stillkicking

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by stillkicking 4y ago
It's not a caricature if it's taught at supposedly elite institutions of education, into which admission is contingent on a declaration of adherence to said ways of thinking.
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by stillkicking 4y ago
Even if that were true, I'd still not put any faith in the empathy skills of people who use e.g. "incel" as a slur, who claim "it's okay to be white" is hate speech and who call arson, vandalism and looting &qu
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by stillkicking 4y ago
Spanish-speaking non-binary people are hopefully not so stupid as to conflate a lack of appetite to rewrite the entirety of Spanish grammar with a refusal to acknowledge someone's existence.
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by stillkicking 4y ago
The issue I have with WASM is that its threading model is basically the web-worker model: each thread has to have its own module and can only communicate through pure data via shared memory. TS/JS can do a lot these days, but threading
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by stillkicking 4y ago
Twitter hired tons of employees since 2020 so the apparent massive layoffs simply weren't. And there is a lot of dead weight at tech companies regardless. Political pundits had a direct interest in sabotaging the perception of Twitter
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by stillkicking 4y ago
>React doesn't provide a systematic answer for handling state in apps if data is flowing up, down and sideways So let's first back up and recognize that this earlier statement was flat out wrong. React does provide a systematic
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by stillkicking 4y ago
One thing I find funny is the problem of data loss. On macOS, it's been the norm for years that applications retain their state when quit and re-opened, including unsaved documents. While weird when introduced, in hindsight this is exa
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by stillkicking 4y ago
This injected CSS will remove the popup: body article.newsletter-post.post .subscribe-dialog, body article.newsletter-post.post .subscribe-dialog-scroll-modal-scroll-capture { display: none !important; } Isn't it sad how p
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by stillkicking 4y ago
I don't really care about Elon Musk as a philanthropist or not. He's like a one-man Apple in that way. But. - The environmental problem with electric cars is undoubtedly due to the batteries, both the manufacturing and the fact th
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by stillkicking 4y ago
Hello. I am rational developer. I am very clever and very rational. Devoid of emotion. Oh what is this? Someone implies that there are objective standards of quality in a field I know little about? Someone who has used something for decades
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by stillkicking 4y ago
This is why you should never finalize specs until you've written the documentation for it. If it sounds stupid when you say it out loud, it _is_ stupid.
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by stillkicking 4y ago
A node.js back-end.
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by stillkicking 4y ago
This is a detail, but it's imo illustrative of how refined Apple UI is and how easy it is to get it wrong. The design of how the Dock scales and animates follows a very simple principle: if the mouse is outside the dock, and you move t
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by stillkicking 4y ago
Scrollbars are actually a real pain to implement. - you first need to lay out the scrollable content normally, without a scrollbar - then you need to detect whether it spills over, and whether a scrollbar is needed - if so, you need to lay
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by stillkicking 4y ago
- Make vague generalizations about white people, men - Blur the distinction between non-credible fringe groups and some of the most credentialed institutions around so you can play the underdog - Ascribe all actions taken in name of minorit
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by stillkicking 4y ago
It's only a spectator sport if you're not downstream from those changes though. I also think ageism is only part of the problem, it's stubbornness in general. Even if you're younger, it's difficult to translate hard
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by stillkicking 4y ago
*is a game developer with a particular focus on "RETVRN TO TRADITION" where anything that isn't super lean-and-mean is bloated and inefficient and ridiculous, and only exists because web developers are misguided, miseducated,
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by stillkicking 4y ago
Thesis: >The application event loop coalesces these damage rectangles and initiates an optimized operation: it only redraws views whose bounds intersect the damaged region, and also passes the rectangle(s) to the drawRect:: method. (That
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by stillkicking 4y ago
This explanation is useless imo because it expects the reader to already understand the weirdest part: "If I have a function A -> B, how could I possibly get something that goes in the direction F B -> F A out of it?" The an
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by stillkicking 4y ago
...and you will show your users stale data, which is a non-starter for a chat app. You will then need to implement some custom push/invalidate mechanism, based on a custom interpretation of the DB event log. The entire point of the Fir
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by stillkicking 4y ago
Relevant post: https://status451.com/2016/01/06/splain-it-to-me/ There are two common social perspectives: information sharing vs emotional harmony. From one perspective, the other seems rude or insane.
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by stillkicking 4y ago
Every time someone argues something based on the merits of Go, I can't take them seriously anymore.
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by stillkicking 5y ago
Things CSS got wrong: - not supporting tables in CSS1, even though they were the dominant layout mechanism used at the time. - `box-sizing: content-box` as original sizing model, which nobody has ever needed. - `::pseudo-elements`, also use
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by stillkicking 5y ago
Java got its slow reputation mainly because any early encounter with a Java applet would proudly display the Java logo and then cause your computer and disk to thrash for 30 seconds. Then Java developers heard this, confused it for "Ja
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by stillkicking 5y ago
People always focus on the big issues because they are not hypothetical at all. We are talking about a platform that has had dubious fact check warnings attached to tweets for a year now, which mainly seem to serve to reinforce a false cons
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by stillkicking 8y ago
In many ways he's understating the problem. At least there used to be file formats to support, and files to lose. But how much of the data you interact with daily is even directly accessible to you? How much of it can you access when y
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by stillkicking 8y ago
"How can a site be both a Church of SJWs and an alt-right shithole?" If one side is committed to flagging content off into invisibility, and another is committed to debating that practice, then you end up with this situation. Ther
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by stillkicking 8y ago
If anything is a hallmark of bad ideology, it's making a mock summary of other people's thoughts so you can valiantly take it down from a distance without ever engaging with it.
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by stillkicking 8y ago
This happens every time when a post or thread exposes the social justice orthodoxy for the pernicious and self-centered bullies that they are. The original announcement about Rafael leaving LLVM was flagged off the front page too: https:
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by stillkicking 8y ago
Yep. The extremeness of e.g. The_Donald on reddit is a direct result of how hostile r/politics was to anyone who didn't support Hillary. Sadly, I think the far left actually likes it this way. They want unreasonable boogiemen they

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