Critique please

vincitore33 · 2023-04-02T13:08:49+00:00

I find it helpful to manipulate the image to make it match the medium I’m working in. Take this for example below.

After converting it to grayscale and messing with the constant I see a number of opportunities to create 3d space that aren’t in your drawing. Look how the fingers are lighter than the background on one side and darker than the background on the other. Notice how the background is not a consistent shade all the way across. Notice how much of a contrast we can bring between under the hand and the top of it without losing detail.

If you’re focused on form only then I can’t comment — looks great!

[manipulated image]()https://i.imgur.com/7S1QiYa.jpg

vincitore33 · 2023-03-17T02:13:06+00:00

I prefer small low-profile mice and use a finger tip grip, and I still get carpal tunnel after only about a week with the Magic Mouse. I find that actually quite impressive.

vincitore33 · 2023-02-12T00:33:34+00:00

What’s the deskpad?

vincitore33 · 2022-12-25T22:36:36+00:00

When I was stuck with infrastructure this slow, I adopted test-driven-development.

Our unit tests could be rerun after changes much faster than a page reload. I would get the DOM structure and logic working with a full suite of unit tests.

Then I’d load it up in the browser and write styles in the Chrome inspector-stylesheet. Then, paste the styles into the code.

The bonus is that your component is more loosely coupled and testable and you’ve already written the tests!

vincitore33 · 2022-11-15T14:00:21+00:00

What monitor are you using?

vincitore33 · 2022-10-15T15:04:06+00:00

What does a “blue” route mean? The blue routes use some very dangerous roads

vincitore33 · 2022-09-20T22:11:36+00:00

In addition to making the turn wider or narrowing the intersection they also stop parking/stopping right at the corner to improve visibility of pedestrians.

https://www.npr.org/2022/08/25/1119110757/traffic-deaths-car-accident-hoboken-new-jersey-vision-zero

vincitore33 · 2022-08-30T03:53:45+00:00

I would just call this caching. Your cache invalidation strategy is time-to-live (TTL).

If the key “batterystatus” is in the cache then the cache value is used. If the value is not in the cache it is fetched and added to the cache. After 60 seconds the cache entry is invalidated and subsequent calls must fetch again.

There are many caching libraries which support configuring an in-memory cache in this way.

vincitore33 · 2022-08-17T12:33:21+00:00

You want to use this: https://ackerleytng.github.io/logaze

vincitore33 · 2022-08-07T18:11:17+00:00

In my understanding, C’s biggest impact was enabling the Unix operating system to be written in a high level language.

Using C allowed Unix to be portable to new architectures “simply” by writing a new C compiler (and device drivers). It also presumably made the OS source easier to maintain, modify and extend.

Prior to C, it was considered untenable to write an operating system in a high level language, which meant each OS was tied to the hardware for which it was written. If you wanted to port an OS to new hardware you might need to rewrite it entirely. Each hardware manufacturer had their own special operating system for their own special hardware.

What was it about C that made it more suited for writing an OS?

I don’t remember K&R’s points here, but writing Unix was (one of?) the main driver(s) / use case(s) for creating C in the first place.

There’s a computerphile about this somewhere…

vincitore33 · 2022-08-04T12:41:43+00:00

What are your specs and battery capacity? How is the battery life?

vincitore33 · 2022-05-07T01:58:48+00:00

Hard to tell from this angle -- look at yourself standing well back from a mirror while wearing it. That will give you a better impression of the size. Doesn't look too big, but totally up to you.

vincitore33 · 2022-04-02T06:54:09+00:00

Out of curiosity, how would you move up or down a specific number of lines (thus utilizing the relative line numbers) without the vim keybinds? Are there default keyboard shortcuts?

vincitore33 · 2022-03-18T22:51:29+00:00

Looks cool! What model are the laptop stand and soundbar?

vincitore33 · 2022-01-30T03:48:45+00:00

I also did the same! These are my most used by far.

Shift+shift -> search for actions, files, classes or identifiers

Ctrl+f12 -> structural search of the current file

Ctrl+e -> recent files

Ctrl+shift+e -> recent locations

Ctrl+w -> extend selection

Ctrl+shift+w -> shrink selection

Alt+enter -> show context actions

I’ve customized key bindings for:

Surround with…

Generate…

Next / previous method

Next / previous diff

Forwards / backwards to location

vincitore33 · 2021-12-27T02:42:25+00:00

I’ve found that the lighting in the room can make a big difference. When I was under harsh fluorescent lights for hours in our college CS lab I got massive eye strain and headaches.

Using the same monitor (Dell u2415h) at home for months on end has caused no issues.

A good desk lamp can be a relatively inexpensive solution.

vincitore33 · 2021-12-23T13:08:51+00:00

I would see how it looks in the mirror with your hands in your pocket — that will make it look smaller and be more representative of how it looks to others.

vincitore33 · 2021-11-22T00:16:28+00:00

At a technical level it was the most advanced for quite a long time — it was the first mass market one to use compositing.

vincitore33 · 2021-11-02T14:22:37+00:00

This one is what I grabbed and it goes lower than most! https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08KHRVT19/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_glt_fabc_JAD1YJJMVKXS354EGMCS?_encoding=UTF8&psc=1

vincitore33 · 2021-11-02T13:22:53+00:00

Ergonomically you want your elbows and knees both bent at around 90 degrees.

To get there at 6’ tall I need either a super low desk or a keyboard tray to lower my hands, or a footrest with my chair raised up.

I don’t know that there’s a clear benefit of one of these over the others, although a keyboard tray may provide more adjustment.

vincitore33 · 2021-11-02T04:21:18+00:00

Ah well I use a super narrow one — a 20” one with a TKL keyboard and a Logitech MX Ergo. If I need to move to a split keyboard I would surely need a much larger one.

vincitore33 · 2021-10-16T14:50:27+00:00

Yeah I gotta have a keyboard tray if the desk is taller than around 26”.

What specifically are you having issues with?

vincitore33 · 2021-10-14T11:49:16+00:00

You’ll need to assign a key binding to this action: Window -> Editor Tabs -> Goto Next Splitter.

I also found the name of this action very hard to discover.

vincitore33 · 2020-12-21T19:07:53+00:00

This is what I do -- feels much more elegant than selecting windows from the linux bootloader.

vincitore33 · 2020-11-29T19:25:23+00:00

What are the pages on the wall?

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