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by ken 6y ago
I'm sure there's lots of inconsistent rules, for various accidental and historical reasons, like any other complex system. I have to get a background check to perform at the my local children's museum, but not at public scho
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by ken 6y ago
Minor nit: the PM/24 toggle seems to only be for the output text, and doesn't affect the timeline selection scale.
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by ken 6y ago
What is up with that fall protection? Mobile fall arresters are really not meant to be used with a loose pile of rope at your feet. And is that a shock pack? From this photo, it looks like he's going to be on the ground before it ge
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by ken 6y ago
Looking at popular SQL databases (you know who you are!), NULL == '' seems pretty awkward to me, too!
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by ken 6y ago
> The relational null represents the absence of a value in a field of a record; whereas the programming language null represents one of the possible values of a variable. This sounds like splitting hairs, especially as they never seem to
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by ken 6y ago
I don't understand how those aren't also descriptions of Language null. Haven't you seen programs that use null in those ways (and several others)? I certainly have.
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by ken 6y ago
Smartphones have been out-selling PCs for 10 years now. Nearly all of them are ARM. The median consumer CPU is a smartphone CPU.
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by ken 6y ago
> most – say, 90%, of what I learn at one job is completely useless for the next one This is the most surprising claim, to me. I would have flipped the ratios. Even the most radically different jobs I've had shared more than 10%.
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by ken 6y ago
Unicode’s box drawing seems to go way beyond ANSI, though, and PETscii was only added very recently (IIRC).
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by ken 6y ago
Thus the inherent contradiction: Unicode is for text, it must include all existing character sets which it aims to unify, and previous character sets weren’t only used for text. The obvious hack is to make a custom character set called “Rej
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by ken 6y ago
The Apple GUI frameworks (AppKit, UIKit) have supported automatic LTR/RTL of GUI layouts since at least 10.7 (2010). The basic view anchors are 'top', 'bottom', 'leading', and 'trailing'. &#x27
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by ken 6y ago
Boeing Field looked like that even before COVID-19, with all the 737 MAX in storage. Lots of photos online -- search "boeing field 737 max storage". I like the ones that show the reclamation of employee parking spaces: https:&#x
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by ken 6y ago
> The same goes for abs. The first ten thousand set-ups you do just may give you that 6-pack abs you want, but another thirty thousand sure won't get you the 7-pack. He picked the one type of exercise which doesn't really chang
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by ken 6y ago
More generally: editing. (e.g., How Star Wars was saved in the edit)
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by ken 6y ago
But why is the course “all about classes, getters and setters, inheritance and so on”? It sounds like a Java class before the language is even chosen. No wonder the best choice ends up being Java. When I took CS in school, these were not
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by ken 6y ago
Then don’t. It has a menu bar.
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by ken 6y ago
10 years ago, did you have to tap "no" through 2 separate alerts to view a tweet in your web browser rather than the app?
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by ken 6y ago
> I’m all for showing your kids reality I really don't think that's why children's stories used to be macabre. Nobody ever claimed these were accurate representations of reality.
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by ken 6y ago
How far do I have to go back? I know Sleeping Beauty (1959) is definitely much sanitized from the stories it's based on.
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by ken 6y ago
Anyone who's seen TV commercials in the past several years ("Attention surgical mesh patch implant patients!") must be aware that the answer is "no". Likewise for OTC and prescription drugs, cleaning products, garde
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by ken 6y ago
I must be missing something. That sounds almost exactly like the Boeing situation to me.
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by ken 6y ago
"includes Python, Lua, JavaScript, C, C++ for programming and TeX (texlive 2019, including LuaTeX) for text processing." I'm actually surprised it's only about 650 MB. TeX (Live) alone is huge.
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by ken 6y ago
The craziest postal delivery I ever saw was a letter sent to a person on a different continent, addressed only with a bang path.
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by ken 6y ago
One of my advisors in college said "The proof takes about 10 years of graduate mathematics to understand".
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by ken 6y ago
Back in the 1980's, I heard virtually the same argument -- just replace "C++" and "visualization" with "assembly language" and "compilers". There turned out to be lots of room for improvements at
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by ken 6y ago
What does that have to do with visual programming? Any program written with a "reliance on global variables and go-to statements" is going to be "extremely bug prone and unintelligible" -- visual or otherwise. There
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by ken 6y ago
Amazingly, the web folks seem to be doing OK on this front. They often manage to miss the xkcd#927 trap. What I see (admittedly the simplified public version) is more like: - Here's a standard that kind of works and everybody is usin
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by ken 6y ago
I don't know if this is normal for iPhones, but the SE got a big price break through carriers towards the end. I bought the 32GB model new for $50. Even if I didn't want that carrier, I could have bought the phone and the mini
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by ken 6y ago
1. Yes, e.g., I'm often wearing work gloves to protect me from cuts, rather than dirt and oil. I've never found any work gloves that work on touch screens. 2. Yes, because glancing at my unlocked phone will show me if anyone trie
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by ken 6y ago
But why? In every case other than compilers, when we say we want these types of features, we never mean "let's stick with plain text, like the previous generation did, and not even consider a different type of solution".

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