abathur

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by abathur 3y ago
I suppose I don't really disagree with you, but a fair fraction of us would be likely to mourn, in fora like this, the end of the ability to sustain a middle-class existence via the craft of making software.
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by abathur 3y ago
Idk if it would out of the box, but it should be possible. I know that Whisper (and some variants) run on both x86 and silicon macs.
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by abathur 3y ago
At least in my opinion, the leverage here isn't about directly saving time in some hypothetical universe where you set up new devices every week. It's about confidence in your ability to quickly bootstrap a productive system and t
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by abathur 3y ago
In exchange for having taken the time to understand and declare exactly what you depend on to be productive (and nothing else), you get to start ~productively-fresh instead of living in a cargo cult of whatever unexamined arbitrary state
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by abathur 3y ago
Unclear at what level you're asking, but Mitchell's comment identified it as a nix-darwin feature, and you can see how he's using it in the config he linked at https://github.com/mitchellh/nixos-config&#x
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by abathur 3y ago
I'm not sure how much meaningful information about "kindness" can fit in the signal a dating app/website tends to carry? Like, we could probably study dating websites and conclude that having a pleasant voice isn't
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by abathur 3y ago
Built something similar (though I've yet to get astound to the frontend for it--vaguely intend to borrow one). I neither love nor hate it as a sync mechanism, but I ended up satisficing with storing the history in my dotfile repo, trea
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by abathur 3y ago
Same, though I did have a Sidekick (2008). I've never stopped missing it. Every time I start trying to ~swipe some technical term that the keyboard won't get unless I've added it previously. Every time I type 'n' in
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by abathur 3y ago
> The key point is that it puts the onus on individual men, not on society at large. A gentle nudge, I hope. I'm not sure how the examples you give place any undue onus on individual men, nor how they absolve society at large. I r
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by abathur 3y ago
> Figure 3 shows four facts that are important for understanding adolescent suicide: (1) Boys have higher rates of suicide than girls, (2) since 2010, boys have had greater absolute increases in suicide (the total number of additional su
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by abathur 3y ago
Maybe it's paradoxical, but I think some combination of working on OSS broadly and using Nix in particular have helped me fight an inclination towards perfectionistic procrastination. I still prefer to build a working prototype in priv
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by abathur 3y ago
I get the urge to quantify life like this, but as a late bloomer in many respects I find it helpful (less stressful) to focus on who I've been rather than how long my flesh has been bumbling around. It's all a continuum full of ov
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by abathur 3y ago
Plus ~new software in and to manage those parts.
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by abathur 3y ago
Perhaps not no weather--water intrusion/management will still matter.
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by abathur 3y ago
There are at least hundreds of thousands of teachers in high-risk age groups. I can't imagine any solutions to this logistical problem that wouldn't also significantly affect learning outcomes.
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by abathur 3y ago
This strikes me as very thoughtful, though I imagine I'd end up concerned about whether I was feeding said assistant sufficiently meaningful work... I would love to have someone else sit in on meetings, but i suspect I'm there i
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by abathur 3y ago
I feel this. I ~empathize with people who wish it were simpler, and agree there are too many sharp corners. (For example, the traditional CLI certainly left a lot of room for improvement.) I can vaguely imagine the prospect that something n
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by abathur 3y ago
There's some prospect of Nickel ( https://github.com/tweag/nickel ) meeting this need, though haven't tried it and can't really vouch. Typing might be really helpful for building your own layers up, but I
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by abathur 3y ago
As someone who had extremely poor handwriting as a child (it is still not great...), it makes a lot of sense to me that they'd land here. Over the years, being regularly mocked/embarrassed/reprimanded over my handwriting and
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by abathur 3y ago
One approach to this problem that’s been fruitful in Nix ecosystem is ~packaging scripts and baking in absolute paths at build time. (Generally by rewriting references in the script to absolute paths or generating wrappers to set PATH or BA
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by abathur 3y ago
I generally agree with your skepticism of the viewpoint presented in the article, but I feel like your conclusion is a little too broad. Some things to weigh, here: - Wikipedia identifies Julie Bindel (author of this piece) as a radical fem
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Accidental FUD around setup.py(fosstodon.org)
5 points by abathur 3y ago|0 comments
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PhD Thesis: Cascading Style Sheets (2005)(wiumlie.no)
2 points by abathur 3y ago|0 comments
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by abathur 3y ago
I suspect GP would find the subjective difference between "go home, it's all in your head" and "you aren't crazy, but I don't know how to help you" to be meaningful.
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by abathur 3y ago
Capacity lost during winter storm Uri was due to power infrastructure that wasn't sufficiently winterized, and that shortfall was broad across the energy mix. Most of the unexpected capacity offline was actually natgas. This is unambig
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by abathur 3y ago
If everyone they are close to also moved to where this guy and his brother live--and so on--they could have quite the 1 easy trick to found a new megacity.
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Desalination system could produce freshwater that is cheaper than tap water(news.mit.edu)
344 points by abathur 3y ago|191 comments
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by abathur 3y ago
Try running `sudo mkdir /nix && sudo chown $USER /nix` on modern macOS.
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by abathur 3y ago
I agree it is worth accounting for this, though I'm not sure the nation-wide rate disproves the claim. "Large companies" could be having a significant impact on some number of urban markets without shifting a country-wide s
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by abathur 3y ago
It should be evident that, with effort, the date of all firsts (and lasts) will continue to approach (but probably never reach) the date of The Oldest (or Newest) Artifact We Can Plausibly Find. It doesn't take genius, intellectual cou

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