tylercrompton

Out of curiosity, in what context has IoT telemetry been meaningful to the consumer? In other words, what data has been gathered that can be sold or otherwise abused? I personally don't see a reason to be concerned about a manufacturer wanting to track which features are being used and how those features are being used.

> Not integrating so well with other open source licenses is one of the cons.

That depends on what you want. If you want a license that will play well with closed source software, then yeah, it's a downside. But the GPL family comes from the perspective of a developer who wants to retain their rights while respecting others' desire for the same. If you care about your rights, then this is an upside.

It doesn't matter that you don't take on debt. The point is to protect yourself from unscrupulous individuals who want you to take on debt on their behalf.

Something about injecting HTML from an API, even from a controlled server, feels wrong.

You so well describe why I played RS back in those days. I tried getting back into it a few years ago and it just didn't feel the same without my friends. But I never realized why it felt different until I read your comment.

I think that it can be both. Yes, weird code will produce weird results but in my opinion, the language should at least help one find the weird code.

Out of lazy curiosity, what change in particular prompted this?

Now they're just showing off.

I would avoid Chromium-based browsers entirely as it still allows Google to strongarm their way into standards that few others want.

In LaTeX, the open quote is denoted by a grave accent and the close quote is denoted by the apostrophe. Look back at the article and you'll find that the author consistently uses these characters in this manner. Why they didn't get processed to the proper Unicode characters, however, is beyond me.

Stack Overflow, surely

Doesn't ChatGPT excel at providing step-by-step instructions? That's kind of what Brainfuck is with only eight options for each step. I'd imagine that it could reach the end result using a combination of those eight options. Can it not?

Wouldn't it be easier to convert VB6 to VB.NET and then convert that to C#? The latter conversion is mostly just a find-and-replace operation, as I understand it.

That's a take.

What exactly makes Electron better for speed than say popular cross-platform GUI library X?

I don't see how your point negates my answer to your question. For the vast majority of topics that one would take to ChatGPT, two year old information is fine. You should already know if you need more recent information from another source.

For example, if I want to know how green onions and yellow onions differ in terms of culinary applications and why, nothing that has been discovered in the past two years is going to change that; ChatGPT is fine. But if I want some information on COVID-19, then of course ChatGPT probably won't give the best possible responses. Like any tool, ChatGPT has its uses and knowing its applications and limitations is important.

Because useful information two years ago is often still useful.

Fun fact, floats are easier than `int` because `float` has a predictable size.

I really enjoyed that. Thank you. This is great! I have some suggestions, if you don't mind:

- Biggest feature that I'd like to see is a leaderboard. While it wouldn't be fair to allow me to get on the leaderboard after already seeing a certain puzzle.

- Allow users to upload their own pictures to use as puzzles. But for obvious reasons, don't make these public.

- The auto-rotation, though convenient, kinda took away from the jigsaw puzzle experience. Maybe make it rotate to a random perpendicular orientation on the first touch and allow manual 90° rotations afterward by tapping it. To make these operations mutually exclusive, add a spacial threshold and a temporal threshold such that if neither has been surpassed during an active operation, then handle the operation as a tap on release, and if either is surpassed during an operation, then handle the operation as a drag.

- Add a temporal leaderboard. Only allow times for first attempts. To deter cheating, maybe make it available to logged in users only. Though that's not a perfect solution for determent of cheating, it's at least something. The RNG would need to be seeded for fairness.

- I'm glad to see that you're planning on implementing multiplayer. That'll be exciting!

- Allow bulk movement of unconnected pieces—something like Photoshop's smudge tool. If you're unfamiliar with that, you essentially set the radius of the brush, and press and drag to push anything that intersects the brush circle in the direction that the cursor last moved. Or do something simpler like dragging a rectangle over some region to select all pieces that are contained within the region by some percentage (e.g. 50%) and then dragging the selection to the desired region. The current workaround is to zoom or pan and then move each piece individually to the desired region.

I did the demo puzzle on easy mode, so I apologize if some of this is already a thing.

> We should consider restricting the registration of .org domains to actual non-profit organizations

Too late for that

> We should consider […] restricting the use of words like "schema" and "standard" to things that have been fully certified as such by internationally accredited engineering bodies.

Too late for that and unenforceable

Sometimes I use a debugger. Sometimes I use print statements. It depends on the task. If it's a loop that runs multiple times, I lean toward using a debugger. If stepping through the code would be too much hassle, then I lean toward using print statements. If I need to explore the environment (often due to poor documentation), then I lean toward using a debugger. In short, I use whatever seems to be the most effective approach.

Both links work for me.

That works on multiple platforms! I'm able to do that on Arch.