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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨"Useless syntax sugar": Numbered block parameters in Ruby⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m glad it doesnt.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Which software do you mostly use for programming, and why?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Git, probably

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Fediverse should do what redditors have always wanted and Reddit Inc. has always refused to do; Distinguish between NSFW and NSFL.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Good idea. Unfortunately this depends on self-regulation.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Fediverse should do what redditors have always wanted and Reddit Inc. has always refused to do; Distinguish between NSFW and NSFL.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  This and also

  • politics or religious
  • dull stuff like sports

  By “porn”, I suppose you mean nudity?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Which programming language is hard to understand?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Please clarify, OP, did you mean

  • hard to read semantically
  • hard to read syntactically
  • hard to relate how one could come with such a crappy idea, even considering all constraints of their time
  • takes a lot brain real estate (justified or not)

  ?

• Dotfiles matterdotfiles-matter.click ↗
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• ‘Who Benefits?’ Inside the EU’s Fight over Scanning for Child Sex Contentbalkaninsight.com ↗
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• Gleam Release 0.31gleam.run ↗
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• It's time to let go, Apache Software Foundationrocket9labs.com ↗
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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Monitor Alignment Alignment Chart⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  What about square screens?

  inb4 chaotic neckpain

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨When a Programmer Holds the Code Hostage: The costs of a policy of appeasement⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Indeed. Makes it more work to filter the handful of good or even great articles from the 99.99% that use this platform for its apparent ease of money grubbing.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Java 21 makes me actually like Java again⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  It’ll probably take Valhalla for me, personally.

• An Introduction to Interpreters and JIT Compilationstefan-marr.de ↗
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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Which side are you? Javascript or Typescript⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  but I could see it being a good step forward for more meaningful features to be added in the future.

  I think you are right. And that is unfortunate.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Which side are you? Javascript or Typescript⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  My bad, I’m not deep enough into our frontend stack to realize Hjeilsberg already did what he does best - ruining enums. (I guess he is not to blame for global imports in c#, so i can not add ‘questionable import module/namespace ideas’.)

  And it seems like this proposal contains type declarations, among other typescript specific things. So, guess it is option B, then.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Which side are you? Javascript or Typescript⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s not a positive, though.

  Depending on how it pans out, it’s either not useful enough. Who the hell doesn’t use namespaces or enums. Or - as

  These constructs are not in the scope of this proposal, but could be added by separate TC39 proposals.

  implies - a door opener to outsource TypeScripts problem unto other peoples and not to investing into improving WebAssembly. That’s just MS being lazy and making their problems other peoples problems.

  I feel like this would be the ideal scenario: things working right out of the box without needing a compile step or additional tooling.

  It’s just annotations. No proposed semantics of a type system which your browser could check on its own.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Tabs are objectively better than spaces - gomakethings.com⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I sure hope so, but I’m not overly optimistic tbh. The market is basically considered medical, therapeutic devices. It is as you imagine, probably worse. It isn’t easy to find prices directly, but the only way this range of vendors continues to exist in this niche market is to sell devices with the complexity of a keyboard for four to five digits. There is no competition worth talking about happening.

  So unless very specific regulation takes place, I don’t see standardized access to braille displays happening.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Tabs are objectively better than spaces - gomakethings.com⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Right, that is another item I wished more editors would have picked up.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Tabs are objectively better than spaces - gomakethings.com⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Original poster is right by all accounts, of course. Now, let’s come up with exotic significant indentations.

  function xyz(a, b):
  |   var x = 2
  
  |   if true:
  |   |   do_something()
  |   else:
  |   |   do_something_else()
  
  |   anyway()
  

  Pro: Your editor no longer needs to implement indentation hints.

  Con: Looks obstructive if not highlighted like an indentation hint.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Tabs are objectively better than spaces - gomakethings.com⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  That reminds me of those times when back on reddit some dev showed up to present their new GUI library. Bragging about how they were better than Qt devs etc. (even though they didn’t implement the hard parts, like working text fields or tables)

  After some time a bunch of people had enough and started bullying those guys into submission about accessibility. After some time, every of those toolkits had support or at least plans for supporting screenreaders. Eventually, AccessKit became a thing.

  Good times.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Tabs are objectively better than spaces - gomakethings.com⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Of course, I might be overestimating how easy it is to get better braille oriented editors

  A braille display traditionally is a personal, almost handfitted (estimated by price) device controlled by its screen reader software. Not the editor. This has some unfortunate implications:

  • There is no (standardized) API to control your braille device directly. You could hand your screenreader filtered data, but that would be read as well. At best, you might be able to script your screen reader software to a varying degree of success. However:
    • Every aspect about this is extremely abysmal in every possible way, so it will likely require you to fork over some biiiiig amount of cash to one of the vendors to provide a brittle plugin. In particular if we are talking about JAWS. Think of extremely unstandardized COBOL dev with less stability and more price gauging involved.
    • As far as free readers are involved, only the proprietary and licensing aspect go away. Still, developing extensions is terrible in many ways. For example, for ORCA, I was able to find out that you can extend it somehow. Alledgedly. NVDA on the other hand has better documentation. That is to say, it has documentation. Now, you might recall that NVDA is written mostly in Python, and its devs rightly don’t even pretend that one could develop stable software in Python, so APIs might change. However, I wasn’t able to find a Filter function specific to braille output. That’s likely because
  • From my superficial experience, developers of screen readers think of braille displays mostly as an alternative to speech. It even took them quite a while to be smart about not displaying redundant, long lines of text.

  So yes, you might be overestimating how easy that is, compared to telling some diva asswipe chucklefuck to use that formatter or work at McDolans.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Actual state of Wayland-support for JavaFX?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  User Skull giver mentioned wiki.openjdk.org/display/…/Work+breakdown, so it seems to be WIP.

• Actual state of Wayland-support for JavaFX?
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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What helps people get comfortable on the command line?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s not exactly clear to me who is supposed to be more comfortable.

  Anyhow:

  • Avoid commands that require their own DSL. Most DSLs are ad hoc garbage, in particular when it comes to UX and UI design.
• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Xdebug with PHP is a lifesaver⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Just wait until you learn that debuggers for XSLT exists. Wait, that’s no reason to smile.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Writing C++ is easy.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Perl is panel 1, except it’s missingno. doing the talking.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Writing C++ is easy.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  So that’s what inspired Vigil…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Writing C++ is easy.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  How compiler builders see peppa:

  even number of nostrils

  Missed opportunity.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Using BigInteger and BigDecimal only?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Thanks, that doesn’t sound so bad.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Using BigInteger and BigDecimal only?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Interesting. Is there a way to set a limit to the size of individual instances?