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by thom 3y ago
I’ve found myself wanting a Tailwind compiler that makes it easier to work like this. Iterate fast with maximum verbosity, but later extract common patterns to classes when things are more stable. Anyone aware of any tooling like this?
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by thom 3y ago
I recognise some of what you're saying here. I've used DALL-E 3 in anger recently and while the results have really impressed me, every time I've tried to actually tweak and improve something I've ended up getting furthe
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by thom 3y ago
This is neither downplaying depression nor flippant - the therapeutic relationship is clearly very important and I don't think anybody denies that. But I suspect a lot of this is about your inherent world-view. Some people do well afte
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by thom 3y ago
Love everything about this, especially the chiptune renditions of the various themes. Channel 4 in the UK has a couple of episodes of Frasier every morning, and whenever it rolls over from the last series back to the first episode, everythi
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by thom 3y ago
I too would like only good things and no bad things, but we have thousands of years of evidence that this is not what you get with autocratic rule.
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by thom 3y ago
My pet theory is that as brands become bigger (or traditional brands come online), more and more people are involved in the signoff on branding decisions. This creates a pressure to pick the least objectionable option, and so anything with
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by thom 3y ago
Yeah, one of the houses in it is just round the corner from us in Sheffield.
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by thom 3y ago
Oh I've read all of Cicero, I find him fascinating. He's the most online person I've come across in antiquity - the exact combination of haughtiness and crippling anxiety you see daily on Twitter. I find him equal parts conte
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by thom 3y ago
I was shocked at how bad Cicero’s spittle-flecked rants against Catiline were when I first read them. If I needed any more confidence that he made most of the conspiracy up, him raging about deep-state pedophiles in the manner of modern Tea
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by thom 3y ago
Make bricks! https://nocamels.com/2022/11/bricks-made-of-salt-the-buildin...
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by thom 3y ago
The last time I used a numberpad was to play Civilisation in the 90s, so I don't really miss it. I hate moving my hands too far from the home row, and it's now a few inches less travel to my mouse when I need it so that's a p
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by thom 3y ago
Because I am English, and a fundamental part of being English is not making a fuss.
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There definitely are meat dishes I enjoy, and I feel like I've given it a good try, not just to survive domineering aunts-in-law. When my wife and I went on our honeymoon I threw myself in at the deep end, had some wonderful veal with
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by thom 3y ago
Oh don't get me wrong, I'm well aware of the rich food heritage of other cultures both within and without the UK, and their use of esoteric things like flavours and spices. But Sunday roast is what it is.
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It isn't really the flavour of lamb (I will smother it in any and all condiments available to me), it's that it doesn't turn to liquid as I chew it, and slowly all the actual tasty stuff dissolves away and you're left ha
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by thom 3y ago
Maybe! I am definitely not here to defend the English roast dinner, just to survive it when it's plonked in front of me.
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by thom 3y ago
The textures are one thing, the taste is definitely also difficult. I suspect for many vegetarians you're raised with less umami - the taste highlights for me were sweet things like onions, garlic, tomatoes, salty things like cheese, o
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by thom 3y ago
I was raised vegetarian and married into Yorkshire, and I've tried to expand my palate over the years. Lamb is the one thing that just utterly defeats me. I can get through most roast dinners by slathering the meat in various sauces, a
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by thom 3y ago
Yeah, I thought 5G was a gimmick until I found myself somewhere with proper 5G speeds and downloaded Witcher 3 onto my SteamDeck through my phone. It was nice briefly living in the future.
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Gotcha, apologies for responding without reading!
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by thom 3y ago
Presumably it's okay that this loses work if your task runner has an error?
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by thom 3y ago
Instead of getting into the weeds, let's rewind a bit. Do you believe the Roman Republic was ever in possession of something _we_ should recognise as an empire? You seemed to imply that you don't, so I'm interested in where o
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by thom 3y ago
I sometimes overcompensate for anxiety by being chatty and over familiar, but since I’ve had kids it’s also behaviour that I think is important for them to see. It makes my day when I have a positive interaction with a stranger but I also w
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by thom 3y ago
I don’t think there’s much difference between our concept of empire and what Polybius called “ἀρχή” in his Histories (“dominion”, perhaps). He compares Rome to Persia and yes, some smaller states like Sparta, but it’s clearly in the context
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by thom 3y ago
Well, the Roman Republic had an empire so you can see where it gets confusing.
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by thom 3y ago
I remember a long time ago there was a fashion for "prevalence layers" instead of persistence layers. The idea being you persist your event log, but your app is the materialisation of all those events replayed. That way you get st
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by thom 3y ago
And thus gave birth to cljfx, which are quite nice bindings to JavaFX (once you get your head around it all).
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by thom 3y ago
I totally agree that children should be encouraged to write legibly, which means banning cursive.
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by thom 3y ago
But if you have a piece of insane code, especially if it's fairly localised, why is it superior to explain it in a commit message and not a comment right there next to it? Save people the head scratching. And yes - I do exactly think t
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by thom 3y ago
Yes, I'm being pernickety about naming and then misusing it myself! I use 'sequence' in a very loose sense to mean any sequential stuff you might push through a stack of transducers one at a time. core.async does actually use

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