paul_manias

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by paul_manias 6mo ago
If you enjoy generative art then check out the Reddit group r/generative for daily posts from generative artists on the Internet. There's lots of good stuff there, and much of it is animated. https://www.reddit.com&#x2
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by paul_manias 1y ago
Partially, but I think it's moreso the W3C spec being so thorough and the wealth of samples online. I found that during code review both Codex and Claude would refer back to the specs for certainty on expected outcomes. Their underst
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by paul_manias 1y ago
In the last 7 days I implemented a complete XPath 1.0 parser & evaluation system from scratch in C++20. Right now I'm adding support for XPath 2.0. Codex in the cloud has been leveraged to do 95% of the work and Claude 5%. We&#x2
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by paul_manias 1y ago
Same experience here. In the last week I've successfully managed to build a complete C++20 XPath 1.0 parser with Codex, and am now onto supporting XPath 2.0. Codex has been nailing it time and again - the only caveat is that I have t
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by paul_manias 2y ago
I've been using MinGW and MSYS for Windows development since the early 2000's, mainly to keep the build process consistent with Linux. A couple of years ago I gave Visual Studio / MSVC a second chance and have stuck with it
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by paul_manias 3y ago
In the UK it is very easy to find scented roses from specialist growers. David Austin for instance has a 'Best for Fragrance' category on their website. They even go into some detail in describing the smells. I find that scents
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by paul_manias 4y ago
I work on a project that builds an SVG compliant vector scene graph and allows for detailed interaction via its API. Writing client code that can plug into the rendering pipeline or just altering the existing code is also fairly easy - com
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by paul_manias 5y ago
It's right at the front near your knee. The level of discomfort would vary between people, but I find it to be very noticeable once the padding's worn out.
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by paul_manias 5y ago
I've had my Aeron for 15 years (second hand, so it's probably 20 years old by now!). It's still as good as the day I bought it. The gas lift is going strong too, but I've had to replace the front pad every 5 years as t
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by paul_manias 5y ago
It's only the size and age of them that makes one fly distinguishable from another. When they're all being born at the same time there's absolutely nothing that makes them distinct, and that's your clue that eggs have b
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by paul_manias 5y ago
This reminds me of the time I found two flies in my house despite the windows being closed. I vacuumed them up (more fun that way) and the next day there were two identical looking flies in the house. Did they get out of the vacuum cleane
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by paul_manias 6y ago
Come on... make is a perfectly good choice (and for me, preferable) for any project that is small to medium sized. However if you get to a stage where you have to compile for 3 or more platforms and need to account for different compiler v
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by paul_manias 6y ago
I think that's reasonable, but is syntactic sugar really going to help you modify a path when the vector points will look more like this in reality: (path (M 368.296, 1.514) (c -0.908, 0 -1.818, 0.011 -2.716, 0.021) (c 0.053, 0,
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by paul_manias 6y ago
Let's imagine for a moment that path instructions could be mapped out with more verbose instructions. Would this really get enough practical use to be worthy of standardisation? For the most part, SVG path outlines are almost always d
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by paul_manias 6y ago
> Oh. You can almost hear the designer saying "well fuck it, we'll just jam it all into a string. I'll throw in my 2 cents here because the responses aren't addressing why the path descriptors are stylised in this way
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by paul_manias 6y ago
You say that like someone that is yet to experience the absolute hell that is OpenSSL 'documentation'.