Pimpus

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by Pimpus 8y ago
Interesting, can you expand on this?
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by Pimpus 8y ago
> One thing that is true in all successful organizations over time is that for any given person, no amount of genius will make up for being an asshole. All successful organizations? Really? Definitely not hyperbole. Even here it's c
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by Pimpus 8y ago
I would venture to say that you're just out of touch.
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by Pimpus 8y ago
The fact that this discussion ALWAYS comes up when talking about Lua, with people saying they won't even try the language, should clue you in how terrible these design decisions are.
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by Pimpus 8y ago
Heh, you don't even try to justify it, just point out prior art in some irrelevant "languages". Yeah, definitely not easy to defend such choices. Even the fact that this turns off potential Lua programmers such as myself make
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by Pimpus 8y ago
I wasn't aware that cats were political. What a silly argument.
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by Pimpus 8y ago
I agree with you. Bringing up politics in the workplace is rarely appropriate, and the way Google does it here is not only inappropriate but very offensive. I definitely wouldn't want to hear mud slinging about my political views in a
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by Pimpus 8y ago
> The syntax in question isn't just used by Lua, either, and it usually tells me that a developer can't respect differences between languages. Actually, the two examples you bring up are paragons of asinine design. I can't
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by Pimpus 8y ago
This wouldn't work for me - my to-do list only grows bigger, not smaller :-) Anyway, I've had a lot of success with Cold Turkey for blocking distracting websites and applications. I even bought a license for the extra features sin
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by Pimpus 8y ago
> “I ought to be able to generalize this,” I say. lol, it's no wonder he never finishes a program. But this isn't a problem limited to Haskell - one can start generalizing unnecessarily in any language. To be fair though, the H
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by Pimpus 8y ago
Awesome. I would love to start bodyweight training, but your routine requires things like gymnastics rings and pull-up bars and I'm traveling at the moment. Are these absolutely necessary?
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by Pimpus 8y ago
It's inaccurate because people tend to be biased towards under-counting their own calories. However, calorie counting is very effective -- knowing the absolute number of calories you consume is not that important, as long as the report
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by Pimpus 8y ago
When you are a digital addict, it is no surprise that you cannot sustain focus and attention. "Deep reading" is going to seem like a chore when your brain is craving the dopamine hits it's used to. I've had a lot of succ
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by Pimpus 8y ago
> Also, I can see the email address of everyone who's viewed this document, along with their name. Not mine. Thanks, Multi-Account Containers!
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by Pimpus 8y ago
Well, I've gotten a lot sharper over the past year. And comparing myself to five years ago, the difference is night and day. Hmm, I see I got downvoted. Whatever.
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by Pimpus 8y ago
Getting sharper takes practice. I like to unwind on forums too but it's not pushing you to think faster. Also, getting your thoughts, actions, and words all in alignment will help, as there will be less hesitation on each front.
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by Pimpus 8y ago
Please post your OS and Emacs version. Magit hasnt been slow for me since I upgraded to Emacs 26. Older versions of Emacs were not optimized for spawning processes on OSX and it was causing a 10x slowdown for some operations.
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by Pimpus 8y ago
He has a point. Why complain about Emacs when the problem is Windows? To be fair, I am known to use all three OS's from time to time. I just have conditional guards to prevent loading packages that break on Windows. Mostly everything w
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by Pimpus 8y ago
Yeah, I gave up on DDG recently. The results were often useless and I was typing "!g <query>" 90% of the time. I decided to just save myself the trouble and set Google back as my default search.
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by Pimpus 8y ago
With the placement of the Control key on most keyboards, your pinkie is doing a straight downwards motion which is much less straining than going sideways, even if it is a bit of a long stretch. Most keyboards (maybe not on laptops though)
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by Pimpus 8y ago
It seems like a deliberate action to drive people to the Google browser. Other companies should not have to continually implement deprecated APIs just to play catch-up. It's a clear abuse of market dominance. > Another rather intere
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by Pimpus 8y ago
> - Even more variety of fresh, healthy fruits, vegetables, and meats than before (especially in winter) You have more variety, but not of more “fresh” foods. The only fresh food you can eat will always be local, so the variety only went
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by Pimpus 8y ago
It's nice that we have studies to confirm this, but I always thought this was common sense. Just the difference in air quality, compared to a city, is worth being in a pristine location -- every breath becomes pure pleasure. As a remot
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by Pimpus 8y ago
I use Anki but it's insufficient as a sole tool for learning. Being able to memorize e.g. foreign language vocab (or grammar patterns using clozes) is very valuable but you won't become fluent without daily or almost-daily practic
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by Pimpus 8y ago
I still don't see how it can be accurate for tracking calories.
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by Pimpus 8y ago
Both the article and the hyperlink on HN are titled greatest solo climber.
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by Pimpus 8y ago
For losing weight, diet is much more important than exercise. Studies have shown that very few people can successfully lose weight through exercise alone, and that dieting is much more effective. Which is easier, cutting out soda and sweets
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by Pimpus 8y ago
> A good quality fitness tracker with a built-in heart rate monitor like a Garmin Forerunner will give you a reasonably accurate estimate of calories out. These aren't accurate at all. How would they be? All they have to work with i
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by Pimpus 8y ago
I think the problem is that society accepts results like this uncritically. I don't think this study was innately garbage, as waking the animals was the only way they could disturb rem sleep, but there should have been (maybe there wer
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by Pimpus 8y ago
> While these may seem like trivial issues, they actually negatively impact my typing experience to a high degree. I don't think these are trivial issues at all. I do the majority of my computing work in a text editor so it's i

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