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by xnorswap 10mo ago
Software felt more valuable when you forked over £60+ ( Which was worth a lot more back then ) and got a physical box, with a chunky set of instruction manuals and 5+ floppy disks. It wasn't even broadband that destroyed that experienc
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by xnorswap 10mo ago
That works, but even after installing the plugin, it doesn't seem to run the language server itself, so it doesn't seem to do anything in the terminal version of claude-code. I'd be disappointed if this were a feature only fo
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by xnorswap 10mo ago
Exactly! This is why LSP support should be huge, and I'm surprised it's just a line-item in a changelog.
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by xnorswap 10mo ago
You might be more interested in books than a blog. For example: The Architecture of Open Source Applications https://aosabook.org/en/index.html
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by xnorswap 10mo ago
Of course, saas for florists does exist https://www.strelitziasoftware.com/our-story/
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by xnorswap 10mo ago
There is a sudden jump in late 2017. A very sudden jump that doesn't further grow. Browser or mobile OS keyboard change?
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by xnorswap 10mo ago
That's possibly true, but I wonder why react as an abstraction fails to deliver that kind of independence. In theory, react developers ought to be able to code against the react API in typescript, without seeing the "raw" HTM
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by xnorswap 10mo ago
That's like saying my C# is getting turned into CLR bytecode, so I do have to learn CLR bytecode because I have an abstraction over it. Yet I know roughly what it is, but I couldn't begin to actually write the stuff myself. Good a
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by xnorswap 10mo ago
"closing the window ≠ quitting the application" See this is what I mean, that's completely alien to a MS Windows user in the mid-nineties.
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by xnorswap 10mo ago
Did the mac close actually close? I have memories of being endlessly frustrated trying to use an iMac because "close" would just hide the window. We've gone full circle, and now everything in windows likes to treat close as &
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by xnorswap 10mo ago
I feel this. I take breaks. But I also get drawn to overworking ( as I'm doing right now ), which I justify because "I'm just keeping an eye on the agent". It's hard work. It's hard to explain what's hard
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by xnorswap 10mo ago
> Most academic and technical writing in the UK still uses the z form 'z' forms are generally used for writing for an international audience, it hasn't really caught on more generally than that.
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by xnorswap 10mo ago
That's actually $90/month, that's kind of crazy. I realise 100% utilisation isn't realistic, but that still sounds very expensive when you're already BYOB.
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by xnorswap 10mo ago
I see this predates Knoppix. What did Knoppix get right that this got wrong, to the point where Knoppix quickly became synonymous with live-distrubution?
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by xnorswap 10mo ago
The guidelines I follow for C# has "use var where it's obvious, but explicitly type when not". So for example I'd write: var x = new List<Foo>(); Because writing: List<Foo> x = new List<Foo>(
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by xnorswap 10mo ago
I'm generally a "drag over text" reader. Images of text, even if it were a text size I'd be comfortable with, is something that just breaks how I read online.
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by xnorswap 11mo ago
You're only allowed up to 65535 locals, but this includes hidden locals, which the compiler adds if you're compiling in debug mode. So you have to make sure to compile only in release mode just to get to 16 bits.
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by xnorswap 11mo ago
It's a constant number of lookups, and all good Computer Scientists know that it is therefore an O(1) algorithm. It is hard to imagine better efficiency than O(1)! Indeed we could improve it further by performing all evaluations even w
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by xnorswap 11mo ago
This is time efficient* but rather wasteful of space. The best way to save space is to use a Bloom Filter. If we capture all the even numbers, that would sadly only give us "Definitely not Even" or "Maybe Even". But for
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by xnorswap 11mo ago
"contemporary fiction set in the past" Nitpick, but this is a contradiction. Contemporary fiction doesn't mean "current" (or least it didn't used to) it means "set in the time it was written". I guess
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by xnorswap 11mo ago
Unironically I agree. One under-discussed lever that senior / principal engineers can pull is the ability to write linters & analyzers that will stop junior engineers ( or LLMs ) from doing something stupid that's specific to
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by xnorswap 11mo ago
Claude is really good at specific analysis, but really terrible at open-ended problems. "Hey claude, I get this error message: <X>", and it'll often find the root cause quicker than I could. "Hey claude, anything I
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by xnorswap 11mo ago
Netflix are right that 5-stars is too many, it translates to a 6 point scale when you include non-rating, and I don't think there is a consistent view on what "3 stars" means, and how it's different to either 4 stars or
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by xnorswap 11mo ago
I used to have this opinion about ASP.NET then ASP.NET Core and the great churn happened. It's finally settled down again, but boy the in-between years were chaotic. Not just the Framework -> Core migration itself, but the power to
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by xnorswap 11mo ago
Those "trial balloons" happened years ago, this is only news because it was pulled and because it was a pretty bad advert anyway. Coca-cola had some backlash for its use of AI in adverts ages ago and carried on anyway. There'
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by xnorswap 11mo ago
Office 2003 supports OOXML rather than the proprietary binary blobs that are office 97 formats.
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by xnorswap 11mo ago
I've only been using it a couple of weeks, but in my opinion, Opus 4.5 is the biggest jump in tech we've seen since ChatGPT 3.5. The difference between juggling Sonnet 4.5 / Haiku 4.5 and just using Opus 4.5 for everything is
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by xnorswap 11mo ago
Too many people I know spend their boxing day packing up their tree. Christmas is over before it's barely begun! But that's kind of understandable when Christmas begins in September if you believe the retailers.
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by xnorswap 11mo ago
That may be, but I'm speaking from experience in my country. Almost 10 years of treatment for a health condition, and the only forms I've ever filled in were: 1. Legal risk document to say I understood the risks of treatment
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by xnorswap 11mo ago
The best thing about universal healthcare isn't how much money I may or may not have to pay, it's that I literally don't once have to think about a bill or filling out a form to avoid paying too much. I wouldn't care if

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