solardev

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by solardev 2y ago
On the bright side, at least I'll die with a clean shirt on.
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by solardev 2y ago
If you just want to chat with other devs about tech stuff, this is as good a place as any. But if you specifically need programming help and advice, honestly the chatbots like ChatGPT or Claude are more helpful than most programmers. They&#
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by solardev 2y ago
Is there even an API that lets you do this (store virtual cards for tap to pay) outside of the wallets? Would it be PCI compliant? I would use and pay for such a service. Not to optimize points, but to be able to use different cards for dif
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by solardev 2y ago
Thanks for the details! I wonder, do you think "hidden" behaviors like this discourage lazier devs from using HTML standards and just use divs for everything and reimplement default functionality with 3rd party UI libs?
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by solardev 2y ago
In Jetbrains you select a line of code and say "show history for selection" and it parses all that for you and just gives you a history of commits affecting that specific line. It's got a built in commit browser and visual di
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by solardev 2y ago
These days, I wonder if it'd be better to just sic a LLM API on it and have it stream you the text summary back?
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by solardev 2y ago
I probably did! That's always a concern for our much loved natural treasures. But IMHO the need for conservation and preservation should be balanced with providing public access. If nobody got to enjoy the outdoors for fear of damaging
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by solardev 2y ago
Good question. This was back in 2009 so I can't quite remember for sure anymore. The National Geographic October 2009 issue is the original source for this, but I couldn't find a copy online. The photographer Michael Nichols poste
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by solardev 2y ago
Better picture, with tree climbers for scale: https://www.npr.org/sections/pictureshow/2009/09/redwoods.ht...
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A few years ago we followed one of those coordinates (from the edit history) to try to find the tree. Got within a few meters but it didn't look like the photos and there was no redwood there much taller than the others. Still was a fu
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by solardev 2y ago
The book The Wild Trees is a fantastic story about finding this tree.
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by solardev 2y ago
I really do want a browser subscription or purchase, so that its incentives are aligned with mine and not the advertisers'. Paid browsers used to be common in the past, and ones like Netcaptor gave us tabbed browsing, pop-up blocking
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by solardev 2y ago
There is no one cause that leads to housing shortages, but tech salaries are a huge issue in and around tech hubs like the SF Bay and Seattle. And especially during covid, with remote work, the rich spread out to towns nearby and bought up
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We have plenty of homes to go around. They're just not affordable.
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Often it's software developers that made homes unaffordable for everyone.
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by solardev 2y ago
Pretty impressive! http://www.microscopy-uk.org.uk/mag/indexmag.html?http://www... None of the ones on their official site seem to be available though? They all link to out of stock Amazon pages.
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by solardev 2y ago
I'd rather fund Chrome, if it can be divested from Google and managed by a separate nonprofit. I'd consider funding Firefox too, but only if it isn't managed by Mozilla. Mozilla has really lost their way and have not been a g
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by solardev 2y ago
Is this kinda what you want? https://peps.python.org/pep-0750/ (similar to template literals in JS) You can also do something similar using f-strings, at the risk of content injection attacks.
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by solardev 2y ago
Are you sure the physical media is suitable for archival purposes? Many discs degrade over time due to sunlight, oxidation, mechanical damages (scratches etc.) and such. I wouldn't count on them being readable in 5+ years unless the ma
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Yeah, in some parts. California suffers from rolling blackouts during wildfire season. It's going to get worse before it gets better because of climate change, a bankrupt utility, and the time it takes to properly bury all the power ca
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Several US and state government sites are like this, e.g. https://freakonomics.com/2012/08/this-website-only-open-duri... or https://old.reddit.com/r/MURICA/comments/rbl4qz/only
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by solardev 2y ago
Not if you used it to carry another one! It's just exoskeletons all the way down.
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by solardev 2y ago
I never used Eclipse so can't speak to that, but compared to VScode, it's got a lot of great built-ins: symbol lookup and searches work well, Typescript support is great, the debugger works well, built-in Gutlens-style version con
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by solardev 2y ago
Does Apple do most Webkit development too, not just Safari? I thought it was originally spun off from KHTML. Did Apple take over most of the development at some point?
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All the cool kids are on VScode or Cursor, but I still use and love my boring old Jetbrains IDEs every day. It makes me feel old every time I see someone else's screenshot and realize I am pretty much the only one in all the companies
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It's pretty likely a PHP site written 5 years ago still works fine today. Javascript? No way.
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And MediaWiki (Wikipedia) and Drupal too.
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Sounds like the NYT word game subscriptions
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Just say your name is NuII with two capital "i"s.
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Yeah, that'd make sense, lol. It never gets hot to the touch either (which wasn't the case with my old ThinkPads, for example, or the Intel MacBook Pro I had immediately prior). Apple Silicon is just incredible and I don't th

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