rkangel

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by rkangel 5y ago
Yes, I don't understand why non 'text' characters such as flags and emoji were allowed in Unicode. They appear to me to be a fundamentally different concept. That said, I have always assumed that these problems we get with em
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by rkangel 5y ago
> English is the language of the world and we should use computers to push everyone to learn This (and everything you wrote after) is incredibly bigoted. English is only just the most spoken language in the world. 1.35bn people have En
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by rkangel 5y ago
That's an incredibly English (speaking) centric view of machine design. Why should our 26 letter alphabet with only two cases be the restrictive set of characters that everybody in the world has to write terminal commands and filenames
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> Never say what you ware doing (it's obvious this commit is updating build scripts) DEFINITELY say what you are doing. And then say why. This blog post is a good description of the most prevalent convention in how to write good a
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by rkangel 5y ago
I agree. I only got a pair of earbuds because they cam free with my phone but I was surprised by how lifechanging they were. Not in an important way, but in a low key and pervasive way. There are two situations where earbuds are far more co
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by rkangel 5y ago
This article does accidentally capture one of the major corporate problems pretty well. The conclude from their data that Toxic Workplace Culture is the biggest cause of resignation, and then they immediately suggest 4 short term things to
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by rkangel 5y ago
PG did NOT tell people to build businesses that don't scale. He told people to OPERATE businesses in ways that don't scale. That is of course true for this business - the overall model scales extremely well, but obviously what the
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by rkangel 5y ago
I've found Reddit improved by careful curation of my subscribed subreddits. If I spent most of my time in there rather than /r/all then it's great. I still feel like scrolling through memes on /r/all from time
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by rkangel 5y ago
There's two different things - the stuff you get at birth and the stuff you get as you get older. Short sightedness (myopia), long sightedness (hyperopia) and astigmatism are effectively genetic conditions that you are born with. They
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by rkangel 5y ago
I didn't mean it literally (at least these days). But I don't think you can deny that iPhones are incredibly popular with everyone.
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I instinctively want to agree with you but Apple has persuaded me I'm wrong. Conventional wisdom has always been that not all users are the same: customisation and different workflows are needed for different people, particularly power
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I wrote that very badly. What I wrote came out to be about a diverse customer base which is obviously a good thing. What I meant to talk about was "predictable demand". Being able to know your exact order profile for a lead time
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Not saying you're wrong, but an alternate interpretation was that Apple was just leveraging their large order size to get to the front of the line because they want to make products to sell. If you're TSMC, who are you going to fa
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by rkangel 5y ago
For all the useful information in this article I find it devalued by the first piece of advice being "absolutely just spend $2000 dollars without worrying too much and if you can't afford it just go into debt". I'm sure
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by rkangel 5y ago
B&W was much better in low light than colour. You could get high ISO film without too much noise and take 'normal lighting' photos that would come out with a manageable amount of grain. If you did the same with colour you&#x27
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If you read the article, the retro-reflectivity is not used to separate left and right eye images. Two different projections with different polarisations are done, and then filtered into the correct eyes. See the section "Left and Righ
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It's taken me a moment to think things through, but they only need to be precise enough to get back to the relevant user and not the one 90 degrees round the table. The precision that's important is the projector. You project the
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by rkangel 5y ago
You actually get much better payment protection from a debit card than people are generally aware of. In the UK, the difference between a debit card and credit card is actually not very big due to legal protections (although you might have
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by rkangel 5y ago
OneNote or Confluence is the better comparison, for just writing text in but Notion has a more powerful data model. You can link a set of pages together through their attributes and view them through a table, kanban, calendar etc. It's
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by rkangel 5y ago
Software engineers - particularly of the more embedded variety - absolutely still have this problem. The main culprit is GNU Make which does not cope with spaces in filenames. As far as it is concerned an array is a string separated by spac
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by rkangel 5y ago
If you're happy with the UI looking the same on each platform then you don't need any duplicate code. E.g. I used to have a Android+iOS app that was Material UI, so on iOS it looked like a Google thing and less like something that
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No, there's too much complexity. What you can do is reverse engineer it more manually using data sheets etc., and then use the test vectors to ensure that you got it right. They're likely to be designed to cover all the interest
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by rkangel 5y ago
It was a reasonable question based on the linked article. Fusion announcements (like new battery chemistries) are almost worthless on their own - you have to read more about the company, what stage they're at, what the tech actually is
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by rkangel 5y ago
By analogy, imagine an aeroplane in a wind tunnel. It's not the real aeroplane - it's a scale model. It has no engine and it's not moving, the wind is moving over it. On one level the experiment hasn't achieved anything
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There is an important school of design thought that you should design for the people with the biggest handicaps, and by doing that you make it the best for everyone. E.g. If you're making a car, make it easy to get in and out for the e
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That's actually a really interesting point about the changed dynamics of theft.
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eBay's terms should cover you here. You go through the same sort of procedure as "I didn't get what I was promised" for the sale and you should get the money back. This is fine as long as you realise during the initial w
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Except that in a lot of modern frameworks that separation has gone away - look at React components where the markup and styles usually live together.
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Sure. But as a distant second place after having somewhere to live, I would also want the fraudster to go to prison. Assuming this article is correct, he was "told by the police they didn't believe a criminal offence had been comm
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I have a friend who was almost the buyer of a house in the UK in a very similar situation. Fundamentally, it relied on the seller buying counterfeit identity documents (passport and driving licence) off the internet. That way, in theory, th

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