sime2009

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by sime2009 5y ago
TIL: Americans spell "cheque" as "check".
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Yes, that is what I mean. I also like that nushell's table oriented approach displays the column names, and you just use those names for the `sort` command or `where` command etc.
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I played with it recently. The interactive part is limited at the moment, but I really like the idea of having operations like sorting and filtering separate from the tools which produce the data. Having these things consistent and availabl
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This is the "broken window fallacy" on steroids. There is no net benefit. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parable_of_the_broken_window
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> Well, apart from the whole WW2 business. Let's be clear. By the time the last bullet was fired in WW2, Europe was basically destroyed, rumble, from the North Sea cross to Moscow. Brittan, although not occupied, was also hopelessly
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by sime2009 5y ago
> however, there is validity to the statement that Europe is currently coasting along on the spoils of centuries of loot and plunder. oh boy. Time for you to crack the spine of a history book covering the 20th century, me thinks.
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by sime2009 5y ago
To get back to the article for moment which is really about how parking and cars destroy cities, the discussion about whether bikes/walking replace driving is missing the point somewhat. The point is if you build city centres around th
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> I think there is a strong cognitive bias in the present culture of thinking of the brain like a computer or hard drive. Good point. The behaviour observed is puzzling if your model says that the mice brains first train on the smell, th
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by sime2009 5y ago
WASM code by itself can run at near C speeds, but where you are going to find the challenges is crossing the wasm <-> "rest of our app" divide. You can call functions living in WASM with integer arguments and WASM can call f
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gawd I hope so! Otherwise there are going to be a lot stranded Norwegians come next winter. https://edition.cnn.com/2021/01/05/business/norway-electric-...
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> The real problem with the law is that you need a cookie to set the preference for the tracking to begin with, which I don't want. The law of course states that there shouldn't be any tracking without explicit consent. The law
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Count yourself lucky then. I've tried to work with TDD cult members and it was one of the worst experiences of my professional life. A good sign that people have moved into the cult is when they start saying that people who are not usi
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Don't take my comment too seriously. It's a scene from a movie actually.
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I'm guessing "infamous". You know, when someone becomes more than just famous, then become "infamous".
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> Isn’t this a description of native vs non-native speakers in many languages? Not necessarily. The key idea from the article in the phrase "specific to their own culture". There isn't one English in the world. There are n
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I was in Glasgow years ago for a conference. Wonderfully friendly locals, I didn't understand a word they said.
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by sime2009 5y ago
I'm looking at Cosmo with similar applications in mind; just-in-time delivery and execution of a small binary in a "remote" environment like a server, container, VM, or maybe embedded system.
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> You can already get nearly pixel-perfect consistency by rendering each character as a separate dom element at specific X-Y coordinates. You could do that for every character, but the size of the DOM and updating it will kill your perfo
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Web apps have been around for well over a decade but some people are still struggling with the idea that a web browser can display hypertext documents and also run applications, plus a whole universe of hybrid things which lie in between th
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> This is basically putting an API on top of an API as far as I'm concerned. Exposing a raw on-screen DOM tree as part of your API for extensions/plugins to use is terribly fragile and generally a bad idea.
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I suspect that accuracy of rendering and consistency across platforms is the bigger concern here. There are enough differences between how different browsers and operating systems render text via the DOM, to make it very hard to get consist
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by sime2009 5y ago
Flutter is for doing UIs. Google are using canvas to render the (text) document the user is working on, not the UI elements.
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They are using canvas for the document rendering, not for the UI which surrounds it. They want faster performance and more accuracy for typography and layout of the user's document on the screen.
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Web browsers have APIs for things like the clipboard these days.
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Python's built in `shutil` package generally does a good job of covering the kinds of tasks you would use shelljs for.
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Why does it require so much babysitting?
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> To be fair, I thought the dev’s response was adequate here No it wasn't. It was bad. Granted, the original bug report could have been a bit clearer, but the reporter was more than happy to help out and promptly responded to the qu
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by sime2009 5y ago
> Would love to see why they did not choose lit-element Most likely explanation: It simply didn't exist yet when they chose. Also, lit-element requires elements use its own base class while Catalyst doesn't.
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yep, we would then have to deal with "flash trash" appearing all over the place.
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> There are so many times I need to debug some tooling, and being able to to just open the stack trace and place a breakpoint/console.log is incredibly valuable. I do it all the time for webpack/babel. That sounds more like an

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