louthy

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901.
by louthy 5y ago
> it fits their narrative around brexit What narrative around Brexit? I see a lack of narrative around Brexit. We are always told about “supply chain issues” with barely any reflection on the cause. Yes, other nations in Europe have sup
902.
by louthy 5y ago
We don’t need to rely on photographs to physically see the sparse shelves with our own eyes
903.
by louthy 5y ago
> allowing the rest of the planet to recover and thrive. Are humans extra-terrestrial? How is humans thriving not part of the 'planet thriving'?
904.
by louthy 5y ago
if(predicate) { return true; } else { return false; } Can just be written; return predicate; So, your code above can be: return &.type(string) === “string” && /regex/i.t
905.
by louthy 5y ago
> Analog computers like this are virtually useless unless you have some particularly applied use-case for them. I'd be interested to hear some user testimony if anyone owns one of these! You've already highlighted a clear use-c
906.
by louthy 5y ago
Purely anecdotal, but on one of my open-source projects [1] I have around 60 contributors, most have done small things like fix defects, or fixed up inconsistencies. Some have contributed to a larger sub-project (which I drove). In my case
907.
Infinity Category Theory Offers a Bird’s-Eye View of Mathematics(scientificamerican.com)
130 points by louthy 5y ago|52 comments
908.
by louthy 5y ago
Irony, a bit like silvery and bronzy?
909.
by louthy 5y ago
> Why would we? And how should they be different, and what useful properties would that provide? Functions should be similar to mathematical functions and come with guarantees like purity, referential transparency, and totality. Anothe
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Data protection ‘shake-up’ takes aim at cookie pop-ups(bbc.co.uk)
58 points by louthy 5y ago|42 comments
911.
by louthy 5y ago
Now, if they’d just do that for T-SQL I’d be very happy!
912.
by louthy 5y ago
I felt ‘seen’ as I went through the tweets… - Starts is London, where I lived for 18 years. - Goes through Kibworth Beauchamp which is about a mile from where I live now (Beauchamp is pronounced like ‘Beecham’ btw) - Then to Derby, where I
913.
by louthy 5y ago
Has some other stuff in it, but the screen positioning should be obvious. https://gist.github.com/louthy/97c7d1725f888b6166d1bd63c7496...
914.
by louthy 5y ago
> P.S. ty for LangExt :) My pleasure :) I’ll share my AHK script when I’m back in front of my PC.
915.
by louthy 5y ago
Thanks for the suggestion, however I tried them all (screen zoning /tiling apps), and found every solution wanting. I can’t remember what my particular issue was with PoewrToys, but I know I gave it a try. The solution I have is perfe
916.
by louthy 5y ago
I use the Dell 49” Ultrawide [1] Although, it must be noted, it is just two monitors stuck together, but without a middle frame getting in the way. This does lead to a few issues with certain apps on Windows. For example, pop-up menus are d
917.
by louthy 5y ago
The problem isn’t the acronym, it’s the dogma that grows around it. WET will be wrong in certain circumstances too. Our industry is full of dogma and false prophets. It’s unbelievably frustrating.
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by louthy 5y ago
> Now, it's the opposite and your resume has to look like it has ADHD with any stint lasting longer than 18 months being a negative. (maybe a bit hyperbolic). As someone who hires people, lots of 18 month stints would certainly turn
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by louthy 5y ago
The first title I worked on in the games industry was a game called Lunatik, which was billed as a 3D Defender (for PS1, Saturn, and PC). It never worked. I wrote some comments on this article [1] about why it failed, if you’re interested.
920.
by louthy 5y ago
Truly one of the great games of the era. The pace and slickness of the movement felt head and shoulders above the rest. I lost many hours!
921.
by louthy 5y ago
I’ve always considered programming to be equal parts: science, craft, and art. Trying to fit it into a pure engineering discipline misses many of the other benefits of the craft and art of development. Much of what we do involves not just
922.
by louthy 5y ago
> You are making it sound as if the system only copies full functions verbatim It doesn't only do that, but it does do that [1]. And that is the issue. It doesn't matter if it only does this 1% of the time, it's enou
923.
by louthy 5y ago
Nobody is complaining about `i = i + 1`, it's examples like this [1], an entire function, including comments written by the original author, protected under GPL: [1] https://twitter.com/mitsuhiko/status/141088
924.
by louthy 5y ago
> And that's where there is some risk of Copilot going wrong. But that's not the primary output of Copilot nor its goal. It took no more than 24 hours for the verbatim code to appear in the wild. It's irrelevant if it&#x2
925.
by louthy 5y ago
> It's so weird to see free software proponents argue for what is in effect a big extension of what should be protected under copyright. I don't believe that's what they're arguing. They're arguing that they&#x2
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by louthy 5y ago
That seems to entirely ignore that Copilot has 'generated' GPL protected code verbatim, even down to the comments. There appears to be exact copies of certain code segments within their model, and that is being exactly copied out
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by louthy 5y ago
Evaporated sweat only cools the body if it leaves the area where the body is. So presumably they would be radiating warm air away from them.
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by louthy 5y ago
> are intentionally looking for (funny) outliers by bending the rules By typing “fast inverse square root”? That is hardly an outlier or manipulating the machine
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by louthy 5y ago
> Adding abstraction buries complexity. If all you do is keep adding more abstractions, you end up with an overcomplicated, inefficient mess. Which is part of why application sizes are so bloated today. People just keep adding layers, as
930.
by louthy 5y ago
> What would they do with this? Not get a job working for me ;) More seriously, when I think back to when I was first learning programming - in the heady days of 1985 - I would often copy listings out of computing magazines, make a mista

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