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by wtetzner 4y ago
Interestingly, tables in XML would be easy to merge, as long as they're formatted with one cell per line. E.g. <table> <row> <cell>1</cell> <cell>45</cell>
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by wtetzner 4y ago
Sure, but I guess my point was, do they really need to? How much does it add? I'm not necessarily saying they don't matter, more that I'd like to find out how much they actually matter, vs how much people think they matter.
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by wtetzner 4y ago
I don't think these are the kinds of animations being referred to. They're instantaneous state changes. E.g., for the highlight effect you can just change the key image on press. It doesn't need multiple frames of animation.
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by wtetzner 4y ago
But this feels like something that can be handled with instantaneous state changes. I feel like pretty much any GUI implementation could handle it. I assumed the kind of animation support referred to was timed animations, which need multipl
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Morrowind: An Oral History (2019)(polygon.com)
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by wtetzner 4y ago
I usually end up printing out the dead-tree version with the black rectangles, and scanning it back in, just to be sure the data under the black rectangles can't be retrieved.
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by wtetzner 4y ago
Yeah, PDFs on Windows are a pain. I've set Firefox as my default PDF reader on my Windows box.
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by wtetzner 4y ago
Why not just include an error code and help and insight? That way, when the help and insight inevitably fails to solve the problem at some point, the user can still dump the error code into Google to see if other people have run into&#x2F
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by wtetzner 4y ago
How important are animations in a UI? I typically find them annoying (because you have to wait for them).
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by wtetzner 4y ago
CSV should be pretty easy to merge, given that it’s line based.
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by wtetzner 4y ago
So if I want to use a library, I have to wait for my distro to determine that it's important enough for them to package it?
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by wtetzner 4y ago
I think this is a big part of why I still enjoy playing Morrowind more than pretty much all newer open world games. It felt like you were really in a place, and the lack of HUD directing you to "points of interest" made it that mu
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by wtetzner 4y ago
C sometimes appears to be simple, but there's a lot of complexity in the language. It's just well-hidden until it bites you.
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> We feel that package management is best left in the hands of distributions. So now instead of packaging a library once, you need to do it for every possible distribution?
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You can use it for whatever you want. It's a general purpose programming language.
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by wtetzner 4y ago
> That's why we ended up with Java. To be fair, I've seen much bigger unrecognizable blobs in Java than I have in any Lisp. A language that's too rigid just makes people reach for other workarounds, e.g. craziness in the b
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by wtetzner 4y ago
See also Honu: https://www.cs.utah.edu/plt/publications/gpce12-rf.pdf
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by wtetzner 4y ago
I've always liked the approach Honu takes: https://www.cs.utah.edu/plt/publications/gpce12-rf.pdf
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by wtetzner 4y ago
Who said anything about YouTube or TV ads? PubMed is a great resource. Of course, it takes a lot of effort to really get something useful from those papers, since you need to try to understand the experiment they did, and not just read the
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by wtetzner 4y ago
> The risk I guess is that being informed might make me want to overrule the experts. On a population scale the advice might be bad. Depends on how good the experts are. My experience with "experts" has been almost universally
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by wtetzner 4y ago
> A better UX would reduce the amount of time nurses spend using these systems. That productivity could be used to do more other work (like taking on more patients). I don't like this argument but it's easy to make in terms of
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by wtetzner 4y ago
Just because there wasn't scientific consensus doesn't mean there was no scientific backing. How about just not censoring?
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by wtetzner 4y ago
So when using rust-analyzer with Emacs, I've noticed that it lists code transformation suggestions based on where your cursor is, and you can optionally choose to apply those. That seems to be generic, e.g., rust-analyzer provides the
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by wtetzner 4y ago
Is that not also true of lsp-mode?
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by wtetzner 4y ago
Maybe the reason they're pissed is that Twitter is downplaying their tweets, making them less loud.
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by wtetzner 4y ago
> No disinformation about a global pandemic And what exactly constitutes misinformation? I think this is the problem.
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by wtetzner 4y ago
> Which only proves the point that the GGP's formula for Twitter's success doesn't add up. I don't think that proves anything. It's an example of one person.
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by wtetzner 5y ago
I’m not following. Are you somehow equating needing interfaces with having to manually construct classes? In any case, I don’t see how needing closed over values to be effectively final is a problem. It’s no different than StandardML or OCa
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by wtetzner 5y ago
I don't think screen space is necessarily the right thing to optimize for. It's not the only consideration in terms of ergonomics.
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by wtetzner 5y ago
> Java has a terrible hack where it is technically creating a singleton class and attaching a function to that class that is then applied behind the scenes. I'm not sure why that's a terrible hack. Scheme is just creating a str

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