bassdigit

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by bassdigit 2y ago
The physical keyboard is king! For a long time I was looking for a modern alternative. The 'GPD P2 Max' comes close and for me hits the sweet spot of offering a small size while not deviating too much from a comfortable typing exp
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by bassdigit 2y ago
further idea: let strings resonate with the overtones of other strings being played also: support different materials like steel/nylon/gut
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by bassdigit 2y ago
edit: OP apparently [fixed it]( https://github.com/tinyworldmap/tiny-world-map/issues/6 ) 6 places now, so it's [accurate to 11cm]( https://gis.stackexchange.com/questions/8650/mea
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by bassdigit 2y ago
I wonder if it could be even smaller when they wouldn't store all coordinates with 10 decimal places, at least for the label positions.
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by bassdigit 3y ago
Hilarious that these outputs, depicting black founding fathers, popes, warriors, etc., overturn the narrative that history was full of white oppression.
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by bassdigit 3y ago
nice!
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by bassdigit 3y ago
OP doesn't owe you an excuse for offering content for free through a technology you disapprove of.
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by bassdigit 3y ago
Still not hard: In that case, instead of msg use sendMsg AND/OR in the second statement use { status, msg: resultMsg }, or just result and later result.msg .
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by bassdigit 3y ago
Not hard: msg can be derived from the parameter name of the send() function and status is a fixed attribute of the result.
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by bassdigit 3y ago
Not quite, the "0" of the minute hand is always aligned with the direction of the hour hand, so it points >down< at 6:00 unlike an ordinary clock.
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by bassdigit 4y ago
This year, Cartier took the idea to the next level with the "Masse Mystérieuse": An absolutely gorgeous watch with insane mechanics where the movement is the rotor. [1] https://www.hodinkee.com/articles/the-
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by bassdigit 6y ago
Look, three paragraphs beginning with "Look," give the article a rather condescending tone.
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by bassdigit 6y ago
> Website design is poor. You could definitely do with a designer to make it look nicer. Really, in what way? In my view it's clean and simple. > You either need to make it cheap, like $200/yr, or much more expensive. Right
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by bassdigit 6y ago
You are right, I found more on this: https://www.uta.edu/huma/agger/fastcapitalism/10_1/bernardin...
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by bassdigit 6y ago
Birds sing seconds after ear-blasting gun shots. Really?
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by bassdigit 6y ago
"So avoid disputes if you want to get real work done." There is an exception: When a dispute forces you to view a topic from a different angle, like in rubber duck debugging. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rubb
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by bassdigit 6y ago
After thinking about it more, maybe I am wrong and there is a use case for these animations: Small children like to look at moving things. So it depends on the target audience. Toys or educational Apps are different from the business /
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by bassdigit 6y ago
Am I the only one who finds subtle animations much more pleasant? I think there is a reason why it's dark when the stage set of a theatre is being changed between scenes, but with user interfaces somehow any rearrangement must be a dis
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by bassdigit 7y ago
Not sure how to feel about being author of the most upvoted and also the least upvoted comment.
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by bassdigit 7y ago
The commit message succeeds in justifying the effort but lacks an in-depth understanding of the related mechanics. I can imagine the developer felt bad about 'only' committing a one character change at the end of the day and wrote
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by bassdigit 7y ago
I'm not a ruby developer but the actual problem seems to be the default file encoding. There is a detailed blog post[1] about it, adding a lot more to understanding what's happening. More than a blog post about how a diary entry a
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by bassdigit 7y ago
No-break spaces aka   can be quite useful for preventing line breaks for example between a value and its unit, or between label and value. Or when writing for example 'e.g.', although you could argue that in this case a N
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by bassdigit 7y ago
Paraphrasing the first comment of the commit[1]: A commit message with such a long explanation helps nobody, because it is not searchable by Google, not even by GitHub[2]. [...] If the commit message requires a blog post to be good (searcha
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by bassdigit 7y ago
It IS the no-break space. The hex UTF-8 representation of it is C2A0; you can find that sequence in original version of the file.
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by bassdigit 7y ago
It is U+00A0 [1], a non-breaking space [2], can be typed in some office applications using ⌃+⇧+␣. [1]: http://fileformat.info/info/unicode/char/00a0/ [2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki&#x
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by bassdigit 7y ago
Following this thought, it could be argued that the author did not even fix the problem, only eliminated a symptom of the underlying, serious configuration mistake that restricts file contents to an outdated character encoding.
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by bassdigit 7y ago
The author spent all the time documenting his journey but totally fails to explain the actual reason of the problem: If the file contains a UTF-8 byte sequence, why is there an attempt to parse it as US-ASCII? I get that it's just a wr