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by sfink 1y ago
Not disagreeing, but you might be surprised at how widespread the interest in easing is. In my experience, easing is a major topic of debate whenever people are discussing the look and feel of animations. Often people just argue over the pr
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by sfink 1y ago
Distinctive. Easing functions usually force the beginning and end to be noticeably different, and throughout the middle portion they're basically identical to constant velocity. The discontinuity at the start and stop are what easing f
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by sfink 1y ago
I think it's not about the original idea, it's when you want to build (or live) on top of that idea. Patents hinder building on them. Disclosing an idea can either squelch interest in it or ignite inspiration based on it, dependin
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by sfink 1y ago
> So my comment is also in that context of using the same tag for things of wildly different importance and urgency. Ah, ok. That's fair. I agree that the example comments ought to be considered different categories. That first one
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by sfink 1y ago
Which is actually not bad these days. Firefox imports a lot of stuff from a bunch of different browsers. (Or so I've heard; I haven't used a bunch of different browsers and built up enough stuff to know for myself.)
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by sfink 1y ago
That's the "MAC" (Multi-Account Containers) that the article was referring to. (They're actually not full profiles, and in fact there's active work right now to make separate profiles more ergonomic in Firefox. Cont
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by sfink 1y ago
Submitting crash reports is valuable, but mostly they'll be used in the aggregate. If you have a reproducible crash, please file a bug (and link some of your crash reports in it). If it always crashes on quitting, that's (1) a rea
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by sfink 1y ago
Thanks for posting the links, it makes it a lot easier to vet your claims. > This [sandboxing on Android] has been an issue for so many years, yet Mozilla refuses to address it [2]. As you can see in [2], work is ongoing to address this,
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by sfink 1y ago
It's just saving the next person the trouble of thinking up and documenting the same approach you thought of while writing the code in the first place. As in, you know it doesn't matter now because the overall thing is plenty fast
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by sfink 1y ago
I'm not sure you're disagreeing with the post you're replying to? I tend to use FIXME for things that really do need to be fixed, and will not push code containing a FIXME comment. Grepping for FIXME is useful. I tend to use
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by sfink 1y ago
It was meant as more of an illustration than a persuasive argument. LLMs don't have much of a distinction between thinking and writing/saying. For a human, an admonition to not say something would be obeyed as a filter on top of t
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by sfink 1y ago
Ok, I haven't tried enough AI coding to have an opinion here, but... why would anyone think that telling an AI to not change any code (IN ALL CAPS, even) has anything to do with anything? It's an LLM. It doesn't go through a
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by sfink 1y ago
I agree, and would like to hear examples of where this has not been the case. I'm sure they're out there. But pretty much everything has been "how can we use LLMs" and "it doesn't matter if it was a problem tha
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by sfink 1y ago
...and for me, the benefit is that this is much more clear to me when reading the code. An increasing level of indentation directly maps to needing to keep more in my head. (Sure, in this case you can pattern match and see that there's
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by sfink 1y ago
If you're checking the outputs, and I mean really checking (and adjusting) them, then I'd say this use is fine.
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by sfink 1y ago
This is what valid LLM use looks like. Sadly many people don't seem interested in even admitting the existence of the distinction.
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by sfink 1y ago
Hm. Kinda, though at least with the dream it was your brain generating it. Well, parts of your brain while other parts were switched off, and the on parts were operating in a different mode than usual, but all that just means it's fun
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by sfink 1y ago
Except you will spend your time reading it, because that's what is required to figure out that it's written with an LLM. The first few times, at least...
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by sfink 1y ago
They are being efficient with their own time, yes, but it's at the expense of mine. I get less signal. We used to bemoan how hard it was to effectively communicate via text only instead of in person. Now, rather than fixing that gap, w
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by sfink 1y ago
...if you think Python is irregular, what the heck are you using for scripting instead??!
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by sfink 1y ago
You can pry the walrus operator from my cold dead hands. m = re.match(pattern1, line) if m: do_stuff(m.group(1)) else: m = re.match(pattern2, line) if m: do_other_stuff(m.group(2)) e
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by sfink 1y ago
Naive ref counting (RC) and tracing GC are very different, but they start looking more and more similar the more you optimize them. Adding cycle collection to RC means adding some tracing. Adding deferred/batched destruction to RC is s
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by sfink 1y ago
Not that it matters to anyone, but I feel a responsibility to say it: Brendan, you were right and I was wrong about the CEO pay. It still doesn't bother me as a thing in itself, but it now seems like a critical trigger in the cascade o
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by sfink 1y ago
Perhaps they're farming accounts? As in, the owner creates a whole bunch of accounts and has them build up a generic history. Then when the owner "deploys" some of them to pump up a specific issue. I don't know why they
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by sfink 1y ago
That's an ironic example, because I've been to several areas where Coke is the generic term and people would be confused if you said soda or soft drink or whatever. I have literally asked for a Coke and been asked "what kin
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by sfink 1y ago
Earth isn't going in a straight line. If it were, it would be useless as a gravity assist.
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by sfink 1y ago
You're avoiding the energy that would be imparted by hitting the dust spec by... adding energy to the dust spec? Perhaps splitting it so it damages a larger area? It seems better to let it plow as small a hole as possible in the sail.
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by sfink 1y ago
Ah, so you're pointing out that you could scale it up and down and stack them to convert white noise into chords? Cool!
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by sfink 1y ago
DNT wasn't abandoned, it was killed.
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by sfink 1y ago
You are conflating religious belief with religion. Just the word "religion" is underspecified. Historically and reaching to the present, there have been many communities where the church was the mechanism to deliver healthcare, fo

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