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by throwaway284534 2mo ago
Search is a really tough problem in OSM for a few reasons, but I think a lot it stems from bad address parsing. I’ve been working on geocoder which uses a trained model to parse and classify address queries into a tokenized form. In additio
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by throwaway284534 2y ago
As a narcoleptic I wish that the diagnosis was more accurate, or at least that the insurance companies were more holistic in their coverage of medication. The multiple sleep latency test hardly qualifies as science and has a terrible false
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by throwaway284534 2y ago
Much appreciated. I’m US based, but I travel a lot for work. It’s a blessing to have a wider perspective on gender roles, especially with so much of the journey now in the rear view mirror. AFAIK there’s no lower rung on the corporate ladde
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by throwaway284534 2y ago
If it’s any consolation, I haven’t gotten any favors as a trans woman, even with “passing privilege.” Both myself and the cis women in tech I know all hear the same thing: companies are tipping the scales to favor diversity hires. But in tr
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by throwaway284534 2y ago
I really enjoyed the author's technical deep-dive and approach to debugging performance issues. Mild spoilers for anyone who hasn't played Riven, but the method for fixing Gehn's faulty linking books is a perfect analogy for
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by throwaway284534 2y ago
The gist is something like a new cohort of front-end developers and some begrudging back-end folks who never actually learned how anything worked are now trying to inscribe their influence as the new smart people with tools like Tailwind an
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by throwaway284534 2y ago
I hope that I’m not the only one who feels the anger emanating from these sort of blog posts. It’s stuff like the Qwik developers claiming things like “Hydration is pure overhead” as if it’s the mathematical proof that keeps their reality f
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NoVNC: Add Automatic Clipboard Support(github.com)
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by throwaway284534 2y ago
As a web developer, I’d like to think that we’re effectively alchemists who transmute vague ideas into products held together with absurd magic that’s constantly changing. Can we get a bill going? I can’t decide between “Webmancer” and “www
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by throwaway284534 3y ago
Respectfully, those metrics are not proxies for productivity. They don’t seem to be grounded in a statical model either: >They reduced the code base size by 67% (21,500 LOC to 7200 LOC) > They increased python code by 140% (500 LOC to
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by throwaway284534 3y ago
I just don’t buy how this is a productive way to build websites. Having the functionality of HTMX natively supported would be nice but you’d still need much of what React does. HTMX’s docs seem to hand wave away front-end state management a
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by throwaway284534 3y ago
Lookup a stenographer’s keyboard. There is a learning curve but a chorded keyboard can exceed typical typing speeds. I imagine a T9 isn’t too different in this regard.
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by throwaway284534 4y ago
This is very cool. I suspect the author encountered that 12 pixel offset due to a default value on the canvas’s text baseline property. Setting this to `top` may resolve the issue, or invoking the `measureText` method and calculating the of
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by throwaway284534 4y ago
That is a wonderful question and is exactly the sort of thing that should be on the Babel website. You’ll find no such explanation or even a summary of trade offs that come with adding Babel to your app. It’s assumed that if you want to sup
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by throwaway284534 4y ago
I do appreciate your transparency, though I disagree with the sentiment that I’m arguing from a position of bad faith. The Babel team has not shown a moment of interest in lowering their role in the JavaScript ecosystem to anything short of
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by throwaway284534 4y ago
6to5…err, I mean Babel, Already accomplished it’s mission to bridge the feature gap between older browser implementations. And like all bureaucratic melanomas, the maintainers made a strange decision to not only expand their domain to ES7,
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by throwaway284534 4y ago
IMO, ESBuild is the best option these days. It’s not as magic or batteries included as Webpack, but there’s very little kept secret from you during the compilation process. It’s fast too! Another tricky alternative is to just use TypeScript
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by throwaway284534 4y ago
This is really incredible work. If you’ve ever tried some of the more esoteric SVG features like filters and animations, you’re bound to have a horror story or three to share. In almost every case, Safari’s SVG performance lags behind Chrom
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by throwaway284534 4y ago
The file handler is already tucked inside an asynchronous Promise based API. I think it’s reasonable that a mere attempt to get a handler synchronously is made possible. Whether to support synchronous read/write access is another matte
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by throwaway284534 4y ago
This is honestly very cool. VS Code uses a similar approach to their local file system provider, albeit with a wrapper around IndexDB instead of SQLite. There’s some interesting trade offs too, since IndexDB can store the browser’s native f
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by throwaway284534 4y ago
This was a great article, though I felt it was incomplete without the inclusion of the infamous “guy taped to ceiling” photo. A picture’s worth a thousand ping… https://thenerdstash.com/lan-party/
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by throwaway284534 4y ago
Ironically, that’s how most email correspondence worked when I lived in Japan. Nearly every message had a paragraph of fluff before getting to the unpleasant details: Dear Customer, It seems that the leaves are once again turning to their
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by throwaway284534 4y ago
As a developer who’s been working with React since the beta, I can confidently say that the author is speaking the truth. Especially so near the end of the article where they can’t seem to quit React. For all the annoyances of Hooks, they r
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by throwaway284534 4y ago
I’ve also fallen back into favoring relative paths and doing my best to keep nested paths to a minimum. This also makes publishing on Deno’s module listing possible too!
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by throwaway284534 4y ago
It’s disheartening, especially so in a tech community, to see comments appear so quickly to cast judgement. “Dual licensing is not open source!” This is same kind of pedantry that haunts every thread like the last. We know that a bowl of ce
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by throwaway284534 4y ago
I work as a Digital Gardener[1] and we’re trained to NEVER use our real name. - [1] https://youtu.be/XQLdhVpLBVE
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by throwaway284534 4y ago
Apple has definitely softened up Siri’s demeanor over the years, and I think it was a deliberate decision to introduce her as standoffish. I once read that waitresses who initially come off as rude earn higher tips, but only if their mood s
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by throwaway284534 4y ago
IMO the fact that the employees anticipated that layoffs were coming and leadership still didn’t preemptively quell that sentiment means someone already made a mistake. I’m sympathetic to how difficult it can be to relay unpleasant news, bu
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by throwaway284534 4y ago
Good read. I recently ran into this problem with Yarn Workspaces and TypeScript. There doesn’t seem to be a way to keep NPM packages in a monorepo if their TypeScript “lib” configurations clash e.g. a package shared utilities, another for R
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by throwaway284534 4y ago
I assume the form has some dissuading text along the lines of, “Upon submitting, a goon squad will be sent for your immediate removal from the premises.” Or maybe they just send spiders through the ethernet. It’s a big company.

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