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by metaxy2 2y ago
I don't know if there's a name for this genre of photography (it's not exactly "abstract" since clearly things are being represented), but another example is the cover of Modest Mouse's Good News for People Wh
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by metaxy2 2y ago
To flesh this out, the root notes of C and A minor are not that close in the circle of fifths, but the chords sound similar because they share 2 notes (C is spelled C, E, G, and A minor is spelled A, C, E). A common device in major keys is
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by metaxy2 2y ago
Hey, the original Myst was made in HyperCard!
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by metaxy2 2y ago
Well, in principle you could have the node objects be created with an object literal in an outside builder function, and the manipulation also be done by outside functions. That's how it's done in languages without OOP. The questi
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by metaxy2 2y ago
They're using objects, including arrays [1], so I think they would have been more precise to say that they're using objects and arrays as simple data structures rather than using OO features like inheritance and mutation. [1] htt
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by metaxy2 3y ago
Americans (and I'd imagine the British) have "eh?" too, it's just not as common ("not bad, eh?"). Among Americans I feel like I've seen it more in casual written online conversation than in speech.
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by metaxy2 3y ago
I wonder if "ent" evolved from "innit" under British colonization (or they both evolved from a common ancestor in British English).
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by metaxy2 3y ago
A slight variation of that is even in colloquial English, with "no." As in "we should probably get going, no?"
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by metaxy2 3y ago
Maybe "endangerment" is more fair, given that it's still massively popular compared to, say, the interrobang. Also note that two of the three authors cited are known for their bare-bones, economical prose styles; not exactly
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by metaxy2 3y ago
Man, McCarthy's vendetta against semicolons makes sense in his hard-bitten Western prose, but does it really make sense to have zero semicolons in these nonfiction books? When used properly, semicolons reveal a layer of meaning that
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by metaxy2 3y ago
I don't think Oxide is trying to say no one's done this before, more that they're the best and most comprehensive offering to buy an onsite setup for this fully set up from a third party.
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by metaxy2 3y ago
Right or wrong, I think the notion of "the cloud" that Oxide is selling is the "elastic" part--the ability to request resources by quantity instead of having to think about the exact servers responsible for serving your
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by metaxy2 3y ago
> In my experience, it is rare for a network to correctly generate Time Exceeded messages for both IPv4 and IPv6. Doesn't that make it more one of those situations where the non-documented behavior has become the de facto standard,
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by metaxy2 3y ago
Chrome is also very big on macOS even though it's not preinstalled, although yeah, that also has to do with the marketing. It seems hard to find good stats on this but it's definitely in the web developer zeitgeist. On mobile, tho
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by metaxy2 3y ago
Practically no one would ever be talking about Australian Rules Football (outside of the handful of countries where that's popular, of course), although presumably outside of the US they'd often be talking about soccer.
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by metaxy2 3y ago
It really highlights the amazing security level of one time pads, that they can be comfortably doing secret announcements on a public radio channel with provably perfect security. (Assuming an adequate PRNG--for such small messages they cou
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by metaxy2 3y ago
I actually did make a quick search to see if I was blowing hot air, and found this blog post that shows a bunch of benchmarks over time with a fairly typical Raku/Perl flavored text processing task, and it was taking 0.23s for the July
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by metaxy2 3y ago
Raku has metaprogramming and an almost unprecedented amount of syntax... and an insanely slow implementation. Although they're chipping away at the speed thing.
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by metaxy2 3y ago
I remember it taking a few years between DHTML becoming a buzzword and XHR becoming popular. XHR was slept on for a while even though it was available in all major browsers by the early 2000's. Back when we were calling things "DH
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by metaxy2 3y ago
I think the joke about it being "the only way to vertically center elements" is just referring to the fact that it's still kind of hard to do vertical centering and there's still no definitive, easy solution after 27 yea
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by metaxy2 3y ago
It's almost certainly a joke but not obvious exactly what the joke is. What it actually stood for (in case you don't know) is "Dynamic HTML." My guess is that he's drawing a parallel with "distributed" as
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by metaxy2 5y ago
> > Japan reactivating nuclear reactors: > Japan invested on nuclear then nowadays don't want it anymore but now needs energy. One has to see them canceling their planned phase-out, as "in March 2021, only 11 percent of J
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by metaxy2 6y ago
I'm not surprised if there's no link between violent games and violence in real life. But as a subtler concern, I do wonder if (some) violent games help to cultivate a sense of general nihilism and lack of value. I work with teens
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by metaxy2 7y ago
Just as important as anything we can do to contribute on the tech side is how we can take advantage of the privileges this line of work offers in terms of working style. Programming is far more suited to remote work than most fields. Advoca
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by metaxy2 7y ago
I'm sorry that I can't directly help you (although I have IBS and a couple of other chronic diseases, so I can sympathize). But it makes me wonder if there's an opportunity for a startup, or even just a nonprofit online commu
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by metaxy2 7y ago
Do we know if exiting vim is solvable in all cases, or would that require some deeper result like solving P = NP?
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by metaxy2 7y ago
> Every podcaster is going to claim that no, it's really what they think, what a marvelous coincidence. It's amazing what someone will "think" when their paycheque relies upon it. I think there's a lot of truth t
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by metaxy2 7y ago
Well, I did have specific reasons for those examples (besides comedy value). Weed dealer tends to bring sketchy and dangerous people to the property. (If you don't buy that, try "heroin dealer" instead.) And I also stipulated
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by metaxy2 7y ago
Conversely, new bosses and landlords who want to avoid choosing someone who is objectively a bad choice for everyone else involved (they say they're a full-time carpenter but they're really a weed dealer/bassist in a progress
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by metaxy2 7y ago
Maybe I just have an unusual learning style, or haven't gotten the right resources, but I've found traditional, semantic CSS to have a brutal learning curve. When you're trying to build complex apps, you're constantly re

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