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by pimlottc 2y ago
For something called MapRoulette, I expected a much simpler UX, e.g. a big button that gave you a random task in your area.
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by pimlottc 2y ago
The map widget doesn’t appear properly on iOS Safari, unfortunately
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by pimlottc 2y ago
And unfortunately sometimes you have to just let the fire smolder before anyone cares enough to let you fix it.
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by pimlottc 2y ago
Care to explain?
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by pimlottc 2y ago
I just think it's overused and lazy. Describing your project as "modern" doesn't tell me anything useful. What's modern about it? What's the "current style" that it adheres to? Is it lightweight? Mod
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by pimlottc 2y ago
Holy cow, I had not heard of this one-man German manually guided rocket before, the Bachem Ba-349 Natter: > Rocket-powered, it took off vertically from a launch pole, and was guided at near-transonic speed by an autopilot. At the last mo
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by pimlottc 2y ago
I'd like to see isfizzbuzz.xyz. Ideally, before 11:30 AM ET this Friday.
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by pimlottc 2y ago
“All text” would be a better name, I thought it was going to be about SMS messages
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by pimlottc 2y ago
Billionaires don’t become billionaires by using their own money to solve problems
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by pimlottc 2y ago
Adding an image does not automatically make a post better. I'd rather just not have any image at all than something mindlessly thrown in just for its own sake, regardless of whether it's generic or generated.
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by pimlottc 2y ago
That’s an insult to Nokia Snake. Nokia Snake doesn’t have ads, loot boxes, in-app purchases, collectibles, social media integration or any of dozens of other dark pattern that are practically standard in casual games now.
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by pimlottc 2y ago
On a related note: semantic bleaching https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/article/2024/aug/2...
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by pimlottc 2y ago
Is that… an About Schmidt reference?!?
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by pimlottc 2y ago
(2012) I wonder how much the fraction of toasters that contain electronic components has increased since then.
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by pimlottc 2y ago
Plus every other nation on the earth would be mad at the US for taking it all
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by pimlottc 2y ago
As Mark Twain once said, “the best time to launch a tree into space was twenty years ago. The second best is now”
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by pimlottc 2y ago
> Part of the issue is the aborted attempt to turn journalism into a profession. The term "unfunded mandate" come to mind. Journalists should aspire to a higher standard (just as software developers should), but nobody's i
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by pimlottc 2y ago
It's mentioned in the article, great to hear Paul tell it though!
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by pimlottc 2y ago
What's the real-world consequences of having the floating point behavior changed? The article mentions some types of iterative algorithms but it's not clear how often those would be used. Would be interested to know what actual is
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by pimlottc 2y ago
It’s as if you’re paying for Berkeley commercial rents…
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by pimlottc 2y ago
For me it's about giving myself the permission to "give up" and let someone else handle it. Like you, I realized that being surrounded by broken things and incomplete projects was causing me a lot of constant low-level stres
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by pimlottc 2y ago
Er, what word?
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by pimlottc 2y ago
I would say that’s still against the rules since “sausage” has no relevance to the meaning of the target words. Obviously you could just bullshit some extremely tentative relationship if pressed but it goes against the spirit of the rules.
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by pimlottc 2y ago
My understanding is that processes generally don't give back memory until it's actually needed, so looking at memory usage in a low-usage state is often misleading. The real test is whether memory is quickly available when reques
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by pimlottc 2y ago
Amateur hour. Real professionals use .int domains... https://www.iana.org/domains/int
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by pimlottc 2y ago
Yeah, it's not clear to me either that the RGB image is obviously better, especially without knowing that actual conditions were like when the photo was taken. Perhaps the author could explain why they find one image superior instead o
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by pimlottc 2y ago
I wonder how many of these stories start with him discovering one of these massive government reports. They always seem to pop up in his videos! It really is impressive how much invaluable practical information is provided for free by the v
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by pimlottc 2y ago
To be fair, "MacBook" is basically a portmanteau of "Macintosh Notebook", so it's really not that far removed from "Apple Laptop".
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by pimlottc 2y ago
ESDF is also more natural to touch-typers as it’s basically the same as the left hand “home position” of ASDF. And it’s easy to locate without looking, since the F key usually has a raised marker on most keyboards.
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by pimlottc 2y ago
It should be noted that this article is about a /different/ ex-girlfriend

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