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> You can't build a modal with Rails.

I must've dreamed up the dozens of times I did.

Unless you mean you still need JS to build the modal, which is true but I doubt GP was implying that you shouldn't use JS whatsoever. You don't need a SPA to build a modal.

You've got a point. I was mostly thinking about the "copy-pasting into the REPL" argument, which is a problem unique to executable code, at least in my experience.

Thank you for your hard work making my favorite programming language even better.

I completely agree with all your points on significant whitespace for programming languages. Where I think it makes a lot more sense though is for structured static data. My quality of live would be worsened without the likes of Haml, Sass and YAML.

Is there such a thing as nostalgia for the future? Because I'm sure I experience it just as much as for the past, especially with how much the world changes decade to decade in current times, it's just too interesting to watch.

I have nothing of value to add, but I'm confused as to why HN didn't find this more interesting.

There's something about this style of portraits that makes the people in them feel so much closer and more real to me than, say, a Greek statue.

I also appreciate all the extra detail that can be seen in these and not so much in other mediums, like hairstyles, jewelry, etc.

I'm particularly impressed by the last picture in the article, the technique and detail on that one are outstanding.

I've been using Ardour to edit a podcast for about 5 years now and it's been great. After setting some custom keybindings I ended up with a fairly optimized workflow, especially with the ability to edit at 1.5x playback speed, which not many other DAWs can do apparently.

It's not without its few glitches and occasional crashes, but it doesn't happen often enough to become big problem for me. I've been happily donating monthly to the project.

Sounds appropriate given that Ruby already does all its major releases on Christmas day, considering Crystal's close relationship with Ruby.

> to sue for free

Typo of freudian slip?

Just kidding of course, nice project!

Neocities hosts only static HTML, just like the original Geocities before it.

Somewhat relevant Perry Bible Fellowship: https://pbfcomics.com/comics/now-showing/

What a tremendous loss for the world. RIP Mr. Kim :(

  .banners(id="top-banner", title="Your ad here")

Minor correction: the comma there isn't valid Haml syntax, when you use parenthesis for attributes it expects the same format as inside a regular HTML tag (i.e. attributes separated by whitespace).

But you can also rewrite that as:

  #top-banner.banners(title="Your ad here")

> Are there any editors which lay out comments on the side of the code?

I've seen that done for read-only code readers, Backbone.js' annotated source code [1] comes to mind, but I wonder how that would work for the editing portion of an editor.

[1] https://backbonejs.org/docs/backbone.html

> Or perhaps one that toggles their visibility?

Vim has code folding ability, which you can set up to apply to comments. I'm sure this isn't exclusive to Vim though.

> We're likely inside an inescapable but observable simulation, inside a simulation, repeat for any unknown number of times. That's probably how "the universe" (our universe) began.

That's just deferring the question. If we're a simulation inside a larger universe, then how did that universe begin? Although I'd argue if we're in a simulation then we're still a part of the host universe, even if kept in isolation, and it's that host universe we should ultimately care about when asking the big questions.

While it's true modern-day South Koreans don't use Chinese characters (hanja [1]) at all in their day-to-day life, there are still a few places where they show up, as it was the most common writing system in Korean up to the late 19th century. Most notably, most Korean names can be written in hanja and almost all Koreans know how to write their own name that way at least. South Korean kids also study hanja at high school to some extent.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanja

I'd be very interested in watching a live time-limited code golf competition, but after a cursory search I couldn't find anything. I guess it's too niche of a sport still.

Humans are perfectly capable of driving on racing simulators using a flat screen though, where binocular vision makes no difference.

And Tesla cars have more than one camera on them. The front-facing camera is actually an array of 3 cameras (the two farthest ones are at about human eyes distance), but they're also equipped with forward and rearward looking side cameras, and back cameras.

I think Tesla underestimated how hard vision-only FSD is, but having a single camera (they don't) is not the reason.

The top two [1][2] of the "missing gems" list have already been added to Wiktionary, probably as a result of this being posted to HN, since those entries were created today (30th) and the article is dated to two days ago.

[1] https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/shitrag

[2] https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/assbag

Although I've seen pretty much all of your videos, I'm ashamed to say I couldn't remember your name, so I googled "Andrew Magill" expecting your face to pop up.

I'm fairly sure Tito comes from "autito", the diminutive form of auto (car), and Tita from "camionetita" (camioneta; truck). If I'm right about that then a Tite model is unlikely as it would break the logic.

Elon Musk left the board of OpenAI in 2018.

> The sea grass is comprised of individual plants that are each of identical DNA, ie they are clones. Does this and their proximity and continuity make them one organism?

Probably. The top paragraphs in [1] talk about precisely that.

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

Surely it's true for every unsigned 64-bit integer.

> The games have no ads, no dark patterns and require no registration. They just work, on both mobile and desktop.

Except for mobile support, WebLiero [1] matches those criteria. It's a multiplayer clone of a DOS classic indie game (Liero). It requires getting familiar with controls and other players to be online to play though.

Full disclosure: I'm a contributor.

[1] https://www.webliero.com

id Software has a history of releasing the source code to their engines ~4 years after their initial commercial release:

Doom released in 1993, its engine was open-sourced in 1997 (4 years).

Quake released in 1996, its engine was OSS'd in 1999 (3 years).

Quake II released in 1997, OSS'd in 2001 (4 years).

Quake III released in 1999, OSS'd in 2005 (6 years).

Sure, in most those cases they were at least 2 generations of their own tech ahead when releasing source code, but considering how they were at the cutting edge of game development at the time, arguably those engines still held considerable value at the time and far from worthless.

I see, your README actually says that but I just skimmed over it and went by the HN title, my bad. Cool project BTW!

I feel there's a lost opportunity in not naming this project Emosaic or even Mojaic.

Not sure if videogames count as they tend to contain a lot more snark by their nature, but I like how the easiest mode in the Wolfenstein series is called "Can I play, Daddy?".

I was curious about Disasterpeace's music, but had trouble finding it because you used the original spelling of the word instead of the artist's wordplay (I don't blame you, it's definitely hard to remember). Thought I'd comment in case anyone else is curious.