MrJohz

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by MrJohz 8d ago
The setup is described in the linked post about programming language vs efficiency/token cost: https://danluu.com/pl-tokens/#zstd > For the first eval, I tried giving agents the zstd RFC (plus errata) and telli
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by MrJohz 8d ago
The question "for which functions/modules/classes should I write tests?" and the question "how do I structure my functions/modules/classes?" are very closely related questions, which I think is what
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by MrJohz 19d ago
I think they were suggesting using AI to audit for accessibility, which is probably a better approach, and probably more effective than a lot of the basic accessibility checkers out there that work on a list of fairly simple rules and don&#
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by MrJohz 28d ago
I don't think this particular feature helps there, though. If you set your site up on Cloudflare, you'll probably explicitly want the proxy stuff, and that's very easy to set up. But if you buy a domain on Cloudflare, then
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by MrJohz 28d ago
In this case, I was specifically using the domain registrar product from Cloudflare alongside other tools. Later, I moved a bunch of stuff away from Cloudflare but kept using them to manage my domains for the convenience — as part of that
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by MrJohz 1mo ago
When you set up CNAME and certain other records in Cloudflare DNS, it defaults to (and heavily discourages you to disable) "proxied" records, which I believe means that the record points to a Cloudflare-owned host which then acts
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by MrJohz 1mo ago
You can get a lot of stalemate when the majority agrees that there is a problem, and often even what the problem is, but they can't agree on what the solution is. I think that's the situation in a lot of Western European countrie
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by MrJohz 1mo ago
I think there's a few things going on that make it a bit different. Firstly, Farage picked this constituency to run in because it's deeply favourable to him. This is quite common for leaders of parties — if you can't even ge
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by MrJohz 1mo ago
It's very good, although it focuses mainly on the framing device and not on the stories themselves. I can imagine if you're a fan of the original book, it might feel quite shallow in comparison, but as someone who never read the b
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by MrJohz 1mo ago
I think the issue is with something like algorithmic feeds — that's not content that can be allowed or blocked at the client-level, that's a setting that needs to be fed back to the service. It would be very difficult (impossible
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by MrJohz 1mo ago
There's no verification necessary. Instead, you'd just set a flag on all of those pods that says "this is an adult". Or more likely, you wouldn't set anything, there would be no changes at all, because that would
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by MrJohz 1mo ago
But we already accept their right to ask. Certain websites have had age restrictions on them for years. There's nothing new to the idea that certain media is not permitted to certain age ranges. (This is leaving aside the idea that
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by MrJohz 1mo ago
But they could also just implement verification now, which many governments are trying to do. The idea that you shouldn't let a government do one thing because they might do another thing is flawed if they could already do the other th
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by MrJohz 2mo ago
The advantage of the em dash is that it can replace pretty much any other punctuation mark and work well enough. Quite often I'll be trying to remember whether to use a semicolon or a colon to connect two parts of a sentence, and then
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by MrJohz 2mo ago
This is one of the more common definitions, yes, but it's not used very consistently. The comment I replied to used a different definition, and I also commonly see the definition that weak typing is the ability to convert a type from o
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by MrJohz 2mo ago
That's also true of Python, though, which is traditionally considered a strongly typed language. I'm increasingly convinced that "strong/weak" has no useful meaning. Some people regularly use it interchangeably with
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by MrJohz 3mo ago
In theory yes, in practice, I remember reading forums on my phone in the days before responsive design was a thing, and there was nothing inherent about those sites that worked better on phones...
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by MrJohz 3mo ago
Not really, no. AAV isn't just a form of slang, it has distinct and measurable grammatical differences from standard American English, such as its own verb tense, or a requirement for negative concord. You can measure these sorts of fe
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by MrJohz 3mo ago
I don't think it's nationalism per se, more just a national identity. You see independence movements across Europe (Catalan, Wales, Cornwall, some of these have more realistic prospects than others) that tightly bind the idea of n
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by MrJohz 3mo ago
Tbh, that's exactly what I always liked about forums. They weren't as good as a searchable source of information, but in terms of discussion it really hit the sweet spot for me. A single conversation could meander in different d
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by MrJohz 3mo ago
Timetables yes, but whenever I've bought a digital watch or set up a new device, the default has always been 12-hour. If you ask people the time in the afternoon, they will almost always give you the 12-hour format. People can unders
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by MrJohz 3mo ago
But I think that national identity doesn't exist in the same way, do you know what I mean? Like, being Black/African American in the US is an important part of a person's identity, but it doesn't necessarily have the tr
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by MrJohz 3mo ago
In fairness, I think that's partly because AAV doesn't have the political and national identity that some other similar dialects have. I (as a lay person with no training in linguistics) feel like AAV and Scots are similar in ter
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by MrJohz 3mo ago
Why would you even say something like that? Haven't those people suffered enough?
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by MrJohz 3mo ago
I don't do the "chips" one, because it's usually clear enough from context, and the people I speak English to generally know me and my foibles. But I do religiously say "half past 6" now, instead of shortening
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by MrJohz 3mo ago
Once you start going in that direction, a lot of things that British people say can require some amount of translation, see e.g. this table: https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:640/format:webp/0*0Fs1...
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by MrJohz 3mo ago
The time format in the UK is mostly 12hr, although people are generally aware of 24hr time. In my experience, while there are usually more similarities between the UK and the rest of Europe, Europeans also have more exposure to American En
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by MrJohz 3mo ago
You can use one of the following: `allowImportingTsExtensions: true` ( https://www.typescriptlang.org/tsconfig/#allowImportingTsExt... , useful if you're running `tsc` in noEmit mode as a linter) `rewriteRelativeImp
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by MrJohz 3mo ago
The medium is the message — if the majority of people are interacting with a system via one of those mechanisms (say, threaded), then the conversations will look/feel thread-y. You can see this on Reddit already if you look at live thr
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by MrJohz 3mo ago
TS has committed to not adding any more features like that. Features only get added when they reach a certain threshold on the TC39 standardisation track.

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