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by tshaddox 2y ago
Is a mountain a chair?
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by tshaddox 2y ago
A broken chair is by definition a chair. You just said it!
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by tshaddox 2y ago
> But, if your problem is simple enough that you can represent it with a handful of states with two or three transitions each, then you have a very trivial problem, so trivial that the state-machine diagram likely added nothing at all to
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by tshaddox 2y ago
> Frankly, for most magic tricks the method isn't very interesting, although there are some notable exceptions where the method is fascinating, sometimes to the extent it can be far more interesting than the effect it creates. >
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by tshaddox 2y ago
I think magic is extremely interesting (particularly close-up magic), but I also hate the mindset (which seems to be common though not ubiquitous) that stigmatizes any curiosity in how the trick works. In my view, the trick as it is intende
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by tshaddox 2y ago
Not that I love any of those particular secure document web services, but I do vastly prefer web pages and URLs for retrieving documents and would happily live in a world where email was a receptacle for notifications.
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by tshaddox 2y ago
It’s impossible to live in a world without murder, and murder is difficult to precisely define and identify, and yet neither of those are good reasons to oppose making murder illegal.
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by tshaddox 2y ago
> If the language needs a linter to keep otherwise-competent developers from introducing potentially maddening bugs into the codebase, it's weird. This is an odd way to phrase things. A better way to look at this is that there are p
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by tshaddox 2y ago
I don't know if there's much merit in opposing antibiotic use in cattle if that position is just a small coincidental component of your broader pro-disease ideology.
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by tshaddox 2y ago
In what way does it transcend music? What other form of art, other than music, is he operating in?
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by tshaddox 2y ago
Idk, a couple of the examples might be generic enough that you wouldn't expect a very specific movie character. But most of the prompts make it extremely clear which movie character you would expect to see, and I would argue that the c
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by tshaddox 2y ago
It's a neat goal to keep an organ playing for hundreds of years. I just don't think that's related to the musical composition itself, which is not impressive to me. The fact that Cage added the phrase "as slow as possibl
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by tshaddox 2y ago
You say "backend" but I'm guessing you're not talking about modern cloud infrastructure work, the complexity at which I (as a frontend person) scream in similar abject horror.
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by tshaddox 2y ago
Fair enough. Perhaps what I mean is that they don’t have a strong aesthetic opposition to JSDoc, which is presumably rare among TypeScript developers.
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by tshaddox 2y ago
Does Go’s type system perform runtime type validations? My impression was that it does not. But Go probably supports reflection on the type information at runtime which could be used to implement a runtime type validator, right?
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by tshaddox 2y ago
Svelte is a bad example. They have roughly identical type checking before and after that switch. The switch is mostly just an aesthetic preference for one syntax over another and an ideological stance about being able to run code directly i
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by tshaddox 2y ago
Yeah, it just means those teams had to do a lot of work themselves which type systems do automatically. Given that the entire point of computing is automating things which a human could have done by hand, it makes more sense to talk about c
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by tshaddox 2y ago
I probably have nearly the exact opposite opinion of where static typing is the most beneficial. I think it’s precisely at the UI rendering layer, because that tends to be where you’re dealing with the data types with the largest number of
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by tshaddox 2y ago
I mean, the "arbitrary" lines are what makes a sport what it is. The reason that you can't pick up the ball and run with it in football (soccer) isn't because they arbitrarily banned this "optimization" after s
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by tshaddox 2y ago
Isn't the convenient version of something always worse in every way aside from convenience than the less convenient version of the same thing?
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by tshaddox 2y ago
Also, if my memory serves, native MacOS apps by default support selecting most text that isn’t part of a clickable element like a button.
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by tshaddox 2y ago
I've been Googling "em dash" and copypasting from the Google results for a solid 15 years now. Long before LLMs.
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by tshaddox 2y ago
Writing that predates AI is precisely the type of writing AI mimics. :)
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by tshaddox 2y ago
Or into an intense headwind.
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by tshaddox 2y ago
How many people offering knee-jerk takedowns of Next.js understand the difference? Hard to say.
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by tshaddox 2y ago
This vulnerability has nothing to do with isomorphic code, right? Next middleware only runs on the server (or on “the edge,” which is still a server even if it’s running in a browser-esque environment).
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by tshaddox 2y ago
“Bypasses auth” is a weird way to put it, although everyone seems to describe it in those terms. It bypasses middleware, which is bad (and embarrassing for Vercel), but middleware shouldn’t be responsible for access control. The middleware
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by tshaddox 2y ago
A threat model can include hackers while not taking every action that could prevent every conceivable attack from a hacker.
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by tshaddox 2y ago
That's only relevant when comparing states with low populations and states with high populations, which is related but not quite the same as biasing rural populations over urban populations. California has way more rural population tha
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by tshaddox 2y ago
> There is a coherent set of values that lead to saying "no encryption", but not one for "only backdoored encryption". While I oppose building backdoors, I don't really agree with this claim. There's nothing

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