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Does deprecated mean “stop using immediately”? It seems like Go’s linter think it should, as it’s throwing lint errors when deprecated symbols are used (which are usually “resolved” by suppressing the error). But I tend to think of deprecated as “stop using for new things.” Keep using and supporting it, as we want to replace it eventually. But if you’re writing new code, consider using something else.
Maybe there should be something more severe than “deprecated” that the linters can throw warnings on, such as “discouraged” or “decommissioned.” But that’s probably unnecessary if one can simply delete the code.
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I’m guessing I’m increasingly in the minority, but I think that if you release a YouTube video where you’re just talking to someone and the visuals are incidental, you should release it as a podcast too. Not everyone wants to spend the bandwidth streaming video they’re not going to watch.
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At the laundromat, where about five dryers are in use, including my own. I guess we all imagined the same thing: sunny day, slight wind, temperatures in the high teens. Surely our laundry will dry, right? Lol, no! 😄
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Why does everyone in #F1 love #Monaco? It's by far the most BORING race on the calendar.
I am to understand that it’s difficult to overtake on the Monaco track. If so, it sounds like a case for strategic parking. 😛
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It’s also good seeing one of the cafe workers spending time at the cafe as a customer, even if it is just before their shift. It’s like seeing PTV staff taking public transport to work. A real vote of confidence in the establishment.
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I used to be put off by cafés treating me as a regular, but I’ve grown to like it somewhat. They start my “usual” order before I pay, and prepare the table I tend to frequent before I sit down. It’s nice.
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It would be nice if someone could work on the failure mode of modern LED lighting. The flashing just won’t do. There’s a LED light in my peripheral vision that’s doing this, and it’s quite distracting.
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It’s kinda nice having an audience whenever I walk out my front door, even if it is just my neighbor’s cats.
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Word of the day: verisimilitude
(n) The quality of appearing to be true or real
Appearing true, or resembling reality. Saw it used in the context of narrative development, where “messing with the verisimilitude” would cause one to come out of suspended disbelief.
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📘 Devlog
Godot Game - Meta Elements
Work has begun on the game’s meta elements, focusing on essential mechanics like menu screens, despite the unexciting and obligatory nature of the tasks involved. Also some details on how to define custom classes in GDScript. Continue reading →
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Noisy miners have discovered the cafe. Yesterday they were chasing away the pigeons that occasionally congregate. Today, one of them was creeping towards my empty plate. It got as far as one of the other seats on my table, only to fly away when I moved my arm. I guess they’re new at this. 😏
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I don’t think “generic AI” — as in AI not designed for a single purpose that can be invoked by a button or something — will ever go beyond the chat interaction model. The modes may change: you may speak to it rather than type. But I can’t see anything come up with something other than a user-initiated interaction model, in which the user asks the model to do something, and the model responds. It’s just such a natural fit to how people interact in real life. And it’s clear the models are good enough to handle such an open-ended option scope. Models can still do things for people in the background, but only after they’ve been told to do it. A world where the model just does stuff unbidden is not one I’d like to live in.
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Seeing all these non-programmers vibe-code their own apps reminds me of my music teacher telling us of what was required of him when he went to the Victorian College of the Arts. You were expected to learn piano along with the instrument you were proficient in during your studies. Be he already knew piano, so he had to take up something else. He chose the trumpet.
I guess the question before me is: what’s my trumpet going to be?
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I love all the browser support for making a link to a selected block of text. I use it all the time. It would be nice, though, if they also made it easier to link to a header with an
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And the number of phones dropped during this train trip now sits at 3. Congratulations, everyone! Personal best for this carriage. 🤪
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Touché, Metro. I can understand why you kept us outside of Clifton Hill for 15 minutes. That was some legitimate flooding.
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Not sure why Numbers needs access to my Contacts. I granted it access anyway, as I had work to do and I needed to get the modal out of my face. Yes, this is a comment about how rubbish these permission modals actually are. (Also, I don’t have any contacts on my work laptop).
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It’s sometimes hard knowing that people you know are aware that you blog. Harder still knowing that they could read it (as they have in the past). I’m grateful, but that does mean there are certain topics I can’t really talk about.
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Spent the evening upgrading my Forgejo instance to the latest LTS release (I know, riveting). It’s good of Forgejo to prepare a Debian repository for their packages now. Going from APKs that were downloaded and installed manually to ones managed by the repository worked seamlessly.
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Found this gem of a remark in the documentation of Go’s time formatting string:
It is a regrettable historic error that the date uses the American convention of putting the numerical month before the day.
Yeah, kind of wish we learnt from history on this one. 😼
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Quick update on my attempt at reading saved posts on my commute home, in place of scrolling social media. So far, it’s a failure. After work, I’m just too tired to focus on anything substantial, and just need something mindless to experience. I’ll have to have a think about what to do here.
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Watched a video about the Suburban Rail Loop. Construction is underway, but it won’t be finished anytime soon. The section most useful to me is scheduled to be finished in 2043, and the whole thing is to be done around 2085. So, likely to be something that my niece’s grandchildren can enjoy.
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If anyone asked, I probably would dissuade them, but I could understand why someone would want to start something on Substack. What I don’t understand are those with established paying audiences migrating their platform to Substack. Why? What can they offer that is worth your online independence?
