sjsanc

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by sjsanc 5mo ago
Not at all! Decorations are needed for lots of things. For example, obviously decorations are needed for decorating. Successful sexual posturing in some birds requires large, decorative body parts like feathers or crests.
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by sjsanc 5mo ago
In my own experience, whenever I detect something AI generated I lose the ability to evaluate how much I can "trust" something. Compare an article on Medium with a published book on the same topic; both are human-originated but th
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by sjsanc 5mo ago
Indeed, I saw the watermarks. It's clearly a testament to his skill that his consistency is so unbelievable. Maybe that's common in macro photography but I'm genuinely floored by it.
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by sjsanc 5mo ago
The macro photography looks bizarrely uniform and the poses contrived. I feel like a sleuth trying to decide if this is AI generated or not. I suspect it isn't, but I'm somewhat distressed at how suspicious I am of cool things now
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by sjsanc 3y ago
In the implication being that eggs are not the real thing; in other words, a superhero's mild annoyance.
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by sjsanc 3y ago
In South Africa we refer to the papaya as pawpaw, I'm in England now, and here they just say papaya. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Papaya . This article mentions papaya as a separate fruit. Is there something missi
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by sjsanc 3y ago
Compare MDN's entry for the `map` method https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Refe... With Rust's https://doc.rust-lang.org/std/iter/struct.Map.html
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by sjsanc 3y ago
The GP's turn of phrase read quite convincingly like Iain M Banks, then I see this!
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by sjsanc 4y ago
Have there been any comparisons written about Tailwind's performance vs thoughtfully selected CSS? I've been writing Tailwind exclusively for the last year or so and I haven't noticed anything in particular, but I find that u
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by sjsanc 4y ago
Not to be confused with the SWC bundler for JavaScript https://swc.rs/docs/configuration/bundling
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by sjsanc 4y ago
A lot of the comments in that thread appear to be flaming the OP for impersonating a legendary demoscene group, or something like that. I've always enjoy touristic, almost archaeological appeal of reading old subculture drama, and I wi
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by sjsanc 4y ago
Absolutely. You can usually drop the direction though as it's the initial value. But flex is so powerful for layouts, I'll slap it on almost anything, and barely have a need for grid.
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by sjsanc 4y ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33403174 I have!!
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by sjsanc 4y ago
I feel like I've read this before some here...
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by sjsanc 4y ago
I'd say close to just works. I've spent the last 6 months developing with Rider on Arch and it hasn't been a completely smooth ride. Admittedly, a lot of my pain just came from inexperience. I screwed up permissions; it too
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by sjsanc 4y ago
It looks remarkably (suspiciously) similar to Brian Lovin's website https://brianlovin.com
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by sjsanc 5y ago
Reads like Italo Calvino, nice.