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by _peeley 5y ago
I haven't looked into Bazel at all, other than knowing it's a build system used at Google. Sounds a lot like Nix's philosophy of totally sandboxed/declarative package builds, although instead of needing a monorepo with e
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by _peeley 5y ago
If I had a nickel for every "guaranteed basic income" program I saw headlines about that is needs-based yet insufficient for even the most basic needs, I'd have enough money to institute a real UBI.
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by _peeley 5y ago
Another great Rich Hickey talk is Simple Made Easy , very similar message. So many of these auto-project tools are very easy to use, but in no way simple to understand and end up adding complexity in the long-term. A good example is a tool
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by _peeley 5y ago
I bought a PinePhone when they were on sale a few months ago for $150. I tinkered around with it for a few days, but it's just been collecting dust ever since. I kind of expected not to use it as a daily driver since I rely on App&#x2F
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by _peeley 5y ago
Wow, that's super neat. How much fine-grain control do you have over the drone's control? I'm curious how much data these consumer-grade headsets are able to measure, I've always assumed it's just a single analog va
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by _peeley 5y ago
I'm impressed at how much IDE-as-a-Service has advanced in the past few years, a lot of other students at my university do all their programming assignments exclusively via repl.it. I wonder if they'll become the norm and basicall
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by _peeley 5y ago
Any good mice you could recommend? I used to use a Razer Naga during my MMO days and I've really missed the side button array, but I found myself replacing them way too often (they'd wear out and start double clicking in just 6 mo
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by _peeley 5y ago
From a high level, iterators are basically just generators (which themselves are just simple continuations). Rust is a good example since pretty much all looping is done via iterators, and most implementations of the Iterator[0] trait look
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by _peeley 5y ago
Dwarf Fortress consumed hundreds of hours of my life in high school, I have so many fond memories of it. Every year or so I come back to it and I'm always surprised that they've managed to add another mechanic or feature that just
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by _peeley 5y ago
Honestly, I'm more than happy to see older/niche protocols removed from web browsers. God knows the average browser contains way, way too much stuff anyway[0], not to mention there are FTP clients that are likely far better for
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by _peeley 5y ago
Man, this would be my absolute dream. It would be so nice to have a totally declarative and identical environment across my desktop, laptop, and phone (maybe not totally identical given hardware differences, but almost). With Nix I can get
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by _peeley 5y ago
I also did a deep dive on Urbit a few months back (shameless plug: https://blog.janissary.xyz/posts/urbit ), and I really agree with the author for the most part. Definitely the most concerning part of Urbit, for me at
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by _peeley 6y ago
I think this is a little too optimistic regarding what consumers are willing to pay for. The Original Sin of the Internet was subsidizing everything via advertising revenue, allowing businesses to present services as "free" to end
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by _peeley 6y ago
I don't really mind having less buttons to accidentally push on my phone or other devices that go in my pocket, but I can't stand this when it comes to car dashboard interfaces. Thankfully I still drive a car from before this tren
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by _peeley 6y ago
I remember my first job in tech support where I'd have to walk 40-50 year old white-collar workers through basic tasks like opening files in folders, connecting to WiFi, resetting passwords, etc. I have no problem whatsoever helping pe
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by _peeley 6y ago
I see a lot of parallels between Emacs' problems now and Vim's problems a few years ago: opaque maintenance/contributions, poor performance inherited from core design decisions made decades ago, the burden of backwards compat
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by _peeley 6y ago
Word of warning to anyone that might give Neon Genesis Evangelion a watch after seeing this - a lot of people include it in the "mecha" genre but if you're looking for a light-hearted, Saturday-morning, big-robots-punching-ea
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by _peeley 6y ago
Everytime I see mainframes/COBOL mentioned, there's always anecdotes on how constantly short-supply COBOl programmers are[0] and that a surefire way to get a job is to learn about COBOL and mainframes. I'm always curious - ar
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by _peeley 6y ago
I have yet to find a satsifactory way to disable them - it's pretty easy to disable notifications from userspace apps like Instagram or Snapchat or whatever, but disabling notifications or altogether uninstalling vendor apps is a huge
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by _peeley 6y ago
I agree with this so much. It would be so convenient if I could just flash Arch Linux or something onto a modern smartphone and be able to use all the applications and settings and data I use on my desktop, but on my mobile phone. Android i
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by _peeley 6y ago
One problem with this (and a common misunderstanding of crypto as an "anonymous currency" by the general public) is that it would allow everyone to see exactly how much money everyone else has in their accounts, what they're
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by _peeley 6y ago
Interesting, I've always loved this feature. I guess in my use cases, whenever I go to click the URL bar I'm intending to copy/paste it more often than edit. Either way, it's deeply ingrained into my muscle memory by now
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by _peeley 6y ago
This has easily been the worst thing I've seen this week (other than the disaster itself, of course). The way that I've seen so many centre-left urbanites talk about people in "red states" is outright genocidal at times
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by _peeley 6y ago
If you're an Emacs user, I'd really recommend checking out elfeed ( https://github.com/skeeto/elfeed ). You can subscribe to RSS feeds just by adding a line to an org-mode file, and then organize and tag all yo
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An Opinionated Introduction to Urbit(janissary.xyz)
9 points by _peeley 6y ago|0 comments
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by _peeley 6y ago
I've also had something similar happen to me. When I was a university student staying at the campus dorms, I'd park my car outside my dorm building for most weekdays until I'd use it on the weekends to drive home, run errands
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by _peeley 6y ago
I agree, although there are IMO more optimal and explicit ways to handle errors - Rust and Haskell come to mind. When dealing with a Result/Either/Maybe or some other functor, you have to acknowledge the context of the value, i.
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by _peeley 6y ago
"The moral of the story is: if you’re against witch-hunts, and you promise to found your own little utopian community where witch-hunts will never happen, your new society will end up consisting of approximately three principled civil
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by _peeley 6y ago
Looks like there's a typo in the link for Urbit, should be https://urbit.org if anyone wants to take a look. Personally it seems like vaporware to me, there's not much based on the lofty promises of a new OS/langu
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by _peeley 6y ago
As someone that's had a bullshit job[0] where I might as well have been paid to stare at a wall, it's really not what it's cracked up to be. Considering you're spending 40 hours a week (1/3 of all your weekday hours

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