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iopqon Lifelong Disadvantage: How Socioeconomics Affect Brain Function

I grew up in a family who couldn't afford coffee so we drank roasted barley for years. But then we moved to the US and my family became middle class. I'm fairly well-off now, but I'm not sure if I was advantaged by being an immigrant or not.

iopqon 20 Years in the Making, GnuCOBOL Is Ready for Industry

And some of those programmers are quite lively for being in their 70s!

iopqon Cloudflare loses 22% of its domains in Freenom .tk shutdown

I applied for a domain at nic.eu.org in 2023 and I have never gotten a response

iopqon Cloudflare loses 22% of its domains in Freenom .tk shutdown

Because they send controlled substances to the US and falsely label them as "supplements"

I know, because I bought RX stuff from India and it did not get labelled as medication

iopqon The Montreal problem: Why programming languages need a style czar

So you don't somehow end up with mismatched curly braces?

I might paste something, but mess up and forget to select one of the curly braces or select too many. I am seriously considering closing all of them on the same line in this style

    if blah {
        thing; }

iopqon Dada, an experimental new programming language

I've never needed accurate fractions, except for one case where I should have stored the width and the height of the image as the original figures instead of trying to represent it as a fraction. But that's not a big issue, there's literally no downside to having width and height of the image as integers.

I see no reason why I would need to represent it as an accurate fraction instead of two numbers, even if I divide it later I can always just do that inaccurately since the exact aspect ratio doesn't matter for resizing images (<1% error won't affect the final result)

iopqon Dada, an experimental new programming language

If only it played well with Linux, but Mono is always playing catch-up

iopqon Dada, an experimental new programming language

I had a coworker who wrote

    return 
        { ... }

And JS helpfully inserted a semi-colon after return

This is a feature you need to know about and you have to go out of your way not to get rekt by it

iopqon Dada, an experimental new programming language

The @blah references were actually just Arc sugar

iopqon Dada, an experimental new programming language

@gc references were Arc under the hood!

iopqon Dada, an experimental new programming language

Just require it for public functions. Your own code can be as messy as you want unser the hood

iopqon Dada, an experimental new programming language

I don't know why you think it implies reals. Most people would assume BigDecimal

iopqon Things You Should Never Do, Part I (2000)

Surely you jest, nobody writes a full shopping platform by themselves in a year, yet I read it and deleted all the old code that we didn't need.

iopqon Things You Should Never Do, Part I (2000)

PHP, so some of it was JS and some HTML

iopqon "Dune" and the delicate art of making fictional languages

Yes, but they are categorized by phonetic mergers and splits. Once you understand which vowels tend to merge with each other (like the back vowels), it's not so hard

iopqon "Dune" and the delicate art of making fictional languages

The most difficult ones are Scottish and Irish English, but they split earlier with some sound changes happening in the south of England in the 1600s that didn't happen in the north.

Standard Southern English and Standard American are mutually intelligible, modulo local slang

iopqon "Dune" and the delicate art of making fictional languages

Yes, but they are perfectly understandable.

Compare to Chinese, where dialects that separated a few hundred years ago are not mutually intelligible. I mean like, different Hakka dialects that arose two hundred years ago are not understandable to each other.

1800s English is Pride and Prejudice, Frankenstein, etc. Imagine the language changed so much you can't understand any of it

iopqon Things You Should Never Do, Part I (2000)

I've read every line of a 300,000 line web application in less than a year working at a company. I doubt I could write that many lines of code in that amount of time.

iopqon Why jalapeño peppers are less spicy (2023)

They are bitter, and not in a tasty way, but in an overpowering gross way

iopqon Bard is now Gemini, and we’re rolling out a mobile app and Gemini Advanced

I would rather name it the 2020-27in-QHD-IPS-144Hz

iopqon Bard is now Gemini, and we’re rolling out a mobile app and Gemini Advanced

So does it trade Bitcoin or something?

iopqon Bard is now Gemini, and we’re rolling out a mobile app and Gemini Advanced

A math major named this monitor:

https://www.viewsonic.com/eu/products/sheet/VX2758-2KP-MHD

iopqon Bard is now Gemini, and we’re rolling out a mobile app and Gemini Advanced

https://www.apple.com/apple-tv-app/

Apple TV (app) gives access to Apple TV+ (streaming service)

iopqon As solar capacity grows, duck curves are getting deeper in California

Yes, that's true for the average, but doesn't affect the median, which is basically exactly equal.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/State_tax_levels_in_the_United...

if you look at taxes, it depends on what kind of taxes you count, for example North Dakota's severance taxes makes it rank #1 in the nation, but it's from drilling for oil/gas

But if you look at the highest state spending per capita

https://www.kff.org/other/state-indicator/per-capita-state-s...

#1 is DC, so it's the "richest state" even though it's not a real state, with #2 Alaska spending the most per each resident of which there are not much

The conclusion is that California in reality doesn't spend the most on its residents

iopqon The right way to sauce pasta (2016)

There's still cleanup for Uber eats, unless you want splatters and garbage everywhere. I find unwrapping stuff and setting on the table takes time too.

Looking for good restaurants also takes time, sometimes I start doing an order and find out the Italian restaurant doesn't have the pasta or sauce I want and have to restart my search.

Also, note that you shouldn't heat up ANY kind of plastic components in the microwave. They are not "microwave safe" since they release the plastics into the food anyway. If I have to transfer to another plate and heat it up, there goes the clean-up time argument, I have to wash that dish later

iopqon Implementing a ChatGPT-like LLM from scratch, step by step

To code from scratch you should first fab your own semiconductors

iopqon As solar capacity grows, duck curves are getting deeper in California

Except for 70th percentile and below down to the 40th percentile

iopqon As solar capacity grows, duck curves are getting deeper in California

No, insurance is against things that didn't happen yet that are out of your control.

You can't just buy fire insurance when your house is burning down, so you shouldn't be able to have "electricity insurance" when you buy a far away house

The postal service is necessary to do things like send you IRS communications, drivers licenses, jury duty, etc.

When the government no longer uses paper to communicate with people we can talk about privatizing the postal service

iopqon As solar capacity grows, duck curves are getting deeper in California

My dad has holes under the window for the water to roll off when you clean it. Those holes let in cold and hot air readily. He doesn't even wash the windows. It's a really bad design for what you're saying