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1 points·by vandyswa·il y a 29 jours·0 comments

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vandyswa
·il y a 29 jours·discuss
He has issues with AI dev policies. Personally, I forked at 5.7 due to bloat. Each of us has our red line, apparently.
vandyswa
·il y a 2 mois·discuss
What's a waveform box and how does one select it?
vandyswa
·il y a 3 mois·discuss
Here in the Seattle area ferry schedules can matter. I cooked up this webapp, 4.5k bytes to load the front page, another 1/2k per destination you query.

Web technologies call out to the minimalist in me, but I appear to be in the minority.
vandyswa
·il y a 4 mois·discuss
When I wrote the login program for my VSTa microkernel, I took a page from the CDC side of the world--it echoes a _random_ (but small, non-zero) number of *'s. So you get feedback, but indeed peering over your shoulder will not disclose password length.

And yes, it remember how many it echoes so backspace works correctly.
vandyswa
·il y a 4 mois·discuss
Same motivation, different generation. I carry my own fork of vim 5.7, from around 2000. It did what I needed, and did it well, and I could already see where it was going.

SMH at what I see in it now!
vandyswa
·il y a 7 mois·discuss
Yes, I'm glad to see a comment on Prolog. I think of it as _the_ foundational programming language for solving such problems. It isn't so much that it's a back propagation language; it's just that, based on which variables are bound at a given point, it will go forward deductively, or backwards inductively.
vandyswa
·il y a 7 mois·discuss
To me, it feels like most feed readers are made by people who don't use RSS, and just exercise their feed reader on a few feeds. I seem to be at 211 feeds with (currently) 13,000 cached entries, organized across a couple dozen categories.

A reader where you'll click into the body under a headline only 1-5% of the time is a totally different beast.
vandyswa
·il y a 9 mois·discuss
With Amazon layoff blood running in the gutters today, I'm sure their PR people shook the tree to get something nice to drop onto the interwebitudes.
vandyswa
·il y a 9 mois·discuss
A solid starting point, but it's easy to lose sight of the other critical part of the puzzle--integrity of the voting rolls. High quality vote tabulation needs to start from voters, where _only_ legitimate voters vote, and each only votes (at most) once, after which yes, their vote is accurately tabulated.
vandyswa
·il y a 4 ans·discuss
I converted a van to an RV, and now we stay in RV sites. Never going back to AirBNB/VRBO/Hotels! I know, useless for international travel, but within the USA it has become--by far--the most congenial option.