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by unconed 2y ago
Confirmations are mostly useless unless you explicitly spell out the implications of the change. They are also inferior to being able to undo changes. That's a lesson many don't know.
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by unconed 3y ago
>Imagine getting mad at your computer because it drew you a picture you didn’t like! Gemini produces the output that it does because people already got mad at the words and pictures unfiltered LLMs produced. It's bizarre to thro
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by unconed 3y ago
If it's ad-supported, it's not free.
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by unconed 3y ago
This feels like a particularly bad case of 'every templating system eventually turns into a (bad) programming language'. It appears to have global+local variables, functions, mixins with positional and named arguments, and so on,
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by unconed 3y ago
The problem with React is nobody actually learns how to code in React properly and formally. They just wing it by copying what else they see around them. But the point of incremental code is that it completely changes how you think about da
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by unconed 3y ago
Comments like this make me realize every physics teacher and prof I ever had was a hack who just taught cargo cult. Why is the general intuitive understanding of these things so rare that it is not even the norm to teach it? (I have yet to
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by unconed 3y ago
HN, where text looking bad on your machine means the designer intended for it to be unreadable. Isn't that more bizarre?
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by unconed 3y ago
The backwards compatibility is okay, but the author should also plan a more optimal replacement encoding that ditches the legacy compatibility, and require new implementations to support both. Otherwise there is no way to sunset the hacks.
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by unconed 3y ago
The linked spec in the original has all the hallmarks of "oh wait, maybe we do need...". It reads like what you get when someone has a poor idea of what 2D UI requirements are (alignment, relative positioning, layout, out-of-band
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by unconed 3y ago
Yes, if you read how certain tags are actually intended/supposed to be used, you realize that semantic HTML is mostly nonsense. You can't extract a list of articles from a page by looking for `<article>` tags, because there
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by unconed 3y ago
They're pretending to safeguard objective knowledge, and that Basecamp is following some kind of sinister "playbook", while blatantly singing from the woke songsheet, and following the established woke playbook. - Call it a &
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by unconed 3y ago
You missed the part about handouts and subsidies. Like the subsidized state media that told everyone to hate the unvaccinated and exclude them from polite society, which still, somehow, thinks of itself as antifascist.
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by unconed 3y ago
The only "industry of hate" I see is the so-called "disinformation" circuit that has popped up since COVID. It's given the censors yet another excuse to disguise their intolerance and neuroticism as something good.
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by unconed 3y ago
...and then it popped up an obnoxious subscribe popup while scrolling down which is when I closed this article as garbage.
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by unconed 3y ago
I treat usage of LLMs in coding as an admission of incompetence, and this post has only reinforced that view.
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by unconed 3y ago
Yes, they do them because they are scummy. "Maybe later" is the best example. No excuse for this other than them refusing to understand. Which is why, when companies try to apply dark patterns to you, you should bug the fuck out o
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by unconed 3y ago
I don't want to give money to people who hate me, censor me and who spend the money on others to do the same.
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by unconed 3y ago
Lol, the only math you need for practical graphics coding is linear algebra. Calculus only comes into play when doing e.g. light integrals, and complex analysis only when you start doing advanced convolutions. The math isn't the proble
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by unconed 3y ago
>Donald Trump or Boris Johnson >Timnit Gebru How strange that the former two are cited as examples of bullshitters, but the latter not. That Twitter and politics is cited as a hotbed of untethered debate, but not academia. Even though
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by unconed 3y ago
Indeed. You can get all the main benefits of two-way binding in a one-way dataflow system like React by using cursors... i.e. whenever you access a property `state.foo.bar`, also derive the setter/updater, `setBar(…)`. With proper memo
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by unconed 3y ago
If you want to complain about software getting worse, maybe don't post it on a website that forces a pop-up on readers after they have already started reading and scroll down...
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by unconed 3y ago
This isn't true, and is obvious when you try to split a bezier without distorting its shape. As a bezier is just repeated interpolations, the tangents and their lengths can be derived from the intermediate interpolations [1]. This mean
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by unconed 3y ago
Anything that involves raytracing would need to change from having a finite camera position in world space, to having an infinite one with parallel rays. There are some ways to make the math work out the same, but in general... nope. Like,
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by unconed 3y ago
If you don't defend freedom of speech for people who disagree with you, _you_ are the "opposite politics". Mass race hysteria, in the middle of a supposedly deadly pandemic, but it was okay because BLM. Meanwhile these same p
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by unconed 3y ago
I see people on Mastodon gleefully sharing this, saying it's the "new Lenna", and mocking the people in this thread who are "upset". I don't think people are mad because of what it says about Spencer, they are
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by unconed 3y ago
This is entirely backwards. Don't build a general purpose API so your front end can have half the the logic outside. Just build it the way you would as if it were local, and then hook it up to a back end with a git-like synchronization
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by unconed 3y ago
When people say documentation, they could mean: - a guide to the system to orient yourself - a reference for the api to look up in - tutorials to teach it - examples to copy/paste Each has a different audience and requires a different
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by unconed 3y ago
Debuggers would be great if they had more speeds than 0 or infinity. Also, I find debugging JS to be really difficult these days because the ability to set breakpoints and inspect state just doesn't work half the time in Chrome. What I
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by unconed 3y ago
- The specific divisions of the dashes is meaningless and asymmetrical for legacy reasons - Hexadecimal is bloated compared to other encodings, low entropy per digit, inefficient when e.g. embedded in URLs - Is not memorable for humans, doe
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by unconed 3y ago
UUIDs: awkward, pointless cargo cult. - the dash formatting is meaningless - the only useful variant other than "all random" is "time sortable" and it's only part of uuidV7 - hexadecimal is neither compact nor human

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