purerandomness

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by purerandomness 7mo ago
If you want to draw squares, you're probably looking for a vector drawing program, like Inkscape.
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by purerandomness 7mo ago
Why is then opening a JPEG not an Import? I get it, and when Photoshop changed this default, GIMP followed with changing this workflow. It used to be different in older versions of Photoshop and Gimp. Advanced user usually know exactly what
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by purerandomness 7mo ago
k9s, ncdu, htop, powertop are good showcases how a TUI reduces mental load and are superior to browsers and / or other GUI tools
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by purerandomness 7mo ago
You haven't been around here in the Blockchain/NFT/Smart Contract dark ages, have you?
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by purerandomness 7mo ago
> keep trying because really deep down they just don't know how nice you're being by giving them a chance to talk to you. I don't fathom what kind of trauma would lead you to take this positive, light-hearted advice to con
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by purerandomness 8mo ago
I think you misunderstand what the XKCD comic implies.
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by purerandomness 8mo ago
It's been around as long as TUI tools have been around (Midnight Commander, etc) Here's a blog post from 2014 [1] mentioning it. Sometimes, we're the one in today's 10000, sometimes it's someone else [2] [1] https:
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by purerandomness 8mo ago
> "not just X; it's Y" ...is a typical tell-tale cadence in the current breed of LLMs. The tell-tale signs change over time, but this one is very obvious.
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by purerandomness 9mo ago
You might like https://www.lazarus-ide.org/
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by purerandomness 9mo ago
brew is for users of non-Arch distros who want to experience what using Arch feels like.
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by purerandomness 9mo ago
So why did you poke the bear then, by handing out cookies during the Euromaidan and starting the US-Russia proxy war that is fought in Ukraine right now? Btw, sorry we can't help you with your little Venezuela "war" right now
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by purerandomness 9mo ago
Fair enough, you do you. Meanwhile, we'll be protecting your loved ones.
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by purerandomness 9mo ago
What's the point of declaring war in a war? Russia invaded Ukraine just fine without ever declaring war.
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by purerandomness 10mo ago
The reality of React is that you have to keep re-learning and un-learning stuff if you want to keep up with React's ecosystem, because the surface area of the libraries is so large. (see "JavaScript fatigue") Whereas with HTM
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by purerandomness 10mo ago
> We're very close to invokers being baseline Well why not have the benefits of invokers, but today - with HTMX? HTMX could eventually switch its implementation to use invokers under the hood in the future, and you'd have the c
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by purerandomness 10mo ago
> If your solution is actually good, it will get adopted eventually... I wish this were true. Unfortunately, often the things that get adopted are the things hyped up the most, not the ones which are technically superior. Popularity, mar
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by purerandomness 10mo ago
Please install a TLS certificate to the site so people can view the content.
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by purerandomness 11mo ago
Reminds me of "Falsehoods programmers believe about addresses" [0] [0] https://www.mjt.me.uk/posts/falsehoods-programmers-believe-a...
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by purerandomness 1y ago
It's always a skill issue. Guard rails should be there to prevent inexperienced developers (or overworked, tired ones) from committing bad code. "Try to think how to refactor functions into smaller ones and give them meaningful na
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by purerandomness 1y ago
The blueprint is the code.
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by purerandomness 1y ago
> "comment brevity, and try thinking of a clearer way to do something instead of documenting the potentially unnecessary complexity with a comment" That's exactly what I wrote, phrased slightly differently. We both agree a
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by purerandomness 1y ago
Avoiding comments is an exercise in thinking how to rename or refactor a function, or a variable in such a way that a junior developer will be able to read it like prose, and immediately understand what's going on. It's cognitivel
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by purerandomness 1y ago
Why should each one of your clients reimplement the calculated value, each in a slightly different way?
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by purerandomness 1y ago
Yes. Like the other commenter in OP's link said, I avoid AI like the plague. I lose all interest once I find out that it's machine generated. I feel that we're slowly reaching a turning point at which people will get tired of
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by purerandomness 1y ago
That's a very good idea, and exactly what HTMX (and similar implementations) do.
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by purerandomness 1y ago
... Laravel uses Symfony components. Also, this is very regional. Here in Europe, actual, big projects that need to make money use Symfony, not Laravel.
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by purerandomness 1y ago
In Germany, the search for an underground facility is ongoing. They hope to find a facility somewhere in 2046 [0] In 2024, the cost for storing nuclear waste just up until 2100 was estimated to be 170 Bln. [1] This cost is always, without e
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by purerandomness 1y ago
It's the most expensive form of energy generation that needs to be subsidized by governments forever and ever, due to waste management.
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by purerandomness 1y ago
ChatGPT wouldn't have set the apostrophe incorrectly in "it's customers".
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by purerandomness 1y ago
Today, the vast majority of commercial PHP projects are developed enforcing the use of strong types by static analyzers like PHPStan in the CI pipeline, and having the strict_types declaration set. As a community, we've seen enough unt

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