abathur

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by abathur 2y ago
My favorite kind of manual to actually read is sprinkled with hijinks-enabling arcana, and the Bash manual doesn't disappoint on this front.
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by abathur 2y ago
Two thoughts: I agree most of the compatibility concerns mentioned are moot, but I guess it will cause small amounts of one minor ~forward-compatibility problem: people working on Fedora hardcode new paths that won't work on other dist
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by abathur 3y ago
Perhaps by coincidence, there's a good post on treeshaking+wasm on the front page this morning: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40023319
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by abathur 3y ago
I imagine the answer's ~yes from the perspective of something you build and deploy (and I agree it's relevant to the article--but I'll caveat that I read xamuel to be asking the question very broadly). Relying on a post-build
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by abathur 3y ago
> Some package managers have "features" (e.g. Rust's cargo) or "extras" (e.g. Python) which might be what you are talking about. I don't think so (though I agree that mechanisms like this are one way to appr
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by abathur 3y ago
I guess there's a hybrid model where you're able to select exactly what you're depending on and pull it in dynamically at build/package time. I've thought a little about, for example, building something that could s
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by abathur 3y ago
Thread a few months ago ~about a risk associated with getting habituated to automatic dependency-update PRs and looking at them less critically: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37680443
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by abathur 3y ago
Sure. I don't recall seeing one, but the near-inevitability of this is why I didn't assert they don't exist. Rarity speaks to how poorly suited the material is for building durable fences and the ~irrelevance of the cost of p
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by abathur 3y ago
I can't recall ever seeing a plywood fence in North America.
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No solar glasses? How to tell if you damaged your eyes during the eclipse(theguardian.com)
1 points by abathur 3y ago|3 comments
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by abathur 3y ago
I'm not sure it's intrinsically bad news for the diet (but I won't dispute that it's a challenge for how it's usually followed). I haven't met one, but I've at least heard that there are vegans following k
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by abathur 3y ago
Oblique, but since this topic might be catnip for people who'd know: Anyone aware of a Python parser for the Awk language? I found a number of Awk-alikes implemented in Python, but they all sounded like they took enough liberties that
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by abathur 3y ago
Since your definition seems to be a sharp enough razor to triage 50 comments and I'm not read-in enough to tell from the OP, can you help elucidate? :) Are we talking about work on so-called intelligent agents (something with a primiti
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by abathur 3y ago
FWIW, I tend to find that it doesn't have to be a full brain idle. Some active component seems to be helpful, but I think it needs to be easy to pause and that there's a sweet spot on the amount of engagement. Reading actual books
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by abathur 3y ago
Can you elaborate on why to see it, also, since they look like forks of the same project?
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by abathur 3y ago
When adhering to if+keto well lines up with a period where social pressures don't compel me to eat, it's not terribly hard to go 2 or 3 days without eating just by not eating until I feel hungry.
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by abathur 3y ago
Not directly related to leap year, but a couple weeks ago I set up a script for testing notification behavior that used libfaketime to simulate runs at different times. I guess this might be less-trivial if you've got a distributed mul
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by abathur 3y ago
I wouldn't try to insist anything I sketched out is the ~right approach. I was just trying to imagine one path through the possibility space, and then reason a bit about what kinds of information it might be able to convey. There are a
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Nixing Technological Lock In(economicsfromthetopdown.com)
27 points by abathur 3y ago|9 comments
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by abathur 3y ago
I fiddled around a little with the idea of test-driven versioning a while back. Maybe you'd find it interesting. https://github.com/abathur/tdver I did draft a git-based implementation ( https://github.c
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by abathur 3y ago
Since you're apparently here to play semantics games: if you aren't willing to pay your employer for the opportunity to solve their problems, you don't want the job.
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by abathur 3y ago
I doubt it? My willingness to practice leetcode isn't correlated with my interest in new work or the work any given job post describes. It's also not correlated with my willingness to invest time in exploring the position. 6 hours
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by abathur 3y ago
The interview the post describes actually sounds like a good format for me, but I do have some problems adjacent to the ones you mention. As someone who struggles with ~parallelizing some tasks (especially when anxious), it would be great t
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by abathur 3y ago
> was willing to submit to it for the approval of this company I abstain, myself. I have too much real work that I'd like to push forward to be able justify spending weeks of free time on fake work.
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by abathur 3y ago
Definitely sounds like something a Russian bot would point out
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by abathur 3y ago
Home alone seems to be perpetually recombinant. Over 10m :)
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by abathur 3y ago
There are also some of us who are just not great at demonstrating intelligence by narrating our thought process while under an adversarial spotlight with a timer running. I realize there are time/resource problems on the interviewing s
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by abathur 3y ago
I don't think it's mostly good or mostly bad in the abstract. DRYing code repeated for the same reason is mostly good. DRYing code coincidentally repeated for different reasons will sow code churn or inadvertent behavior shifts.
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by abathur 3y ago
Just a general recommendation from someone who keeps a long history: if your shell loads a histfile, don't let it grow unbounded. It isn't massive, but there's real shell startup latency associated with loading lines from you
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by abathur 3y ago
> Where I struggle is coming up with an affirmative argument that an artist should benefit from automation of medicine or farming, but that an alienated lab tech or food factory worker should not benefit from automated art. > Another

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