FireInsight

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by FireInsight 3y ago
I love Nim and would absolutely use it for every piece of native code I need to write. Unfortunately, I find it suffers from a few big problems. First, the developer tooling and documentation is kind of inconsistent. The build tool, which i
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by FireInsight 3y ago
`flex-wrap: wrap;` and maybe, if you want, a `min-width` on the boxes themselves
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by FireInsight 3y ago
I started webdev some years back from the other direction; I had read of the countless JS web frameworks and their countless dependencies, and I had read the arguments against using "uncessary" JS (talking about genuine bloat) on
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by FireInsight 3y ago
CGP Grey's podcast.
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by FireInsight 3y ago
What is """"designers""""? I think MD3 looks pretty good compared to googles earlier attempts...
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by FireInsight 3y ago
I love Logseq, would even more if the performance wasn't so bad on my phone. It doesn't feel like an Obsidian alternative, though. I mostly use it for journaling.
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by FireInsight 3y ago
Yeah, I agree. All this note-taking is not about storing information for me. It's just planning private projects, writing long-form posts, and journaling. Mostly dumping down thoughts.
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by FireInsight 3y ago
Well, houses with gas stoves rely on gas. Households relying on gas likely make it less likely that other uses of gas are more accepted regardless of negative consequences.
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by FireInsight 3y ago
Probably the author being annoyed by their website being recommended by someone for generating "passive income" based on someone else's labor.
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by FireInsight 3y ago
I used Newpipe first after degoogling, then switch to Libretube for the supposed privacy benefits. App looked a bit better too and crashed often, but way too often there were problems with connecting the Piped instances it was using for str
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by FireInsight 3y ago
I'm not saying what you're saying is invalid, but I do have empathy for people that don't exist. It's called fiction and I find it quite enjoyable.
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by FireInsight 3y ago
The mixing of snake_case and camelCase is solved by Nim by ignoring capitalization and underscores. This feature is often controversial when talked about on HN, but I love it. I like camelCase, but I understand why a python user would be mo
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by FireInsight 3y ago
I'm on my phone, and the privacy banner takes so much space I just see the title, a divider, and then the banner. I started reading the banner thinking it was the article...
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by FireInsight 3y ago
Didn't see that. I guess that's just uBO working as intended.
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by FireInsight 3y ago
Beeper (Cloud?) is based on Matrix, so I guess that's the open standard you're looking for?
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by FireInsight 3y ago
Sorry about the formatting, typing this on my phone. The preview looked alright, but ig that didn't translate. For the function-field interference, I'd probably just work it based on situation. And usually naming functions clearly
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by FireInsight 3y ago
Universal Function Call Syntax, the syntax feature where you can call a function in a procedular language you can call function in a multitude of ways. For example (pseudocode): ``` func toUpperCase(s: string) <IMPLEMENTATION> a = &qu
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by FireInsight 3y ago
I was somehow thinking of division by zero in the shower or something the other day, and got something that convinced me about it's undefined-ness. If we take the equation `x = a/0` and solve for a we get: ``` x = a/0 |*0 a
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by FireInsight 3y ago
Why is native smooth scrolling not a good idea most of the time? I usually add it at least right after implementing some TOC-style anchors.
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by FireInsight 3y ago
Not to be confused with Fedora Onyx, the budgie version of atomic Fedora. https://fedoraproject.org/onyx/
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by FireInsight 3y ago
Ah yess, human verified web, let me just send my government ID in to get internet priviliges. No wait, I could still be running a bot. How about DNA samples? Body parts? Biometrics, like I have to keep my eyes in the eye scanner or finger o
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by FireInsight 3y ago
> And prevent chat algorithms from expressing free thought. What do you mean free thought ? Since when does a data synthesis process create free thought? Is thought even free? Aren't we all constrained by taboo, social norms, the
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by FireInsight 3y ago
> I still think of gimp as one of the worst UX experiences in my life and it makes blenders interface seem amazing in comparison I never get the comments like this I see about Blender. After the 2.8 redesign, on which the major versions
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by FireInsight 3y ago
I'm on a https://universal-blue.org/ -based "custom image" of Fedora Silverblue and I love it. In my image, I ship some essentials software and other things that are just easy to have in there like fonts, plu
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by FireInsight 3y ago
The problem isn't "some people don't get that it's a joke". The problem is that it's a distasteful joke.
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by FireInsight 3y ago
Oh, so modifying and releasing source code automatically makes you sign the CLA and contributes those changes back to the parent project? I'm not seeing how forcing modifications to libre software be published as libre software is a ba
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by FireInsight 3y ago
From the FSF: > The GNU Affero General Public License is a modified version of the ordinary GNU GPL version 3. It has one added requirement: if you run a modified program on a server and let other users communicate with it there, your se
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by FireInsight 3y ago
We're in red-scare times, aren't we? "Communists control the media", yeah right, communist millionaires of course. There's nothing leftist about corporations adopting the language of progressivism and trying to keep
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by FireInsight 3y ago
This is one of those rare instances I don't quite appreciate the referenrence to one of my favorite book series, the Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy. And looking at the example responses people linked here, I can't even see that c
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by FireInsight 3y ago
> unless I was trying to impress some young boys. Isn't that Musks goal?

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