mindbleach

joined 1 year ago
[–] mindbleach@sh.itjust.works -1 points 5 hours ago

Like adding vertical tabs?

Having fucked an entire ecosystem of UI-modifying plugins, seven years prior. Still not matching the functionality of that decades-running, userbase-driven experimentation. I want my goddamn multi-row tabs back.

Mozilla doesn't get kudos for tiny improvements as if they cancel out huge blunders. Killing vertical tabs by killing XUL also severely limited DownThemAll, and they spent a year ignoring pleas from the guy that gave their browser and their browser alone the best download plugin to-date. He eventually managed to "just rewrite!" and claw most functionality back from Chrome's tightassed tool-kit. Most authors did not. Most authors had not, since the browser fucking launched. I can barely remember how much functionality I've lost, thanks to Mozilla refusing to respect plugin devs and formalize any lasting API. The best bits did come back, thanks to other authors who also missed those features... until they too burned out and fucked off.

But hey! Mozilla also made some clever tweaks inside the only software project that advertises their true passion for smartphones I mean chat I mean crypto I mean AI I mean $nextbigtrend, so it's squaresies.

[–] mindbleach@sh.itjust.works 1 points 5 hours ago

I'm pretty sure Prestidigitation already covers that, especially if you convince the DM not to check.

[–] mindbleach@sh.itjust.works 2 points 19 hours ago

I'm definitely bi, but Lemmy's wash of trans / autistic / communist content leads to what-ifs.

[–] mindbleach@sh.itjust.works 2 points 20 hours ago (2 children)

Binary search

On that note: heap sort and total order.

[–] mindbleach@sh.itjust.works 1 points 21 hours ago

One rich asshole called Lauden Ebon.

[–] mindbleach@sh.itjust.works 3 points 21 hours ago

Same idea as "the cloud." You'd draw a diagram and the arrows would eventually go to a squiggly representation of someone else's problem.

[–] mindbleach@sh.itjust.works 2 points 21 hours ago

Avatar and icon were similarly stolen from mysticism.

[–] mindbleach@sh.itjust.works 4 points 21 hours ago

unit tests

You have the bard's attention.

[–] mindbleach@sh.itjust.works 3 points 21 hours ago

The instructions are helpfully printed on the scroll.

Trapped wizard: "... how the fuck do I pronounce :q!?"

[–] mindbleach@sh.itjust.works 10 points 21 hours ago
  • Knapsack problem
  • Pushdown automata
  • Zero-knowledge proof
  • Late binding
  • Borrow checker
  • Channel coding
  • Tail recursion
  • Camel case
  • Double float
  • Red-black trees
  • Quaternions

Lossy compression feels like cheating:

  • Block prediction
  • Motion compensation
  • Chroma subsampling
  • Frequency space
  • Time domain
[–] mindbleach@sh.itjust.works 3 points 23 hours ago

It's a fnord. A meaningless trigger for a conditioned fear response.

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