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SpikeMeister··on I quit. The clankers won
To play devils advocate, do the technical requirements even matter in that case if nobody can tell they aren’t being met?

It’s short term thinking IMO, but it’s my interpretation of the argument AI proponents are making.

SpikeMeister··on 'Extraordinary Discovery' at Orkney's Ness of Brodgar Neolithic Site
As a fan of Time Team, that's very cynical.

Time Team is a good citizen of the archeological community. It has real professional archaeologists with academic credentials, not just entertainers.

It's funded via Patreon these days and is on YouTube, not TV, so ratings aren't as much of a concern.

Blame the media for the breathless hype if you like, they are the ones benefiting from the clicks here.

SpikeMeister··on What the hell have you built
Fair, the author's point would have been stronger if the page was made using just static HTML/CSS.

But I have to defend Tailwind, it's not a massive CSS framework, it just generates CSS utility classes. Only the utility classes you use end up in the output CSS.

SpikeMeister··on Do cookie-free analytics need cookie banners?
The article claims that loading JavaScript that sends back information comes under the ePDs definition of accessing stored data:

> So sending out JavaScript code that instructs the terminal equipment to send back information is… accessing the information.

SpikeMeister··on How Discord stores trillions of messages (2023)
While it’s true that messages are read more, reading can be cached so not every read necessarily results in a DB call.
SpikeMeister··on Netflix never used its $1M algorithm (2012)
That is incorrect. The PS5 disc version was available at launch. The recent refresh has an optional disc accessory.
SpikeMeister··on Ask HN: Why does Apple refuse to add window snapping to macOS?
I don’t have the same experience. Is your mouse sensitivity turned up very high?
SpikeMeister··on Learn how to unleash the full potential of the type system of TypeScript
If you stick to a few useful types like `Option` and `Either`/`TaskEither` you can get a lot of value out of it when writing server side code, particularly when combined with `io-ts` for safely parsing data.

If you go all in and use every utility it provides to write super succint FP code, it can get pretty unreadable.

SpikeMeister··on What's TypeScript compiling? Use a treemap to find out
I've used this one: https://eslint.org/docs/latest/rules/no-restricted-imports
SpikeMeister··on Meta is raising the price of the Quest 2 to 400 USD
There's smooth movement and smooth turning options for most games, including Alyx.
SpikeMeister··on How to professionally say
Yup. Originals: https://vm.tiktok.com/ZMLGoHyTy/
SpikeMeister··on In defense of simple architectures
TechEmpower has benchmarks for different web stacks: https://www.techempower.com/benchmarks/
SpikeMeister··on Why interruptions are frustrating to developers
There's an extension called Clockwise that does this for Google Calendar. It hugely improved productivity in my team.

https://www.getclockwise.com/

SpikeMeister··on Stop Swiss Cheesing your calendar
+1 for Clockwise, it does a great job of automating this. It easily doubled my team's work time ("focus time" in Clockwise).

It also has useful preferences like "prefer morning/afternoon", "no meeting days", which it takes into account when scheduling.

I can't say enough good things about it. It's free at first but I would pay almost any money to keep it, the value of the extra time it gives you is enormous.

SpikeMeister··on TypeScript support in Electron
If you continue to use Electron from JavaScript this changes nothing for you. You might get more helpful intellisense if you use vscode, that's all.
SpikeMeister··on Motherfucking Website
I read this entire post in Samuel L. Jackson's voice from Pulp Fiction. I think that's what the writer was going for.
SpikeMeister··on Light Table 0.5.0
Perhaps ctrl+pgup and ctrl+pgdn for switching tabs as well? It's a common shortcut in most tabbed interfaces.
SpikeMeister··on Git Tips And Workflows
http://gitimmersion.com/ - This is a lab taking you through everything. I found it very helpful when introducing Git to my team mates who had little to no experience with source control.

It's a bit light on concepts but is fairly practical.

SpikeMeister··on Bringing Bash's powerful command line editing to Microsoft Windows' cmd.exe
I have the same problem.
SpikeMeister··on Final thoughts on Windows 8: A design disaster
In the release preview it's minimised by default.
SpikeMeister··on Vim: Buffers, Windows, and Tabs
I found it very helpful.