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631.
by mst 3y ago
These sorts of change tend to have significant but very diffuse benefits (everybody pays X% less for $thing) but very concentrated costs (areas dependent on $industry being gutted). I tend towards the idea that the benefits are often worth
632.
by mst 3y ago
I made a couple of attempts since last posting to this thread and they jumped sufficiently diagonally to escape the clap, but I did come close at least once so I intend to keep practising and see if I can do better than close.
633.
by mst 3y ago
The automatic transcribers have (pretty recently) reached the point where I'd rather have their output than not. This came as something of a surprise to me - six months ago I'd likely have been enthusiastically agreeing with you.
634.
by mst 3y ago
A glass I was drinking hard cider from left out with a splash still in the bottom seems to reliably acquire corpses overnight.
635.
by mst 3y ago
Huh. I wonder if other sorts of fly are amenable to the clapping trick. I shall have to experiment.
636.
by mst 3y ago
Being in NW England this seems a promising endorsement of surviving the levels of sunlight we get down south.
637.
by mst 3y ago
Without suggesting it solves most (if any) of your complaints, https://yglu.io is significantly less horrible than text templating YAML files like everybody else seems to want to do.
638.
by mst 3y ago
I was going for "set up some code once and don't think about it again" to maximise the odds of the idea sounding tempting. Proofreading would set up an expectation on the part of readers that it -had- been proofread and corre
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by mst 3y ago
I believe the VSCode UI components that are designed to be used both internally and by extensions have React wrappers pre-built - see https://github.com/microsoft/vscode-webview-ui-toolkit/blob/... - and the
640.
by mst 3y ago
I've had fun playing with lit+mobx - there's https://github.com/alexanderweiss/mobx-lit-element and (documented as based on the former) https://github.com/adobe/lit-mobx already out ther
641.
by mst 3y ago
Please consider generating some sort of automated transcript from these. I'd hope your target audience would understand the limitations of such a thing, and I'm probably not the only person who'd rather read than listen even
642.
by mst 3y ago
Given it was only relatively recently they were talking about getting their first deployment out the door, I'd suspect that staying mostly quiet is strategically wise in terms of avoiding having more prospective customers come in the d
643.
by mst 3y ago
I feel like starting your role by discovering a crucial service wasn't being paid for and therefore was at risk of suddenly going away should be a pretty positive thing. However 'should' is pretty load bearing there and actua
644.
by mst 3y ago
rxjs (see M. Kerjean's sibling comment for an example) or mobx/mobx-state-tree can be used to implement something like that, and I've quite enjoyed both react+mobx and lit+mobx as a result. (googling 'thing mobx' wh
645.
by mst 3y ago
Only allowed if it's fexpr based though.
646.
by mst 3y ago
The four space prefix is for code/monospaced blocks, not really for quotes. Generally on HN people (myself included) seem to use the '> ' tradition for quoting, which the parser doesn't treat specially but works out f
647.
by mst 3y ago
I appreciated that the accessibility thing is called out as the top entry on the list of changes it makes you may want to override. If it's genuinely just munching CPU if you don't use it, then turning it off by default with a war
648.
by mst 3y ago
A number of Mozilla's LGBT+ employees spoke out at the time saying that they'd already known about the donation but since he'd been utterly professional at work they still felt quite sufficiently supported by the company and
649.
by mst 3y ago
There's a fair chunk of content out there these days that's thunkingly woke in a way that annoys the crap out of me - stuff that might as well end with an "and the moral of the story is" segment ala moralising kids TV. S
650.
by mst 3y ago
It was an interesting experience watching David Tennant in his first season of Doctor Who and feeling like he was overacting in a way that I found got on my nerves ... right up until I remembered that most of his acting work previously had
651.
by mst 3y ago
One could argue that there's a selection effect during the up and coming phase that means a different subset of writers are the ones who make it to the top these days. (I hear tell that as adaptions go The Expanse was relatively well d
652.
by mst 3y ago
Modern film colour palettes is why when I saw That Dress breaking the internet my first thought as "you're both wrong, it's teal and orange" and -lolsob-
653.
by mst 3y ago
CMS software definitely also seems to be in the category I was talking about. I suspect the 80/20 rule is in play, wherein each of the 80% of users is using a different 20% of features so your choices are to end up with something nearl
654.
by mst 3y ago
In practice, I tend to find ticketing systems almost invariably exist either in a superposition of modeling too much and modeling too little, or as you say, have tried to model everything to the point where you can't find anything. The
655.
by mst 3y ago
Moodle is awful in many ways, but it's well known, has a decent ecosystem, and I've yet to interact with something I didn't find substantially more awful. I suspect, much like ticketing and project management systems, LMS sof
656.
by mst 3y ago
I think for optional I'd just write "It may be worth ..." and I think I might prefer using 'Maybe:' as a tag because 'Optional:' implies to me "I'm sure this is a good idea but it's not stri
657.
by mst 3y ago
I do like the way BlueSky lets you use your own domain much like hosted email providers do - presumably your account should be migrateable to other AT protocol systems as a result (eventually, hopefully, caveat, caveat).
658.
by mst 3y ago
I've been known to outright use 'nitpick:' - and if it's a nitpick that matters to me personally will tend to supply a diff for them to grab. Keeping the effort required to resolve it in line with how much it matters to
659.
by mst 3y ago
> Enforcing 80 characters is way too short for any reasonably complex code Making it a hard requirement is a bad idea, making it 'required unless you can give a really good reason' (and notice that arp242 made clear that length
660.
by mst 3y ago
There's human factors reasons for e.g. web sites optimised for reading not using the full width of a modern screen though (including ones where the unused side space is not, in fact, filled with gunk but left empty with the text down t

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