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by mwcz 11mo ago
I'm sure there's a proper name for what you described, but I call it Rip van Winkle syndrome. He helps everyone in the town with their needs, while allowing his own property to fall to ruin.
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by mwcz 11mo ago
Nice, what was the context of that line in B5? I don't remember it.
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by mwcz 11mo ago
This is so interesting. Safety regular operates along a single dimension, if I'm reading this right. Add a value along that dimension, the model refuses to cooperate, subtract the value, and it will do anything you ask. I'm pro
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by mwcz 11mo ago
We do lots of things that are unprofitable, and we should probably do more than we do. But they should be things that bring non-monetary value into the world. Pennies do not bring non-monetary value into the world.
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by mwcz 11mo ago
In some projects I work on I've added a WHY.md at the root that explains what's scaffolding and what's load bearing, essentially. I can't say it's been effective at preventing the problem you outlined, but at least
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by mwcz 1y ago
Object.freeze is the one you're looking for. const + Object.freeze is a lot to remember and cumbersome to use throughout a codebase, very relevant to Carmack's wish for immutability by default. I'm grateful Rust opted for th
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by mwcz 1y ago
Yes, open source works whose licenses constrain derivative works.
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by mwcz 1y ago
Don't forget URL, the most important protocol of them all and the first one Tim had standardized.
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by mwcz 1y ago
I would argue that financial incentives explain the Web's walling-off, and the inverse for email. There's just not that much money to be made, comparatively, from email. But after some thought I'm coming around to your sugge
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by mwcz 1y ago
Very cool. I'm on Fedora and not likely to switch, but it looks like there's a lot of improvements I could crib from regolith.
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by mwcz 1y ago
I'll probably be switching over too, from sway, once Cosmic is out of beta. I love tiling, and the only thing I miss while using sway is the lack of a single integrated settings application. It's possible to couple together indi
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by mwcz 1y ago
The number of PRs for Cosmic you shared is very misleading. The parent repo is full of submodules, so if you want to present the number of PRs to Cosmic as a whole, you need to count the PRs for each repo. For example, the software librar
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by mwcz 1y ago
This is great. I use Markov chains to describe to normies how LLMs work. It's very interesting reading what Claude Shannon wrote after producing Markov chains from English sentences. > In an unpublished spoof written a year later, S
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by mwcz 1y ago
That's too true to be funny!
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by mwcz 1y ago
That's exactly my experience. I dislike ligatures (I want to see the characters I typed) and tiling/tabs are anti-features if you have a tiling WM.
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by mwcz 1y ago
I've been using alacritty for ... I don't know, but many years, and haven't once been tempted to switch away.
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by mwcz 1y ago
I'm not a lodash stalwart or anything, but years ago when I used it heavily, it made navigating and manipulating large/complex/irregular objects much easier. It's LINQ for JavaScript. And it was very readable and consi
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by mwcz 1y ago
"It's not really about the performance" the parent comment was about the performance of lodash.
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by mwcz 1y ago
Is that the case? I saw a talk by the author of lodash years ago and he touched on performance. The built-in functions are (or were?) implemented in JS, level terrain for a library like lodash to beat "native" performance. Loda
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by mwcz 1y ago
What time traveling debugger(s) do you recommend? I'm a regular GDB user and keep meaning to try rr.
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by mwcz 1y ago
At least on our instance there can only be one assignee, so I assume they are referring to the selection list of possible assignees.
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by mwcz 1y ago
The way drag and drop and most other updates block all UI interaction until the network response is infuriating.
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by mwcz 1y ago
Is it the case that these devices are converging on 16:9? I don't know about the supply chain, but there seems to be no lack of e-ink tablets at A5/A6 sizes and/or with better ratios than 16:9. Remarkable has the roughly A6-
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by mwcz 1y ago
Thanks for sharing. I'm a double spacer, but have to agree it does look to wide most of the time, while single-spacing looks too narrow. 1.5 sounds like a greatGoldilocks spacing. I only wish it were easier to use.
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by mwcz 1y ago
This discussion made me realize that I have a head canon definition of "bare metal" that applies more to the programming environment than the deployment environment. It would exclude any runtime translation to the native instruct
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by mwcz 1y ago
"On metal" is muddied too. I've heard people refer to web apps running in an OCI container as being "bare metal" deployment, as opposed to AWS or whatever hosting platform. That's silly, but the idea that &quot
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by mwcz 1y ago
Tenth time's the charm. I slept through all the others.
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by mwcz 1y ago
Am I the only one with deja vu? I distinctly remember a story, shortly after Firefox's initial launch, of a firefox.com domain owner gifting it to Mozilla. Maybe it was getfirefox.com and I'm just getting old and confused.
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by mwcz 1y ago
Sorta, but what I have in mind is a graphical browser, not exactly like the OP. It would have CSS support under the user's control, not the website's control. Navigation would also be more constrained and predictable than the to
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by mwcz 1y ago
Name checks out! I hope to find the time to at least write up a blog post about how I imagine the browser would work.

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