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by wmil 1y ago
Are you implying that having both String.prototype.substring and String.prototype.substr is somehow confusing? JS is in general better because by the time it came out people knew what to expect from a scripting language. CSS didn't rea
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by wmil 1y ago
That's incredibly arrogant phrasing by both you and the author. Here's a better explanation of the hostility towards CSS. Nested flexbox had bugs in IE11, which wasn't end of lifed until 2022. The nested CSS in the article ca
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by wmil 1y ago
I'm curious what happens if you throw something like Ulysses by James Joyce at it.
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by wmil 1y ago
When compared to it's contemporaries the 7-zip GUI is noticeably worse. Back in 2004 WinRar and WinZip were both clearly superior.
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by wmil 1y ago
No but in a world of 400 calorie muffins and 700 calorie boba teas it's easy to argue that ice cream is getting a bad rap.
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by wmil 2y ago
LLMs have the same problem a la "ignore previous requests". The fundamental problem is that you always either need two signalling paths or you have to specially encode all user content so that it can never conflict with the signal
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by wmil 2y ago
> Allowing ANY headers from the user except a whitelisted subset also seems like an accident waiting to happen. I'm going to disagree on this. Browsers and ISPs have a long history of adding random headers, a website can't poss
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by wmil 2y ago
My favourite example of this is that for Babylon 5 the lawyers from Warner Bros insisted that the showrunners not retain any copies of the digital models because they were WB property and WB would archive them. When they started working on
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by wmil 2y ago
It's low resolution plus the cards only supported bilinear filtering, which turns things into a blurry mess. Overall it looked better, but a lot of Quake 2 players weren't aware of a lot of the small details that were put into the
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by wmil 2y ago
His rallies are basically A/B testing of policy ideas. It's how he gets feedback from his base. It works for him because Sr Republican advisors aren't well aligned with the typical Trump voter.
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by wmil 2y ago
It's strange that they are ending Windows 10 support so soon after they stopped selling it. Windows 11 came out October 5, 2021. Edge came out in 2015 and they kept supporting IE11 until June 15, 2022. Given that the major Windows 11 f
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by wmil 2y ago
Originally it used a bayesian learning algorithm, so if you kept dismissing it in frustration it would stop appearing. However the product people decided that it would be the major feature to market the new office version. Thus they demande
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by wmil 2y ago
> A decent manager would understand how those internal processes are slowing you down, and a bad manager, well, they’ll find other ways to screw you if that’s what they want. You're putting a lot of faith in them having a decent man
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by wmil 2y ago
The obvious problem is that it doesn't send your codebase along with it, so you can't tell it to allocate memory for your structs.
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by wmil 2y ago
The big problem with learning new programming languages is that you're going to suck at it for years until you reach the same level of familiarity with the new one. Suck here is more of an emotional thing. They can output high quality
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by wmil 2y ago
Most web servers aren't doing anything computationally complex and there's a lot of tech to help you scale to multiple servers, so single server performance usually isn't really critical. Web stuff is about developer speed. S
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by wmil 2y ago
We are fast approaching the point where new Nvidia GPUs only come as eGPUs with their own power supply and C14 connector. People in cold climates will be able to mount it outside their window for winter cooling.
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by wmil 2y ago
The contracts usually state that they can go after the original owner if the new one can't pay. So even paying a terminally ill patient to take it over won't work.
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by wmil 2y ago
I'm not seeing how that relates to my comment.
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by wmil 2y ago
I think the issue is that HTML and CSS are awful braindead work that are a career killer. If you hire developers who know HTML and CSS please rotate in some more interesting work for them. Also be careful not to elevate the design team abov
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by wmil 2y ago
So I'm used to working with lists and maps, which doesn't really track well with tackling problems on thousands of cores. Is the usual strategy to worry less about repeating calculations and just use brute force to tackle the prob
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by wmil 2y ago
Woodworking is a popular hobby where it's possible. But the tech market is centered in cities where owing a garage with tools in your 20s isn't possible.
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by wmil 2y ago
I don't understand why putting the <input> inside the <label> is so unpopular. It completely avoids these problems and you don't need to come up with a unique id to use with 'for'.
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by wmil 2y ago
I think you're paying more attention to the mathematics than the social usage. The ocean at a tropical beach is often actually cyan but never referred to as green.
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by wmil 2y ago
X has an office in Bengaluru that does engineering, so leaving India would be non-trivial. Also Modi is an elected popular leader. India's censorship laws have been passed through the normal means. If Musk pushed back most Indian insti
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by wmil 2y ago
Make has warts. Users generally expect their build system to handle spaces in the parent directory name without any issues.
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by wmil 2y ago
Minecraft already exists and has had over 10 years, hundreds of millions of dollars of development, and a broad modding community. You can't just displace it with a Minecraft clone. Early builds of Deep Rock Galactic look extremely Min
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by wmil 2y ago
It was all over Twitter/X. Google has live reporting of how busy shops are. In DC pizza orders were unusually high and gay bars were unusually empty.
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by wmil 2y ago
JPEG / JFIF isn't really smart enough to take advantage of that. It's a file format from 1992, CPU speed was limited.
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by wmil 2y ago
Yeah the "without visual impact" bit is a lie. People working in image / video compression are in denial about the noticeable quality drop with 4:2:0. 4:2:0 is extremely noticeable if your computer monitor gets into that mode

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