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by zem 4mo ago
if you're experimenting with the best menu UI I highly recommend taking inspiration from lotus 123
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by zem 4mo ago
heh yeah I did the actual math and realised I was very wrong. it was just a gut reaction.
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by zem 5mo ago
I was taken aback by the appearance of "trillions"; I would naively have figured that was several orders of magnitude too high for anything non-microscopic!
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by zem 5mo ago
one of the more memorable stories from the daily wtf was from a dev at a banner ad company who got called into a VP's office and yelled at at great length because some pop-up banner was broken. after investigation it turned out the VP
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by zem 5mo ago
I was going to post a more extended rant but really yeah, this says it all
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by zem 5mo ago
huh, is that why my google authenticator app pops up randomly? i always figured it was a bug in the app or in android.
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by zem 5mo ago
if the mismoderation did not kill stackoverflow, it at the least made people who might otherwise have supported the site feel like nothing of value was lost.
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by zem 5mo ago
if early stackoverflow moderation was strict it was strict in a way that was invisible to people who genuinely needed the help. later on it got people who thought the strictness was the main point, and that they had to be vigilant defenders
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by zem 5mo ago
nothing is stopping adult users from disabling the type checker and using your internal type directly. the newtype is just a private class mechanism that comes with better tooling to validate that you aren't breaking the intended contr
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by zem 5mo ago
i had one of those! it was really awesome, and you could cross compile apps for it from a regular linux box. it was the only phone i've ever had where i wrote my own small apps just because i could.
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by zem 5mo ago
that was my first thought too, I was increasingly surprised scrolling down the comments that no one had mentioned it yet. it sounds extremely clunky to use without one, though perhaps the idea is that you connect it to an actual computer, a
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by zem 5mo ago
I remember lots of old bbc games using zx;/ by default. in retrospect it was interesting how they defaulted to one hand for left/right and the other for up/down
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by zem 5mo ago
crud is a pretty poor fit for go, you're better served by languages like python that can autogenerate classes that reflect the db schema. go's sweet spot is things like network servers.
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by zem 5mo ago
both lazy imports and free threading have been proposed ages ago, they both went through several iterations before a good design was settled upon and made it into the language. in the case of lazy imports the big corps were the ones doing t
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by zem 5mo ago
just... be creative when you have something creative to express and the expression brings you joy, happiness, satisfaction, or any other reward of your choice. be spontaneous for similar reasons. don't do it because someone has attache
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by zem 5mo ago
wow, that was indeed a brilliant essay. i particularly liked the framing that "solving a big conjecture was a cryptographic proof that you had come up with a genuine conceptual innovation".
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by zem 5mo ago
oh, wasn't aware of the song so i missed that entirely :)
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by zem 5mo ago
that was a nicely extensive round up of ways a project dies, but I would say that none of them are "dumb". they're all just parts of the software ecosystem's various lifecycles; if anything, they show how many stars need
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by zem 5mo ago
yeah, the key part is that there be a human in the loop, directing and course-correcting the ai while it produces code in reasonably small and well defined stages.
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by zem 5mo ago
to be fair, fusion does violate conservation of mass, just not the way the teacher explained it. the loss of mass is where the energy comes from.
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by zem 5mo ago
working on a crossword tool that leans on qxw [ https://quinapalus.com/qxw.html ] for the grid filler and borrows some UI ideas from it, but adds integrated clue management, as well as experimenting with some UI features that
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by zem 5mo ago
super interesting! wonder how hard it would be to make this a target for haxe, which has already solved a lot of the issues around designing a good cross-target language.
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by zem 5mo ago
I don't bother trying to give the LLM a set of dos and don'ts for how to write the code, that becomes a frustrating game of whack-a-mole. I find it a lot more efficient to have it write some code, look it over, and if I'm not
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by zem 5mo ago
this is not a replacement for scheme, it's simply an alternative syntax for rust
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by zem 5mo ago
the bit about the simple language is interesting, since one of my strongest memories of reading the english translation of the book as a kid is that I learnt two new words from it, "alabaster" and "temple" (as in the sid
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by zem 5mo ago
to be fair to knuth, he had nothing to do with latex. it's conceivable that one could start over from plain tex and build up a different high level system. (then again perhaps some of the brittleness of latex comes from unavoidable iss
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by zem 5mo ago
I've heard anecdotally that cellphones had a measurable impact on opening weekend ticket sales, because people who saw an early showing and thought it sucked would text their friends and warn them not to bother. previously movies could
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by zem 5mo ago
that is psychologically a really bad customer experience; no one wants to feel like they are being "value extracted" to the greatest extent the company can get away with. airlines do this sort of continuously varying pricing and p
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by zem 5mo ago
sadly, covid has killed that :( now i would just be scared sitting in a closed space that crowded.
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by zem 5mo ago
the original comment I was replying to said "Under this scenario if you are a few months behind at the pivotal time you might as well not exist at all."

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