justwalt

If this app took off then I'm sure this would be the eventual reality.

It's one thing if it's your laptop, but another if it's a system with billions of users.

That seems a bit drastic!!

I think Fortnite uses a projectile bullet model while Call of Duty is all hitscan, but I could be mistaken. It’s been years since I played a CoD game.

Lazy? Unclear?

I would imagine it takes much more work to design something skeuomorphically than it would something flat. And clarity is the top priority - you should instantly know what the thing does upon seeing it.

This title was very hard for me to parse. I think I reread it almost ten times.

I’m sure Bezos would feel bad for anyone’s death in this case.

I do the same thing and it’s great. You don’t lose an hour of sleep in the spring.

This is completely tangential to your point, but why did you choose to use “she” as the pronoun in your last sentence? I see this more and more frequently, and I assume it has something to do with being more inclusive (so as not to imply only a man could be the subject), but I don’t want to assume. Why not use “they” instead?

A 144hz monitor makes a huge difference. It will cut the inherent max latency of a display frame from 16ms to 6ms. They feel amazing.

Right. It’s been a bit frustrating to see this in Gnome, but at least I can use another theme to shrink things back down a bit.

A bot that doesn’t use the official registration method, which involves setting up an “application,” registering the bot, and then inviting it to your server. This labels it clearly as a bot. A user bot just looks like a user, and also has no restrictions.

I can't stand sugar in savory foods. I had a friend tell me a handy tip at Thai restaurants is to ask for your food made with no sugar, so I tried it at my favorite place. The college student waiter got a wide eyed look on his face and lowered his voice to say "can't do that, and it's in _everything_."

It sucks that this is as commonplace as it is.

Good thinking, someone like that is permanently tainted.

Walking does a surprising amount of good for fitness too, if you can do enough of it. When I worked in a grocery store I was in great shape.

The things have wifi and Bluetooth. Why couldn’t someone write a multiplayer game for the playdate?

Don’t the new M1 macs still have 2 thunderbolt buses, even if they only have 2 ports? So with an adapter they’d be the same as the 4 port counterparts.

Why do you think that most modern software should be written in a GC language?

What skills are those, and do you know where I could read about them?

If we assume that the average gas tank is half full, and then a large number of people decide to top off their tanks, that could be a huge amount of fuel, right?

I think that’s a really cynical way to look at it, especially when the explanations are public. People can explain things to others without there being a hidden power dynamic.

Great post. As a man in my twenties, I think that, even though we’re hearing about this from the men at the bottom end of the sexual-success spectrum, the problem is still being felt by average men as well. Many of my friends have complained about how dating these days feels like women are always holding out for the next best thing, and I have to agree with them.

A female friend of mine echoed a bit of the sentiment that a few of my friends had theorized was at least partly to blame, and that’s that she felt like had too much choice and was getting too much attention. She felt like her ego was being inflated in a way that was unhealthy, and so she turned away from online dating and eventually met her fiancé through mutual friends.

I wish I had some actionable advice to give along with this anecdote, but I’m still stuck in the dating game myself.

It's a common theme in posts from ESL programmers that they learned English as they needed while learning to program. I can't help but think that removing that necessity would allow more people who don't speak English to learn to code. It's hard for me to see that as a bad thing.

This is a nice feature that I often wish every text editor supported natively.

This was my understanding as well, at least for the majority of memory related tasks.

Edit: actually, it would help if I read the actual quote in your post. I think they’re right in saying that those things are checked at runtime in Rust, though I could be mistaken.

I can’t think of a single benefit of doing this. What made you come to this conclusion?

It’s rare that an analogy is so easy to understand while remaining highly accurate. Nice.

When I started using a Mac for work, the fact that so much functionality which is available free on Linux was now locked behind a paywall in the App Store was frustrating.

Hammerspoon gave me basically all of it back, in a scriptable form which makes it much better suited to what I want. It’s truly great software.

For me, that’s a stronger point. Nicely said.

I’m a millennial, and that is hard to imagine. Though, some of my favorite coding exercises have been writing something for which there already exists a library, so I’d probably have learned a lot more of nitty gritty details if I had grown up in that kind of environment.