skobes

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by skobes 9d ago
It is still important to declare UTF-8 either in <meta> or Content-Type header, otherwise it will usually default to Windows-1252. Yay compatibility!
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by skobes 12d ago
Maybe I'm misunderstanding something about how all this works, but can we have any confidence that 13 million lines of AI-generated Lean code are... correct? How have we not merely substituted one verification problem for another?
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by skobes 14d ago
The discussion of "FLIP (First, Last, Invert, Play)" would be improved by mentioning the View Transitions API, which is basically there to automate this technique.
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by skobes 23d ago
Original Win95 did not even install a TCP/IP stack by default. It was an optional extra on the CD-ROM. This changed with OSR2 I believe, when they started bundling IE4.
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by skobes 25d ago
> Look at any printed media from the last 100 years. I have, and it contradicts your point. The single space is the nearly universal standard in modern print media.
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by skobes 1mo ago
Even the CBC thinks of London, England before London, Ontario.
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by skobes 2mo ago
We are fortunate that this individual's stylistic perspective is out there adding spice and variety to the world. I think, however, that most of us would be ill-advised to emulate it. Orwell's maxim, "never use a long word wh
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by skobes 3mo ago
I'm confused, this tweet reads like the lead-in or movie-trailer to a story, but where is the actual story?
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by skobes 4mo ago
The map tile backend is in the middle of a multi year effort to migrate from the Flippity Service to the Floopity Service. The FlippityFlooper was believed to have finished the necessary format conversions for all map tiles in the US and Ca
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by skobes 7mo ago
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by skobes 7mo ago
I think you can still go directly to /messages/ and not see the feed.
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by skobes 7mo ago
Why is the whole implementation in header files?
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by skobes 7mo ago
I mean, it's also an attentional commitment for me to remember your idiosyncratic apology-preferences. So I might continue apologizing for replying late to your email, unless you convince me that _everyone_ doesn't like this...
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by skobes 8mo ago
My main home PC is a Puget Serenity workstation from 2017. It has been rock solid and outperforms much newer laptops. And it has almost zero fan noise which is a priority for me. Unfortunately it looks like they may have discontinued the Se
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by skobes 8mo ago
Tomorrow: modify man pages from kernel space!
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by skobes 8mo ago
Omitting <body> can lead to weird surprises. I once had some JavaScript mysteriously breaking because document.body was null during inline execution. Since then I always write <body> explicitly even though it is optional.
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by skobes 9mo ago
Shoutout to fava, the beancount GUI frontend: https://beancount.github.io/fava/ I really like its big picture view of the accounts, the search / query interface, and live editing of transactions.
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by skobes 9mo ago
This illustrates the difficulty of maintaining a separation between bugs and discussions: > To be clear, I 100% believe that there is some kind of leak affecting some specific configuration of users In this case it seems you believe a bu
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by skobes 9mo ago
This is not a standalone article but a section from Butterick's book, "Typography for Lawyers", which is hosted in full on the website. The book is an opinionated style manual, and many alternatives are described in nearby se
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by skobes 9mo ago
I'm fond of STIX Two, which is very close to Times New Roman but just a little bit nicer, especially the italic.
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by skobes 9mo ago
Once I realized that some people expect and are happy for you to jump in with unprompted thoughts or stories, it became easier for me to be intentional about doing so. I think I'm a lot better now than when I was younger at adapting to
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by skobes 9mo ago
I hate these too, but I'm worried that a ban just incentivizes being more sneaky about it.
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by skobes 9mo ago
Developers have been anthropomorphizing computers for as long as they've been around though. "The compiler thinks my variable isn't declared" "That function wants a null-terminated string" "Teach this code
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by skobes 9mo ago
If LLMs produce fake citations, why would we trust LLMs to check them?
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by skobes 10mo ago
Wouldn't this fall under Auer deference (agency's interpretation of its own regulation)? There is some uncertainty about whether Auer deference survives after Loper Bright.
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by skobes 10mo ago
Your link is just the abstract, I had to hunt for the full talk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U1kc7fcF5Ao But it is quite interesting and especially learning about the security problems of the document() function (descri
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by skobes 10mo ago
I tried to read this but the pronouns are so grating
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by skobes 11mo ago
The only thing I know about rock tumblers is that Steve Jobs thinks they're like teams of people building software... Apple must have been a noisy, violent place :P
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by skobes 1y ago
Interesting that the canvas looks to be in a 5:3 aspect ratio. Did SGI displays have that shape, or would they have used non-square pixels like many DOS games in CGA/EGA resolution?
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by skobes 1y ago
Interesting, you read it as if the fish said "You want to be like God? No, that's too far. Game over!" But another reading is: God would have chosen the shack (grace to the humble, etc.) So she got her wish.

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