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by phaedrus 3y ago
If the ASCII text format had included the color byte next to every letter-byte, we might have had manually colored programming languages (i.e. it would be a kind of code comment). Imagine, coding guidelines that include coloration requirem
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by phaedrus 3y ago
I'm undiagnosed but personally I suspect I am autistic. I have hyperphantasia + eidetic memory, but I have periods of my life (years) with almost no autobiographical memory. The tape is blank or the index has been lost, or I was ju
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by phaedrus 3y ago
I would self-report as having hyperphantasia, but I also have face blindness. I looked up the vividness of visual imagery questionnaire (VVIQ) test, and the first few questions involved picturing a person - starting with the head and shoul
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by phaedrus 3y ago
This is especially well illustrated by the << operator for ostreams in C++.
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by phaedrus 3y ago
I have a Bulbdial clock sitting on the mantel. I bought the kit around when they first came out but only got around to building it a few years ago. Recently when my niece stayed over, she slept in the living room, and she asked for "
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by phaedrus 3y ago
The last time this came up on HN, someone pointed out something that's stuck with me: the Internet and indie web pages didn't go away, we (the users) did.
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by phaedrus 3y ago
The blog post would be a better link for this submission. https://sohl-dickstein.github.io/2024/02/12/fractal.html
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by phaedrus 3y ago
So then I am not wrong that I do all my git commit messages via the "-m" commandline option with a short phrase like "frob the baz"? (Initially I started using -m to avoid getting trapped in Vim. But even after I gain
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by phaedrus 3y ago
As someone who has built a few hobby speaker cabinets, you absolutely CAN make durable and high quality objects for the home out of MDF. Or even particle board. So I think using taxes to try to discourage the use of certain materials in f
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by phaedrus 3y ago
I have a German-made coffee grinder that was between $200 - $300 retail (though I got it for significantly less on clearance. It grinds well, but within a short time of getting it the electronics burned out. I opened it up to find a baffl
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by phaedrus 3y ago
The article is glaringly wrong on one point: Diablo 2 is not 2D; it's natively 3D! The entire (visible) playfield is a triangle mesh. Interestingly as you walk in the game you don't move in relation to the mesh. The textures a
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by phaedrus 3y ago
There's gradations of poison ivy reactions. I'm so allergic to it that turns into bubbles on bubbles like a cluster of fish eggs. (I don't think I'd want to put hot water on that.) My late father was so sensitive to po
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by phaedrus 3y ago
The disconnect here is between people who believe there's an inherent wrongness to things being worse than they need just because it's under a rug, versus those who see no problem here if the market doesn't punish it. I real
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by phaedrus 3y ago
One take I have when this topic comes up is that older, more efficient programs and assembly language instructions are the nanotechnology and atomic level of software. We just are making the same progression, backwards, that hardware techn
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by phaedrus 3y ago
It's not just an aesthetic choice. You have people not understanding the layers below on a technical level. It's partly a lack of talent, partly a lack of willingness to make the effort, and in large part just a lack of visibili
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by phaedrus 3y ago
The comment I wrote at a higher level in this same thread is, ultimately, a criticism of NOT using a statically compiled, statically linked language (because a form of tree shaking like original commenter suggested is already part of the li
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by phaedrus 3y ago
This is an important distinction between statically compiled and interpreted languages which is often lost in discussions that focus on developer usability. For many years I worked on my own game engine which combined a C++ core with an int
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by phaedrus 3y ago
And after all that effort, an operator overload is still the "wrong" API for the job anyway, because: it's missing a crucial argument ! Any binary (infix) operator can only relate two things, but typically when you want to
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by phaedrus 3y ago
One justification I've seen is that the header defines the interface of a library and allows its implementation to change; the argument reads remarkably like that for pure abstract base classes or what other OOP languages call "in
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by phaedrus 3y ago
Except you can't rely on that. Youtubers can and do update the thumbnail to A/B test which gets more views.
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by phaedrus 3y ago
I wonder what would happen if you countered the question with, "what were you paying the last guy?"
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by phaedrus 3y ago
During an interview with a startup they asked me about my hobbies and then shut me down with mid-answer with "you're going to need to give them up" because they expect you to give so much of yourself that you wouldn't ha
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by phaedrus 3y ago
The thing is, the supposed mentorship and office culture that fresh grads and neophyte employees believe they are missing largely never existed even before COVID. - Companies just aren't interested in training people if they can hire s
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by phaedrus 3y ago
Instead of saying "bricked" you could say Voyager 2 is "soft locked".
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by phaedrus 3y ago
A feature I've long desired would be to be able to ask what lies between or along the average or sum of the vectors representing two arbitrary songs or bands. For example what music is midway between "Florence and the Machine&quo
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by phaedrus 3y ago
The YouTube channel Second Thought recently put out a video ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3gSzzuY1Yw0 ) whose thesis was that even being cheaper than fossil fuels is not / will not be enough for green energy to win,
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by phaedrus 3y ago
The rural high school I went to had these instead of computers until 1996 or 97.
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by phaedrus 3y ago
I didn't know about CastleDB. The fact it uses JSON to store the DB data and schema itself is a nice feature. I've been using Sqlite for a similar purpose to store structured data and load configuration, but the biggest downside
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by phaedrus 3y ago
I've been working on making a base or skeleton game engine for when I participate in Itch.io game jams that compiles from C++ to web assembly using Emscripten. It's exactly as you say no one wants to download and run an unknown b
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by phaedrus 3y ago
Richard Hamming's talk, "You and Your Research" is applicable. https://www.cs.virginia.edu/~robins/YouAndYourResearch.html

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