abathur

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by abathur 4y ago
Hmm. I found myself nodding along with what this has to say about syntax design and the responsibilities of well-abstracted markup languages/converters, but I was also a little surprised by some apparent contradictions. > Great mark
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by abathur 4y ago
Not sure I'd blame the cloud cover over the polar airmass wrt intensity. I think we had at least a couple sunny days in Houston (I remember opening blinds to get as much free heat as possible) and still didn't get out of the low 2
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by abathur 4y ago
There could probably be a form of punishment or a group party game based on deciding whether or not a short option in a pipeline is a bug or correct (without comments, of course). Mix legacy/GNU/BSD/*box options if you'd
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by abathur 4y ago
I agree that it feels like multiple projects are converging on something that is ripe (or close). I have done some deep-digging for markup languages and came across more than one project in this space. (I've added Jevko to my list; ht
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by abathur 4y ago
This reminds me of Breck Yunits' Tree Notation ( https://treenotation.org/ ). Both seem to have a ~totalizing energy. Maybe some common cause. :)
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by abathur 4y ago
I was looking at the California Wildfire History Map ( https://projects.capradio.org/california-fire-history/#9.62/... ) a while back and remember noting that the CZU fire was the first recorded burn for most of the
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by abathur 4y ago
To ~rectify some problems caused by the really large gap between the release of 2.3 and the next minor/major, the release of Nix 2.4 in November 2021 marked a move to a 6-week release cadence. Since they're driven by a calendar no
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What color is your markup?(t-ravis.com)
1 points by abathur 4y ago|0 comments
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by abathur 4y ago
Maybe, maybe not :)
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by abathur 4y ago
IDK about the details underlying the argument (whether the contract is actually structured this way, etc.), but https://mobile.twitter.com/nierobmitak/status/15747490369129... mentioned the possibility that the co
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by abathur 4y ago
IDK how closely HAML hews to valid HTML elements/attrs/etc., but DMark ( https://denisdefreyne.github.io/d-mark/ ) is syntactically similar and very extensible.
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by abathur 4y ago
A bit aside, but while working on a kind of CSS for a different purpose this past year I realized that there's no real distinction* between CSS-the-syntax and CSS-the-spec/rules/properties/selectors/etc. Perpetually
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by abathur 4y ago
While there is certainly no place an airmass is supposed to be, this framing makes it sound like the problem would go away if we just updated our expectations. Do you think the problem would go away if we updated our expectations?
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by abathur 4y ago
Sitting mighty high in the saddle for someone who didn't bother addressing anything I actually said. Edit: also unclear whether you realize I'm agreeing with the comment I responded to or not. /shrug
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by abathur 4y ago
The "do your own research" meme works better when the initiator can make the target go refer to a corpus of questionable content (that is often already ideologically skewed), actively filter out whatever they find benign, and zero
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by abathur 4y ago
Flipping back between ~2: - A tool for resolving external executables and sourceables in Shell scripts to absolute paths (and erroring when they aren't found). This is mainly to make it possible to package Shell with Nix in a way that
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by abathur 4y ago
Completions have in general been of interest, though the shell-specific completions I've looked at so far were all too dynamic. I'd forgotten all about Fig since I saw your launch post here last year, so thanks for reminder. (I do
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by abathur 4y ago
As I said, my usecase doesn't involve implementing the commands--it involves reliably identifying executables in the arguments to many different commands. I can't go rewrite awk, find, and sed with an opinionated cli module. I hav
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by abathur 4y ago
Parsers designed for implementing CLI programs are generally too opinionated to handle ~strange commands. (In my terms I'd say it's a prescriptive parser as opposed to something that attempts to be flexible enough to describe ne
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by abathur 4y ago
I have a hard time imagining how we get out of the gravity well of CLI programs handling their own parsing. A tool I write has a use-case for understanding the syntax of at least ~common CLI tools well enough to pick out args that will be o
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by abathur 4y ago
Fiddling with semantics in order to ignore the point: Approximately everyone can use it to communicate--they just can't use it to communicate every thing .
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by abathur 4y ago
There's a substitution, here. The GP's statement is still roughly correct: approximately anyone can use the internet to communicate. Everyone using other people's infrastructure to communicate on the internet is to some degre
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by abathur 4y ago
Have you tried Mach-nix?
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by abathur 4y ago
Will be interesting if this takes off. I think, on net, HN is a bit triggered by shell/bash. I guess I have a love-hate relationship with it. - It can be a real pain. - There's something in the pliable near-human-language of it th
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Melting ice reveals two-million-year old peat(williamcolgan.net)
62 points by abathur 4y ago|65 comments
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by abathur 4y ago
Makes sense. I'll keep an eye out. Tilting at other windmills for now, myself. Congrats on the great start :)
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by abathur 4y ago
@dloreto @robrich A little aside from the announcement, but since it seems like you both work on this I wanted to surface something that came up down in a subthread: I'm curious if you attempted to support macOS by doing this with Nix&
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by abathur 4y ago
https://nix.dev/tutorials/building-and-running-docker-images... asserts that you'd need a remote builder or cross-compiling. So it seems possible (unless maybe there are still enough cross-compile issues?)
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by abathur 4y ago
I paid the ~cost of learning Nix mainly to get out of needing VMs for daily dev work on macOS. I won't sugar-coat those costs, but I'm glad I did.
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by abathur 4y ago
I don't know much about this, but: - I think they are fiberglass - IIRC they actually need to be locked beyond some safe maximum windspeed because the forces they're under are indeed sufficient to tear them apart. I guess if loc

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