shpx

9 ms·

61.
by shpx 2y ago
Preserved ancient shipwrecks are why I don't believe when people say some material "degrades in X years".
62.
by shpx 2y ago
Instead of these features I want them to stop spam issues on my repos. All the issues I've gotten in the last year on my project are completely nonsensical. It's not even spam it's just like random URLs or complete nonsense f
63.
by shpx 2y ago
I just buy whatever Apple sells. I would get the Pro Display XDR but it's too expensive and the Studio one is still great. It has good DPI and colors, good size, power over USB-C (so I just have one wire on my desk) and most importantl
64.
by shpx 2y ago
I uninstalled the app when I saw that Cmd+, opens an empty text file called config. I'm not going to learn more configuration languages or type 30 characters (or paste them from the browser) to toggle a binary setting.
65.
by shpx 2y ago
The Machinery of Life by David S. Goodsell - it's a short microbiology book with paintings and renders of molecules and molecular processes. It's easy to read and imagining biology is straightforward when you can just see the mole
66.
by shpx 2y ago
If anything the effectiveness/necessity of manually adding print statements to get any feedback about what the program you're working on is doing makes me look down on software development in general. We are working on a system th
67.
by shpx 2y ago
I can't believe they still haven't added a 2x pixel density version of the default map style. It's $CURRENTYEAR and we all have high pixel density phones. No one uses 1080p displays anymore. The default blurry version makes a
68.
by shpx 2y ago
It means whatever you feel like it means given how you feel in the moment/situation. It's not a task you can fail.
69.
by shpx 2y ago
> If you need an app for something brief but specific, delete it after you’re done Amusingly, you've just described a web browser.
70.
by shpx 2y ago
Setting up a hidden microphone that is constantly streaming to a server that is recording it forever should be illegal, if it isn't already.
71.
by shpx 2y ago
I've been coding more in C because ChatGPT makes it less tedious. Any simple command line tool I will usually write in C now instead of Python because the end result is way faster.
72.
by shpx 2y ago
On my Macbook Air, mpv adds an orange tint to videos so I hate when I have to use it because it's the only player that can play a file I downloaded.
73.
by shpx 2y ago
I've been joking that Steam on macOS is so bad that there must be no one at Valve who has used it because there's no way you ship such brazenly slow software knowingly, but with 79 people this is actually probably true.
74.
Estimating user attention from viewport data (2014) [pdf](pub-tools-public-publication-data.storage.googleapis.com)
2 points by shpx 2y ago|0 comments
75.
by shpx 2y ago
People call the first actually useful thing the first thing, that's not surprising or wrong.
76.
by shpx 2y ago
You can't write apps for the Vision Pro on the Vision Pro. As a computer it is less powerful than the Apple II
77.
by shpx 2y ago
When I clicked that link I saw a flash of unstyled content, so that's immediately worse than HTML. My point was that if you count the time spent looking for the perfect renderer, HTML is faster and easier to write than Markdown unless
78.
by shpx 2y ago
I spent hours researching the right Markdown to HTML renderer. Writing HTML by hand would've been faster. There's dozens of these frameworks and none are perfect.
79.
by shpx 2y ago
It's not free. > Larger runners are only available for organizations and enterprises using the GitHub Team [$4 per user/month] or GitHub Enterprise Cloud [$21 per user/month] plans.
80.
by shpx 2y ago
Pending and rolled back are different transaction states. The former uses resources and locks and can prevent other transactions from happening. Rolling back a transaction twice probably indicates an error in your program, which Go's A
81.
by shpx 2y ago
The first thing you see when you open Firefox is an ad for Amazon and Expedia.
82.
by shpx 2y ago
Should also mention that it's almost certainly recorded for all time for the government.
83.
by shpx 2y ago
Reversible computing. The laws of physics are time reversible but our computers aren't. Quantum computers need to be reversible. Debugging might be easier if we could rewind programs. There are reversible programming languages. https:
84.
Assembly(assembly.louve.systems)
88 points by shpx 2y ago|17 comments
85.
by shpx 2y ago
If you can preserve and scan the tissue in a way that lets you scan the same area multiple times you wouldn't need to digitize the whole thing. Put the slices on rotating platters with a microscope for each platter and read parts of th
86.
by shpx 2y ago
Web apps are much faster to install and update. 1) Your browser is always open, whereas you need to close your current app and open the app store app 2) Google Search is better at giving you what you want in the fewest number of keystrokes
87.
by shpx 2y ago
> On encoding the utf-8-sig codec will write 0xef, 0xbb, 0xbf as the first three bytes to the file https://docs.python.org/3/library/codecs.html The codec you're imagining would also make reading a file an
88.
by shpx 2y ago
This is about when you ask Python to open a file "as text", what encoding it will use by default. The internal representation of strings is a different matter and, like JavaScript, Python doesn't "just use UTF-8" fo
89.
by shpx 2y ago
You can't make a single typo in Bash and also the browser makes aliases for you automatically based on usage, whereas Bash aliases require thought and maintenance. So it's Bash that is slower ("heavyweight") if you count
90.
by shpx 2y ago
> Who's the judge of similarity? The judge. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_know_it_when_I_see_it The justice system is a computer made out of humans executing written programs called laws. As we've seen f

More ›