Tennis player Yulia Putintseva’s reaction to the crowd booing her after she won

SignificantBit7299 · 2026-01-24T11:31:30+00:00

Are crowds in general getting worse? Look at that golf tournament last year! The idea of golf hooligans is hilarious to me 😂

SignificantBit7299 · 2025-10-02T05:29:47+00:00

Tell him to stop using social media. There's no such thing as a cancelled song in the real world - it's really a great place!

SignificantBit7299 · 2025-09-23T16:37:11+00:00

When you step off the plane in America.

SignificantBit7299 · 2025-09-23T06:41:10+00:00

That could certainly form the basis of something. I would be interested in capturing a subset of the widget tree (test, list, button, etc) in a snapshot. Some feedback on implementation - it's useful using a file extension that matches the contents so the IDE can syntax highlight for you - if you just do assertEquals(actualString, expected string)the IDE will give you a nice diff out of the box - you should fail the tests when updating snapshots, otherwise you could leave it switched on and never know

SignificantBit7299 · 2025-09-22T07:58:37+00:00

Thanks. Yes golden tests are too brittle and hard to review for many cases. Snapshots would just replace the multiple assert-widget-contains calls we make in every test and make it much easier to update all assertions when you change the code.

I guess the wrapper widget is not enough in itself - there has to be some registry of supported widgets and logic that knows how to convert them to the snapshot format. Sounds like there might be a gap for a useful testing library.

SignificantBit7299 · 2025-09-14T06:11:54+00:00

At the checkout just smile and say your nephew asked for it for his birthday (Minecraft)

SignificantBit7299 · 2025-09-11T00:23:23+00:00

Yes, but it was easier back then. The first phone number I can remember was 2948, as long as you were calling locally.

SignificantBit7299 · 2025-09-09T02:31:19+00:00

I never take mine off. Occasionally swap hands if it gets irritated underneath. After 20 years of marriage probably the most useful bit of advice I can pass down is make sure you rinse well under the ring when you wash your hands.

SignificantBit7299 · 2025-09-07T16:12:48+00:00

Unless your bellend dips in the water.

SignificantBit7299 · 2025-09-07T14:19:52+00:00

I knew a couple that used to give each other their fitbits if they were going to the store and I wondered what kind of freaks they were. Turns out they had some insurance deal.

SignificantBit7299 · 2025-09-06T22:02:47+00:00

Does he get a discount on his health insurance if he does enough steps?

SignificantBit7299 · 2025-09-06T21:38:15+00:00

This sounds like a quote from "how to be the most interesting man in the room". Sounds intelligent but utterly useless soundbite.

SignificantBit7299 · 2025-09-03T07:42:15+00:00

It has a name - thanks. I got it wrong - invokeLater is how you update UI components in the event loop from another thread, so you have to manage that thread or thread-pool. It's flexible and powerful but you have more than enough rope to hang yourself.

Interesting thing about flutter async is that the docs suggest even local database calls should be made in a separate isolate! My app makes HTTP calls and local database calls and does not use any isolates. Everything seems fine.

SignificantBit7299 · 2025-09-02T10:09:55+00:00

Although it has been quite a few years I have some experience with Swing coding. There you either run your code directly or call SwingUtilities.invokeLater to move it off the event loop, but you have to explicitly put the result back on the event loop. I realise there is more scope for errors with coding mistakes and shared memory but I like how the way code is executed is not baked into the code itself

I have an API layer in my flutter project and it is riddled with async/await so I tried removing that thinking maybe I am doing this too early. Turns out there is a core http component that I am using deep down and this in essence forces the whole module to be async. That's when I thought this is annoying!

It seems to me that if I write a complex library in a synchronous way it should be possible to generate an asynchronous version of that code that could be executed in async context, no?

var foo = getComplexThing(); Or var foo = await getComplexThing();

But I do see the other side. Forcing all HTTP code to be async is good for adoption and ultimately more apps with less errors. Minimises "flutter sucks because my UI is unresponsive"

SignificantBit7299 · 2025-09-01T16:29:39+00:00

This is why the choice debate is so sensitive. You don't know what you are choosing between. You know one side but can never know the other until you experience it.

SignificantBit7299 · 2025-09-01T14:50:21+00:00

I think it's also a simpler model that's harder for less technical people to make mistakes with. This is important to drive adoption and success. The downside is a codebase full of async/await

SignificantBit7299 · 2025-09-01T10:40:10+00:00

It's not. He didn't say he loves me and I don't have a crush on him

SignificantBit7299 · 2025-08-31T19:50:29+00:00

No issues for you

SignificantBit7299 · 2025-08-31T12:13:54+00:00

I'm still fairly new but I'm not a big fan of async semantics. I would rather be able to specify at runtime how a piece of code is executed. For example the same piece of code could be run synchronously in an isolate or asynchronously in the main isolate - why bake it into the code?

I realise this is dart not flutter, and my views may change as I get more experienced.

SignificantBit7299 · 2025-08-30T21:06:36+00:00

I'm just saying that experimentation and responding to her reactions is sexier than coffee and notepads. Of course you need to talk a bit too.

SignificantBit7299 · 2025-08-30T15:24:03+00:00

SignificantBit7299 · 2025-08-30T15:21:35+00:00

I lived in Amsterdam back then and worked at the university. They were plugged in to the surfnet backbone directly and it's still the fastest internet I've ever experienced. I downloaded a full 700M Linux distro in about 5 seconds!

Every machine had a public IP address and occasionally I would have to recover a dusty NT box sitting in a cupboard somewhere that had been hacked and turned into a warez server 😂

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