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by simpaticoder 2y ago
"Don’t underestimate the value of digging into history to investigate some bugs." Valuable advice, and it particularly highlights the risk of global state and the benefit of understanding your runtime. Browsers have popularized fl
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by simpaticoder 2y ago
This problem came up for me when writing a tool to help an author index his work. He wanted to be able to enter reference ranges for a term and then combine, including disjoint ones, into a single entry. (There was also a roman numeral prob
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by simpaticoder 2y ago
If you'd be willing to share those optimizations, I (and many others, I would guess) would be deeply grateful.
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by simpaticoder 2y ago
The more pernicious form of this, in my experience, are ignored compiler/linter/test warnings. Many codebases have a tremendous number of these warnings, devs learn to ignore them, and this important signal of code quality is effe
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by simpaticoder 2y ago
My first-gen Framework 13 with Ubuntu is usable, but has major issues around power. Battery life is very poor compared to ordinary laptops (I get ~3 hours of web browsing and light coding), and compared to M-series Macbooks (which have extr
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by simpaticoder 2y ago
When it comes to a measured time-series, the function is always discrete and arbitrary; there is no 'curve' like that generated by a function well-defined on the reals, and so there is no real closed-form derivative. In this conte
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by simpaticoder 2y ago
Your statement is consistent with my point which I mean to point out the psycho-social origin of such constructions and therefore the limits of their utility. I do not say they are not useful at all.
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We must remember that these constructions retcon the actual human experience with numbers, which is firmly rooted in counting and measurement, that always come after this experiential basis. Formal definitions appear driven by an aesthetic
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by simpaticoder 2y ago
It would be remarkable indeed if humans can invent a technology that sequesters carbon faster than self-replicating, adaptive, distributed independent biological machines that have been around for billions of years, also known as "life
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by simpaticoder 2y ago
Gen AI increases the demand for software engineers, but software engineers increase the demand for AI for code assistance. You are right, of course, but the number of programmers not using AI code assist will asymptotically approach some ve
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by simpaticoder 2y ago
Yes, but it will strongly decrease demand for new ideas. AI is a "win more" technology for current software architecture incumbents. The more popular a tech is, the more content there is about it, the more capable an LLM is of giv
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by simpaticoder 2y ago
If you're looking to be inspired to take the plunge into car repair, check out M359 Restorations YouTube channel[0]. It's a one-man shop in Frankfurt that specializes in BMW restorations. It's a good look into what it takes t
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by simpaticoder 2y ago
This comment has an off-by-one error.
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by simpaticoder 3y ago
Conceptually, I've come to think of containers as a kind of "known-good starting point", the origin of a coordinate system where "movement" is adding things. A set of Dockerfiles form a trie where each line of the D
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by simpaticoder 3y ago
Async/await vs threads is yet another entry in the ~800 volume ongoing series "Where the Indirection Go?" In this case, you put concurrency inside the process (async) or outside the process (threads). Your CPU is, in both cas
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by simpaticoder 3y ago
Yes, it's a neat thing. I use a node script[1] that wraps the chrome invocation to do CLI driven acceptance testing with a node script that loads the site acceptance tests[2]. I adopted the simple convention to remove all body elements
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by simpaticoder 3y ago
Your example shows taking a subset of a text node and wrapping in a tag. How many XML languages use this quality? The only ones I've ever worked with go to great lengths to not mix text nodes with other children nodes. And it's ea
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by simpaticoder 3y ago
If you squint at XML, JSON, or YAML you see a kind of lispy data-structure shape, an n-arry tree. The reader has a context stack that they are pushing and popping from as they read. The real problem is that every problem space is isomorphic
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by simpaticoder 3y ago
Yes, it would often offer unwanted and/or incorrect suggestions that I found distracting. It did not justify the 10% of useful suggestions it made. My usage pattern turns out to be quite copy/paste friendly - it leaves my editor q
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by simpaticoder 3y ago
Was an early adopter of Github Copilot but I quickly turned it off because of the noise. I really like AI for "gap filling" (for example, I used AI extensively to help me write my bash deployment scripts for simpatico.io) and port
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by simpaticoder 3y ago
This suggests that an analyst at HP has omitted the "brand damage" column from their spreadsheet.
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by simpaticoder 3y ago
Perhaps it would be useful to describe a program type that only does one pass through its source. No loops or function calls. It may be useful to describe a single block of reusable sections, which cannot refer to itself in whole or part, t
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by simpaticoder 3y ago
The decision then is between building "an automated Inkscape pipeline to turn text into plain paths" and creating a PNG.
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by simpaticoder 3y ago
An intriguing answer, but I'm afraid I didn't know enough terms of art to really understand it. Here are some definitions for the interested: ArF: argon fluoride. ArF lasers emit at 193nm EUV (Extreme Ultraviolet Lithography): A t
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by simpaticoder 3y ago
It was a typo, now corrected. I was suggesting, humorously, that 10nm light could be called both 'extreme uv' and 'underachieving xrays', since they overlap. The EM spectrum is continuous, so these distinctions and names
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by simpaticoder 3y ago
I was curious that they claim that lithography is done with ultraviolet, and I looked up the wavelengths involved. Sure enough, "typical" UV is still hundreds of nanometers long, like visible light. This would be too coarse for sm
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by simpaticoder 3y ago
Location: US Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: No Technologies: JavaScript (node, angular, react, redux, rxjs), Java (spring, hibernate, DB (postgres, mysql, oracle, sql server), Cloud (GCP, AWS, Akamai). Résumé/CV: Availab
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by simpaticoder 3y ago
Sounds like a good value prop. One thing that I'm hoping is to reduce dependency on a single private company, npm inc., in publishing and distributing modules. But you didn't list this as a value prop. (I notice other posters are
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by simpaticoder 3y ago
People have strong preferences in this area, as to be expected. After all, good programming pedagogy itself is weakened because it is, by nature, partitioned by language (and often further, by framework). I prefer to zoom out and realize th
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by simpaticoder 3y ago
Hi there! I think JavaScript is a great way to teach, since it's such an accessible language. It also allows you to ship your code to run easily for your users. The OP's code needed a little help; there were some missing functions

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