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by mhink 3y ago
This is my biggest gripe with the widespread use of Prettier over in JS/TS land, especially when using React. It always seems to introduce *more* formatting inconsistency because it's only looking at line length to decide when to
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by mhink 3y ago
I think this is missing a really, really important observation- it's only in the past two decades that the Internet (specifically, the World Wide Web) has become such a dominant medium of culture at large. Our view of "what tech c
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by mhink 3y ago
Yup, this is basically it. If you check out the "Actually Portable Executable" blogpost by the same author [1] and go to the "PKZIP Executables Make Pretty Good Containers" section there's a note on the approach. 1:
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by mhink 3y ago
I'm not so sure I agree with that. Even with chicken pot pie, there are absolutely a few different variations that (in my opinion) are equally valid- most notably, there's the question of whether it needs to have a crust underneat
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by mhink 3y ago
One thing I've noticed when AirDropping pictures to my wife is that the recipient needs to have their phone _unlocked_. That was definitely somewhat confusing when I first started using the feature.
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by mhink 3y ago
Yeah, they do store n-dimensional vectors, but they're part of the LLM zeitgest. The basic idea is that given a particular corpus of text, an LLM can produce a very high-dimensional vector that encodes the features of that text, accord
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by mhink 3y ago
Which is great until Prettier, in its infinite wisdom, decides it's better to stick four of these function invocations on one line and two on the next, so you have an obnoxious mishmash of tokens!
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by mhink 3y ago
Suppose I buy 100 shares of $ABC for $10 (total cost for me is $1000) and then sell a call option for $1 with a strike price of (say) $50. The absolute worst case scenario is that the value of my * shares* goes to $0, in which case I'
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by mhink 3y ago
I had something very similar happen back when I was in college- I stopped off at a convenience store and they were selling a particular beer (by Shiner) at $2 per six-pack. I only bought one and opened it later that evening, only to find ou
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by mhink 3y ago
I get where you're coming from, but the article is very specifically about the external design of buildings, and the impact that external design has on the area around it. You're not wrong that the internal design is important (
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by mhink 3y ago
Hmm. I hadn't considered that. In my defense, I'm actually not a crypto guy at all, and so I hadn't given much thought to the actual dynamics. And now that I think about it, I don't think I've seen many relays actua
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by mhink 3y ago
> If everything is an event, and you can send any types of events, then you can trivially saturate the network, the clients, and the relays with bogus events. I agree this is a problem. However, there is at least one protocol addition
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by mhink 3y ago
The problem is that network architecture of Nostr is different from Twitter (and from Mastodon, for that matter). One of the core ideas of the Nostr protocol is getting rid of the idea of "logging in" or "creating an account&
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by mhink 3y ago
> Marcus, can thee get the car, please. Two notes: First, you'd use "thou" here, as it's the nominative case, and the correct conjugation would be "canst". Secondly, "thee" and "thou" wer
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by mhink 3y ago
As an aside: I'm not exactly a mechanical engineer, but based on the diagram at the beginning, I think there's an aspect of a swing-set that the author's not considering (although maybe it's mentioned in some of the pape
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by mhink 3y ago
For terabyte-scale data it might make sense to send it along with a person, but for larger amounts there are definitely services to help handle the process. He mentioned AWS Snowmobile in the video, but they also have a lower-volume equival
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by mhink 3y ago
> The difference between React and Rails is, well, pretty much every mentioned negative attribute of React - Rails neither is terrible for performance, nor is full of hidden pitfalls, nor requires lots of boilerplate for simple actions,
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by mhink 3y ago
> Implicit arguments! I'm more and more convinced that this form of controlled dynamic scoping dynamic scoping should be embraced by more languages. This might be an odd comment, but this is sorta similar to React's Context mec
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by mhink 3y ago
Although the main characters tend not to encounter farmers, they're noted in a few places, as Devereaux (from ACOUP) points out: > "the townlands [of the Pelennor] were rich, with wide tilth and many orchards and homesteads the
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by mhink 3y ago
> If someone gave me the headline "was the president strong at writing essays when JFK was a high school freshman?" I would assume that either they were trying to trick me or that they were a non-native English speaker or compu
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by mhink 3y ago
It's an old law from back in the 50s. It kinda stuck around because no politician wanted to be the one suggesting a legislative change that would instantly cause a bunch of gas station attendants to lose their job. I guess. Trust me, e
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by mhink 3y ago
> I think of it in the same way as JavaScript. Clearly, it has issues, but if you want to work on the web, it is what you have available. And, interestingly, the approach they're taking here is similar to how folks have dealt with J
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by mhink 3y ago
I interned briefly at a company which mainly built industrial control systems. One of its most interesting features (which is also very mind-bending if you're coming from any sort of typical programming ecosystem) is that every "r
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by mhink 3y ago
> [...] so I could read the content without being constantly distracted by the looping, unpausable animations. Interesting note: the page doesn't respect the `prefers-reduced-motion` media query.
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by mhink 3y ago
I think this was an interesting point: > That intuition is developed by following a platform’s development from its early stages. You have to have seen and experienced all the attempts and missteps along the way to know where the next lo
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by mhink 3y ago
> I also noticed that in recent years many subreddits have increasingly been taken over by memes and other low quality posts and so users looking for more substantial content have already moved elsewhere. I feel like I've seen the o
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by mhink 3y ago
God, 2020 was absolutely horrendous for smoke. Also, it was definitely noticeably smoky during the "heat dome" in 2021, which just made the whole situation that much worse.
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by mhink 3y ago
According to a commenter up-thread, what Americans call "public schools" are referred to as "government schools", and what Americans call "private schools" are referred to as "public schools". Probabl
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by mhink 3y ago
> all the terrible things people complain about like [...] `with` [...] I would be fairly surprised to hear someone complain about with-statements. My impression is that most folks don't even know it exists, and I'd be very sho
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by mhink 3y ago
> It's a bit surprising to hear it's still $0.25. It should be roughly $1 per play to keep pace with inflation. Where are you playing?! Most places I go to are $0.75, except for one which is a bargain at $0.50. I probably would

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