froztbyte

yep yep - didn’t mean to argue with your post inasmuch as to fill in details to the fork, but I guess I could’ve been clearer about that

that android project of some months was a venture into flutter (and haven’t touched it before)

I had similar impressions on some things, and mixed on other

dart’s a moderately good language with some nice primitive, tooling overall is pretty mature, broad strokes works well for variant targeting and shit

libraries though holy shit the current situation (then) was a mess. one minor flutter sdk upgrade and a whole bunch of things just exploded (serialisation things in nosql-type libraries I tried to use for the ostensible desired magic factor (just went back to sqlite stuff again after)). this can’t have been due to sdk drift alone, and felt like an iceberg problem

and then the documentation: fucking awful, for starting. excellent as technical documentation once you grok shit but before that all the examples and things are terrible. lots of extremely important details hidden in single mentions in offhand sentences in places that if you don’t happen to be looking at that exact page good luck finding it. this, too, felt like inadequate care and attention by el goog

I imagine if one is working with this every day you know the lay of the land and where to avoid stepping into holes, but wow was I surprised at how much it was possible to rapidly rakestep, given what the language pitches as

I know a bit about qgis + wfs (and surroundings)? enough to be dangerous tho

that’d be an interesting experiment but also that’s $2400 you could spend on more useful things, like bootstrapping your whiskey collection

classic warning case of someone getting high on their own supply

didn't you know? kids exist in perfect social isolation taking social cues only from their parents and no other information or humans they have contact with! and it's not like parents have issues either, right? I mean who'd have issues and then go pop out some kids?! madness

(utter and complete /s ofc. the aforeposter in question is the intended recipient)

mm I wonder what kind of content they'll want to use that for

always remember that the "B" in "Jordan B Peterson" is for "Benzos"

jesus fuck so many parts of this are psychic injury

the account name, the presumption of "oh yeah my opinion is right", the very nature of this person's "engagement" (quotes intentional) with conflict, the deference to non-authority (holy fuck how the fuck is it that we have worse than the personal-abdication of christianity (oh right, it's mcfuckingsaltman's fault)).....

I want to say "some of these people are in desperate need of a hug", but then as a friend of mine pointed out recently: "maybe if they weren't all such self-loathing pieces of shit they may actually get a hug"

in the current most-typical mode of engagement, commit messages are too disconnected from the actual contents. it requires someone who gives a shit to go looking

conversely, what I mean is something like "a hook that guarantees that the moment the plugin is engaged and output from it is scribed in source, metadata about that event is simultaneously co-written"

it's already generating a pile of other things, it may as well generate timestamps and callsig and callhash and shit too....

the number one problem with this, of course, is that it's going to be extremely unpopular with a Vocal Set Of People who rely on this shit to make themselves look good

that was indeed another input to the heuristics

(post-hoc, to be honest. but it's still fucking hilarious)

that was indeed another input to the heuristics

nominative determinism strikes once again!