nycki

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nycki ,

I had been playing Minecraft back in the Technic modding era, lots of item tubes and machine blocks, and I remember looking at my actual real life washing machine and thinking "I bet I could use a wooden pipe to extract that into the dryer"

nycki ,

Especially slightly angled walls!

nycki ,

I was that kid. Get them a copy of Rhythm Heaven if you can find one, or one of its spiritual successors like Rhythm Doctor.

nycki , (edited )

I use ! to sort to top, and Ω to sort to bottom. So far haven't had any compatibility problems.

For the curious: the use case for this is when you want to reduce nesting but also want a sort of "soft hierarchy" within a folder. I could separate my music folder into albums and playlists, but then I'd have a mostly empty folder, so instead I put both in the same directory and use prefix naming to sort them.

nycki ,

I don't usually "pin to top" or "pin to bottom" but I often have pseudo-folders that use a similar approach, for instance

  • Healthcare
  • Mail
  • Taxes 2020
  • Taxes 2021
  • (etc)
  • Work 2020 (Name of job)
  • Work 2021 (Name of job)
  • (etc)

I know that naming variables is one of the biggest unsolved problems of Computer Science but how would you name a boolean flag to be self explanatory?

What I mean is: some boolean flags are perfect for the real world phenomenon they are representing e.g. is_light_on makes you understand perfectly that when it is true the light is on and when it is false the light is off....

nycki ,

if the states aren't obvious, use an enum with two values, and name them both. Thats what enums are for.

What reading style do you consider more tedious to read, A) short, concise, and precise, but using non-layperson vocabulary, B) using layperson vocabulary, but it's longer, drawn out, and not precise?

I've seen a lot of people on here be teased for difficulty expressing themselves. Either people complain "you're using big person words to describe mundane things" when they're aiming for precision or "woah, we don't need that damn wall of text" when they're aiming for clarity. It's like people just want to complain.

nycki ,

I would much rather learn a new word than slog through a glib deluge.

nycki ,

I have adhd and my idle stim is shifting my weight from one foot to the other. I'm like a living metronome. Drives people crazy.

nycki ,

Take chances, make mistakes, and get messy.

Learning good technique is hard and boring. Solve a problem the wrong way first, and you'll find out what technique improvements are worthwhile.

nycki ,

I know what the headline actually means but i'm choosing to believe that donny just found out about calendars.

nycki ,

why doesn't "one" rhyme with "bone"?

nycki ,

Starting anything from scratch is a huge risk these days. At best you'll have something like the python 2 -> 3 rewrite (leaving scraps of legacy code all over the place), at worst you'll have something like gnome/kde (where the community schisms rather than adopting a new standard). I would say that most of the time, there are only two ways to get a new standard to reach mass adoption.

  1. Retrofit everything. Extend old APIs where possible. Build your new layer on top of https, or javascript, or ascii, or something else that already has widespread adoption. Make a clear upgrade path for old users, but maintain compatibility for as long as possible.

  2. Buy 99% of the market and declare yourself king (cough cough chromium).

nycki OP ,

Answering my own question: I work in web development and my usual value for pi is the standard JavaScript Math.PI. JavaScript uses 64-bit floats, which are accurate to about 15 decimal places. But that's how many digits the computer uses. For practical math, I don't think I've ever needed more than 2 digits of accuracy in an equation involving pi.

nycki OP ,

That's basically my reasoning, yeah. Specifically, in floating point notation; if you get rid of all the mantissa bits, you'd be left with 1 * 2^0. I suppose it could be 0 * 2^0, but a leading 1 is implied, since virtually all numbers are nonzero.

nycki OP ,

But how many digits of the result do you use?

nycki ,

optional autocomplete is a nice-to-have, eager autocomplete is a pain in the ass. as long as it only completes when I ask it to, I don't mind.

nycki ,

Sort of, but only long term. Evolution is slow and climate change is fast.

nycki ,

Google search. I want a way of finding stuff based on everyone's tag suggestions, like a booru, but distributed.

nycki ,

Federated f-list already exists, it's called IRC. Honestly I'd love to see an f-chat to IRC bridging tool, so I can add it to my znc bouncer.

What are your experiences with the Mandela Effect?

See title. For those who don’t know, the Mandela Effect is a phenomenon where a large group of people remember something differently than how it occurred. It’s named after Nelson Mandela because a significant number of people remembered him dying in prison in the 1980s, even though he actually passed away in 2013....

nycki ,

I had some Berenstain Bears books as a kid and I remember noting at the time "huh, weird name but okay". So like, I don't get why people think it was "Berenstein"? It looks wrong, but it's always looked wrong.

nycki , (edited )

pacman and nix are both really neat conceptually but they both fail at the most obvious usability test, which is "I just want to install a package"; its like exiting vim all over again.

edit: yes, I know you can set an alias to pacman -Sy or whatever, but if you need to set up an alias for a command to be usable, then I can't in good faith recommend that OS to anyone, and I don't want to use an OS I wouldn't recommend to others.

nycki ,

I've also seen it as pacman -Sy and pacman -Syu and so on. I really just think "install" should be a subcommand, not a flag. That's really my only issue I guess, I've only ever used pacman via rwfus on steam deck so maybe my usability problem is with that.

nycki ,

My experience with pacman was via rwfus on steam deck. I was coming in as someone with experience with apt, npm, pip, even choco and winget on windows. My expectation from pretty much every other command line tool is that commands are verbs, flags are adverbs. So having to install with "pacman -S" (or is it "pacman -Sy"?) just feels unnecessarily cryptic. Same with "nix-env -iA". I understand that there are some clever internals going on under the hood, but you can have clever internals and sane defaults. For instance, "npm install foo" both downloads the package to node_modules and updates package.json for me, so I can see what change was made to my environment. Nix should do that.

nycki ,

Where I live, we drive on the right, but pass on the left, so I do that. For stationary or oncoming obstacles, go right; for passing things moving the same direction as me, go left.

nycki ,

oooh, wiby got a .org? nice.

I don't know about self-hosted search yet, but I think that's one place where federation might actually be a feature and not overhead.

nycki ,

If you're gonna dismiss it like that then I'd love to hear what your pain points are. What's so bad about containers for multi-platform applications?

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