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by xnorswap 10mo ago
Global standardisation surely helped too. In the CRT era, there was a functional difference between NTSC and PAL CRTs.
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by xnorswap 10mo ago
It seems backed up by a photo of it in 2014? It's unreadable at this scale, but I assume they have a better quality version they got the price from.
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by xnorswap 10mo ago
I wasn't trying to be dogmatic, I was genuinely trying to understand what you were trying to say, because it didn't seem to relate to languages vs libraries, and I found it confusing.
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by xnorswap 10mo ago
Shift and -f are the guardrails. Use `rm -r` and just press Delete if you want to have protection.
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by xnorswap 10mo ago
It's not clear what you're trying to say, because the "L" in DSL is "Language".
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by xnorswap 10mo ago
That's not what it's doing though. Pascal strings are: { length, pointer } In these strings: For short strings it's storing: { length, string value} for longer strings, it's storing {length, prefix, class, p
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by xnorswap 10mo ago
I really enjoyed this article. The storing in-place of a prefix is a neat idea for faster matching/sorting. I wonder if they also have the concept of a reverse string which stores the (reversed) suffix instead and stores the short stri
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by xnorswap 10mo ago
If this were a real preservation effort, they could set up a charitable foundation for computer game preservation, and encourage donations to that.
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by xnorswap 10mo ago
I tried that then discarded it, because it doesn't immediately hide the snowflakes that are already on screen. The article is good but the choice of distracting snowflakes or radioactive piss burning your retina is not a welcome one.
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by xnorswap 10mo ago
You're right that domain specific exceptions would be much better. As an aside, generating domain specific exceptions is precisely the kind of busywork that traditionally it is hard to find motivation to do but that LLMs excel at.
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by xnorswap 10mo ago
Does it? Int.Parse says it can only return those 2 exceptions or ArgumentNullException, but nulls have been handled already. https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/api/system.int32.pa...
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by xnorswap 10mo ago
Ok, "destroy" was too strong, "hide" would have been a better choice of words. You've still made it harder to handle.
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by xnorswap 10mo ago
I really dislike this pattern: try { id = int.Parse(inputId); } catch (Exception ex) when (ex is FormatException or OverflowException) { throw new InvalidOperationException("DeactivateUser failed a
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by xnorswap 10mo ago
I'm fortunate to still be in a role, but I've always kept an eye out for other opportunities, and it looks very rough out there in the UK job market. I don't know if companies are just in a "wait and see" stance to
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by xnorswap 10mo ago
There's a trick to USB, the block part (in the wire) is nearer the ground. ( motherboard-side for vertical desktops ) Since learning that, I have the confidence to stick it in first time rather than 3rd or 4th. That's not to say t
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by xnorswap 10mo ago
Now let us suppose the squirrel is at the same distance as the man. Has the man have gone around the squirrel and the squirrel around the man? If it's only radii less than the other, where is the limit? To get it I think I have to re-f
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by xnorswap 10mo ago
I've worked with a few dyslexic developers over the years. The answer is to just be vigilant, patient, and double-check their work. Many IDEs support spellcheckers, so you could bump up the warning level on suspected spelling errors. I
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by xnorswap 10mo ago
I also don't like that phrasing. It's like complaining of guard-rails while running around erratically. The guard rails aren't abusing you, they're helping you. They aren't "angry", they're just const
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by xnorswap 10mo ago
The ants argument feels rather like a retelling of Zeno's Paradoxes. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zeno%27s_paradoxes
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by xnorswap 10mo ago
I don't want to sound heartless, especially as I'm in the high-risk category myself, but I think it's important to recognise that while COVID hasn't gone away, it is no longer a pandemic. It is now endemic instead, and n
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by xnorswap 10mo ago
This isn't just about AI, the exams were only moved to remote for COVID. There will be a lot of COVID-era qualifications that are treated with a hint of suspicion in the future. Take a look at A-level scores: https://schools
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by xnorswap 10mo ago
Fowler describes it as Implicit vs Explicit schema, which feels right. Kleppmann chooses "schema-on-read" vs "schema-on-write" for the same concept, which I find harder to grasp mentally, but describes when schema valida
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by xnorswap 10mo ago
If you add a LICENSE or CONTRIBUTORS file, I'd be tempted to fork or contribute. ( You're perfectly okay to not want either of those things, of course. )
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by xnorswap 10mo ago
two decades ago it would have been: 1. Movie Star / Actor 2. TV Star / entertainer Youtube / tiktok are just the equivalent for that age in this day & age.
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by xnorswap 10mo ago
It's amusing to think that claude might be better at generating ascii diagrams than generating code to generate diagrams, despite it being nominally better at generating code. I'm generating a lot of PDFs* in claude, so it does as
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by xnorswap 10mo ago
Yes, it was in jest. ;)
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by xnorswap 10mo ago
I thought the UK ranked well, I didn't realise it ranked that well. Maybe there's something to be said for left-hand driving, I see Japan ranks very highly too. ;) The real reason is I guess we take road safety seriously, we hav
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by xnorswap 10mo ago
Confusing David "The monarchy are secretly lizards" Icke with Dawkins is astonishing. More "info": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reptilian_conspiracy_theory#Da...
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by xnorswap 10mo ago
Yes it will, this is almost verbatim (redacted product) claude-code output from my current session: ● I'll explore the codebase to understand the current <redacted> architecture, testing patterns, and integration points. Thi
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by xnorswap 10mo ago
Oh yeah, when I said £60, I was thinking of even the cheapest consumer-grade software!

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