oneeyedpigeon

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by oneeyedpigeon 6mo ago
Since this seems to boil down to personal choice, has anyone considered a customisable alternative? Like a frontmatter that declares which character is bold, which is italic. You could easily convert between them according to local preferen
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by oneeyedpigeon 6mo ago
Except that it's brittle—HTML comments can be stripped. I wonder why they chose this approach vs. frontmatter.
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by oneeyedpigeon 6mo ago
> it feels analogous to someone being mad that someone isn’t being carried via palanquin through the market after the motorized scooter has been invented If I ordered a taxi and a palanquin arrived, I would at least be asking questions.
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by oneeyedpigeon 6mo ago
I've seen people speculate along the lines of "all Moleskine notebook covers are created by our designers" doesn't necessarily mean "without AI".
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by oneeyedpigeon 6mo ago
Shouldn't it be against some kind of law for marketing shots to not actually be of the product? I know there has to be some leeway, but a hallucinated image is clearly nothing to do with the actual product.
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by oneeyedpigeon 6mo ago
Every time I see "prompt" nowadays, I'm briefly hopeful that I'm going to read something about $PS1. Then, inevitably, AI disappoints me yet again.
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by oneeyedpigeon 6mo ago
Airplanes are good for certain types of journey, but they're vastly inefficient for almost all of them.
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by oneeyedpigeon 6mo ago
SIGINT
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by oneeyedpigeon 6mo ago
> DO NOT JUST PASS THE SECOND BALL BETWEEN YOUR HANDS. This is a common thing, as people are regularly taught it People are really regularly taught it? Who's doing that teaching? I suspect a different cause: cartoons. Especially i
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by oneeyedpigeon 6mo ago
> so I press Tab Now you have a bonus problem: how do you insert a Tab in a multi-line text box?
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by oneeyedpigeon 6mo ago
> Infuriatingly, some apps try to be smart — only one line, return submits Tbf, this is almost certainly what the vast majority of people want, most of the time, from chat apps like Slack. It would be much more frustrating to have to cli
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by oneeyedpigeon 6mo ago
I just tested this on Slack (macOS) and it's not the case. Pressing Enter in a code block submits the message, just as it does for any message.
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by oneeyedpigeon 6mo ago
We've still yet to reach the "any textbox is just an embedded version of your EDITOR" nirvana.
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by oneeyedpigeon 6mo ago
I also sent a LOT of Slack messages prematurely for the same reason. Used to it now, though. The more an interface emphasises the single-line nature of a text input, the better. Multi-line should never submit on enter, single-line always sh
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by oneeyedpigeon 7mo ago
What about all the free-as-in-beer stuff that doesn't depend on ads? Like, er, this site?
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by oneeyedpigeon 7mo ago
I don't think you can add a new paragraph style in Docs. However, 99% of people I've known to use a word processor have never used that feature. Heck, I'd bet the majority of users don't even understand what a 'styl
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by oneeyedpigeon 7mo ago
I just cannot fathom the thinking behind presenting URLs but not linking to them. The author clearly knows something about all this (unless it's AI-written, but I don't think it is), so how have they made such a glaringly obvi
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by oneeyedpigeon 7mo ago
> how HTML is only a markup language and not a programming language. This sentence is a great example of why such a pointless debate continues. Don't disparage HTML as "only" a markup language; it's a markup language.
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by oneeyedpigeon 7mo ago
"You'll run out of memory eventually" was my point.
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by oneeyedpigeon 7mo ago
I just wish we could get these settings in nice plain text files so we can version control them and edit them easily.
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by oneeyedpigeon 7mo ago
TBF, there isn't a computer on earth that will solve that problem perfectly. At some point, "you shouldn't have so many utilities running" is perfectly acceptable advice.
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by oneeyedpigeon 7mo ago
Yeah, "how much is 10% of your energy bill" would be a much more useful question!
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by oneeyedpigeon 7mo ago
Ironically, that's what probably killed Sourceforge and helped GitHub take off. It remains to be seen whether Codeberg will now repeat the process.
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by oneeyedpigeon 7mo ago
I think we'll see companies increasingly adopting the X approach: charged tiers for 'fewer' ads. With no actual guarantee as to the absolute quantity of ads, just 'fewer, relative to the people who aren't paying as
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by oneeyedpigeon 7mo ago
I mean, this is a very obvious future step. I was imagining this too, although I stopped short at the 'ads in comments' stage, but who knows, they could easily go further.
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by oneeyedpigeon 7mo ago
It's great that they backed down, but they still did it in the first place. GitHub is on borrowed time now; my own repos are insignificant, but I'll definitely look to move somewhere else this year, and I'm sure many others w
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by oneeyedpigeon 7mo ago
Fair point! I didn't even notice their username, in case that weren't very obvious.
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by oneeyedpigeon 7mo ago
Their point is almost the exact opposite to the one a 'gigachad' would make.
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by oneeyedpigeon 7mo ago
"unup"? I know that sounds a bit weird, but I think the unambiguity still makes it better. "Unupvote" might be an alternative, if that's 'less weird'. There are alternatives to a simple word change. For ex
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by oneeyedpigeon 7mo ago
Ah, thanks. That confirms I upvoted, but I think "vote" is a silly verb to use to convey the opposite of "down"!

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