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by wging 3d ago
The article is talking about symbols that were lost. The sentence should be interpreted as "these [symbols], for Insert (now gone) and Delete (still with us)". The photo is of a symbol for 'insert', an 'a' wi
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by wging 7d ago
See also https://gamelab.mit.edu/games/a-slower-speed-of-light/ , a 2012 game that did the same thing
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by wging 10d ago
They link to their code on GitHub - see footnote 2 on page 2. I don't see it linked anywhere else, which makes it easy to miss. https://github.com/rjha18/vec2vec/
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by wging 11d ago
I think they've gotten worse about this as an organization over the last few years(?). Earlier this year an update to their mobile app introduced loading time, and resulting slowness, for opening menus that used to be ~instant. To me t
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by wging 22d ago
Years and years ago, there was an article about the way Amazon.com's menu dropdown worked. It had the same spark (of careful attention to user behavior and needs): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5330998 / h
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by wging 22d ago
Her husband was Carl Dean.
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by wging 2mo ago
Cities on the water make fun shapes for obvious reasons. Atlantic City, Seattle, Chicago, Galveston, New Orleans. The slices can go very far or even be omitted due to not hitting the contiguous US. Chicago's is probably the most intere
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by wging 2mo ago
> I'm sure the record standing so long is partially down to the fact the mile isn't run at major championships I'm not so sure about that. The 1500 is the equivalent race run at major championships (and most paced time tri
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by wging 2mo ago
> I think El Guerrouj set the previous WR in a race without pacers. El Guerrouj had two pacers: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XvCsj7eJKKA In fact, looking at this race, Tanui (the second pacer) actually stays on the tr
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by wging 3mo ago
I'd add rms/Richard Stallman to that list of famous emacs users. He's famous for way more than just gnu emacs, so it's not quite cheating.
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by wging 4mo ago
Many OSS licenses are also free software licenses, even if they are not viral and don't impose severe restrictions on the licensee in the way the GPL does. The MIT license, for example. "Free software" and "GPL" a
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by wging 5mo ago
Longer than that, even. A similar requirement for iOS apps was in the cards 10 years ago . https://developer.apple.com/news/?id=12212016b (Yes, this article is about an extension of the deadline. I don't remember
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by wging 5mo ago
Truer than you'd think just from the information I provided. He has two world championship silver medals over 10,000m.
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by wging 5mo ago
What does 'harder to recruit' mean though?
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by wging 5mo ago
It's his first marathon ever, but he's a very experienced runner. It would be hard to find a better prospect for a good first marathon. He's a multiple (former) world record holder and medalist at shorter distances from the m
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by wging 5mo ago
I've read that even if you absorb it all, there's some question about whether it's useful. This Alex Hutchinson article suggests, among other things, that it may spare your fat stores rather than your muscle glycogen: > Ev
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by wging 6mo ago
That would not fit as well.
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by wging 6mo ago
What is wrong in that quoted sentence? Do you mean "articulacy" should instead be "articulateness"? "Articulacy" is also a word, and correct in this context.
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by wging 6mo ago
These days node supports the fetch API, which is much simpler. (It wasn't there in 2020, it seems to have been added around 2022-2023.)
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by wging 6mo ago
> Scott took it too literally He does say in section (I): > I was particularly told to “take it as literally as possible”
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by wging 6mo ago
But there are no citations on any of the edits claiming this, and there were two incompatible dates claimed (March 5, March 8).
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by wging 7mo ago
[4] looks like it's only a runner for the actual testing, which is a separate crate: https://github.com/mozilla/memtest (see: https://github.com/mozilla-firefox/firefox/blob/main&#x2
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by wging 7mo ago
Regarding the noise you mention, I wonder if memento's use of the git 'notes' feature is an acceptable way to contain or quarantine that noise. It might still not add much value, but at least it would live in a separate place
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by wging 7mo ago
Discussed previously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14825607
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by wging 8mo ago
One nice way to do things, if you can get away with it, is to model the actions your application takes explicitly, and pass them to a central thing that actually handles them. Then there can be one place in your code that actually needs to
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by wging 8mo ago
There is some prior work on mitigating the performance cost of immutability that you might be interested in. For example, Clojure's persistent vectors allow fast modifications without destroying the original vector, because internally
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by wging 8mo ago
It's certainly possible that what I encountered, labeled as an 'icicle graph', is a nonstandard usage of the term. But if so, that's a shame. I don't think inverting the y-axis is useful by itself, the different buc
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by wging 8mo ago
I also like icicle graphs for this. They're flamegraphs, but aggregated in the reverse order. (I.e. if you have calls A->B->C and D->E->C, then both calls to C are aggregated together, rather than being stacked on top of B
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by wging 9mo ago
A more common alternative to counting divs would be CSS classnames or (for unique elements on the page) IDs. You'd do `document.querySelector('.my-class')` to locate `<div class="my-class">` or similar, rather
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by wging 9mo ago
I think the problem is that it's on his users to enable this flag, not something that can be done by Mockito automatically.

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