akavel

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by akavel 4y ago
Is Dat/hypercore or other similar alternative more reliable in practice? Are torrents better? (But wouldn't tracker hosting be a "chicken vs. egg" issue?)
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by akavel 4y ago
Hm; I seem to understand the words you wrote by themselves, but I feel like I'm missing some extra context that you maybe kindly assume I have; wouldn't you mind if I asked you to please consider elaborating a bit more? Is the &
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by akavel 4y ago
Hmh; so, generally, the retreat is called something like "Ignatian Spiritual Exercises". I did it in Poland, my home country & language, so don't have data for any other country/language, but I'd say maybe try c
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by akavel 4y ago
I can't say much about mindfulness meditation specifically, but I've been practicing Catholic (specifically, Iesuit) meditation weekly for over a year now. Also, after my first experiences with it I talked with a friend who tr
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by akavel 4y ago
AFAIR, JVM used to not have an u64 type, only i64; does JVM now support it? Or how does Virgil handle it? If there's some custom overhead added to simulate u64 semantics on JVM, that should be clearly documented in a language purportin
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by akavel 4y ago
Who was to be the arbiter in the debate, i.e. the person deciding which one of you were right?
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by akavel 4y ago
Mercurial covers generally the same concepts as git and is thus also not trivial to learn for someone uninitiated; yet its interface was like day vs. night when compared to git since their very early days. It proves one can design a decent
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by akavel 4y ago
I assume the author may be referring to the projects at http://akkartik.name/code , notably Mu - though not 100% sure, doesn't seem to really extend to the "computer" part at a glance.
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by akavel 4y ago
And pic was slightly extended and modernized by the SQLite author(s?) to become https://pikchr.org , for use in SQLite docs. (All the SQL syntax diagrams are drawn with pikchr, IIUC.) If you want to embed pikchr SVGs in your stat
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by akavel 4y ago
Ahhh, a spaceship command bridge, not a connecting the banks of a river bridge!... I assumed a physics simulator, but fortunately the readme explains it's a FOSS remake of Artemis.
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by akavel 4y ago
https://stuntrally.tuxfamily.org/ A car race simulator in mildly offroad tracks (think WRC). I spent a decent amount of time glued to the screen with it; the game is especially stunning with regards to its visuals, a rare q
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by akavel 4y ago
Not sure if that would be good enough for you, but: 1. There's some syntax for importing files "raw" as strings; I don't recall details now from memory, but it's used extensively e.g. to load contents of .patch file
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by akavel 4y ago
AFAIK, many Windows apps traditionally tend to use the registry for storing their configs. Which I believe is a similarly odd and foreign idea to most Linux users. On the other hand, before there was the Registry, there were .INI files on W
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by akavel 4y ago
Notably, with Nix Flakes, everything managed by Nix gets automatically 100% precisely pinned to specific versions by hash.
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by akavel 4y ago
Notably, Nix with home-manager. Makes it pretty seamless for me to switch between Linux, Mac, and between employers. I love it even more since I got my home-manager config to be a Nix Flake - this way I have it 100% deterministic and can up
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by akavel 4y ago
You may like to take a look at the NimConf presentations - https://conf.nim-lang.org/2020/ and https://conf.nim-lang.org/2021/ - for some nice inspiration as well as discussions of pros and cons d
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by akavel 4y ago
Ah, this remains me of a classique in this field: https://youtu.be/OonDPGwAyfQ
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by akavel 4y ago
Take a look at https://sile-typesetter.org/ . IIRC it literally reuses some core C libraries from TeX/LaTeX, and glues them together in a different way using Lua, keeping Lua as the only language available. Notably, SIL
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by akavel 4y ago
I don't know if there is an official name, but in my head I call it "helpers/components/mixins are better than frameworks." Or, "if one happens to want to write a framework, one ought to try hard to refactor it
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by akavel 4y ago
An MS Surface Pro 7 with an Intel Core i5-7300U is fanless. I know I won't be getting the very bleeding edge topmost performance with fanless, but I can still get it plenty awesome. The silence is just a different level of experience,
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by akavel 4y ago
Piling on the wishlist: any chances of a fanless mainboard in the future? I'm a sucker for fanless, hard for me to imagine going back...
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by akavel 4y ago
Hmmm; I remember DMOZ ( https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/DMOZ ) in pre-google times, when finding anything on the internet using the existing search engines was so difficult that such a catalog was really useful. The feel
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by akavel 4y ago
Ok, but am I to do it on every single command I do on my terminal? Or on which ones specifically? If the problem we're trying to solve is that I can sometimes overlook the "dangerous commands" among "safe ones", by
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by akavel 4y ago
Even just "The lucky 10 000" can be already a reason good enough ( https://xkcd.com/1053/ )!
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by akavel 4y ago
I heard of this technique, but unfortunately I don't see how it can be easily applied in software engineering/devops. Also, I now realized that aviation checklists seem to tend to be done similarly with gestures - at least from wh
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by akavel 4y ago
The pages need to be "punched" to make holes of a specific shape: https://old.reddit.com/r/fountainpens/comments/bccgt0/discbo... Apparently, paper has enough "structural stiffness" o
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by akavel 5y ago
Try to take a look at wpengine.com; they're not the cheapest, but I heard they have very good support people, and via some business relations I had with them, I know they have a system for auto-updating wordpress plugins.
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by akavel 5y ago
As an alternative allowing the use of any shell command/pipeline on the results interactively, see also: https://github.com/akavel/up
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by akavel 5y ago
You can just start looking at offers and applying to them "purely as a hobby". What do you have to lose? What do you fear could happen if you got a new job? And why do you fear it? (After answering, try repeating the last question
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by akavel 5y ago
Consider taking a look at: https://orbitalquark.github.io/textadept/ . It's a rather "old kid on the block" actually, it's quite minimal ( "Relentlessly optimized for speed and minimalism over t

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