zogrodea

11 ms·

91.
by zogrodea 3y ago
That might be the content of what Kant is speaking about, but I think the method/process of what he is speaking about is interesting and deserving of attention too. "Thanks be to Nature, then, for the incompatibility, for heartles
92.
by zogrodea 3y ago
I agree with your point in general and dislike political drama which is often a headache, but people are starving and dying and being held hostage out there... so I don't really think this is the time where that sentiment is appropriat
93.
by zogrodea 3y ago
I was hoping this would be about someone who was stuck in/addicted to Vi and wanted to use another editor.
94.
by zogrodea 3y ago
They seem to have a debugger, and a REPL too, although I can't give any more information except "they exist".
95.
by zogrodea 3y ago
The person being replied to was talking about technical aspects similar between the two (functionality like HiDPI and performance) while you're mentioning socially-oriented differences. I would say both statements are true but that wha
96.
by zogrodea 3y ago
It does sound very much like an overreaction, from the manufacturer of these devices. "The man who made the devices said there’s little someone inside could actually do with a hacked Securebook. They’d need to fashion a USB port, be ab
97.
by zogrodea 3y ago
That's an interesting thought and makes me think, because of declining birth rates and an ageing population, Apple will have fewer and fewer people to sell phones to as time goes on.
98.
by zogrodea 3y ago
That’s pretty cool. I wonder how JetBrains IDEs and VS Code manage to detect the installed shells (zsh, bash, PowerShell, etc.) in the first place since I certainly have no idea how to do it in either Java or JavaScript. Maybe they write pl
99.
by zogrodea 3y ago
This reminded of the memorable Sherlock Holmes quote. Hopefully it is good advice for those of us who are a bit younger. "His ignorance was as remarkable as his knowledge. Of contemporary literature, philosophy and politics he appeared
100.
by zogrodea 3y ago
I can't speak about what the person you replied to intended, but there are a few things that come to mind. One is Unicode grapheme clusters (UAX29/the segmentation rules specifically) which browsers are expected to follow. Those r
101.
by zogrodea 3y ago
I think the person was referring to a different, more common meaning of "obelisk". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Obelisk
102.
by zogrodea 3y ago
I think that's just like one C++ application being faster than another equivalent C++ application due to using smarter data structures and whatnot. VS Code and Atom have different code bases with different decisions and that makes a di
103.
by zogrodea 3y ago
That's my understanding too. Not certain where the parent's comment came from.
104.
by zogrodea 3y ago
Yes. I tried that with some software-based synthesisers (like the SWAM violin and Reason's Friktion) which are designed for human-playing (humans controlling the VST through a device that emits MIDI CC control messages) but my understa
105.
by zogrodea 3y ago
Regarding your point about music: There are subtle and deliberate deviations in timing and elements like vibrato when a human plays the same song on an instrument twice, which is partly why (aside from recording tech) people prefer live or
106.
by zogrodea 3y ago
Unfortunately, like seemingly every aspect of North American culture, this philosophy is being exported and accepted in other countries too, like Egypt as one example. “Patterns of behavior that were highly regarded in a more stable society
107.
by zogrodea 3y ago
I didn't know that. Thanks for the information. I think Apple's trademark lawsuit against a.pl (Polish grocery site) [0] failed for that reason, so it seems good that the concept looks like it's limited to specific fields. h
108.
by zogrodea 3y ago
GPT had previously been used as an acronym for market-research websites like Amazon MTurk (participants Get Paid To fill surverys) before the LLM craze so it does seem like a bad trademark.
109.
by zogrodea 3y ago
Readers who appreciate Orwell's work will also likely appreciate Darkness at Noon by Arthur Koestler. The latter's novel inspired Orwell on how to highlight dystopian ideas, and convinced Orwell that fiction is the medium best sui
110.
by zogrodea 3y ago
Bars and churches have different purposes and people's behaviour in each of them should change because of that. The person acting the same and doing the same things in both would be considered to be behaving very strangely otherwise. I
111.
by zogrodea 3y ago
I wonder how accurate that is. I heard before that Microsoft’s WYSIWYG (Expression Blend) was shunned by designers who preferred other tools which didn’t output useable code. Maybe Figma is an effect of designers’ preferences? Both might be
112.
by zogrodea 3y ago
I must have been unclear because that’s not what I intended for people to understand. I was saying, if you want something from Amazon, don’t buy it there but from somewhere else instead (like Barnes & Nobles for ebooks, Azure/GCP f
113.
by zogrodea 3y ago
They’re only Amazon employees temporarily. Give equivalent money for other services by different businesses and these different businesses can hire them. I think the point you make could be repeated for every boycott and sanction ever but m
114.
by zogrodea 3y ago
Small but consistent improvements in general seem like a great idea! Wishing you the best.
115.
by zogrodea 3y ago
Your second paragraph reminds of Aristotle's counter to Plato in one instance. The debate was about whether media (poetry, plays) should be allowed. Plato thought, no, because poetry and other media burden the audience with emotions th
116.
by zogrodea 3y ago
"In established engineering disciplines a 12% improvement, easily obtained, is never considered marginal; and I believe the same viewpoint should prevail in software engineering." - Also Knuth
117.
by zogrodea 3y ago
Related sentiment to the above post: https://golem.ph.utexas.edu/category/2009/09/the_mathematica... .
118.
by zogrodea 3y ago
The F there is for System-F! According to Don Syme, although I don’t personally know what System-F is. https://www.theregister.com/2021/11/12/f_6_were_making_f/ Don Syme is a pretty cool guy from what I’
119.
by zogrodea 3y ago
I should have specified that, to me personally (but apparently not for you), those old forums were very much like social media. I don’t see a categorical difference between them because the same behaviour is displayed on both of them.
120.
by zogrodea 3y ago
I don't agree. I made friends and noticed other cliques of friends on forums like GBATemp over a decade ago. Regular visitors knew each other after seeing the other users' posts, there are in-jokes, and it's not so different.

More ›