virgil_disgr4ce

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by virgil_disgr4ce 6mo ago
This is DELIGHTFUL.
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by virgil_disgr4ce 6mo ago
> - syntax is hard to read unless you spend a lot time getting used to it This is only true if you assume C-like syntax is the "default." But regardless of that, I'd argue that there's much less syntax to learn in L
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by virgil_disgr4ce 6mo ago
It's amazing that the world has largely forgotten the terror of losing entire documents forever. It happened to me. It happened to everyone. And this is the only comment I've seen so far here to even mention this. Bad old days i
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by virgil_disgr4ce 6mo ago
The key insight is that Trump is doing what Trump supporters (and fascists in general) want most: punishing The Enemy/Other. Everything else (including gas and grocery prices, etc) is irrelevant. As long as "immigrants" (the
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by virgil_disgr4ce 7mo ago
Although I'd be happy to see this insanity die, I don't understand how anyone thinks this is going to "complete its path." Honest question. Can someone describe what that end consists of?
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by virgil_disgr4ce 7mo ago
Reminds me of the cheap bets casino from National Lampoons Vegas Vacation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=byfewcZsug4
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by virgil_disgr4ce 7mo ago
"reorganized"
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by virgil_disgr4ce 7mo ago
It appears they arbitrarily limit the zoom such that the object stays within the browser frame. On my gigantic monitor I can get super close. Lame that they set it to stop like that
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by virgil_disgr4ce 7mo ago
OK I have a genuine question outside the topic of TFA. Do people really prefer "orientate" over "orient"? This pattern baffles me. You don't get out of the subway and "orientate" yourself, you "orient
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by virgil_disgr4ce 7mo ago
I think that actually may be the MOST appreciated design decision in Temporal ;) either way, I'm also a big fan
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by virgil_disgr4ce 7mo ago
Pretty big fan of Temporal. Been using the polyfill for a while. Very nice to use a modern, extremely well thought-through API!
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by virgil_disgr4ce 7mo ago
Did anyone say anything about being an expert? But even if someone had, I will happily propose that every parent who cares about being a parent is an expert on parenting.
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by virgil_disgr4ce 7mo ago
Hahaha seconded. Followup terminology: - Complication creep - Complication-complete - Complication requests
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by virgil_disgr4ce 7mo ago
Hehe. Well it's funny because years and years ago I made a similar comment to a person who I highly respected and had way more experience than me and he looked right at me and said, "No, waterfall does work." And it really
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by virgil_disgr4ce 7mo ago
p5 is just a wrapper that adds the setup() and draw() functions, so yes
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by virgil_disgr4ce 7mo ago
> Waterfall never worked for a reason We're going to need some evidence for this claim. I feel like nearly 70 years of NASA has something to say about this.
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by virgil_disgr4ce 7mo ago
...does it though? I mean we don't have to argue about personal desires and opinions. But Hyperion simply doesn't seem adaptable. You would lose everything that makes it great.
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by virgil_disgr4ce 7mo ago
THANK YOU!!! The Terror—the book—absolutely blew me away. I still am in awe of that book. Just everything about it. And yeah the adaptation was so, so weak. But it faced the same problem many horror movies do, which is that if you're f
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by virgil_disgr4ce 8mo ago
It's not my go-to, but I've heard some really fascinating stories on Darknet Diaries.
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by virgil_disgr4ce 8mo ago
HAHAHAHAHA I DID TOO!!!!! Ahhhh this makes me so happy. My brother and I, like many, were so obsessed with all the LucasArts adventures, so naturally I mailed them in my idea. I also got a letter back. IIRC it wasn't from a lawyer, but
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by virgil_disgr4ce 8mo ago
Whitelist what?
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by virgil_disgr4ce 8mo ago
I'm contemplating diving into Rust for a smallish project, a daemon with super-basic UI intended for Linux, MacOS and Windows. Do you mind expanding on what disadvantages you encountered? Or use-cases that aren't appropriate for R
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by virgil_disgr4ce 8mo ago
Yes, we know this. The question remains: how should we interview and hire people in order to end up with the best possible software?
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by virgil_disgr4ce 8mo ago
> A one word change to a prompt/spec will produce a drastically different program So in other words, determinism (or lack thereof) is the hard problem!
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by virgil_disgr4ce 8mo ago
> But every user is in many ways non-average. This is objectively true. There's an excellent 99PI about exactly this: https://99percentinvisible.org/episode/on-average/ > Thus if you create a system tai
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by virgil_disgr4ce 8mo ago
> Full Web UI: Good: accessible for all. Great for high-level domain-specific workflows. Bad: looks and works different every time. Raw CRUD possible, but always a compromise with editable data grid libraries. I'm not a Notion boost
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by virgil_disgr4ce 8mo ago
The color scheme is painfully low-contrast. I can barely read it. Dear god increase the contrast.
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by virgil_disgr4ce 8mo ago
You can invent an arbitrary number of meaningless questions, but it's not the same as actually knowing anything about the subject you're inventing questions about. Nobody has any obligation to prove or disprove any of your questio
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by virgil_disgr4ce 8mo ago
Seconding this. I recommend Blindsight whenever the subject of consciousness—specifically lack thereof—comes up. It basically asks the question "What would it mean for there to be an intelligent species that was not conscious?" Ev
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by virgil_disgr4ce 8mo ago
You're doing that "we just don't understand the brain" thing that everyone apparently loves doing, I guess because it makes them sound smart? Asking questions like "How do we know if the visual cortex isn't con

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