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grenoire

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Bourgeoisie spy.
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grenoire··on The Brilliance of “nil” in Objective-C
After starting using Option<T>, no implementation of null is 'brilliant' any more. Not that any one of them ever was.
grenoire··on The candy stores of Oxford Street
This is it in Amsterdam too, from souvenir shops stocking plastic garbage to stores full of phone accessories. It's known that these are all fronts, and somehow managed to survive the series of lockdowns. It's the big city alternative to cash-heavy biz like car washes or laundromats.
grenoire··on Pupils Reveal ‘Aphantasia’ – The Absence of Visual Imagination
I think of two different types of minds in this case, 'functional' and 'stateful.' Functional (like functional programming) minds do not use recall much, but instead build tools to react to situations. Stateful (with reactions in storage already) minds are good at recall and can react to known scenarios with greater precision.

I feel like you describe a functional one.

grenoire··on Bad but interesting mathematical notation idea
My initial reaction was akin to one of the top level comments: These aren't the same, what a silly question!

But as I read through the answers with people simply entertaining it (in a very literal manner), I found myself really questioning it as well. It's odd how different disciplines approach seriousness in their ways.

grenoire··on How a film camera superimposes the date onto photos [video]
I suggest obtaining a copy of Windows 10 LTSC, much better stability and no mandatory updates/forced reboots. Might make it a bit more reliable.
grenoire··on Psychedelic frees up depressed brain, study shows
As this area was gaining legitimacy in the late 70s, Reagan and the War on Drugs happened, which made legally obtaining the substances difficult, and research funding dried out.
grenoire··on Michelle Yeoh, martial arts and the multiverse: inside the year’s wildest movie
Did you watch the movie..?
grenoire··on Welcome to 'Le Monde' in English
Currently Le Monde diplomatique (https://mondediplo.com/) is the only world news I'm reading, it's always a joy to get it in the mail, and I really appreciate the quality of journalism and analyses.
grenoire··on 'Freeze-thaw battery' stores electricity long-term for seasonal release
In Amsterdam, the botanical gardens and Hermitage Amsterdam exchange heat in that sort of mutually beneficial way, https://www.cultureelerfgoed.nl/onderwerpen/praktijkvoorbeel....
grenoire··on Elon Musk to join Twitter’s board of directors
thank you Papa Musk for the edit button <3
grenoire··on What happens if you try to download and install Firefox on Windows
Sorry, forgot to respond: IoT has a longer official support duration, i.e. it'll get updates for an additional 5 years for a total of 10 years.
grenoire··on One App – Two Worlds: This Is TikTok in Russia and Ukraine
The article indeed shows that certain Ukrainian tiktoks are not available to the Russian geolocated IPs.
grenoire··on What happens if you try to download and install Firefox on Windows
Most features are simply disabled by default but can be toggled. You can bloat it all the way up to a regular Windows 10 installation.
grenoire··on What happens if you try to download and install Firefox on Windows
You can obtain (in your preferred way) a copy of Windows 10 LTSC (IoT optional). I run it, and can develop, do administrative work, play games, and more. I have not had any issues with it. I think there's some littered telemetry but man, I just deal with it.
grenoire··on What is money, anyway?
Less so illegitimacy but simply showing that you're a member of the underworld. Even if you stole the coin, you still know it's tender.
grenoire··on I let a baby bird nest in my hair for 84 days
Article hotlinks a video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fgiMlnbDN6I
grenoire··on Ask HN: Does anyone else question USB-C as an “improvement”?
I like the lightning connector for this reason, it has the reversibility of USB-C while not suffering from a terrible lack of structural integrity. I can pinch the damn thing into a pancake, so weak!
grenoire··on Study show that people think that data analysts and accountants are boring
Read the abstract: Data analysts, not data analytics. The persons interested in these seem to have boring traits.
grenoire··on Plain Text Sports
Removed <head> and added font-family: monospace to the <body>. It's definitely not plaintext.
grenoire··on Don't ask to ask, just ask (2019)
Please follow up with MAIL, RCPT and DATA after your HELOs to me.
grenoire··on Custom JavaScript controls can't capture the nuance of form fields (2021)
The browser date pickers will always return YYYY-MM-DD to your server when they send a request. What's exposed to the user is usually localised. This is the behaviour you want.
grenoire··on Product design course
I can vouch for the Design of Everyday Things too (granted I got the advice from another HN post). It's a brilliant book that exposes you to some of the common pitfalls of product design and gives you many mental frameworks to work with to embrace your designs' shortcomings and, most importantly, address them.
grenoire··on WebGL 2.0 Achieves Pervasive Support from All Major Web Browsers
87-88%, what's your point?
grenoire··on Adobe XD, where did it go wrong?
Less fluff more buff is something I experience in a variety of products, and the one I interact with a lot on a daily basis (a cloud accounting tool) has this exact problem.

I was just thinking, as a part of the compensation issues of PMs (release feature, get promoted), are we killing the 'back end' teams in favour of 'front end' teams, because they are more visible?

It seems like requests on core and productivity improvement/power user features are always just forgotten about. Not because they're 'harder to implement' or whatever, but because back end doesn't get the resource and manpower they need?

grenoire··on Inkscape 1.1.2
Oh, that's a fun one; my document property tab disappeared once and I wasn't able to retrieve it. I don't know if that was when I started having issues, but no amount of reboots without the document property tab felt like it fixed it for me.
grenoire··on Inkscape 1.1.2
Affinity seems like it doesn't have some of the more precise layout tools and SVG-editing capabilities that Inkscape does.

I took the trial after seeing people suggest it as an alternative, but it didn't quite replace my workflow and I ended up dropping it.

grenoire··on Inkscape 1.1.2
I am having some serious slowdown issues since 1.* on Win 10, so I'm stuck on 0.92.

I have no qualms with it, but the issue plagues all my Win 10 machines and I just wonder what's going on, and if I'm a select minority with it.

Besides that, thanks Inkscape for being such an incredibly useful vector tool!

grenoire··on Apple will charge 27% commission for alternative payment systems in Netherlands
Does that mean I can buy my app into the rankings by paying more in commission?
grenoire··on Apple will charge 27% commission for alternative payment systems in Netherlands
Apple is basically a local tax authority now. For the... Apple tax, y'know?
grenoire··on Why are mathematicians so bad at arithmetic? (2017)
Oh, you computer scientists!
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