mostlylurks

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by mostlylurks 3y ago
Cover art is not unconnected to the work itself. It correlates fairly strongly with the stylistic choices made in a book, though that correlation becomes more tenuous the more distance you add between the author and the selection of cover a
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by mostlylurks 3y ago
If I don't remember wrong, doesn't it put object destructurings on one line if they fit? That's both less readable than putting each destructured member on its own line as well as a cause of unnecessary whitespace changes in
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by mostlylurks 3y ago
A mediocre language is not the same as a language appropriate for developers of mediocre skills. Go could have been made a better language [0] in many ways that would have actually made it easier than it is right now, by avoiding some of th
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by mostlylurks 3y ago
You are mistaken if you think that the abundant use of interfaces etc. is motivated by anything along those lines. As someone who often puts basically everything behind an interface and abstracts everything in sight, it's not because i
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by mostlylurks 3y ago
It's not about the compiler, it's about the language. Rust, and C++ as well, have features that generally speaking require the compiler to do a significant amount of work to compile the program. Plain old C can easily compile more
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by mostlylurks 3y ago
> No it isn't, and yes it does. By definition, the more features I add to something, the more complex it becomes. Yes, and go opts to include features that unnecessarily increase complexity in this manner, such as nil values. > A
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by mostlylurks 3y ago
Assuming your site doesn't literally have only a single page, how do you handle reuse of styles and potentially behavior across pages if you put everything into one HTML? I've tried out the "everything in one file" appro
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by mostlylurks 3y ago
React is so simple to use that you definitely don't need to hire a "react dev" to "handle all the complexity". Like >95% of the effort is just understanding the basics of standard front end technologies (HTML, JS
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by mostlylurks 3y ago
React makes it fairly easy to implement your app in a way that makes it easily portable to different platforms. With things like HTMX, you'll more or less have to rewrite everything if you ever end up in a situation where you'd li
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by mostlylurks 3y ago
> You can't really reduce housing demand in any way that would be good. You can, especially locally. For instance, if you normalize remote work in society to the extent that a significant portion of people won't feel any strong
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by mostlylurks 3y ago
You say that like it's a bad thing. If there are two groups of people, and one of them is indicating (via words or behavior) that they don't care about something all that much and the other is indicating that they do care about th
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by mostlylurks 3y ago
As someone that opens up hundreds (or thousands) of tabs regularly, I close each tab after I'm done with that specific tab, and it would make no sense to close it before that. But because I open most of my tabs from pages which contain
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by mostlylurks 3y ago
No, because my tabs are categorized into windows, each with their own purpose, and even inside those windows, the order of the tabs has some meaning and can be easily controlled, whereas the easy route of adding bookmarks into one big uncat
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by mostlylurks 3y ago
The usability of bookmarks is far worse than that of tabs. With tabs, I can just middle click in the relevant window and the tab will be in the right place, waiting for me. With bookmarks I have to either spend a lot of effort putting the b
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by mostlylurks 3y ago
Those are far from the only options available. Recently platforms such as patreon have shown that it is completely feasible for a small subset of enthusiastic fans to financially support some creator that makes their content freely availabl
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by mostlylurks 3y ago
> antidisestablishmentarianism This is not actually a compound word, merely a word which stacks several layers of derivation on top of a single stem. > What about single nouns with spaces in the middle like "remote control"
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by mostlylurks 3y ago
Understanding the techniques that make general purpose programming in prolog easy is one of the easiest parts of learning prolog, such that even beginners shouldn't have trouble with it. Learning to use prolog the way it was meant to b
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by mostlylurks 3y ago
If what you claim were actually the case, the names we assign these "abstractions" wouldn't matter, they could be any arbitrary sequence of characters, since all you'd be doing is grouping code into procedures for the sa
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by mostlylurks 3y ago
Not allowing types to be nested within themselves would be a massive downside. You'd lose the ability to model anything tree-like in a reasonable manner. There are some obvious workarounds, but they're so inconvenient that nobody
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by mostlylurks 3y ago
Yes, and I know that it's far more difficult than you might initially expect. I wasn't trying to portray the process as easy or trivial in terms of the effort required, my point was more about the fact that the barriers to entry a
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by mostlylurks 3y ago
Books only require the efforts of one person for a relatively short period of time and only a shoestring budget and as a result there's an unfathomable number of books to choose from, and the technology required to manufacture books is
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by mostlylurks 3y ago
Not having arm rests is hardly dystopian. The chair I've used for approximately a decade now came with arm rests, but I chose not to install them, because they just get in the way and provide only negligible benefits. There are many ot
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by mostlylurks 3y ago
A challenge, yes, but an insurmountable one? No. There is no fundamental need to keep the written form of a language across various dialects unified. If people can understand each other's accents and dialects when speaking, they can al
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by mostlylurks 3y ago
They're getting less usable as well. One of the mice I use daily has had a broken scroll wheel for a few months now and I've been too lazy and/or busy to replace it, and it's shocking how broken scroll bars are if you tr
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by mostlylurks 3y ago
2) Being restricted to pure functions is not actually much of a restriction at all. Any impure input can be trivially replaced with parameterization over values representing that input and any impure output can be trivially replaced by incl
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by mostlylurks 3y ago
Perhaps because it actually has native speakers, and thus at least some people use their innate faculties for language to speak it and in the process create pressures for it to shape itself to fit the resulting constraints, which can't
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by mostlylurks 3y ago
Much of the EU has the added problem of there simply being more old people than young people, making this issue and some others, like the pension issue, much more hopeless than they would be in countries with healthy[0] population pyramids.
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by mostlylurks 3y ago
Code formatters collapse a variety of different patterns, which could be intentional emphasizations of various aspects of the code, as is the case in the example shown in the article, into a single pattern, which eliminates that information
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by mostlylurks 3y ago
Interesting, it's been like a decade since I last used windows, but I had to go and check what layouts are available, since I remember having these combinations on my layout. Apparently those combinations are provided by windows in the
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by mostlylurks 3y ago
Do the danes not have the mechanism that is found on Finnish keyboard layouts, where pressing AltGr+Ö yields Ø and AltGr+Ä yields Æ, except in reverse?

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