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by funcDropShadow 3y ago
That is one example, why I have the impression that MacOS is gowing downhill for advanced users for several releases now.
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by funcDropShadow 3y ago
> Yeah the hold and drag interaction model sure looks fancy but isn't very ergonomic. I beg to differ. I find hold-and-drag menus faster to interact with when using a mouse, trackback or a touchpad. But it is possible to support it,
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by funcDropShadow 3y ago
> At any rate, it's a lot better to use precise time timestamps, as a single integer of seconds/miliseconds/vibrations of a caesium atom> No, it is not always better. If you want to store when a contract is going to end
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by funcDropShadow 3y ago
If you want roads as metaphor. Here it is: Roads profit those who are based along the road. A road between cities A and B profits those living and doing business in A and B more than anybody else living in a third city which is not connecte
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by funcDropShadow 3y ago
David Agans' book "Debugging" has a chapter called "Quit Thinking and Look". It is quite old by IT standards, but I cannot recommend it enough.
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by funcDropShadow 3y ago
Could anybody show some example queries and answers?
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by funcDropShadow 3y ago
> And also the menu bar is a massive violation of the "controls should be obviously linked to the area they affect" principle, On other hand a menu bar at the corner of the screen has an infinite size if you are using a mouse,
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by funcDropShadow 3y ago
No.
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by funcDropShadow 3y ago
Dev tools of a browser are not what a power user focused browser would need. Think more about being able change keyboard shortcuts. Being able to execute small custom scripts that do stuff with tabs, windows, and pages. Yes I know browser
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by funcDropShadow 3y ago
> We didn't stop giving power users extra power. We gave power users more power. No, most software today is designed for the use case that you have never seen the software before. That is implicitly enforced by the way most companie
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by funcDropShadow 3y ago
But somebody has to know k8s administration.
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by funcDropShadow 3y ago
> Ya, and everywhere I've worked, that team is called "devops". But then that team is only doing operations and not development. Unless they are committers to k8s.
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by funcDropShadow 3y ago
> If you don't need storage cluster with any other solution, then you don't need it with kubernetes. That is only half of the truth. If your application needs a database, and which application doesn't, you have to store i
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by funcDropShadow 3y ago
But compilers deal usually with trees not general graphs.
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by funcDropShadow 3y ago
Yes and no. Babashka itself is Clojure/JVM program compiled with graalvm to a native binary that starts very fast. Babashka contains an interpreter for a simplified variant of Clojure. It also contains a predefined set of classes of th
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by funcDropShadow 3y ago
By blocking everyone coming from HN, they paint everyone here with the same brush, don't they?
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by funcDropShadow 3y ago
Why?
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by funcDropShadow 3y ago
In my experience Emacs is slow when I enable evil. I do like vim keybinding, but using evil negates most of the benefits for me since it introduces unbearables pauses. That is with Doom emacs under Linux.
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by funcDropShadow 3y ago
Your example is usually referred to as a sunburn chat. Although it shares all drawbacks of pie charts. Some would say sunburn chart make it even harder to correctly understand the relative size of elements than pie charts.
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by funcDropShadow 3y ago
What kind of tools do you build? I'd be interested in your opinion on what are the preconditions for tools to profitable.
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by funcDropShadow 3y ago
> Sure it's there, but having to wade through a large history of experiments tried and failed when trying to answer why this thing is here right now just feels subpar That is one the downsides of trunk-based developments. One keeps
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by funcDropShadow 3y ago
Agreed on most points, but a good SCM provides also the ability to bisect bugs and to show context that is hard to capture by explicit comments. E.g. what changed at the same time as some other piece of code. What was changed by the same pe
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by funcDropShadow 3y ago
> I never read the git log. Imho, you are missing out on a great source of insight. When I want to understand some piece of code, I usually start navigating the git log from git blame. Even just one-line commit messages that refer to a t
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by funcDropShadow 3y ago
One could accomplish a part of your vision, today, by splitting commits into smaller commits. Then you have the relation between hunks of changes and text in the commit message on a smaller level. Then you can use branches with a non-trivia
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by funcDropShadow 3y ago
> > This is false. “The only way to improve at X is to do it” is the advice you give when you actually have no idea how to improve… > This is also false. I was an active fitness instructor for 8 years and my cardio was great and al
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by funcDropShadow 3y ago
> There are really only two ways TC is used in practice in today's economy: Isn't that exactly the case, because the idea of using TC in every PC produced a huge backlash?
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by funcDropShadow 3y ago
That would mean the original request was unreasonable and not rude.
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by funcDropShadow 3y ago
How is this rude? Is disagreeing already rude? GP started that sentence with "Please" not with "YOU MUST NOT".
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by funcDropShadow 3y ago
> TC is value neutral so the FSF slurs don't make sense Trusted computing is often used such that one might think, it implies the user can trust something (his computer). But it is the other way around. A service provider can trust
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by funcDropShadow 3y ago
> So you have this tree of dependent data fetches, how do you minimize the time waiting? You could walk the tree node-by-node, but that balloons your wait time. So you kick each bit of work off to a new thread and wait for it to be done.

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