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Induane··on Through Captain Jean-Luc Picard, Patrick Stewart taught us the measure of a man
He is engaging in the rules of the court as would any other person who respected the institution.
Induane··on Nikon photography contest winner loses title after scientists spot signs of AI
That's not what appears to have happened. It seems that AI was used as part of the post processing step.
Induane··on Total Annihilation, rebuilt for modern computers
Even though it was done with software rendering and a locked camera, the original TA engine is actually 3d, not isometric.
Induane··on The first new cat species discovered in 100 years
We do it in America
Induane··on The first new cat species discovered in 100 years
Similar looking to the KodKod
Induane··on A 3D fruit fly on macOS desktop powered by the real FlyWire connectome
They do kind of dissolve; we have better imaging now and can watch.

What isn't true is that it completely dissolves. There are parts that don't and are part of the rescaffolding process. One of those bits that does not completely dissolve is a chunk of the brain; it is probably via this that memory persists through the metamorphosis.

Wing stubs are present from the beginning as well as you noted.

Induane··on Donkey.bas is 45 Years Old – 131 line of Glory
My first ever hack was turning off collision detection in nibbles.bas so I could worm right through walls.
Induane··on We replaced Redis with MySQL for inventory reservations and it scaled
I read your linked comment and I'm bummed out because I agree.

The thing is that I LIKE writing code. It's fun.

I don't LIKE coding with an LLM. It isn't fun.

We can't go back to a place where the professional code is all hand written. But at the same time I'm sad and tired. The joy has been utterly sapped and I don't think I'll be able to do this as a career for much longer.

Induane··on “Gravity is worth asking about”
Depending on your needs. I'm not sure it's that cut and dry. For developer experience I don't find it very good. My System76 laptop provides a better experience.

It is all pretty subjective though. Windows is the best option for some.

Induane··on “Gravity is worth asking about”
Towards the end of it's dev cycle I think Snow Leopard got pretty good.

I do think about this article though: https://www.rubenerd.au/the-myth-of-snow-leopard/

Obviously (to me anyway, maybe folk disagree) comparing a new release to the previous versions last release (with years of bugfixing) wasn't totally fair, but my experience with Snow Leopard wasn't great either and I wonder if it wasn't quite the peak everyone thinks of it as.

Induane··on The Valley of Webhooks
Never visited a standard bog?
Induane··on Most countries provide between 20 and 40 paid days off
It is hard to know for sure, there could be some advantages to more pathogenic exposure in terms of group immunity but it is challenging to study and the particular types of pathogens that get passed around would matter a lot too.
Induane··on I don't recommend Tailwind CSS
I sometimes use edexui + btop to mess with business types.
Induane··on I don't recommend Tailwind CSS
I recommend it for certain situations.

I think this is one of those cases where there is no objectively "right" opinion. Tailwind exists for a reason and got a market for a reason. That doesn't mean it is always used in the places it's most helpful or that people don't misuse it (or simply not understand the complexity beast that is CSS). That's just the nature of any popular tool

I have my own opinions about where it's useful and why, but they're just that; opinions.

It's okay for folk to think differently, that is pretty helpful.

Induane··on Uv 0.12.0
At what point is that the case? When a package is built, it's version is determined at that moment from whatever dynamic source, and is then written into the metadata in a static way (or surely could be if for some weird reason it isn't).
Induane··on Htmx 4.0, the first JavaScript library to release exclusively on the Game Boy
I set it to enforce foreign key constraint as well.
Induane··on Htmx 4.0, the first JavaScript library to release exclusively on the Game Boy
That's amazing!
Induane··on Prioritize mental health, and why communication is so important
He has said a lot f things I agree with, and also some stuff that seems intellectually and morally bananas; particularly around gender and sexuality. There was a point something shifted and he took, imo, a darker turn. Maybe it was his wife's illness, his own addiction challenges, or perhaps he was a victim of his own success and lost too much humility.

Probably a combination of those plus factors we aren't privy to.

I don't really know how to take the measure of a man and probably I'm not qualified to. I don't think he was evil though. People are complicated and not at all black and white.

Induane··on A software engineering interview question I like: computing the median
That's a good solution using existing tools, but I usually want it solved in whatever programming language is being tested. Not because command line tools aren't often an underutilized solution but because I am looking for their tendencies. Do they reach for a hashmap? Can they calculate it all in one pass? That kind of thing.

As for the why, it covers a class of issue that does come up; counting like items. Determining the frequency of things is pretty common. I run into variations on the problem a lot, even if word counting is a contrived example.

It also gives a good look at how someone might solve the "like" items - things like punctuation, casefolding, etc... - messing around with strings is something that happens all the time in the real world.

Also I might be tempted dock your shell solution for using cat unnecessarily

tr ' ' '\n' < textfile | sort | uniq -c | sort -r

Or even:

< textfile tr ' ' '\n' | sort | uniq -c | sort -r

Induane··on EVE Online's Carbon engine is now open source: Fenris Creations explains why
Right up there with The Endless Forest.
Induane··on A software engineering interview question I like: computing the median
One interview question I like that's simpler and more applicable is to code a function that outputs the frequency count of each word in a string of text. Bonus for outputting the count in most to least order.
Induane··on CarPlay Is Additive
It is pretty terrible on my Bolt but it's a 2019 so maybe it's just an age thing.
Induane··on CarPlay Is Additive
Haha yea - my dad always had a Prius prior to his civic hybrid. Easily mixed up! Well at least for my dumbass.
Induane··on PeerTube is a free, decentralized and federated video platform
That's the thing; not everything has to be or should be monetized. The thing I miss the most are the funny dumb amateur videos.

There are several YouTube channels I love; Folding Ideas, hbomberguy, Kurtis Conner, Contrapoints, etc... but I see those essentially as semi professional / professional variations on television. Once I got into their content via YouTube, YouTube of course drove me away with horrid vile ads, and I moved on to supporting those creators on Patreon.

And that's all good - the digital medium needs places like YouTube. But that doesn't mean there isn't a huge amount of value in the amateur unmonitized video landscape. Pairing those with some niche phpbb style forums was, for me, the last time I truly enjoyed the experience of actually being on the internet.

Induane··on Libre Barcode Project
You're totally right. I was being facetious; it just seems to be what everyone is saying now and I was playing into that stereotype a bit.

That isn't to say Claude couldn't do it though.

Induane··on CarPlay Is Additive
Ooo they do look badass. Really pretty shape.
Induane··on CarPlay Is Additive
It's funny you mention Toyota, my Dad's 2022 Civic Hybrid is the one I get to witness being buggy garbage pretty much non-stop with CarPlay. Lord don't plug it into the USB port that does data if you're already on wireless Carplay. You might be done until you pull over. I also love the way using speech to reply to a text often resumes the wrong song (seemingly just starts a random song midway through, and multiple times the Joe Rogan Podcast which dad doesn't listen to and is not subscribed to - when this happens it always starts at the same point in the intro).

I don't actually know if the Toyota infotainment setup is to blame though. Since I've never encountered a reasonably stable, glitch free Carplay experience in the last 5 years, I've always just figured "that must be how CarPlay is". I have never owned an iPhone so I only get the cliffnotes version of the experience. But since it's got a 0% track record in that limited viewing, I'm either unlucky, emit magical anti-apple em waves, or am possessed by the soul of Steve Jobs favourite black shirt.

I don't know if the sensitivity to Siri can be turned down, again not an iPhone guy myself, but it bugs me how often we will be talking and suddenly the audio stops and Siri says "I don't know how to help you with that" or something similar. Sometimes we just don't talk so that we don't constantly have Siri interrupting Hardcore History.

Induane··on CarPlay Is Additive
I have the Nothing Phone 3a now, before that, I had all flagship pixels. 0 were not slow. I always figured it had to do with the infotainment centers implementation of the protocols or simply their hardware.

It was always stable for me, just sluggish.

If I had to pick I'd take sluggish over constantly buggy of course. So props there.

The infotainment setup on my Tesla though is golden with only the occasional quirk. After using that, Carplay and Android Auto feel very regressive. A guy I work with has an R2 so I got to tinker with it and I figured it would be comparable but it actually kinda sucked.

Induane··on CarPlay Is Additive
Are there vehicles that support it in a way that isn't buggy? I have a few friends with it and I don't think I've been on a single ride with them without a glitch. Freezing interface, spontaneously jumping to regular Bluetooth, music playing but no actual volume, plugging into usb power causing some kind of mode-shift that makes the screen hang or briefly cease to work, all kinds of nonsense. Also kind of weirdly bad interface I feel (very subjective opinion there, obviously that's not a "fact").

I've only had Android Auto in my own vehicles, and while it hasn't been as buggy, it feels slow. I never use it anymore.

Induane··on Ponytail – make your AI agent think like the laziest senior dev in the room
People often forget how good tablet and mobile datepickers have gotten as well. They may not match your sites weird style exactly, but they'll feel native and handle lots of things like ADA compliance that your crappy custom one likely won't.

"you're" here referring to higher ups not you personally

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