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by kps 3y ago
It was equally true if you exclude things that couldn't work, like `xargs` without `-0`, but people were less careful about quoting. `shellcheck` didn't exist until 2012 (going by its copyright notice).
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by kps 3y ago
> My personal record is two characters of code per two weeks of work. Mine is approximately minus one instruction per week, and it was the best money the company ever spent. Hard real-time is hard. (It was a strange processor with, amo
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by kps 3y ago
GNOME is an interesting case, because you can't blame it (directly) on managers pushing dark patterns to maximize conversions. Is it all just trickle-down of user-hostile design philosophy from the commercial web?
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by kps 3y ago
Jobs always put form over function. He demanded a single-button mouse because it looked cleaner, so we got the entirely undiscoverable double click. It's forgotten now, but when the Mac came out, people had to be trained in double-
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by kps 3y ago
Please keep complaining. Many developers want to do better, but aren't able to put in the work because management does not see accessibility as important. Feedback forums are generally useless. They are barely monitored by low-level co
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by kps 3y ago
As did Engelbart's NLS, as seen in ‘the mother of all demos’. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yJDv-zdhzMY What little actual research exists suggests dark on light is more readable for people with normal vision. People
787.
by kps 3y ago
Ironic that a brand new article about media queries doesn't use (or mention) prefers-color-scheme.
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by kps 3y ago
The examples seem to encourage hard-coding specific colours, and includes examples that are unreadable on a light background. chalk.bgHex('#DEADED').underline('Hello, world!')
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by kps 3y ago
I have no problem contributing patches, but nothing I currently use regularly is ill-behaved. Not using colour is no work at all. Using colour correctly is a fair bit of work, and few programs do so; practically none check whether the ter
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by kps 3y ago
> That's a pretty niche case I don't entirely agree. When I do want colour (generally because I've taken the time to configure the program suitably for it), then I usually still want the colour when I pipe its output thr
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by kps 3y ago
vim predates the fashion for dark backgrounds, so it gets it wrong for a different subset of people. Try `set background=dark` in your .vimrc. (I believe neovim uses the DCS 11 inquiry to determine the actual background colour on xterm-comp
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by kps 3y ago
Yes, it would be better if colour were opt-in.
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by kps 3y ago
> it is also a fact exclusive to dark blue on black, solvable by not using dark blue ever. Try yellow on white. (Dark blue on white is quite usable.)
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by kps 3y ago
I want colour, in certain places, under my control. I don't want every random tool spewing confetti.
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by kps 3y ago
It's not a direct contradiction because it's about active shingles, not the presence or level of the virus. It could be that the virus can cause two things independently.
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by kps 3y ago
I think they said that. “CAUSAL evidence that the shingles vaccine prevents”, yes; “ could a virus cause Alzheimer’s”, yes. The causal claim is for the vaccine, not the virus.
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by kps 3y ago
You can probably have the name back for that problem. The Stack Overflow XY problem and resulting XY problem problem are different: 1. Someone is assigned to accomplish task Y 2. … within an established project based on facility X. 3. The
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by kps 3y ago
How do they make money?
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by kps 3y ago
Perhaps some of these? It says ‘10000 bugs found’. https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/buglist.cgi?product=Firefox&que...
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by kps 3y ago
https://blog.codinghorror.com/the-ten-commandments-of-egoles... I think of this in two ways. First, in a team, we're all collaborating on the project. Different people have different ideas and different experience, and
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by kps 3y ago
I use chemical elements at home. They have nice short abbreviations that can be used mnemonically, e.g. mo (molybdenum) is my modem and pr (praseodymium) is my printer. And if I somehow lose DNS and /etc/hosts on every machine, I
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by kps 3y ago
It might be “Tom OR Martin's Language”.
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by kps 3y ago
I'm on the other end of the spectrum — I only write Python occasionally for smallish utility tools, just a step above shell scripts — so I'll give my input as someone relatively new to typed Python. I recently industrialized (to u
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by kps 3y ago
And the thumb stuff. You can buy 32-bit ARM chips that have zero binary instructions in common with any 32-bit ARM before 1994.
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by kps 3y ago
> The Pentium Pro (1995), the first good superscalar microprocessor … I thought the i960CA was good.
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by kps 3y ago
Painted. Probably these are the same platform as the current HP-12c incarnation.
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by kps 3y ago
Well, my re-release is the previous one (“Limited Edition”), so it's possible this is different. Mine actually rattles, and the key feel is inconsistent.
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by kps 3y ago
Build quality isn't quite as good as the original.
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by kps 3y ago
Where I worked at the time, we had PCs (initially 386) running System V. They also had X on 1600×1200 monochrome displays, which were absolutely beautiful , monochrome CRTs not having issues with convergence or fringing. (I think the monit
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by kps 3y ago
It would be nice if this led to Qt/KDE exposing the ‘Mac mode’ toggle that makes the GUI key the default for GUI shortcuts. As someone who lives in the terminal and needs control keys left alone, the Windows style drives me nuts. (KDE

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