- skobesThis is not a standalone article but a section from Butterick's book, "Typography for Lawyers", which is hosted in full on the website. The book is an opinionated style manual, and many alternatives are described in nearby sections.
- I'm fond of STIX Two, which is very close to Times New Roman but just a little bit nicer, especially the italic.
- Once I realized that some people expect and are happy for you to jump in with unprompted thoughts or stories, it became easier for me to be intentional about doing so.
I think I'm a lot better now than when I was younger at adapting to a wide range of conversational styles, mostly just from paying more attention to that dynamic.
Do you feel like your conversational toolbox has evolved over time? :)
- I hate these too, but I'm worried that a ban just incentivizes being more sneaky about it.
- Developers have been anthropomorphizing computers for as long as they've been around though.
"The compiler thinks my variable isn't declared" "That function wants a null-terminated string" "Teach this code to use a cache"
Even the word computer once referred to a human.
- If LLMs produce fake citations, why would we trust LLMs to check them?
- Wouldn't this fall under Auer deference (agency's interpretation of its own regulation)?
There is some uncertainty about whether Auer deference survives after Loper Bright.
- Your link is just the abstract, I had to hunt for the full talk:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U1kc7fcF5Ao
But it is quite interesting and especially learning about the security problems of the document() function (described @ 19:40-25:38) made me feel more convinced that removing XSLT is a good decision.
- I tried to read this but the pronouns are so grating
- The only thing I know about rock tumblers is that Steve Jobs thinks they're like teams of people building software...
Apple must have been a noisy, violent place :P
- Interesting that the canvas looks to be in a 5:3 aspect ratio. Did SGI displays have that shape, or would they have used non-square pixels like many DOS games in CGA/EGA resolution?
- Interesting, you read it as if the fish said "You want to be like God? No, that's too far. Game over!"
But another reading is: God would have chosen the shack (grace to the humble, etc.) So she got her wish.
- Why is TOML allegedly "too minimal" for a "small configuration file"?
- Layout is more bazaar than cathedral. It has had many ideas mixed in by different contributors over decades.
- The first "trap" on the page says "min-width: auto makes min width determined by content", but this is false outside of flex/grid.
From MDN: "For block boxes, inline boxes, inline blocks, and all table layout boxes auto resolves to 0."
- VBA is the famous example, but Power Query deserves a shout out. I use it to make tables that pull their data from other tables with custom transformation logic.
Google Sheets didn't even support tables until fairly recently.
- I'll say it too!
There's no serious alternative to Excel for those who rely on its advanced features.
You can't just edit Excel files in Libre Office Calc, Google Sheets, or Numbers without any problem whatsoever.
- I once broke some Python by changing a = a + b to a += b.
If a and b are lists, the latter modifies the existing list (which may be referenced elsewhere) instead of creating a new one.
I think Python is the only language I've encountered that uses the + operator with mutable reference semantics like this. It seems like a poor design choice.
- Are you sure you are not experiencing some selection bias yourself, where you only recall the validation attempts that landed as patronizing or insincere, and do not notice when they are adeptly executed?
- Not sure if typo:
> Tech companies were thus incentivized to (a) hire like crazy, and (b) do a lot of low-risk high-reward things, even if that ends up wasting money.
"...HIGH-risk high-reward..." would make more sense in the context.