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by Boxxed 7d ago
Yeah, if only.
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by Boxxed 8d ago
> Just think about the complexity of localization and how many IFs you had to write to solve different language versions, etc. in the old PHP code. A lot of that complexity can simply disappear. IFs! Oh no! Throwing all of this into a no
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by Boxxed 11d ago
I do this with docker. Insane that the default is to recursively ship all of PWD.
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by Boxxed 14d ago
I even take issue with "Purchase license". Shouldn't it be "Lease License"? Purchase implies that it can't be revoked, no?
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by Boxxed 17d ago
I do this at work with the comments in my code. No one's ever noticed <thumbs-down-emoji>
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by Boxxed 20d ago
Yes, the AllTrails app does this. You can't send a route to your Garmin watch or whatever in the app, you must do it in the browser version. And since having the app installed at all sort of hijacks AllTrails links, you really don&#x27
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by Boxxed 22d ago
Can we stop consolidating everything under a handful of massive companies?
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by Boxxed 29d ago
Aw man, you did the hard part and then had an AI do the easy part. But it's also the part that makes the first impression on everyone.
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by Boxxed 29d ago
They weren't even complex or convoluted. It was just a quiet, "Fuck you, you didn't think to try picking that item an hour ago so now you have to restart."
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by Boxxed 29d ago
100% the only non-trivial useful application of formal methods I've ever seen
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by Boxxed 1mo ago
Soooo like a PhantomData in Rust?
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by Boxxed 1mo ago
I somehow never really played Tradewars... The source code to Usurper is on GitHub somewhere and it's a pretty cool read. It's actually kind of busted: I think there are a couple stats that do nothing and several things that are j
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by Boxxed 1mo ago
Other awesome BBS door games, for a those that want a shot of nostalgia: LORD, Barren Realms, Falcon's Eye, Land of Devastation, Planets: TEOS, Usurper It was a fun era. I had a BBS all setup and ready to go, complete with insane ASCII
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by Boxxed 2mo ago
Surely you realize he or she is not literally looking for the answer to that but rather pointing out the censorship.
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by Boxxed 2mo ago
Probably the same reason that people use webkit rather than fork chromium?
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by Boxxed 2mo ago
Why does everyone use webkit instead of gecko? Is gecko hard to work with or something?
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by Boxxed 3mo ago
The first one was for a $4k bounty. The second one was for a university assignment.
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by Boxxed 3mo ago
ClickBench is of very limited utility already because it doesn't have a single join in it. Which is maybe less weird in the context of ClickHouse not being great at joins.
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by Boxxed 3mo ago
Wasm and platforms like iOS and Nintendo Switch (I think).
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by Boxxed 3mo ago
Additional irony points for the fact that the URL is purportedly pointing to a '.md' file
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by Boxxed 3mo ago
Yes, it is impossible? If you owned everything on earth you still would not be an avogadrillion-aire.
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by Boxxed 3mo ago
For that to be the case, wouldn't that mean that companies are awful not in the name of money but just because they're evil? Which I thought was the antithesis of your whole thesis, so maybe I should read your book.
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by Boxxed 3mo ago
> And from an investor perspective, as a group they have underperformed the S&P 500. This should be kind of obvious -- if they are avoiding doing awful things in the name of money, then they are leaving something on the table. You ca
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by Boxxed 3mo ago
> I can't help but think Google has some internal policy to give adblockers a runaround. Ding ding ding. Stop using chrome!
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by Boxxed 3mo ago
...which might just show how predictable and similar all janky startup pages are.
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by Boxxed 4mo ago
Those differences are not due to the syntax, they're due to much deeper things like the differing type system.
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by Boxxed 4mo ago
BTQH?
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by Boxxed 4mo ago
What the deuce is an "RPA"?
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by Boxxed 4mo ago
The massive AI generated image header is more than a little bit ironic
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by Boxxed 4mo ago
It's the best there is.

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