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billyp-rva

542karma·123submissions·November 26, 2024
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The enemy cap all but forces the arena style gameplay. Doom 2016 tried to hide it more, but it still felt very stifling.
11mo ago·view thread
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Yeah, that seems bad. The whole point of the diagram was to explain something better than prose could, and now it is lost. I'm thinking the case were someone can make out the shapes/arrows&#…
11mo ago·view thread
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Would this tell the screen reader to just ignore it? Then you'd lose all accessibility for its content.
11mo ago·view thread
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Accessibility question: how do screen readers handle ascii art-style diagrams like this? It seems like they would be overwhelmed by the lines.
11mo ago·view thread
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> Llm to text to diagram is the killer workflow these days. It's useful, but I think only marginally. When using a diagrams-as-code tool, having an LLM write it for you gets you up and running…
1y ago·view thread
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Well, yeah, obviously. Where you get the millions of dollars to buy those short names isn't so obvious, though.
1y ago·view thread
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Mixing this with a metaphor from earlier: giving a child a credit card is also a floor raiser.
1y ago·view thread
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Thanks for this feedback. I just tried with a trackpad, and was surprised to see pinch gestures were triggering "wheel" (i.e. mouse wheel) events. This wasn't intended behavior, and sho…
1y ago·view thread
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> I think the persistent advice to authors to "do social media" is, at best, part of a strategy that can be generously described as throwing everything at the proverbial wall in the hope …
1y ago·view thread
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There are quite a few tools that offer this model-based approach; you define your resources in a model, then use them in multiple perspectives to show different aspects like you describe. Some, like I…
1y ago·view thread
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Nobody was stopping anyone from making compilers that introduced random different behavior every time you ran them. I think it's telling this didn't catch on.
1y ago·view thread
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Cell phone lines only $30/line when you buy six. What, you don't have a family of six? Weird.
1y ago·view thread
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> And I don’t know anything else that shows git blame for who changed what in my diagram, when. You could do this with any diagrams-as-code tool, no?
1y ago·view thread
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When it's in silhouette you don't know what direction it is facing, technically. I think what's happening is when you see a shot of something flying in front of something prominent (in …
1y ago·view thread
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If this were true, the LLMs would favor male candidates in female-dominated professions.
1y ago·view thread
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> You’d think that, by 2025, technology would have solved the problem of things getting to people. I think it’s the opposite. Social media is optimized to keep people engaged and does not want peop…
1y ago·view thread
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> My environmental concerns were already present using the lightest form of ai assistance (auto-completion) I can all but promise you IDE-powered code autocompletion has no measurable environmental…
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> [T]here are ~basically~ no public benchmarks for security research... nothing that gets at the hard parts of application pentesting for LLMs, which are 1. Navigating a real repository of code too…
1y ago·view thread
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Tangential question: does Medium automatically add emojis to article headings?
1y ago·view thread
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> So, what is a test? To me, a test is a chunk of code... This obviously excludes manual testing, and the author doesn't explain why he is excluding them.
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