. It's absolutely p
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by intergalplan 5y ago
Writers use all kinds of tools to "cheat", up to and including not actually writing. Mining computer-generated nonsense or coherent-but-empty prose for the odd accidentally-excellent phrase or sentence might end up being just anot
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by intergalplan 5y ago
Now try a "used" diamond. shudders
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by intergalplan 5y ago
My experience is that the cops don't care a bit about thefts into the mid thousands, even if there's a high likelihood the culprit and their car, probably including the plate were caught on camera multiple times. "We'l
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by intergalplan 5y ago
Right, being there at all has some value, but both the quantity and quality of actual time with them , rather than just near them but entirely distracted by other life-crap , isn't high. I'm just saying that "I mostly see t
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by intergalplan 5y ago
> I remember chatting with a woman at a work event one night and asking if she needed to go home soon because of her kids. She replied, “No, I see my kids on weekends.” I couldn’t help but cringe thinking about what it would be like to o
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by intergalplan 5y ago
It's faster to do "screenshot area to paste buffer" then paste it than to select the text you want (text selection requires more precision than just snagging a zone of the screen) and fiddle with text formatting on the receiv
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by intergalplan 5y ago
I'd also version the DB in the URL, else you could end up changing the file out from under someone who's already got the page loaded, with who-knows-what results depending on how different the file is. You could just prefix a head
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by intergalplan 5y ago
My problems with AMP are: 1) Google clearly leveraging it to take over more of the web, 2) The scroll hijacking that made it feel worse-performing (plus just otherwise unpleasant) than middle-weight websites normally do, 3) That some of t
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by intergalplan 5y ago
Make friends with anyone who deals with lots and lots of people across socio-economic status boundaries—teachers, social workers, anyone in government who deals with the public on a regular basis—and they can tell you what that means. You&#
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by intergalplan 5y ago
There was a Twitter thread making the rounds a while back in which someone claimed insiders (existing employees, especially if they're able to develop a significant social circle in them) in big tech companies do the same thing: when t
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by intergalplan 5y ago
LeetCode-type interviews are about 60% a how-bad-do-you-want-this test, and 40% a barely-concealed IQ test. I'm not even sure that's the wrong way for FAANG to do things, given how many people want to work there. I do know it&#x

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