rodw

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by rodw 5mo ago
Page load time can impact index coverage (depth of crawl), freshness (revisit rate), and ranking.
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by rodw 5mo ago
Looking like a "touch button" is still looking like a button. Some indication that an element is tappable is still useful.
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by rodw 5mo ago
Technically (in the US at least) purely AI-generated content has no copyright, hence any copyright associated with the commit can only assigned to the human authors (or the entity they are working for). As I understand it neither Copilot no
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by rodw 3y ago
> Isn't the fact that they're able to restore deleted comments from that far back itself an indication of malice, or at least irresponsibility? Meh. You're not exactly wrong but I think it's pretty common for user-gen
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by rodw 3y ago
This was more or less my working theory. It's not _all_ of my comments that have been restored, it's only my comments going back to 2020 (and I can't be sure that _all_ of the comments in that time range were restored either,
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by rodw 3y ago
I've got a decade old account on which I've made a habit of manually deleting comments older than 6 - 9 months, since they get so little visibility and there's no value in leaving a breadcrumb trail. Checking just now I see t
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by rodw 4y ago
You're right. I don't know where I got 90 from but the period is 60 days. Curiously, based on the DOL guide at [1], which to be fair isn't text of the actual law but it is an official government publication meant to explain i
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by rodw 4y ago
IANAL and this may be minor nit, but I think when the WARN act is applicable, the laid-off employees are still _technically_ employed for 90 days (the pre-notice duration) and any additional severance benefits happen after that. In other wo
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by rodw 4y ago
Do it or don't, man. I don't care. But I stand by the statement that most able-bodied Americans could find some way to incorporate more human-powered transport into their routine if they really wanted to. And in many cases they co
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by rodw 4y ago
A "buy in bulk" warehouse store is of course one of the least reasonable examples you could have selected, but per the Bureau of Transportation Statistics 52% of car trips in the US are less than 3 miles, and 28% are less than 1 m
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by rodw 4y ago
I think it's likely that there is a higher concentration of tech (esp. software engineering) jobs in some of the further flung suburbs than in DC proper, which yields some more affordable options (sometimes at the cost of some urban am
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by rodw 4y ago
Or alternatively, high pay and old tech working for military contractors in roles that require security clearance. In some cases tech employers must pay a premium to get someone to perform extraordinarily tedious work.
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by rodw 4y ago
The "simple" part could be up for debate, but in what way is "replace some of your car/bus/train travel with walking or cycling" not a solution to the problem of staying in shape when you hate going to the gym?
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by rodw 4y ago
> I have nothing intrinsic against electron, and I'll take everything back if I see these "natural fits" actually fit. As a baseline, Electron performance _should_ be no worse than a regular SPA-style web UI running in the
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by rodw 4y ago
Menus? Clicking? That doesn't seem very emacs-y of you. M-x weirdness - up to and including the fact that it refers to a "Meta" key not found on modern keyboards - is exactly the kind of gatekeeping that allows me to feel sup
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by rodw 4y ago
I appreciate that perspective. Launching quickly and no input latency are probably my base demands from a text editor. Not sufficient, but necessary. I may need to give Sublime a closer look. FWIW you _can_ get emacs to launch as quickly as
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by rodw 4y ago
> Platform conventions matter because uniformity matters Except just as you noted the conventions change across platforms, contexts and over time, so they aren't really uniform at all. If you're moving between Windows, macOS, a
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by rodw 4y ago
> Very minor feature. Moreover it is supported out-of-the-box in emacs: `M-x list-packages`. I think `:packadd` or something may be the equivalent for vim.
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by rodw 4y ago
VSCode's out-of-the-box configuration is better suited for the most common modern development contexts (probably?) and its customization, add-on and overall UIs are definitely more aligned with modern conventions, more readily accessib
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by rodw 4y ago
"No worse than a Java-based app" is sorta damning with faint praise. Java is notorious for being ill-suited for user-facing desktop apps - and justifiably so, at least historically. But I agree with your core point. I use VS Code
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by rodw 4y ago
Exactly. The truth is that over that last 15+ years _most_ of the apps that people use _most_ of the time are a perfect and natural fit for the web UI/UX: text, media, hyperlinks, standard form/window controls, with relatively mod
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by rodw 4y ago
Many Electron apps literally are a wrapped or packaged version of some SPA-style web interface, and the UX reflects that, naturally. But - beyond the base Chromium "footprint", which to be fair isn't negligible - you absolute
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by rodw 4y ago
> was never really quite able to get the [VS Code] interface the same way You're at least the 3rd person I've seen make that observation in this thread. I don't get how VS Code made this so hard, isn't it fundamentall
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by rodw 4y ago
>I far preferred the UX and design of Atom, but I eventually caved That's my experience exactly. I still haven't been able to configure VS Code to fully match the experience I want with respect to keybindings and subtle look-an
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by rodw 4y ago
Everyone believes Electron "sucks" because it's mainly the apps that suck that are noticeably built with Electron. It's the "when you do things right, people won't be sure you've done anything at all"
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by rodw 4y ago
But those issues are highly correlated with ADHD itself. Why would you assume that stimulant medication is the cause? In fact, data suggest that the problems you observed probably would have been worse absent the stimulant medication. A t
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by rodw 4y ago
ADHD has a ~30% rate of comorbidity (some sources say as high as 40% to 60%) with both anxiety and depression (and, as you note, is also correlated with other issues such as bipolar disorder and substance abuse). Moreover, delayed diagnosis
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by rodw 4y ago
> to the point where I am not super comfortable driving with them. Running stop signs and red lights is a frequent occurrence You're almost certainly right about that. Accidents in general [1] and car accidents in particular [2] are
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by rodw 4y ago
I'm not asserting stimulant medications have no side effects. I am asserting that decades and decades of peer-reviewed medical literature indicates that stimulant medications are a net benefit for people with ADHD. This is not a contro
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by rodw 4y ago
ADHD brains are observably, physically different than neurotypical brains: - Neurotypical brain: https://www.amenclinics.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/healt... - ADHD brain: https://www.amenc

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