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Presentation matters. Good documentation is evidence of a library that has been carefully thought through. Slop in the readme suggests slop in the code.

Really cool! Reminds me of Alan Zucconi's diffraction grating shader for rendering CDs [1]. [1] https://www.alanzucconi.com/2017/07/15/cd-rom-shader-1/

> upset people who decided to pay for it for the first time in their life It also upset paying customers. It's no longer possible to _own_ Adobe software, and so I don't anymore. U…

Eastern Europe it looks like, but this story is remarkably similar to my experience as a graduate student / technical staff at public research institutions in both the United State…

I'm sorry, but your reply suggests an incredible disdain for both technical expertise and for educators. There is value in depth&breadth of knowledge, and it takes great skill to c…

Somewhat related, I used minisat.js to generate Boggle boards that contain a given list of words! [0] https://benrbray.com/projects/unboggler

Location: Tokyo, Japan Remote: Yes Willing to Relocate: No Technologies: TypeScript, Rust, Haskell, Scala, C# Résumé/CV: https://benrbray.com/about Email: benrbray [at] gmail [dot]…

fwiw Chrome on Linux has no WebGPU support or hardware acceleration, so I often use Firefox for e.g. playing Ruffle content. The story is different on different platforms, and will…

Writing software brings me a lot of joy, but now five years out of school, I'm starting to worry that I've made a huge mistake choosing a career that will keep me chained to a desk…

Most (all?) vscode extensions are hosted on GitHub, is it not possible to reuse them with a custom build?

I live in Tokyo which arguably is one of the most transit friendly cities, and still bus to the nearby Costco to load up every month or two. Sometimes you just need a suitcase full…

Howdy Elfman, fancy meeting you here all these years after the Game Trailer Collab! Thanks for the nostalgia trip :)

I think something like datalog queries would be perfect for refactoring and searching tags. Would also let you declare relationships between tags, like "tagged(x, calculus) -> tagg…

Driving without insurance is illegal in virtually every state, and the supreme court has ruled that driving is a "virtual necessity" [1] to American life. I am normally very r/fuck…

As a simple example: I wouldn't want to work with ten copies of myself. It would magnify my strengths but also my weaknesses. It's much better if a team is comprised by people with…

For me it's the ability to type math in LaTeX notation on the slides. Google slides doesn't support this and neither did PowerPoint last time I used it many years ago. When I was a…

One side effect of this inane policy is that it is becomes very difficult for US citizens living abroad to invest their money, due to the tax consequences of holding foreign stocks…

They should be legal, but expensive. If it is so valuable to companies that their workers not leave to work for competitors, they should be required to pay 100% salary for the non-…

Meanwhile houses here have no insulation or double-paned windows so it's still not cool enough and my electric bill is through the roof!

I've come to appreciate function application / composition syntax and think it allows for much more clear and readable code, compared to e.g. Scala which can be quite verbose and o…

> recipe sites with select/copy disabled, or worse, sites that modify the copied snippet > password fields which are not appropriately marked so that autofill / generate secure pas…

Can you give any examples of useful non-terminating programs? It seems to me all useful programs are terminating (or, we truncate some non-terminating procedure by some convergence…

Tokyo.

That's a rough commute indeed. I do wish American cities (for instance, idk where you are) made it simpler to live close to with without sacrificing too much in other areas of life…

> The one group of people I don’t get are the ones who suggest people should be forced to work from the office, and not able to decide for themselves. I guess I can give a bit of p…