abathur

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   by abathur 3y ago

   > No, it isn't. The required directories are /, /dev, /tmp. The reqired files are /dev/null, /dev/tty, and /dev/console. To finish splitting the hair: the env utility is specified by POSI
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   by abathur 3y ago

   I'm not sure if I've ever tried to pitch Nix or NixOS. I can't imagine going back (and might give up computers to live in a tree if I had to), but I don't really try to ~convert people who aren't ready for it. I
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   by abathur 3y ago

   Thank you for answering sincerely and without condescension. <3
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   by abathur 3y ago

   > Android users are more likely to avoid upgrading their phone in an uncertain economy, I would probably be typing this on a recent Pixel if it had a damn headphone jack. (Or even an external ~magsafe-for-headphone.) Instead I'm sti
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   by abathur 3y ago

   I have a parallel-universe version of the question--from a universe where I've ~idealistically refused to create a LinkedIn account. How would you go about finding a recruiter sans LinkedIn? :)
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   by abathur 3y ago

   I'm not sure I'm reading you right--you're suggesting it should work this way? When content republished on some bizarre/sketchy/unaccountable ~adfarm outranks the site where it first appeared, users of Google&#x27
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   by abathur 3y ago

   I found a lot of helpful context for understanding the research (and the implications if its forecast proved accurate) in https://www.sciencemediacentre.org/expert-reaction-to-paper-...
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   by abathur 3y ago

   And, IME, these scraped sites often manage to rank above the canonical source.
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   by abathur 3y ago

   I think GP is suggesting that some interests want the process of filing your taxes to be annoying/frustrating/degrading/disruptive to increase anti-tax sentiment. (I.e., most people have already been deprived of the funds f
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    by abathur 3y ago

    Before I pick at this, I'll clarify that I don't think Google is useless . It's still perfectly fine for many uses. > Now it's seven pages of nearly identical listicles, some of which are on bizarre domains like &quo
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    by abathur 3y ago

    Thanks for questioning my reasons (anonymously). As such things tend to be, it was the last straw. I was an angry, shy, lonely young person. I didn't know it at the time, but I was 1 year in to 6 years of ~writing-my-way-out of the wor
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    by abathur 3y ago

    Sure, but we aren't discussing how everyone should just go teach journalism or the humanities.
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    by abathur 3y ago

    I came to the same conclusion while trying to work out a good documentation single-sourcing setup that could successfully target multiple formats like markdown, mdoc, be injected into code, etc. I still use markdown for what it does well, b
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    by abathur 3y ago

    Spending time in meetings with someone who insists on near-complete terminological clarity from everyone involved ~illuminates just how hard it is to communicate precisely and consistently. (In my case, this person is a CEO who's had p
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    by abathur 3y ago

    I think there's still a difference here with respect to writing styles and audiences. In most humanities specialties you'll be writing for an academic audience (and depending on your focus, potentially one with a very narrow band
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    by abathur 3y ago

    It's just a tool in the toolkit. I dropped my entire comp-sci major when I realized I couldn't bear even the first of two required technical writing courses. It was wringing all of the joy out of something I loved. Later, newswrit
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    by abathur 3y ago

    At a party, a coworker's partner (who is in law enforcement) asked what I thought about how to help people upskill to write better reports and such, and without hesitation I said they should try taking a newswriting class (ideally, IMO
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    by abathur 3y ago

    I don't think this affects localsnapshots expiring, though. Also, apfs.util has a flag for restoring a snapshot (but I haven't been able to figure out the syntax).
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    by abathur 3y ago

    Thanks for the kind words :) In 2021 I prototyped some documentation single-sourcing tools. I made leaps fueled by intuition and years of frustration, so I found it hard to explain to others what I did and why. In early 2022 I started sketc
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    by abathur 3y ago

    We also have a lot of tooling that invites semantic abuse for presentational effect (i.e., using markdown blockquotes as notes, and even the fancy behavior browsers attach to the <details> element).
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    by abathur 3y ago

    This is mostly true, but the asterisks cause a little chaos. > HTML is the semantics ... the element tag to say "what it is" Maybe this is best framed as a perspective thing. "Semantic HTML" is about HTML authors usin
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    by abathur 3y ago

    I don't mean to prescribe anything that specific (lest anyone reject the diagnosis because they don't like the prescription). I think people are using Tailwind in roughly a presentation-attribute way in order to claw back some of
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    by abathur 3y ago

    > Apologies for reading more into your article than it was trying to say. <3 (Nothing wrong with reading in, but thanks nonetheless.) > You're probably right that we're talking past each other ... I don't believe tha
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    by abathur 3y ago

    I think you would be strongly disagreeing with something I didn't say. > Interfaces aren't special... if you can't sit down and describe an interface as pure text, something has gone wrong with your UX. I'm not sure h
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    Oils Is Exterior-First (Code, Text, and Structured Data)(oilshell.org)

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    by abathur 3y ago

    The discomfort is because html and css were misabstracted. They were designed for the old world of documents, where the idea of restyling a bunch of documents for a new letterhead (etc.) makes a lot of sense. They've been adapted for t
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    by abathur 3y ago

    It is. I found it several years back but I finally built something on it recently and extending it was pretty simple (as someone who likewise doesn't know ruby, though I've written a little for Chef recipes). I ended up writing a
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    by abathur 3y ago

    If an extra tool is fine, a really common trope in the world of minimal markup languages/libraries/DSLs are ways to write low-furniture html/xml and generate the delivery files. DMark ( https://denisdefreyne.github.
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    by abathur 3y ago

    I feel like I remember restructured text's visual table format supporting rowspan/colspan cells. (but I've also read the docs for nearly every minimal markup format I can find, so I might be misremembering... :)
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    by abathur 3y ago

    Ah. Mine is up, now, though the entry shows some sort of parse break, maybe around newlines. Sorry for being and edge case :)