A mobile keyboard—limited as it is—has no trouble producing an em-dash, requiring little more than a long press on the - button.
Thanks — I didn't know that.
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stevage commented on Show HN: Meetup.com and eventribe alternative to small groups github.com/polaroi8d/cact... · Posted by u/orbanlevi
Semi related, but has anyone else noticed a massive surge in Meetup comment spam in the last few months? All my local groups are pumping out spam, mostly offering work from home employment opportunities. I keep wondering what has changed.
>Because it's all just text
Hiding a lot of complications in that phrase. What text encoding? What font? etc.
stevage commented on Dangerous advice for software engineers seangoedecke.com/dangerou... · Posted by u/gxhao
>https://www.seangoedecke.com/programmer-archetypes/
I found this one super interesting. Personality types that make sense but I haven't seen them described this way before.
The “Better Gradients” thing is dodgy.
OKLCH is a polar coordinate space. Hue is angle in this space. So to interpolate hue from one angle to another, to get from one side of a circle to the other, you go round the edge. This leads to extreme examples like the one shown:
linear-gradient(in oklch, #f0f, #0f0)
linear-gradient(in oklch longer hue, #f0f, #0f0)
Accordingly, there are algorithms defined (yes, plural: not every application has agreed on the technique to use) to drag the colour back in-gamut, but it sacrifices the perceptual uniformity. The red in that gradient is way darker than the rest of it.
When you’re looking for better gradients, if you’re caring about perceptual uniformity (which frequently you shouldn’t, perceptual colour spaces are being massively overapplied), you should probably default to interpolating in Oklab instead, which takes a straight line from one side of the circle to the other—yes, through grey, if necessary.
linear-gradient(in oklab, #f0f, #0f0)
During its beta period, Tailwind v4 tried shifting from sRGB to Oklch for gradient interpolation; by release, they’d decided Oklab was a safer default.
Making a gradient from two colours on opposite sides of the spectrum is a bit of a pathological case. There's no obvious answer what it "should" look like, and also no good reason you'd really need to do this. If you're using a gradient as a design element, you'd pick your own midpoints.
stevage commented on We put a coding agent in a while loop github.com/repomirrorhq/r... · Posted by u/sfarshid
It'd be pretty interesting to do this with no predermined goal. Get ai to find a project to work on,zand just work on it for a while until it thinks it's done, then start on the next one.
stevage commented on Wildthing – A model trained on role-reversed ChatGPT conversations youaretheassistantnow.com... · Posted by u/iamwil
It just kept repeating the same statement in Portuguese to me.
stevage commented on Leaving Gmail for Mailbox.org giuliomagnifico.blog/post... · Posted by u/giuliomagnifico
In Italy =] the price is about 1.30 to 1.40€. And I’m in northern Italy, in the south you can find it for ~1€.
wow, amazing. I feel like it was a pretty similar price (.90?) when I visited in 2006.
stevage commented on Leaving Gmail for Mailbox.org giuliomagnifico.blog/post... · Posted by u/giuliomagnifico
> starting at €2.50/month (paid annually)
> I had no issues with paying the equivalent of two coffees a month
Where can you get coffee for €1.25?!
stevage commented on Control shopping cart wheels with your phone (2021) begaydocrime.com/... · Posted by u/mystraline
You can also take a wrench with you, to quickly remove the locking wheel from your cart. Maybe replace it with a non-locking wheel from another cart.
Shouldn't be difficult to find carts left near or beyond the edge of the parking lot.
I find the locking wheels annoying, because they're so often defective and make it a noisy struggle to get your cart through the store. But years ago I also had a neighbor in my apartment complex who would walk home with a cart every week, and would just leave (a dozen of) them there... she couldn't be bothered to push the empty carts back to the store, not even once. I'd think a $1 deposit/return system for carts would work better, and give the homeless in the area some gainful employment.
Huh, years ago ago living overseas my sharehouse all did that. But we'd take the trolley straight back to the supermarket because we weren't totally degenerate.