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by jefftk 1y ago
Now that pools are practical, I expect weather to be a larger factor: swimming is much more desirable in hot dry weather. I'd predict there are more swimming-hours per capita in Phoenix than Boston.
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by jefftk 1y ago
Its design goal was to supplant HTML as the language of the web, and regularize communication between browsers and servers. At this it has failed.
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by jefftk 1y ago
XHTML was not a previous version of HTML; it was a failed successor. HTML was originally conceived as a subset of SGML, but browsers tried to be as forgiving as possible of malformed markup and HTML-in-practice drove standards folks nuts.
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by jefftk 1y ago
Yes, I think that "2011" should be a "2021", and then everything else will work.
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by jefftk 1y ago
> How do you use a book? I think that's a great example, actually! Imagine a book with a license saying that you could only read it if your goal was to promote the specific ideology, and quoting was only allowed to support that id
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by jefftk 1y ago
> Forget the courts for a second, just ask yourself what is the right thing to do Forgetting the courts, whether reading the source code and learning from it is intended to count as "use" is not clear to me, and I would have
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by jefftk 1y ago
> I can't see how it can be fair use. The key question is whether it is sufficiently "transformative". See Authors Guild vs Google, Kelly vs Arriba Soft, and Sony vs Universal. This is a way a judge could definitely rul
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by jefftk 1y ago
Weather training on code is fair use is still an open legal question, and it may well be fair use. The way a license works is by saying "you have my permission to use this code as long as you follow these conditions", but if no li
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> I suggest every developer does the same until the legal position is clarified (in our favour) There are a lot of people developing open source software with a wide range of goals. In my case, I'm totally happy for LLMs to learn
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by jefftk 1y ago
> but don't because of occasional RSI issues I also have this issues that often keep me from typing, but FYI dictation has gotten very good. (Dictated this)
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by jefftk 1y ago
I write online (comments here, open source software, blogging, etc) because I have ideas I want to share. Whether it's "I did a thing and here's how" or "we should change policy in this specific way" or "
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by jefftk 1y ago
The ones that are 25 pieces x 40 pieces are really 1000 pieces. But some puzzles are 27x38 or other more square form factors.
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> How about a reputation system where users bring proof that other websites haven't found them abusive. If you're not careful something like that can subvert the efforts to reduce cross-site tracking, but you can do resolve t
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by jefftk 1y ago
Producing ninja files was an intermediate phase in the transition to gn. For most of its lifetime it was producing makefile.
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by jefftk 1y ago
The site you reference quotes Beckstead out of context, and either reading the context or looking at what he spent the next decade of his life working on would make it clear that he thinks the marginal dollar is better spent on saving lives
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by jefftk 1y ago
I think this makes Chrome build system number four: scons, gyp, ninja, siso.
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Bazel didn't even exist when they moved from gyp to ninja.
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by jefftk 1y ago
"Hell's Kitchen" doesn't sound like something I'd want inside my house.
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by jefftk 1y ago
Frequency is too high. Needs to be solid metal, and your microwave uses a mesh. Your microwave is also super leaky electromagnetically, which you can see by the effect on 2.4GHz WiFi. It's just not leaky enough to cook you.
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by jefftk 1y ago
That seems to be pretty good for the group of newcomers! They all buy together at lowish prices, then prices go up enough that they ~make their money back on housing appreciation. And it's not bad for existing homeowners either, sinc
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by jefftk 1y ago
This isn't stainless rebar, it's stainless-coated rebar. Perhaps still to expensive to end up widely used, but it should be a lot cheaper than pure stainless.
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by jefftk 1y ago
Recently? It was almost a decade ago: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=815006
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by jefftk 1y ago
There are unfortunately a lot of old C library functions that violate const correctness. Consider dirname: https://www.jefftk.com/p/dirname-is-evil
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by jefftk 1y ago
I would be ok with the equivalent of the "fi" ligature, where two letters would be drawn slightly differently when next to each other.
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by jefftk 1y ago
Totally! I thought we were talking about the same site case.
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by jefftk 1y ago
Headers and footers, yes. Menus generally need to expand when you interact with them, especially on mobile.
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by jefftk 1y ago
You could do this with js in the child document, if its important to keep js out of the parent.
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by jefftk 1y ago
Claude 3.7 gets it exactly right: To determine which option cools coffee the most, I'll analyze the heat transfer physics involved. The key insight is that the rate of heat loss depends on the temperature difference between the coffee
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by jefftk 1y ago
> When I’m on my deathbed, I won’t look back at my life and wish I had worked harder. I’ll look back and wish I spent more time with the people I loved If you don't imagine yourself wishing you'd worked harder, consider wheth
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by jefftk 1y ago
This isn't just pixels, it's the normal way we use rectangular units in common speech: * A small city might be ten blocks by eight blocks, and we could also say the whole city is eighty blocks. * A room might by 13 tiles by 15 til

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