bikitan

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by bikitan 6mo ago
Understanding the soul of music and creativity at a mathematical is something that not that many people are trying to do. But there is an entire world of technology that underpins modern music and sound that is built soundly on math, like d
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by bikitan 1y ago
It's important to note that Microsoft's choice of Go for tsgo was because it would be easier to port the existing TypeScript codebase due to the structural similarity of TypeScript and Go. If writing from scratch, they likely woul
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by bikitan 2y ago
At the same time, the author refers to things like "decades" of muscle memory and finishing "all of college." I wonder if there's just an error somewhere?!
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by bikitan 2y ago
This is key. The yen is still weak, so framing it in terms of today's value in USD is going to make it seem much more affordable than it actually is for the average Japanese person.
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by bikitan 2y ago
I was in a similar spot, but knip offers more information that ts-prune, and ts-prune may trip on some newer TS syntax. I've been happy using knip so far.
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by bikitan 2y ago
But why would any of that need to be done manually in a .d.ts file? You can just write your type definitions in ts files
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by bikitan 3y ago
It broke once I got up to "Baconosaurwolfthulhucornicornthulhu"
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by bikitan 5y ago
> of course, I pretty much expect the NYT to fuck that up, but oh well, that always happens over time They have a number of free games that don't require any kind of account or registration. I am optimistic that they won't intr
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by bikitan 6y ago
"Deciding for yourself" doesn't mean jumping to conspiratorial conclusions based on an ambiguous, off-the-cuff remark from 1992, though. And just looking at the comments on that video you can see what sort of agenda these peo
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by bikitan 6y ago
No, it's gibberish that resembles Japanese writing but doesn't actually form real symbols (although some are close)
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by bikitan 6y ago
Great idea. One issue that I'm seeing with English/Japanese in particular is that while there is a significant overlap of names that are orthographically similar, the pronunciation varies considerably to the extent that the same p
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by bikitan 8y ago
This might be a reference to the mythology that has developed around cultures and languages that don't count above a certain low number, as in a counting system that goes 'one, two, many.' https://numberwarrior.wor
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by bikitan 9y ago
They describe their methodology here. https://w3techs.com/technologies
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by bikitan 9y ago
> My class had a couple of kids who already knew how to program and were making good money doing programming competitions on topcoder > High school (1996 - 2000) This does't seem right. What sorts of competitive programming sites
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by bikitan 9y ago
Evokes a certain PBF comic: http://pbfcomics.com/comics/transfer-patient/
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by bikitan 9y ago
Cute, but doesn't hold a candle to the commentary and context provided on the daily wtf.
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by bikitan 9y ago
"Extremely deep" is an understatement. It's long, deep and plodding enough as to be completely inaccessible to any but the most dedicated, and you have to be willing to spend hundreds, if not thousands of hours by the time it
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by bikitan 9y ago
In Japan people use these little wooden stamps with their names engraved instead of a signature. Throw 印鑑 into image search and you can see examples.
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by bikitan 9y ago
An aggregate +6.3 for Clinton doesn't translate to "100% sure he wouldn't win"
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by bikitan 10y ago
Is that a scrolling marquee in 2017?
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by bikitan 10y ago
Perhaps I'm being pedantic, but is a clock app that requires app.js not really 'pure CSS'?
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by bikitan 10y ago
I think Japan is going to be one of the first markets to see laptop sales dry up almost completely. Most people are fine with their iPhones. Where I work, all developers use macbooks and everyone else uses a thinkpad. A lot of other laptop