Xophmeister

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by Xophmeister 3y ago
This was my first “introduction” to Kafka (and rock opera, for that matter) in the late-90s IIRC. It definitely encouraged me to buy an anthology of his short stories.
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by Xophmeister 3y ago
It’s pretty cool to see, with all the rotating layers catching the light.
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by Xophmeister 3y ago
Using `set -u` is more portable. If your shebang is `/usr/bin/env bash`, which it probably should be, then you can't add additional command line arguments in Linux with older coreutils. macOS supports additional argument
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by Xophmeister 3y ago
Definitely not. With all the trust and good faith in the world, humans are still fallible. "High velocity" isn't helpful if you've lost control.
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by Xophmeister 3y ago
I suspect it's the earliest date from when they have more granular data. The zigzag was still there pre-1958, but it was never recorded, so the smooth line is the best you're going to get.
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by Xophmeister 3y ago
Maybe this tool already exists, but it occurs to me that architecture diagrams could be generated from, say, Terraform HCL files. They mightn't be perfect, but if it gets you 80% of the way there -- for final touch-ups with some vector
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by Xophmeister 3y ago
I've worked for a company in the UK which had a "staff association", which was orthogonal to any part of the business (i.e., no conflicting interests) and as such operated as a de facto union -- in the employee assistance and
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by Xophmeister 3y ago
This is something we've discussed[1] in the development of Topiary, deferring the process to the formatter. It's not a priority issue for us right now, but given the lack of universal editor support for elastic tab stops, having t
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by Xophmeister 3y ago
There are, of course, alternative metrics for "quality". Furniture with non-visible components made of plywood is more ecologically sustainable, for example (lighter and cheaper, too); one could even push this to using veneer ever
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by Xophmeister 3y ago
Likewise, I was a bit reluctant to watch it, because I know nothing about basketball. After watching it, I kinda want to just play basketball :)
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by Xophmeister 3y ago
IIRC, there's some political science theory that says that certain electoral systems -- I don't know if the US counts -- tend towards a two-party steady state.
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by Xophmeister 3y ago
To be cynical, I guess we're at the "embrace and extend" part; "extinguish" hasn't happened yet, but it could. Microsoft controls the LSP and VS Code is very popular; thus Microsoft has all the leverage in the
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CLI user experience case study(tweag.io)
1 points by Xophmeister 3y ago|0 comments
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by Xophmeister 3y ago
If you're allowing division, you can get arbitrarily close with just two (potentially very large) integers.
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The AI that solved climate change(newstatesman.com)
1 points by Xophmeister 3y ago|0 comments
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by Xophmeister 3y ago
There's https://rust-unofficial.github.io/patterns/
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by Xophmeister 3y ago
You're not the only one! Not until I saw your comment did I re-read to check...which helped answer my question "Why would the Saturn V need vi?" It's been a long day.
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by Xophmeister 3y ago
Cape Verdean programmers get all the breaks.
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by Xophmeister 3y ago
> one single "trust signature" dialog prompt Sweet summer child ;)
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by Xophmeister 3y ago
* Annual energy use per person in the US is 77,000 kWh; in the UK it’s 30,000 kWh. * Annual electricity generation per person is 12,700 kWh; in the UK it’s 4,800 kWh. Consuming/generating less energy is a good thi
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by Xophmeister 3y ago
Dwindling dwarves dwell dweep :)
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by Xophmeister 3y ago
OT but this isn't the first time I've seen someone mistake the verb "delve" with "dwelve": > ...we started dwelving into the code base... The author may not be a native speaker, but this is far from a judgem
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by Xophmeister 3y ago
If the balls don’t interact with each other and they all have the same initial condition, why would their paths diverge? Is it just down to lack of numerical precision, that compounds on each bounce?
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Property-Based Testing in Python: The Ghost in the Machine(tweag.io)
1 points by Xophmeister 3y ago|0 comments
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by Xophmeister 3y ago
Topiary contributor, here: In theory, I think a simple semantic white space language could work, provided the Tree-Sitter grammar for that language is adequate. Python, for example, might be possible; as long as we ignore things like line
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Topiary: A code formatting engine leveraging Tree-sitter(tweag.io)
120 points by Xophmeister 3y ago|33 comments
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by Xophmeister 4y ago
Meta-comment: I really love the expanding explanation hyperlinks in this article. It's a much better alternative (imo) than say, linking in a new tab, or a pop-up, etc.
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by Xophmeister 4y ago
There’s a command line flag that will make it create an actual copy, rather than a symlink.
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Will AI Obliterate the Rule of Law?(matthewbutterick.com)
3 points by Xophmeister 4y ago|0 comments
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Topiary: A code formatting engine leveraging Tree-sitter(tweag.io)
5 points by Xophmeister 4y ago|0 comments

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