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TIL The first commercial graphing calculator was introduced by Casio in 1985 for $75. By 1986 it had been adopted by a program in Ohio schools, and other states soon followed in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

I felt like such a rebel with my Casio in high school. It was so much faster, had a better screen, and had way more features.

Am I the only one that thinks we should have dedicated buttons for copy/paste on keyboards? in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

MY PEOPLE! I’m so used to the CMD key that I made this shitty AutoHotkey script that makes things mostly work the same in Windows. It’s glitchy and imperfect, but it’s better than changing my muscle memory.

If anyone has any recommendations to improve the situation (besides recommending that I switch OSes), then I’m all ears.

Computer nerds of Lemmy, do you also enjoy comparing natural systems to large codebases in programming? What are your favorite peculiar similarities? in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 weeks ago

I’ve heard the phenomenon you’re describing as the “lava layers”.

Kitty-man in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

This is basically a scene out of Bee and PuppyCat.

Party-goer [Mr. Lovenstein] in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

Ah yes, the insidious corner.

TIL humans are the only animal with a chin. We aren't sure why. in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

chin stab

"Soundblaster" was such an 80s/90s name for a computer part. in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago (2 children)

I still use an external Creative sound card so I can switch my speakers over USB between my work laptop and personal desktop!

What industry secret are you aware of that most people aren't? in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago (2 children)

That’s why I’m rooting for Ladybird.

Calves are almost always separated from their mothers rule in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 months ago

And now we’re doing it to the almonds smh

Feel the burn in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago

Keeping “muscles make the body move” was artistic brilliance 🤌

Nothing to see here, keep scrolling in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 months ago (1 children)

he gorris

BBC World Service - lite in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago

Skipping React hydration… so, only rendering on the server? BBC just re-invented server-side rendering, bravo 👏😆

I say this as an 8-year React developer. Damn, our industry really drank the kool-aid on on this one. Of course, plenty of people have been saying that React for static content like this has always been a misapplication of the tool, I’ve been reading opinions like that the entire time I’ve been working with it.

I’m glad BBC is doing this, though. Legitimate kudos to them for recognizing the issue and working towards fixing it. I actually think there are some great benefits that React has given us:

A universal component interface for all JavaScript-targeting languages
An enormous ecosystem of components
Popularization of the “component model”, which has spread to basically every other language that is used to render user interfaces (the mental model is just that much better)
A quickly-evolving (React is arguably on its third major paradigm shift) testbed for what works best for UI development

I would be happy if React was supplanted in the near future, but I also have some fondness for it. I know I’m way off topic on this post, just felt like talking about React.