True. I think most people care more about trend lines than anything else. If it isn't accurate, at least let it be consistently inaccurate.
I like to say that I don't care if it's inaccurate, as long as it's precise.
Readit Newsmvonballmo commented on Fitness Trackers Are Only 67% Accurate, New Research Finds wellnesspulse.com/researc... · Posted by u/nabla9
I use ffmpeg multiple times a week thanks to LLMs. It's my top use-case for my "llm cmd" tool:
uv tool install llm
llm install llm-cmd
llm cmd use ffmpeg to extract audio from myfile.mov and save that as mp3
Hypertalk <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HyperTalk> lives.
mvonballmo commented on Rewrite Git history via drag-and-drop retcon.app... · Posted by u/surprisetalk
You need to look further ahead than that though. A sane git history makes debugging much easier. When you bisect your way to a problem area, sure is nice when the suspect lines of code fall into a 10 line change commit with a nice message and body providing context. I’ll let it slide if the PR/MR has a lot of good context, because it’s trivial to link those back to commits/lines.
I also think we should be thinking more long-term. How understandable is the history when you're trying to figure out why something changed? I usually try to tell the story of what changes are being made rather than treating every clump of commits as a "PR" that's just going to be squashed together anyway. I think a lot of valuable information is lost by doing that. But I realize that that train has left the station for most, so I'll just shut up now.
mvonballmo commented on Rewrite Git history via drag-and-drop retcon.app... · Posted by u/surprisetalk
I don’t think SmartGit will elevate you that much but JetBrains IDEs and SmartGit are the only two tools I pay for and have for 8 years with no regrets.
I already posted in this thread but I just love these two tools and wish more people knew about both of them.
+1 for SmartGit. It's much more intuitive and flexible than the JetBrains UI, which still inherits so much terminology and behavior from its "unified" view that includes being able to handle Perforce changelists. It's a bit of a mess and generally trips new users up more than it helps. If you're comfortable with it, then good for you but I've had a lot of students not being able to grok it really well.
Out of curiosity, what's the use for such library? If you are on a desktop surely there is a better native library to draw shapes, no?
I would imagine that you could use it to write automated tests for Canvas code (maybe charts?) running in Node, e.g., jest with snapshots.
mvonballmo commented on Apple must pay 13B euros in back taxes, EU's top court rules cnbc.com/2024/09/10/apple... · Posted by u/kklisura
> Expats aren’t double taxed but you need to file tax returns to offset taxable income that’s already been taxed.
This is not correct, it is only practically true in trivial cases. Excess taxation is a very real pain point for Americans living overseas, never mind the other indefensible things the US government does to its expats like FATCA.
Many types of income cannot be offset nor or they covered by tax treaties. Every time there is an impedance mismatch between US tax code and foreign tax code, including basic things like classification of income, deductions, and exemptions, you can end up with liabilities in both countries. It is not uncommon to pay more taxes in aggregate as an expat than you would pay in either country separately.
The way the US government, and some State governments, treat American expats is quite fucked.
Thank you for summarizing this so well.
mvonballmo commented on Interviewing Tim Sweeney and Neal Stephenson matthewball.co/all/sweene... · Posted by u/cubefox
Many well-known artists have this problem. Heck, my gf went to a K&D concert recently, and she described the same phenomenon. People were ok while the new stuff was being played. And since everyone was obviously waiting for it, they played their hits around the end, which is where the people were most excited. And thats justa a recent example. Some of the really good guys usually play over it, and reinvent themselves, ignoring what their fans want to hear.
That said, I personally also prefer his earlier books. Granted, snowcrash was a young mans fever dream, and you kind of grow out of it. A young ladies illustrated primer? That was kinda cool. Quicksilver? Yeah, an unexpected history lesson woven into a pretty long story. Liked it. But seven eves? No. That one kind of killed my love for his work. I dont know why, but he kind of overdid the long-story-arc thing there.
For me it was Termination Shock that finally convinced me to stop reading his books. He just likes to write really long, repetitive and wildly overly detailed books. I was entertained by SevenEves and Reamde but I'm open to the possibility that I might very well react as I did to Termination Shock if I tried rereading them.
Edit: I've read and very much enjoyed a ton of Stephenson (Cryptonomicon, The Baroque Cycle, Anathem) but his recent stuff is tailing off for me. I don't know if it's me or him.
mvonballmo commented on 13ft – A site similar to 12ft.io but self-hosted github.com/wasi-master/13... · Posted by u/darknavi
I just had anecdotal success with it last week and the atlantic, but before that it has been very hit and miss.
I'm using the [Bypass Paywalls](https://github.com/iamadamdev/bypass-paywalls-chrome/blob/ma...) extension but it looks like that's been DMCA-ed in the interim.
mvonballmo commented on Java string interpolation feature has been cancelled mail.openjdk.org/pipermai... · Posted by u/neonsunset
Maybe I'm dense but I learned nothing from this link. What was the actual flaw?
It's not just you. My reading is that the flaw was toxic Java users made the developers feel so bad about the feature that they canceled it out of spite. I'm almost certain that's not what it was but that's the only information in there.
mvonballmo commented on Sphere Rendering: Flat Planets emildziewanowski.com/flat... · Posted by u/skilled
That’s definitely not an issue with the page.
I think that there's something up with that page. There may be a pathological path when suitable GPU support is not available.
My machine slowed down tremendously, with a YouTube video in another tab pausing entirely until I managed to close the tab. I tried again with Task Manager open and saw a process named "System Interrupts" with 75% of the CPU before I choked off the tab again.