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by phatskat 4mo ago
They did - their list wasn’t all related to _your_ post, other than to say the site is “perfect” to them, after which they enumerated the reasons including “does not require JavaScript”
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by phatskat 4mo ago
At first I had a good chuckle of “this really encapsulates the tropes, even down to being React” and the more I scrolled through the components, it looks like a very serious library - lots of knobs to turn and consideration for various impl
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by phatskat 4mo ago
People keep telling me it’s why we even have C-level folks at the top!
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by phatskat 4mo ago
Everyone likes a beer analogy (almost as much as CS teachers love car analogies!) so I’ll try and do one that applies in the way I _think_ GP intends: Brewers want people to want beer, and to perhaps puritans, that desire could appear as “a
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by phatskat 4mo ago
If you haven’t seen it, @jart’s Actually Portable Executable does just this - it’s definitely got a long ways to go (iirc it only supports CLI apps), but it’s fascinating to see a method of building binaries that can execute across various
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by phatskat 4mo ago
It’s been infuriating to see it shoved everywhere in the corporate stack - Teams, Outslook, Jira, GitHub, etc. and since tools are all company-mandated, the best I can do is continuously ignore or say “not now”, but one day Teams will rollo
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by phatskat 5mo ago
There was a talk at a Linux conference a while back relating knitting to programming and I’ve yet to watch it because the audio on YT wasn’t great but it’s on my list. I find knitting very soothing, and it also scratches the same itch as pr
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by phatskat 5mo ago
And it’s one that already affects Google’s AI results, whether intentional or not. 9/10 if a Reddit thread or scraped StackExchange clone’s search result is in the top of the list, the AI answer pretty much parrots it. This has led to
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by phatskat 5mo ago
I’d wager the money from lobbies and companies like Intuit more than make up for it. Also, republics are “anti-tax” in word and pro-tax in practice, as is the American way. When it comes to particularly republicans, anti-tax is code for rem
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by phatskat 5mo ago
Cave Story is in my Mount Rushmore of games, bookmarking this for later! Very curious to see how the controls map out and work. Good job, and keep it up :D
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by phatskat 5mo ago
> They never made it flexible enough for people to customize it. I feel like it was fairly customizable - the Mac system settings let you do a lot of drag and drop of controls, and I recall iTerm having a similar interface for customizin
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by phatskat 5mo ago
I’ve always been a “remap capslock to escape” kind of guy (vim), so I didn’t mind much. Access to the brightness (screen and keyboard) and volume slider was neat but superfluous with the OG fn keys. Context-driven controls were probably the
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by phatskat 5mo ago
I think I can understand what you want, and the dev’s response about deterministic output is something I really appreciate. I don’t think I want an agent going and mucking around in git _at all_, and if it is going to, I’d prefer some level
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by phatskat 5mo ago
I’ve always fancied landing on a round number at the pump, kind of a little game I play lol. Glad it’s never set off any alarm bells for my bank
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by phatskat 5mo ago
100% Drugs are an alluring and easy avenue for people who have a difficult time fitting into their social expectations and dealing with pressures. Obviously this isn’t where it starts, but treatment is so difficult and the punitive effects
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by phatskat 5mo ago
Yep, I tried to use Act to get a sense of what our YAML was doing but it failed to pull the docker images and I gave up - not enough incentive to test locally when I can push to GH and yolo it and hope the ops folks can help me figure it ou
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by phatskat 5mo ago
According to O’Reilly’s Animal Menagerie [1] it’s a King Duck [1] https://www.oreilly.com/animals.csp?x-search=duck&x-sort=old...
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by phatskat 5mo ago
To the first point, why use AI for end-to-end testing at all? The main app I work on has accessible buttons, menus, etc, that can all be found deterministically, why waste the money having AI try to figure it out and possibly lie about the
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by phatskat 5mo ago
There is also Testing Library, which I’ve mostly seen and used for unit tests (vitest) and component tests (Storybook), that practically forces you into setting things up in an accessible way. The methods for finding elements are along the
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by phatskat 5mo ago
I mean heck, I tend to just look at ceilings in stores and stuff for cameras because I’ve done it since I was a kid in department stores with those big black orbs in the ceiling. To this day it’s almost habit, and also if I’m gonna pick my
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by phatskat 5mo ago
I worked with and advocated for WP for projects for years. It’s not pretty, but it is well-supported and well-understood; it gets the job done. With Matt’s treatment of WPEngine (with whom I’ve worked with on and off over many years, and ha
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by phatskat 5mo ago
Dating someone in eastern Canada and seeing bagged milk was wild to my American brain - who puts milk in a _bag???_
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by phatskat 5mo ago
I faced a similar issue with my teachers in high school - iirc I was able to argue that by programming the formulas, I was demonstrating an understanding of them. Being able to show that understanding in our testing was the concern from my
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by phatskat 5mo ago
> if you’re a software dev/engineer, if you haven’t made a mistake like this (maybe not at this scale though), you’ve probably haven’t been given enough responsibility, or are just incredibly lucky. I’ve definitely made bigger mista
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by phatskat 6mo ago
Don’t call him guy, pal.
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by phatskat 6mo ago
I got a jCreate5 hub at clearance from an Office Max (rip) and the ports are labeled just like this, no futzing on which port is the PD
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by phatskat 6mo ago
> you don't accidentally become the richest man on the planet by being dumb The accident of the whom and where he was born did play into it, but I will echo another commenter that he is an amazing capitalist - and I do mean that as
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by phatskat 6mo ago
To me this still feels like it would be a net negative. I can scaffold most any project with a language/stack specific CLI command or even just checking out a repo. And sure, AI could “scaffold” further into controllers and views and m
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by phatskat 6mo ago
I forget where I saw it but there’s an old adage along the lines of “even if your computer is unplugged, in a vault, with armed guards, it’s probably not safe”.
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by phatskat 6mo ago
My networking final in high school was probably my favorite test taking experience - there was a small written portion on eg subnets, but the bulk of our grade was setting up a physical network, testing it, and leaving the room. Our teacher

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