Never mind anamorphic DVDs, all of them use non-square pixels. The resolution of DVD is 720×480 pixels (or squared pixels, referring back to the article); this is a 3:2 ratio of pixel quantities on the horizontal vs. vertical axes. But the overall aspect ratio of the image is displayed as either 4:3 (SDTV) or 16:9 (HDTV), neither of which matches 3:2. Hence the pixel aspect ratio is definitely not 1:1.
Do people in Spanish cities with strong grids (eg Barcelona) not also use the local language equivalent of "blocks" as a term? I would be surprised if not. It's a fundamentally convenient term in any area that has a repeated grid.
The fact that some cities don't have repeated grids and hence don't use the term is not really a valuable corrective to the post you are replying to.
In Slavic languages we think in terms of intersections for distance, maybe the same for Spanish? Area is thought of either as inside district (say city enter) or in meters squared.
A block is just the distance from one intersection to the next. Even if those distances vary or are non-square.
E.g. Manhattan has mostly rectangular blocks, if you go from 8th Avenue to Madison Avenue along 39th St you traveled 4 blocks (the last of which is shorter than the first 3), if you go from 36th St to 40th St along 8th Avenue you traveled 4 blocks (all of which are shorter than the blocks between the avenues).
While it is certainly more common in the US we occasionally use blocks as a measurement here in Sweden too. Blocks are just smaller and less regular here.
Copy-paste, copy-paste. No real understanding of the solutions, even for areas of my expertise. I just don't feel like understanding the flood of information, without any real purpose behind the understanding. While I probably (?) get done more, I also just don't enjoy it. But I also can't go back to googling for hours now that this ready-made solution exists.
I wish it would have never been invented.
(Obviously scoped to my enjoyment of hobbyist projects, let's keep AI cancer research out of the picture..)
I’ve gotten into this mode too, but often when I do this, I eventually find myself in a rabbit hole dead end that the AI unwittingly lead me into. So I’m slowing down and using them to understand the code better. Unfortunately, all the tools are optimized for vibe coding, getting the quick answer without understanding, so it feels like I’m fighting the tools.
Microsoft CoPilot (which I equate with OpenAI ChatGPT, because MS basically owns OpenAI) already shows ads in it's chat mode. It's just a matter of time. Netflix, music streamers, individual podcasters, YouTubers, TV manufacturers – they all converge on an ad-based business model.
I agree with state management being the culprit. But the most-hyped solution nowadays seems to be: "We'll just ignore frontend state, whatever the consequences for user experience. We'll just say this is how HTML/CRUD was always supposed to work and that will make it fine. [Appeal to authority]"
I find it easy to discuss politics with friends. The hard part is listening, being open to persuasion yourself. Walzing into a discussion believing the other ones are stupid people with simple arguments rooted in misunderstandings — yeah, that won't fly.
You can smell it in the article. it's right there. The author thinks he's intellectually superior and arrived at his opinion though a pure intellectual pursuit, where the stupid conversation partners can't follow.
I completely understand how you're not having fruitful discussions.
I don't really see how production-code mocks differ from library-based mocks. If you add but a single constructor parameter to your class, you already need to change your production-mock/stub too.
Isn't that the whole genre of "I wish I had reconciled with person X?" That "you may never get there" thought is top of mind for many.
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