zesterer

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by zesterer 4mo ago
This is largely FUD, written with the intent of sounding professional and with expertise, but in practice there are many tell-tale signs that the author doesn't really know what they're talking about. > the biggest drawback of
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by zesterer 4mo ago
You're talking about a different thing to OP. OP is talking about the OSI and the specific incarnation of 'open-source' that came with it, you are talking about the more general social pattern of open collaboration.
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by zesterer 6mo ago
Thanks, I'm glad to hear it :) Unfortunately I've not had much time to work on it recently for personal reasons, but the project is still very much active and receives regular updates!
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by zesterer 6mo ago
It is worth noting that although the result here is visually impressive for erosion aesthetics, it is also not practical for the generation of physically-plausible lakes and rivers. Proper hydrological simulation is required because non-loc
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by zesterer 6mo ago
No, nano is not my daily driver. It's what I use when I want to quickly edit a file with root access because, funnily enough, I'm not in the habit of running my primary editor with superuser permissions :) Nano is a low-hanging fr
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by zesterer 6mo ago
Thanks for your kind words, they mean a lot. Frankly, I spend a lot of time feeling similarly uncomfortable about my relationship with computers and the industry at large. I think, perhaps surprisingly, I'd call myself a 'technoph
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by zesterer 6mo ago
That's fair enough!
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by zesterer 6mo ago
Nice work! And yes, that gradual acceleration of productivity where your fixes and tweaks from the past compound on your ability to get things done in the future is a great feeling.
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by zesterer 6mo ago
A thing that shocked me as I was working on the text editor was how capable modern terminal emulators are when you account for ANSI extensions. First-class clipboard access, mouse events, precise text styling, focus tracking, system notific
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by zesterer 6mo ago
That's odd, I've not heard that reported by anybody else. If I get time I'll look into it.
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by zesterer 6mo ago
Yes, absolutely. I've since switched to rope-backed buffers, but I don't think the rope itself is actually adding much from a performance standpoint, even for really very large files. We talk about big-O complexity a lot when talk
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by zesterer 6mo ago
Unmentioned in the post, but I have since switched to a third-party rope library (crop, not ropey). At some point I'd like to implement one myself, but for now this does the job.
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by zesterer 6mo ago
That is certainly true! If your target is end users, use the off the shelf solution that has been inspected by many eyeballs . The best part of building tools for yourself or a small community of people is that you only need to cover the r
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by zesterer 6mo ago
Author here. Off the top of my head: - Software is simpler than you think when you boil it down. There's a massive incentive to over-sell the complexity of the problem a solution is trying to solve, to pull in users. This is true both
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by zesterer 8mo ago
Yeah, it's a pretty blatant cult masquerading as a consensus - but they're all singing from the same hymn sheet in lieu of any actual evidence to support their claims. A lot of it is heavily quasi-religious and falls apart under e
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by zesterer 8mo ago
(they are all wrong) A fun property of S-curves is that they look exactly like exponential curves until the midpoint. Projecting exponentials is definitionally absurd because exponential growth is impossible in the long term. It is far more
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by zesterer 9mo ago
I'm slowly preparing it to be released, I just have a lot of IRL stuff going on!
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by zesterer 1y ago
They did. It's called 'DNS' and you can set up a 'page' about yourself if you want.
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by zesterer 1y ago
Right, and if the original statement is true - that price drops are killing supply (without providing houses at a sufficient level) - then that implies that housing does not work like a traditional commodity. Which it doesn't.
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by zesterer 1y ago
Are you ok
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by zesterer 1y ago
The point is not the final product, the point is the process.
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by zesterer 1y ago
I love this, this is exactly the sort of thing I've experienced too: building the toy project gave me an on-ramp to something similar but much more complicated in the future.
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by zesterer 1y ago
Apologies, I overhauled the entire website (backend and all). I wrote a post about it, if you're curious.
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by zesterer 1y ago
That sounds as good a reason as any to become a pirate, frankly
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by zesterer 1y ago
This is the point, yes! Toy software is not production-worthy. It might not even be sufficient for your own personal use. It's about building proof of concepts and rapidly scouting out the terrain of a field you don't know much ab
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by zesterer 1y ago
I think what you've identified is the "certain kinds of learning" I mention in the post. If I want to learn about the structure of ELF binaries, I don't figure it out from first principles. I can't: the decisions th
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by zesterer 1y ago
(I'm the post author) Actually, I would recommend that you don't ask an expert friend for help. If you get really stuck then maybe do some light reading about the topic: but the point is to throw lots of things at the wall and
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by zesterer 1y ago
That's a really neat little gizmo. Makes me want to spend more time playing around with web tech.
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by zesterer 1y ago
All great ideas to add to my todo list!
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by zesterer 1y ago
The 10/10 was a copy & paste typo, sorry! Amended now.

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