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by pdpi 3y ago
I find myself commenting code in a similar pattern: A small kernel of "interesting" code that has a 1:1 ratio (or higher) of comments to code, which enables the rest of the codebase to be "boring" self-documenting boiler
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by pdpi 3y ago
That's a much better approach in general. It's much easier to regulate and enforce that websites must expose these headers so that UAs can do their own filtering. Adult Content = headers in response, no ifs, ands, or buts Response
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by pdpi 3y ago
Twitter's self-destructive spiral under Musk is clearly a case of a corporation putting ideology above money in the worst possible way.
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by pdpi 3y ago
It's not a problem of macOS in the strictest sense but we're talking about highly vertically integrated platforms. You don't get macOS without a mac, so it _is_ a macOS problem in that sense.
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by pdpi 3y ago
> The problem is that we don't know which other parts and systems Boeing might have quality issues for. We don't need to go through everything, at least not immediately. We know the door/bolts have issues, so we can just s
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by pdpi 3y ago
> There should only be one way, and everyone is sure that their way is the correct one I'm 100% sure the way I do it is correct, and that this is the only correct way to do it: put water in the bottom, coffee grounds in the filter,
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by pdpi 3y ago
It's generous, yes, but it's also decent (though I don't think that's what GP meant). The computer/laptop thing is a nice touch, and the email thing seems genuinely thoughtful.
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by pdpi 3y ago
I saw the title and it reminded me that I wanted to work through that book. Was thoroughly unsurprised when I clicked through and saw his face.
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by pdpi 3y ago
> A system is scalable in the range where the cost of adding incremental work is approximately constant. The part that nobody ever says out loud: and where the cost of removing incremental work is also approximately constant. A solution
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by pdpi 3y ago
Outside of barrel plugs, I don’t remember any 90s phone having a symmetrical connector of any sort.
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by pdpi 3y ago
Yeah. There is a reason why “recycle” comes third after “reduce” (which this does) and “reuse” (which this promotes).
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by pdpi 3y ago
The two things can go hand in hand.
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by pdpi 3y ago
The project seems to use DocToc to generate the table of contents, and that's what that package.json is in there for. Precisely because of the issues with the NPM ecosystem, it's good that they made sure to add the lockfile.
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by pdpi 3y ago
I’m not an expert in fire safety. I don’t have an opinion on how safe it is to ignore the flame retardant layer, but your argument is at least sane enough to pass the smell test. If the author had said that, I’d have been satisfied. They di
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by pdpi 3y ago
“I created a fire hazard and put my personal beliefs ahead of my (and my neighbours’) safety”. I agree that there are ethical concerns around animal products, and I can see why you would try to DIY your way out of those concerns, but animal
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by pdpi 3y ago
> It doesn’t seem “vintage”. And a 7-year old machine isn’t necessarily obsolete either. Apple uses those two words to mean specific things (vintage: >= 5y, < 7y; obsolete: >= 7y) as it relates to their support policies. Full su
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by pdpi 3y ago
That’s the same person who said that Safari ran out of memory on stuff their Android doesn’t. Their point wasn’t “iPhones have more RAM than comparable Android devices” (as you say, that comparison is entirely unreasonable based on those de
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by pdpi 3y ago
> Honestly, I don't know how Nintendo survives as an independent console maker in the years to come By doing the same thing they've been doing for the last 40 years. Keep innovating on cheaper, older tech rather than relying on
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by pdpi 3y ago
AMD has almost completely taken over the console market. The PS2 was a MIPS system and the PS3/Xbox360 were PowerPC, but, for the last ten years, Sony and Microsoft have been all AMD. Intel has been out of the game since the original X
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by pdpi 3y ago
Wikipedia prefers secondary sources to primary sources (as befits an encyclopaedia), and the blog post is a primary source for most of its content, so it would still be frowned upon.
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by pdpi 3y ago
According to the folks on discord, the dev is busy redoing the base simulator logic, in preparation for some bigger changes. At any rate, the game as-is today is a worthwhile purchase. People have built e.g. whole RISC-V CPUs in it, and you
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by pdpi 3y ago
It’s not even a matter of sticking to what you know. Recognising non-goals is a core skill for any technical profession. This is a research project doing completely novel things, and specifically mentions some of the intended use-cases. Of
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by pdpi 3y ago
languages don’t need to all be good at the same thing. Python currently excels as a glue language you use to write drivers for modules written in lower-level languages, which is a niche that (afaik) nobody else seems to fill right now. Whil
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by pdpi 3y ago
The karts move much like the ones in the original SNES Mario Kart, so I think you’re right. The boxy cars in the pseudo-rocket league clip, though, look like true 3D.
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by pdpi 3y ago
For me, it's visionOS that I find interesting. I don't know if it's going to be any good, but I'm intrigued by the idea of a full-on general-purpose OS on a headset.
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by pdpi 3y ago
It’s a weird world where I find myself saying that Dave the Diver isn’t really an indie game but Baldur’s Gate 3 is.
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by pdpi 3y ago
This is definitely something the OSS community deserves most of the praise for, but, AIUI, the overall quality of the radeon drivers is only possible because AMD has a pretty good history around giving the community the specs to work with,
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by pdpi 3y ago
> Everyone fails. Not everyone gives up. The flipside is that not everyone can afford to not give up. It's very easy to dimiss successful people as lucky without acknowledging the perseverance that goes into pushing through all the
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by pdpi 3y ago
Really big code bases, where your IDE grinds to a halt, for example.
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by pdpi 3y ago
Unix is a DE, no I about it. This isn’t a ding against Unix, the integration provided by IDEs is great for some types of work, but it’s also more hindrance than help for other types of work. Also, the toolset that you get from a typical Uni

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