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by wwalexander 4mo ago
Icons in menu bars serve the same purpose as icons elsewhere: quickly identifying buttons. I don't know why this is such a big deal.
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by wwalexander 4mo ago
Poste Italiane is not.
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by wwalexander 5mo ago
> This is about setting keyboard shortcuts for custom actions for applications, not window traversal on the desktop. The "All Applications" section lets you define global shortcuts. As long as there is a menu bar item for it (i
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by wwalexander 5mo ago
> cannot be traversed with keyboard shortcuts Yes, it can: https://support.apple.com/guide/mac-help/mac-window-tiling-i... You can define additional shortcuts in Keyboard settings: https://support.a
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by wwalexander 5mo ago
Who do you think is going to throw food at you?
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by wwalexander 5mo ago
AIs can barely handle PKCE OAuth flow. It’s not very hard to confuse them.
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by wwalexander 5mo ago
Thank you very much for this recommendation! Most of my work is in Xcode, and in an ideal world Xcode would just support third-party syntax highlighting (or LSP), and I've been looking for a Mac-assed simple editor for those scenarios
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by wwalexander 5mo ago
Arbitrary precision arithmetic (GMP, BigInteger, etc). Numbers can take arbitrary amounts of memory, instead of just a single machine word.
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by wwalexander 5mo ago
Just use AttributedString
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by wwalexander 5mo ago
“Implicitly implied” is redundant. Either of these phrasings would suffice: > It is implicit in many comments. > It is implied in many comments.
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by wwalexander 6mo ago
Apple’s text inputs usually autocorrect double hyphens to em dashes.
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by wwalexander 7mo ago
I take it this only supports Apple’s built-in actions, and doesn’t plug into the broader AppIntents system? AppIntents includes a packaging concept, would be cool to see if this could use third-party AppIntents in a similar way to how scien
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by wwalexander 7mo ago
Re: module name selectors, wasn't this already possible, e.g. ModuleA.getValue()? Though I suppose this disambiguates if you also have a type called ModuleA.
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Open-source game engine Godot is drowning in 'AI slop' code contributions(pcgamer.com)
5 points by wwalexander 8mo ago|0 comments
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by wwalexander 2y ago
While doing Instacart deliveries here in Maine, I dropped off a leave-at-the-door order which requires uploading a picture of the shopping bags at the entrance. However, there wasn’t any service in the rural area I was delivering to, and th
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by wwalexander 2y ago
Why has this post been flagged? Category theory is extremely relevant to programming and this post has plenty of points and comments. Any thoughts dang?
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by wwalexander 2y ago
I don’t know what I thought CNC stood for (something with Cutting in the name presumably) but I definitely didn’t think it stood for Computer Numerical Control.
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by wwalexander 2y ago
I would say that Go is extremely explicit, but I wouldn’t say it’s verbose. Or, I suppose you could say that Go is semantically verbose (explicit error handling, no/low use of generics, no operator overloading), but syntactically conci
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by wwalexander 2y ago
I also find it frustrating, but I’ve come to appreciate that it’s a way to at least partially sidestep the hard problem of naming things. There are still idioms and choices to make, but using abstract symbols makes it easier to play with th
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by wwalexander 2y ago
I believe this stems from C originally only having 8 significant characters for identifiers.
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by wwalexander 2y ago
Alyssa Rosenzweig deserves a Turing Award!
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by wwalexander 2y ago
I’ll admit the builder DSL stuff is a bit of a Turing tarpit for me. I may have wasted the day yesterday trying to implement a BNF grammar DSL.
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by wwalexander 2y ago
Seriously, I keep waiting for the FOMO to kick in but the M1 is still so great that I don’t have any. The only hiccups I ever have are resolving Swift result builder types…perhaps SwiftUI is just a big ploy to burn up all the extra CPU cycl
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by wwalexander 2y ago
> They also did move the Magic Keyboard and Magic Mouse to USB-C. Only for the bundled peripherals, it seems. The Apple Store now only lists the full-size Lightning keyboard without Touch ID in white, which is even worse than before when
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by wwalexander 2y ago
> Browser plugs fingerprint privacy randomizer
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by wwalexander 2y ago
I don’t know why “repeat” isn’t very common in place of while/loop/etc; it works out nicely grammatically. repeat {} repeat while <condition> {} repeat {} while <condition> repeat <count> {}
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by wwalexander 2y ago
Very important distinction! Apple recently added an “Early Reminder” feature that allows similar functionality which I am very grateful for.
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by wwalexander 2y ago
Something worth noting that I just noticed: on macOS (zsh), <somefile on its own seems to automatically page the output, whereas cat will simply print the entire file. So I think I’d definitely tend to prefer <somefile when building
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by wwalexander 2y ago
Check out mcmaster.com for an example of a highly optimized website using JS strictly to improve performance.
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by wwalexander 2y ago
You can still just begin with <somefile instead of cat somefile |. Does it really matter? No, but I don’t think pointing out useful and concise built-ins is necessarily asinine.

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