tpoacher

15 ms·

271.
by tpoacher 1y ago
Only for modern definitions of advertising, mind you, which are all about dark patterns and invasive marketing, rather than putting a descrption of your product out there that can be searched by interested parties looking to buy a product l
272.
by tpoacher 1y ago
> The author of "Choose boring technology" regretted the choice of the word "boring" Well, yes, but only in the sense that people kept giving him beef about how boring is a bad word in their mind, not because it was a
273.
by tpoacher 1y ago
nice try ChatGPT (/s)
274.
by tpoacher 1y ago
"Every drop makes the ocean" ~ old proverb
275.
by tpoacher 1y ago
only if the individual lines aren't shifted about / re-justified, and it's only a matter of adding a new line in between existing lines. But with prose (like latex) this is rarely the case. A single word might rejustify the w
276.
by tpoacher 1y ago
Only in the same way the nano editor should rename itself to Stable Diffusion because of Google naming their image generator nano-banana. Gemini predated Google's Gemini by many years and was a sufficiently known project. Google hijack
277.
by tpoacher 1y ago
The Gemini protocol does not mandate lack of images. It is simply left up to the implementation to decide how (or whether) to display those. One of the most popular Gemini browsers, Lagrange, shows images inline once downloaded. But you nee
278.
by tpoacher 1y ago
sourcehut offers gemini hosting via your sr.ht repos from what I understand. haven't tried it myself yet, though I've been meaning to...
279.
by tpoacher 1y ago
> Nothing about the web implies heaviness Yes, except that heaviness is allowed, and lightness is opt-in. > you’re also free to use e.g. Lynx/w3m/elinks browsers to browse the modern web or the subset that renders well on it
280.
by tpoacher 1y ago
There is a very good technical argument for NOT using "semantic" line breaks when editing markup source code, especially of the "hardwrap" variety, and that is the ability to easily diff two versions of the same document
281.
by tpoacher 1y ago
Partially agree, but only for a very narrow definition of what is a contract, which again is the problem stated above. A good contract system may in fact rely on type-safety as part of its implementation, but types do not necessarily cover
282.
by tpoacher 1y ago
One of the biggest problems I find with contracts whenever contracts are mentioned is that nobody seems to have a really clear definition of what exactly a contract 'is' or 'should be' (with the exception of languages w
283.
by tpoacher 1y ago
Snarkiness aside, this is Oxfordshire. One of 'the' most unlikely areas to have been concerned about that as the primary opinion driver.
284.
by tpoacher 1y ago
While the concept of atomic blogposts is a nice one, I think this characterisation is a bit unfair in this case. In my view he put four separate but related and logically linked nice thoughts together, and tried to link them all thematicall
285.
by tpoacher 1y ago
Nice atomic blogpost! Thank you for sharing!
286.
by tpoacher 1y ago
bwahahah, loved this comment.
287.
by tpoacher 1y ago
I do. It gave me a good ol' chuckle. That's a great contribution to the conversation right there!
288.
by tpoacher 1y ago
Out of curiosity, what were the user hostile changes you mention?
289.
by tpoacher 1y ago
Not to be confused with the ABC music notation programming language
290.
by tpoacher 1y ago
Not pretending to be an expert in either system's internals, but I feel like svn would be a much better fit than git for this. I find svn to be wonderful. There seems to be a real phobia against it which I've never understood and
291.
by tpoacher 1y ago
I know you weren't using it in this way, but I do appreciate the double meaning of the word "protection" here. A.k.a, "nice google account you've got there, holding all your memories, emails, contacts, and interface
292.
by tpoacher 1y ago
Very nice. I wish people put this kind of careful thought in academic manuscripts. The whole point of introducing a math equation in a paper is to serve as a completely unambiguous formalism, devoid of the ambiguities of the spoken word. An
293.
by tpoacher 1y ago
i used to have a jolla and loved my sailfish phone ... until the phone died and i could fix it ... sailfish itself was great though. admittedly the android compatibility layer really helped though
294.
by tpoacher 1y ago
Sounds intricate
295.
by tpoacher 1y ago
odd that you say this, libreoffice is the first of those high quality products i had in mind. it looks clean, friendly, and everything just works. whenever i am forced to use msoffice it's a cringeworthy experience. is this opinion bas
296.
by tpoacher 1y ago
Oh but they are, Mr Bulver. They are!
297.
by tpoacher 1y ago
truly worthy of an acquisition from MS then
298.
by tpoacher 1y ago
it's going to be old and ugly for now
299.
by tpoacher 1y ago
I feel the same with products that end in "Pro". Don't mind the "Libre" too much tbh, because I use some quality products that use it ... but yes, it's only a matter of time before marketing nerds ruin an alrea
300.
by tpoacher 1y ago
Why does he look as if life was drained from his body though?

More ›