I can't think of an instance of the web contracting like that. Maybe when Apple decided not to support Adobe Flash.
Arguably XSLT
Readit Newsfireflies_ commented on Fabrice Bellard Releases MicroQuickJS github.com/bellard/mquick... · Posted by u/Aissen
fireflies_ commented on How to have the browser pick a contrasting color in CSS webkit.org/blog/16929/con... · Posted by u/Kerrick
I’ve never seen any CSS function that has this call back style where you get parameters that you can modify. So interesting! Are there any other examples of this or is this unique to lch?
This is "relative color" syntax, it works with a range of color spaces/color functions. The key is the "from" at the front. Here's the MDN documentation: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/CSS_colors/...
fireflies_ commented on Preferring throwaway code over design docs softwaredoug.com/blog/202... · Posted by u/softwaredoug
I’ve had to ship the draft a few times in my career. Usually when the actual code would have been weeks or months more of work (draft has poor architecture, while a proper architecture would have been just as much work as the draft). Twice it was due to showing a demo and a decision maker in the audience said “we can sell this tomorrow” or something to the same effect for that org. In one case, we ran a simple a/b test as a proof of concept on whether to pursue the idea further and it added an extra million bucks a year in revenue. Nobody wanted to wait for a proper implementation. All that code is still in production, slow as shit and nobody wants to fix something that isn’t broken.
If you have a draft, keep it to yourself. Use it as a personal reference when writing the design, or share snippets. Other engineers will realize you have a draft, business people won’t.
> In one case, we ran a simple a/b test as a proof of concept on whether to pursue the idea further and it added an extra million bucks a year in revenue.
I'm with the people who decided to ship this. The organization will need to fund more maintenance than they would if they waited, but that has real costs. And "keep your 1mm/revenue idea to yourself" doesn't sound like a healthy engineering culture either.
fireflies_ commented on They don't make readers like they used to antipope.org/charlie/blog... · Posted by u/andyjohnson0
Do professional writers have to consider this "new reader" from a commercial point-of-view or is Stross just thinking about how he might adapt his writing to this group to be gracious towards them?
Not sure if there is some way to iterate given online feedback. Like, write a book from the pale, male, and stale point of view. Use an LLM to gather feedback on what people criticize. Then write almost the same book again, from the POV of a different character, taking into account interesting criticisms.
However, it may be better for a successful author to just get away from these hyper-online criticism spaces and write what they want to write, as long as they've got books lined up they're already excited to write.
> Not sure if there is some way to iterate given online feedback.
There have been a some novels and novel-length works written a chapter at a time in public. The Martian by Andy Weir, for example is probably the most commercially successful. Many works by qntm (https://qntm.org/fiction) that are popular in this community have been written that way too.
fireflies_ commented on Initial details about why CrowdStrike's CSAgent.sys crashed twitter.com/patrickwardle... · Posted by u/pilfered
Meta Conversation: The fact that X has a "Show Probable Spam" and both of the responses were pretty valid, with one even getting a reply from the creator.
I just don't understand how they still have users.
> I just don't understand how they still have users.
Because this post is here and not somewhere else. Strong network effects.
I feel like when there is financial malfeasance, we find enough cases of it in the wild to document that it has really happened. Whether it's Enron, or stories of lobbyists and politicians acting in self interest in ways that break the law, or even just municipal officials embezzling, we have known cases of that. So if you ever have the feeling that big financial transactions might be ethically questionable, you can at least know that such things have happened in the wild.
I think the same is true of war crimes in wars - enough of the worst type of things have really happened, and been documented, so there's nothing on the face of it that is outlandish if you heard a new report of such a thing.
But how about deaths in suspicious circumstances like this one? Is there a historical record of these kinds of things being carried out, especially in the western world, in circumstances where the motive is corporate self-interest? What's the most clear cut case we have of something falling in that falls into (for lack of a better term) the Michael Clayton category?
This application of "base rates thinking" was helpful for me - a bit out of left field, I'm aware of the concept and use it sometimes but wouldn't have thought to do so here. Thanks!
Starting with Megaparsec can be a little intimidating. I always encourage new users to start with the built-in ReadP instead. I even wrote an appreciated beginner tutorial on ReadP and parser combinators more generally: https://two-wrongs.com/parser-combinators-parsing-for-haskel...
Thanks for sharing. I've used megaparsec a little but never looked at ReadP. Your tutorial is concise and helpful, I'd have ended up with better intuition faster if I started there.
Yes. Island gigantism and insular dwarfism (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Insular_dwarfism).
It's a shame that these aren't parallel. Why couldn't it be "insular gigantism" or "island dwarfism"? (But not both!)
> The curse of dimensionality is not theoretical — it’s painfully practical. In high dimensions, naive distance metrics degrade quickly.
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> Scaling and normalization are not optional details. They fundamentally shape the geometry of the space.