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All these words are too broad is why. It allows someone to say something without really knowing what they mean. But also they may know what they mean, so you are not sure!

Device is a handy one though you often want to say "computer, laptop, tablet or phone" in one go. We could call them all computers but that would confuse people I think.

Yes I agree. Content is an empty word, and can mean anything, and sort of means nothing. I get why large corporations would want to use the term as they do everything in bulk and need a general term, but for a solo writer, youtuber, etc, better to think of it as the thing, e.g. "tutorial", "podcast", "exploration".

This is awesome. Wish I had the idea first. I see this as a fun learning and experimental tool.

For a while I have wanted to make a web page where you can do service load balancing and queuing simulations so this would be a great basis for it.

I don't feel like static typing (the kind you use in Go, C#, Java etc) is a church, it is just a tool. I mean I always want to use it, because it is useful. So that might be like being in the church of say adding an electric motor to my bicycle? I can't show you a study or hard evidence saying having the electric motor is "better".

I mean there are people who go nuts with very complicated types/type systems so there is that, and then you have very complicated programs, maybe that is what you mean?

Using static typing all the time is just using the tools. Using TDD for everything feels a bit suboptimal to me and so needs some obsession to do that. It only becomes a church then if they keep pestering everyone else to do it.

Static typing is very useful and time saving. I can rename something, knowing my IDE can propogate the change. I can call a function and know what it expects, not just "a thing, hope they added a comment so I know what type/shape wont blow it up!".

Here I am talking about the basic static typing, and maybe some generics use occasionally, but obviously people also go overboard sometimes with type features and that hinders understanding for newcomers to the codebase.

Cooling in Space 1 month ago

Seems reasonable that the area needed would be less than the solar panels. Since it sould be more efficient to dump heat than collect energy from light.

I /clear all the time out of habit. I want to be able to get the thing done with minimal context. It also means you can do it again slightly different if needed, you know the seed conditions for the task.

Thanks for the tip. Was 26. Now 4.

More specifically: aim back, and where the left side (as you now face) starts to ramp down there aim for the spot where it starts to slope down. Full power.

Tailwind (and CSS frameworks in general) is like VB6 in the day. Very useful if you want to get your app done and have a consisent enough look.

Hi thanks for trying it!

I am not sure what you mean by "adding a memory takes more than one field + one tap".

Do you mean like CTRL-Enter to save and then focus on next one?

That might be useful? I don't find I need to add that much data, so using the mouse to click to add is OK.

I am not too interested in getting lots of users per-se for this one. Although it will scale to a billion if needed (it is just a static site!). I was thinking of doing a substack for it maybe but we'll see.

An Update on Heroku 6 months ago

Anything that can host Kubetnetes. If you are going to fo devopsy deployments might as well use the standard.

Make.ts 6 months ago

If you want it to be an alternative to shell history then ~/make.ts is better, since that'll be the same wherever you are.