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by skobes 1y ago
Interesting that the canvas looks to be in a 5:3 aspect ratio. Did SGI displays have that shape, or would they have used non-square pixels like many DOS games in CGA/EGA resolution?
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by skobes 1y ago
Interesting, you read it as if the fish said "You want to be like God? No, that's too far. Game over!" But another reading is: God would have chosen the shack (grace to the humble, etc.) So she got her wish.
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by skobes 1y ago
Why is TOML allegedly "too minimal" for a "small configuration file"?
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by skobes 1y ago
Layout is more bazaar than cathedral. It has had many ideas mixed in by different contributors over decades.
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by skobes 1y ago
The first "trap" on the page says "min-width: auto makes min width determined by content", but this is false outside of flex/grid. From MDN: "For block boxes, inline boxes, inline blocks, and all table layout b
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by skobes 1y ago
VBA is the famous example, but Power Query deserves a shout out. I use it to make tables that pull their data from other tables with custom transformation logic. Google Sheets didn't even support tables until fairly recently.
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by skobes 1y ago
I'll say it too! There's no serious alternative to Excel for those who rely on its advanced features. You can't just edit Excel files in Libre Office Calc, Google Sheets, or Numbers without any problem whatsoever.
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by skobes 1y ago
I once broke some Python by changing a = a + b to a += b. If a and b are lists, the latter modifies the existing list (which may be referenced elsewhere) instead of creating a new one. I think Python is the only language I've encounter
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by skobes 1y ago
Are you sure you are not experiencing some selection bias yourself, where you only recall the validation attempts that landed as patronizing or insincere, and do not notice when they are adeptly executed?
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by skobes 2y ago
Not sure if typo: > Tech companies were thus incentivized to (a) hire like crazy, and (b) do a lot of low-risk high-reward things, even if that ends up wasting money. "...HIGH-risk high-reward..." would make more sense in the c
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by skobes 2y ago
I am not sure if the author actually put any thought into the foundation of interactivity on the web, or if they just asked the AI to write a nice-sounding introduction to their article about new button capabilities.
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by skobes 2y ago
Yes, something about video games, I think.
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by skobes 2y ago
"Shaky" compared to what? Isn't the inquiry made MORE subjective by incorporating extratextual considerations? Or do you just mean that textualism is oversold, and delivers less than it advertises?
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by skobes 2y ago
Browsers eventually stop supporting old OS'es, so the "outdated browser problem" is not exactly decoupled from the OS situation. Chrome for example is unsupported on Windows 7 past version 109 (Jan 2023).
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by skobes 2y ago
I gave up on shoelaces many years ago and now wear loafers almost exclusively. It has saved a lot of time!
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by skobes 2y ago
Ironically, this post would benefit from showing some examples.
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by skobes 2y ago
We had a production outage one day because we had accumulated more than four thousand CSS selectors and IE8 could not handle that many.
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by skobes 2y ago
> You own an asset and this asset is valued by the rating agency as more expensive than before. Now you have a liability that you need to pay... Isn't this exactly how property taxes usually work? (In the absence of caps like Califo
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by skobes 2y ago
> And the problem with Rust is that it just doesn't have critical mass and, frankly, I don't think it will ever have. Isn't this premature? Rust is still pretty new.
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by skobes 2y ago
You're right of course, except I wouldn't say it's "beyond inflation alone" - it IS inflation by definition. It's beyond the usual level of inflation, but that doesn't make it a separate phenomenon, you
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by skobes 2y ago
Can you recommend any good books or journals about US immigration law?
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by skobes 2y ago
He used bots and fake accounts to stream his own songs, thereby dishonestly profiting. The AI is not really relevant except that it made the crime harder to detect.
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by skobes 2y ago
I had the same thought. For all the talk of lowering barriers... should we really be surprised that unpaid labor is hard to find? Maybe if I were independently wealthy I would spend my time contributing to Debian.
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by skobes 2y ago
> Windows does not allow you to do that, AFAIK. It does though, using the lpCommandLine parameter to CreateProcess as I said. CreateProcess("main.exe", "foobar", ...) argv[0] is "foobar"
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by skobes 2y ago
"Windows’ own API calls for creating new processes (such as CreateProcess [6], ShellExecute [7]) do not allow you to set argv[0]: it sets it for you, based on how the path to the executable was provided." Isn't this contradic
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by skobes 2y ago
Sorry I got confused by another commenter here who linked to the complaint in Wilson v. Google, No. 24-cv-03176 (N.D. Cal.), filed in May 2024. But now I see that case is not even about incognito mode.
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by skobes 2y ago
In case it isn't clear, this case hasn't reached any settlement. A complaint has been filed, but any entitlements of class members are entirely hypothetical at this stage.
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by skobes 2y ago
One thing Chromium does really well is hooking up cross references in the code search tool (source.chromium.org). This makes it easy to browse, see where things are called from, subclassed, etc. Github feels far behind on this.
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by skobes 2y ago
Yes, the article is pure noise. There's nothing there beyond the title, which seems to be what most of the commenters want to talk about.
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by skobes 2y ago
Similar post from a few days ago: "We need visual programming. No, not like that." https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40937119

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