rjmill

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by rjmill 2mo ago
That's part of the problem. Some projects, when they move to diataxis, will create a top level section called "reference" and have a single item under it called "API" (or similar.) Depending on the docs theme, it ca
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by rjmill 2mo ago
Please do not make me click on "reference" to get to "API docs". I love diataxis, but dear lord, do not make me click an extra time to get to the thing I actually need 95% of the time. Overall, the movement is good, exce
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by rjmill 4mo ago
Very nice! Independently of this thread, I was delighted to discover the cross references between pages. It makes a big difference.
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by rjmill 5mo ago
They've always resonated with me, maybe because I often work on legacy code. All this ancient technology that no one understands. Crazy rituals/incantations to get things done. People being afraid to skip steps, even if it probab
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by rjmill 5mo ago
Someone please explain the grapple leapfrog example and why that "exploit" is interesting. If my players tried that, I'd happily let them use their full turns to do some crazy trapeze act across the battlefield. And then I&#x
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by rjmill 9mo ago
Odd, I don't see any mention of subprocess.run, the workhorse of python scripting. Quick rundown for the unfamiliar: Give it a command as a list of strings (e.g., subprocess.run(["echo", "foo"]).) It takes a bunch o
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by rjmill 10mo ago
> But isn't it true for JavaScript too? I don't think so. It's been a while since I've bled on tricky async problems in either language, but I'm pretty sure in JS it would be [...] parent_before parent_af
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by rjmill 10mo ago
Not to dimish the achievement, but TFA is pretty clear about the limitations of the piece: > I was able to get it working consistently, although it did lose 2-3 balls an hour and could only run for a few hours without the motor overheati
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by rjmill 1y ago
Indeed. Inheriting from 'collections.UserDict' instead of 'dict' will make TFA's code work as intended for most of those edge cases. UserDict will route '.get', '.setdefault', and even iteration
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by rjmill 1y ago
Can you give an example? I've never noticed that (except for certain specific dialects and slang) but I may be blind to it.
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by rjmill 1y ago
Goodness, yes. The last time I put (genuinely constructive) criticism in a peer evaluation, it turned out to be the only non-positive thing that was said about that coworker. So it became a focus of his yearly review. He later told me about
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by rjmill 1y ago
How do you know that interviewees aren't spending more time on it? Because you can't guarantee all candidates are spending the same amount of time, it becomes a game theory problem where the candidates will typically lose in some
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by rjmill 1y ago
Great advice, but my case is different because our framework is REALLY hurting us. /s It's wild how easy it is to fall into this trap. IMO, if you're considering switching frameworks (especially for perf reasons), your time w
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by rjmill 2y ago
I wonder if Bacardi might be a better analogue for what TSMC gets from this deal. Bacardi started a distillery in Puerto Rico (iirc, to sell in the US without tariffs) well before the Cuban Revolution. When the Cuban government seized Bacar
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by rjmill 2y ago
I love it. I want a python-esque version that's whitespace sensitive. But only for trailing whitespace.
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by rjmill 2y ago
Yeah, counting parens! Dohohoho!
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by rjmill 2y ago
From the interview with the TV's original owner, this seemed like his ideal outcome. The owner had seen discussions of the TV online and knew it was a big deal. But he still couldn't get rid of it until this guy came along. The ow
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by rjmill 2y ago
And killing a dog is wrongest.
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by rjmill 2y ago
I turned off the alerts, and felt like an idiot after the storms here in NC. Until I realized that the "severe flooding" warning would have been indistinguishable from the one that goes off whenever there's a nontrivial amoun
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by rjmill 2y ago
Many people who need nginx are proficient in JS, or they work with people who are proficient in JS. Lua is not a common skill among web developers.
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by rjmill 2y ago
I dunno, ask my wife and she'll tell you the songs I'm usually practicing are beyond the edge of my capabilities. In seriousness, I don't think that statement is meant for lifting/running or anything that's bounded
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by rjmill 2y ago
> are there frequent updates in Go spec introducing new features that it is necessary to auto install the compiler itself ? From what I've seen, the need for frequent updates is more about keeping security scans happy.
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by rjmill 2y ago
Looks like there's not been much progress on this since the article. Here's a more recent article I found, if anyone's curious: https://melmagazine.com/en-us/story/orgasmatron-thomas-stuar... (Plot
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by rjmill 2y ago
> They were at a casino in Monte Carlo when Dán met her future husband, John von Neumann, for the first time. He explained that he had perfected a way to ensure that you could win roulette every time, and promptly lost all his money tryi
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by rjmill 2y ago
> I feel like Amazon must have solved this for all practical purposes. Seeing how some of my recent orders have been packaged, I have my doubts. But there definitely seems to be some algorithmic packing going on. Here's an example t
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by rjmill 2y ago
While I can totally see toxic managers reading this, and thinking, "Ha! I told them my management style isn't toxic," my takeaways were a bit different. I read it as being about the dangers of overcorrecting when trying to av
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by rjmill 2y ago
You can also do [result] = get_some_stuff(...)
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by rjmill 2y ago
I knew it! Context clues typically imply the ("wrong") meaning, so I misinterpreted this word for a while until I used it out loud, and my pedantic family corrected me. But so many usages of the word are vague, and the difference
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by rjmill 2y ago
This article is ADHD-walled. The long load time, the weird slide show. Then the first page has a jittery animation that makes it impossible for me to actually focus on reading the article. It's less of a marshmallow thing (though I oft
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by rjmill 2y ago
Base 6 is my ideal base. Divisible by 2 and 3. All primes aside from 2 and 3 are gonna end in 5 or 1. When you count on your hands, you can use one hand for 1-5, and the other for your 10s (6s) so you can count much higher on your fingers.

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