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by johnday 7y ago
> ... or build one yourself. Do you really think that this is going to be even remotely feasible for 99.999% of the population? I'm a computer scientist and I wouldn't know where to start. Sure, it's easier than "buil
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by johnday 7y ago
I said that it rewrites the contents of the entire page, by which I mean ~100% of the things visible to the user may change.
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by johnday 7y ago
I think we can actually blame React and similar frameworks for the issues we see in many modern apps, including the ones mentioned in the article. Part of the issue stems from the "strong data coupling" that's all the rage. E
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by johnday 7y ago
There's no such thing as a "problem of base2". Base 2 is an ineffable fact of the universe, and it is neither virtuous nor problematic. All the problems you are describing are problems of floating-point arithmetic.
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by johnday 7y ago
Placing the burden of responsibility for security on the end user is not the way to go about this - at least, not if you want people to actually use your product / language. Package managers do not only exist as a convenience. They s
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by johnday 7y ago
I wonder whether modern robotics would fulfil their definition of "slavery"... Or whether modern patronage on its own (university research, arts funding, etc) would suffice in their view.
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by johnday 7y ago
Aren't you describing the "pocket" of a hot pocket?
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by johnday 7y ago
Hate to break it to you, but injecting human emotion into speech is more than just putting intonation and punctuation in the right place.
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by johnday 7y ago
If the lesson is "use languages specifically designed for the use case", then that's a lesson worth learning.
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by johnday 7y ago
> It doesn't make sense to use JSON as the interchange format for a statically typed language. Two problems here. One, there are multiple statically typed languages with different type systems and it is nontrivial to translate betwe
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by johnday 7y ago
Oh, I see what you mean! In the UK, "potted" plants are actually called pot plants more often than not.
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by johnday 7y ago
There is a clear subtext in everything put out by Tesla and Uber that their cars are self-driving. That is to say, they drive themselves. That is to say, nobody else needs to drive them in order for them to get from A to B. If they are trul
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by johnday 7y ago
This is silly. The only party here marking the end of "friendly generational relations" is the NY Times itself. Drawing lines through society is the cheapest and easiest way to look wise without making any meaningful comment.
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by johnday 7y ago
On the off-chance that this was said unironically, you should never trust someone just because they say you should. Especially if they aren't sharing the code.
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by johnday 7y ago
Ah, that's good then!
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by johnday 7y ago
I think the UK is leaning towards summer time all year. People seem to greatly prefer going home in the light than waking up in it. [Plus it'll keep us more in sync with Europe, assuming they stick on standard time]
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by johnday 7y ago
Seems like an interesting idea. There's a huge problem with this website, though. It's a search engine and the most prominent thing on the page is a giant picture of some people. Put the search box, writ large, right in the middle
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by johnday 7y ago
The three horizontal lines ("hamburger") is meant to represent entries in a vertical menu. In situations where pressing the button doesn't reveal a vertical menu, it makes no sense whatsoever.
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by johnday 7y ago
No, you cannot. I think the intention is to deprive you of the opportunity to start writing at all. There are studies that show the longer you take thinking before acting, the better your outcomes are.
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by johnday 7y ago
The opportunity to reply is only invoked after an increasing amount of time, which I think is dependent on the depth of the conversation. In other words, the further into a conversation you are, the more time you are forced to take to think
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by johnday 7y ago
You can! For example, I wrote an app launcher for the device which allows you to boot other programs, or the default interface.
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by johnday 7y ago
Almost any functional programming language has the same power and quality of life in programming, except with the added bonus that things have names . If you come up with a new looping construct (which you probably won't), just create
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by johnday 7y ago
No real indictment on the quality of the OS nor on the effort that people have put into the project, but why, oh why, did they pick a name which has two different special characters in it? It looks like they're trying hard to push this
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by johnday 7y ago
I can imagine that working to a degree: Make a fork of a commit at an issue, then merge that fork back in with master at point of fix. Bit of a mess in the tree though.
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by johnday 7y ago
That's really interesting. Could you cite that for me? I had a quick look around but didn't see anything super reliable.
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by johnday 7y ago
> That is a problem electric cars won't fix, by the way, they'll just move it around. "Moving it around" here generally means moving it to electricity generation sites - ie places where people don't live. That&#x
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by johnday 7y ago
[[It's not 100% clear but it seems that the problem only occurs if you put the screen protector on before recording your fingerprint. If you record the fingerprint and then add the protector it does not allow you to unlock the phone
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by johnday 7y ago
Seems to be an artifact of how the EMF interacts with the additional layer.
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by johnday 7y ago
On the other hand, it would be feasible to convert roads into normally-pedestrianised areas, which you need a permit or a one-day pass to drive through. There are numerous city centres in the UK which use this method. The central portion
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by johnday 7y ago
The site seems to not currently functioning, which... doesn't bode well? I am interested in how a social network can be socialist, per se.

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