meindnoch

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1. 1861.▲
   by meindnoch 4y ago

   git diff --word-diff
2. 1862.▲
   by meindnoch 4y ago

   Yikes. No. For one, calls don’t result in a searchable log. If I remember I talked to someone about Foo, I can search for that in my Slack history. If someone else asks me the same question about Foo, I can just send them a screenshot from
3. 1863.▲
   by meindnoch 4y ago

   *briar patch https://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/briar-patch
4. 1864.▲
   by meindnoch 4y ago

   But at least I can see the commands being ran by `make` and work backwards from there. In VisualStudio you have to click around in a bunch of “Properties” menus (which may or may not have search boxes…) and eventually you may find what you’
5. 1865.▲
   by meindnoch 4y ago

   And then when something goes wrong, you’ll be staring at an opaque .vcproj file without any idea of what’s going on under the hood and how to fix it.
6. 1866.▲
   by meindnoch 4y ago

   Disgusting.
7. 1867.▲
   by meindnoch 4y ago

   >rightly have problems with these replacing old paper notes. Rightly?
8. 1868.▲
   by meindnoch 4y ago

   Exactly.
9. 1869.▲
   by meindnoch 4y ago

   My favorite version is the “forceX” antipattern, where you introduce boolean flags to turn off some aspect of a function. E.g. “loadData(forceFromDisk: bool)”, where “forceFromDisk == true” bypasses the cache. Then somewhere down the line s
10. 1870.▲
    by meindnoch 4y ago

    Has it occurred to you that maybe “state management” is not something you need a framework for?
11. 1871.▲
    by meindnoch 4y ago

    Ummm... macOS (aka OS X) have been using a single UI toolkit (AppKit) since the beginning. (Carbon apps no longer work since Catalina, because Carbon was never updated to 64-bit)
12. 1872.▲
    by meindnoch 4y ago

    Why was this comment flagged? C++ haters... really?
13. 1873.▲
    by meindnoch 4y ago

    Consider that a 2D bitmap is just a function p(x, y) = (r(x, y), g(x, y), b(x, y)) , that assigns colors to (x, y) coordinates. If you have a parametric curve c(t) = (x(t), y(t)) , it’s easy to see that for each parameter value t , the
14. 1874.▲
    by meindnoch 4y ago

    Looks good, but is a bit overcomplicated… The proper way to bend some graphics around a curve is by transforming it to the tangent frame.
15. 1875.▲
    by meindnoch 4y ago

    Yes, my friend, we ought to give Microsoft the benefit of the doubt, since they gave us VSCode and GitHub. Why would they lobby for such an evil thing? Surely, this must be some grave misunderstanding!
16. 1876.▲
    by meindnoch 4y ago

    As a rule of thumb, any popsci book hyped up by techbro/Joe Rogan/Lex Friedman/etc. types is going to be riddled with factual errors and "creative" interpretations, especially if it's about longevity, nutrition
17. 1877.▲
    by meindnoch 4y ago

    You can buy pure geosmin: https://pellwall.com/products/geosmin-10
18. 1878.▲
    by meindnoch 4y ago

    My most hated macOS bug: Safari’s URL bar resets the selection to the top item as the asynchronous suggestions load, which caused me to open the wrong URL countless times. See: https://youtu.be/teF1a2C6lwQ This bug has been
19. 1879.▲
    by meindnoch 4y ago

    Jt’s just a guy with a bunch of rocks: https://xkcd.com/505/
20. 1880.▲
    by meindnoch 4y ago

    Genetic, epigenetic, memetic. Why does it matter?
21. 1881.▲
    by meindnoch 4y ago

    The two match like 99% of the time, so it wouldn’t have changed the conclusions at large.
22. 1882.▲
    by meindnoch 4y ago

    Do people still use social media that much?
23. 1883.▲
    by meindnoch 4y ago

    Data written but not read back may as well go straight to /dev/null. Always read back and verify integrity.
24. 1884.▲
    by meindnoch 4y ago

    Yes. But the conditional probability of the plane having a bomb that’s not yours will still be 10^-4.
25. 1885.▲
    by meindnoch 4y ago

    I’ll forward this to my friends at Google if you promise that you stop using Google products.
26. 1886.▲
    by meindnoch 4y ago

    Conditional probability doesn’t work like that. If you always have a bomb with you, then the probability of you sitting on a plane with a bomb is 1, and thus the probability of you sitting on a plane with another bomb is again 10^-4.
27. 1887.▲
    by meindnoch 4y ago

    Finally, a movement I can identify with!
28. 1888.▲
    by meindnoch 4y ago

    Rendering the whole page on a canvas is the opposite of “open”, but whatever floats your boat. We’re going back to 2005 when it was fashionable to make your site be an single opaque SWF. Time is a flat circle.
29. 1889.▲
    by meindnoch 4y ago

    28 years in, VR shopping is still as ridiculous a proposition as ever.
30. 1890.▲
    by meindnoch 4y ago

    >It's natural for a bear, so heart disease and diabetes would've been strongly selected against in bears, while suffering approximately 0 negative selective pressure among our ancestors. It certainly helps that bears rarely liv