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by mayoff 27d ago
Robin Hobb (a very successful fantasy author) rates books on Goodreads. To her, anything over one star is a good rating. Even two stars means she liked it. https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/25307.Robin_Hobb
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by mayoff 28d ago
I like to store angles as turns in my own code, because (as noted) it makes quarter-turns computable without rounding. OTOH if you need, say, twelfths of a turn, you might want to just store angles as degrees since that’s already common. Mi
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Turns are Better than Radians (2022)(computerenhance.com)
352 points by mayoff 28d ago|216 comments
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by mayoff 1mo ago
I started using SuperDuper user in 2005 and was happy with it for a decade. Then one day in 2015 or 2016 it stopped working, and upon investigating, I discovered it used AppleScript under the covers. Even though I'd written AppleScript
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by mayoff 1mo ago
That can be just a ziplock bag and the same water bath you're going to use for the sous vide anyway. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XrZPLF0ezw8nn
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by mayoff 2mo ago
> (Mary, at 16, was twice her age) The problem states “She _is_ twice as old as Ann was”, not “She _was_ twice as old as Ann was”.
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by mayoff 2mo ago
This idea is a significant part of Anathem by Neal Stephenson.
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by mayoff 2mo ago
Here’s what Tim Schafer said about selling Double Fine to Microsoft at the time: > "I think it's perfect for us, because we can just focus on doing our inspired weird games, and not worry about how we're going to get our n
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by mayoff 3mo ago
I’m with Casey on this: I will not buy a car without CarPlay. Of course, I haven’t bought a car since 2013. That one is a Tesla Model S and I think its UI is pretty decent for maps and playing audio, but I have rented enough cars since then
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by mayoff 3mo ago
At my office we refer to these (in IntelliJ) as ketchup, mustard, and relish (depending on the color).
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by mayoff 4mo ago
This article is about actors in the Swift programming language, and I’d answer the question (“is a stateless actor pointless?”) differently: there is no such thing as a stateless actor in Swift. Every actor in Swift conforms to the Actor pr
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by mayoff 5mo ago
In Swift (Apple’s C++ successor), the normal operators (`+`, `-`, `*`) trap on overflow for integer types. If you want twos complement wrapping, you can use `&+`, `&-`, and `&*`. Given that Apple has been making its own CPU core
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by mayoff 5mo ago
The second sentence of your summary is fine, but I don’t like the first sentence: > Use your language’s type system to parse unstructured inputs. We don’t use the type system to parse. We use the type system to provide evidence (also cal
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by mayoff 5mo ago
In the Intel CPU + cold cache case, the quad search matters. In the other three cases, only the SIMD matters.
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by mayoff 5mo ago
Quaternary search effectively performs both of the next loop iteration’s possible comparisons simultaneously with the current iteration’s comparison. This is a little more complex than simple loop unrolling. Regardless, both kinds of sear
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by mayoff 5mo ago
While plenty about the iPad situation sucks, my biggest gripe is the discontinuation of the Smart Keyboard Folio. This was the one that only had a keyboard, no trackpad, but could fold all the way back, which the Magic Keyboard (with trackp
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by mayoff 6mo ago
It's kind of crazy that the IRS (among other United States government agencies) uses ID.me for account management. The .me domain belongs to Montenegro.
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by mayoff 6mo ago
How to add a button in SwiftUI: Button(“Click Me”) { buttonWasClicked() }
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by mayoff 6mo ago
When my daughter finally needed one of those godawful monopoly-priced calculators for school, we went to the nearest pawn shop and found a TI 84 Plus, opened, for $40, and a TI 84 Plus CE in its unopened (but roughed up) original packaging
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Live from GDC 1989: 21 Hours of Vintage Talks from Early Gaming Luminaries(gamehistory.org)
2 points by mayoff 6mo ago|0 comments
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by mayoff 7mo ago
Somehow Woot still has a supply of the Smart Keyboard Folio for certain 11" iPads Pro/Air. My wife is still using an older gen 11" iPad Pro and her keyboard folio stopped working (they fall apart after a few years ), so I too
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by mayoff 7mo ago
Most of the “delivery” (getting it from the factory to its final installed location) was done by machine: forklifts, cranes, ships, trucks, and (I'm guessing) a motorized lift on the back of the delivery truck.
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by mayoff 7mo ago
If you’re a Swift programmer, the swift-snapshot-testing package is a great implementation of these ideas. https://github.com/pointfreeco/swift-snapshot-testing
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by mayoff 8mo ago
For an electrification company.
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by mayoff 8mo ago
I'm pretty sure you meant something other than "buildings under about 6 feet".
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AI hype is 80% real(sealedabstract.com)
5 points by mayoff 8mo ago|2 comments
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by mayoff 8mo ago
Thank you for this. I’ve been using it for years.
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by mayoff 9mo ago
Maybe just don't utilize "utilize" or "utilise" at all. There are very few cases where utilizing "utilize" or "utilise" is better than using "use".
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by mayoff 10mo ago
I was shocked they didn’t do this when they added the “notch” to MacBooks.
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by mayoff 10mo ago
I don’t know if Cory Doctorow has read the “fantastic 1981 novel”, but I have (decades ago) and as I recall the plot of the book and the plot of the movie are very different from each other. The author of the book didn’t write the screenp

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