srgpqt

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by srgpqt 1y ago
Erlang/Elixir use "cast" method name when sending messages to their GenServer actor processes.
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by srgpqt 2y ago
Having a garage sure does sound nice!
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by srgpqt 2y ago
This is how the Daleks come about.
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by srgpqt 3y ago
Freenode was smoothly recombobulated into Libera Chat, so the meltdown shouldn't have affected much.
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by srgpqt 3y ago
Yahoo just feels less cluttered than the others, and that counts a lot in my book.
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by srgpqt 3y ago
I have found google to be aggravating enough these days that I've experimentally switched my default search engine to Yahoo. It feels a lot like the old (good) google, though only having 5 results per page is a bit disappointing. So fa
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by srgpqt 3y ago
When Steve Jobs first announced iMessage on stage, he said it would later be open with a standard specification. Sadly, Apple never delivered on this promise.
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by srgpqt 3y ago
The USA edition is/was over $2000
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by srgpqt 3y ago
“Improvements”. Sure, sure.
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by srgpqt 3y ago
Beaming desires directly to your skull is obviously the next step. Then we can make sure you want to buy a PlausibleBurger as soon as you get your paycheck.
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by srgpqt 3y ago
No, but you could build a version of bootstrap widget library on top of tailwind, if that was your cup of tea.
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by srgpqt 3y ago
They follow the “fail fast, crash early” design philosophy.
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by srgpqt 3y ago
Or so you would think, but malformed or invalid xml is so commonplace, that most good feed readers use very lax or forgiving xml parsers. I’ve never seen such issues with JSON in practice.
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by srgpqt 3y ago
Well yeah, the kids can’t easily use their smartphone while swimming. So they prefer not to swim.
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by srgpqt 3y ago
System Shock 2. The evil AI, Shodan, still pops up in my thoughts from time to time. Triply relevant today as the game was remastered, and AI is a hot topic.
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by srgpqt 3y ago
Like the boiled frog, perhaps we have not even realized that we are already cooked/doomed.
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by srgpqt 3y ago
It’s a great time to start a moving company! People will increasingly start migrating away from the equator for more livable temperatures.
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by srgpqt 3y ago
> a format that is great at everything I too want a magical flying unicorn, and maybe we can make one in the next 40 years, but in the mean time I will happily accept to be stuck with a magical jpegxl unicorn that can’t fly.
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by srgpqt 3y ago
Just like everyone knows Google but never heard of Alphabet
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by srgpqt 3y ago
It’s not much of a choice when most available food products are all sugar laced, and the healthier alternatives are typically much more expensive.
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by srgpqt 3y ago
The scam ones.
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by srgpqt 3y ago
Bill G has said that this quote was misattributed to him.
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by srgpqt 3y ago
No, it isn't clearer. Just different. Which one is clearer depends who is reading and the way they think.
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by srgpqt 3y ago
Indeed, even C has caught up! #define let __auto_type
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by srgpqt 3y ago
Even C has a (simple) type system. The problem is that everyone (especially the standard library) take every opportunity to avoid it, instead casting everything to plain void pointers or char pointers. Thus the compiler can’t do much for sa
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by srgpqt 3y ago
Haven’t tried it, but this seems like something you can customize ingame at any time with the builtin map editor. See the “setting up research” on the editor wiki page: https://wiki.factorio.com/Map_editor#Setting_up_researc
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by srgpqt 3y ago
Fool me once, shame on you; fool me twice, shame on me.
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by srgpqt 3y ago
It’s been the default (only?) init system for Alpine Linux since forever.
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by srgpqt 3y ago
Funnily enough, the web browser DOM is also an old boring retained mode pattern. Hence all the vdom diffing madness React does…
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by srgpqt 3y ago
Yeah that’s not going to work on most mobile devices.

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