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   by akkartik 3y ago

   Here's the blog post where they announced they were creating a github repo: https://blog.unity.com/community/updated-terms-of-service-an... It's the easiest thing in the world to write another blog post annou
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   by akkartik 3y ago

   This linked game is amazing: https://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1411126
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   by akkartik 3y ago

   "If you build modern software, you’re well-versed in composition: grab a handful of existing projects—a database here, a UI framework there, an HTTP library to round it all out—and arrange them together. You write your custom logic—th
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   by akkartik 3y ago

   I'll leave you to apply sophistry to your heart's content, and your evolution will be some impossible-to-anticipate effect of your decisions regarding things you consider to be true or don't care about the truth of.
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   by akkartik 3y ago

   It's not a measure of _their_ success we're concerned with. It's a measure of _our_ success if we trust them. Nobody is perfectly reliable. But some people and orgs are more reliable than others. How you choose to navigate th
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   by akkartik 3y ago

   A week ago I switched to Manjaro after spending the last 12 years pretty significantly on Ubuntu. While I did it for unrelated reasons, it's amazing how many minor niggles that I'd gotten used to on my Thinkpad laptop have complet
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   by akkartik 3y ago

   > if you run "foo", then $0 is an absolute path to the script. That doesn't seem to be the case. $ cat foo echo $0 $ ./foo ./foo $ export PATH=.:$PATH $ foo foo I'm usually o
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   by akkartik 3y ago

   Do you have a link to the source? I'm not seeing it on the site.
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   Create Google API credentials in 50 easy steps(github.com)

   2 points by akkartik 3y ago|0 comments
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    by akkartik 3y ago

    search - Keyword search without an index over a directory of text files ('.' or $ROOT): #!/usr/bin/zsh # Search a directory for files containing all of the given keywords. DIR=`mktemp -d` ROOT=
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    by akkartik 3y ago

    Back in the very early days of HN I remember someone posting a parody of "HN in 2050" or something like that. Does anyone else remember that? I've tried to find it a few times in recent years without luck.
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    by akkartik 3y ago

    Thanks! I'll be reading it and the other links in this thread while I wait for my copy in the mail.
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    by akkartik 3y ago

    Who's Achilles looking at in this passage?
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    Neskowin Ghost Forest(en.wikipedia.org)

    3 points by akkartik 3y ago|0 comments
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    by akkartik 3y ago

    Ha! I should fix that. It's Steve Yegge's post on software liberals vs conservatives, hold on let me find it. Edit : Here's a bootleg: https://gist.github.com/mrnugget/49ad3ee4043c746e42187e2820d...
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    by akkartik 3y ago

    Check out https://movablefeastmachine.org
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    by akkartik 3y ago

    Also my https://github.com/akkartik/wart
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    Finding meaning in The Nature of Order(stefanlesser.substack.com)

    1 points by akkartik 3y ago|0 comments
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    by akkartik 3y ago

    I'm curious: why sewing in particular? As opposed to say spinning or weaving or knitting?
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    Sunflower (Mathematics)(en.wikipedia.org)

    2 points by akkartik 3y ago|0 comments
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    by akkartik 3y ago

    I think there are two dynamics at play: * Low-level tools come out and become robust sooner than high-level ones. It makes sense to learn them when no alternatives exist. Once alternatives are mature they're more effort to learn. I&#x2
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    by akkartik 3y ago

    I nodded along when I first read this, but ten years later I have two, more complex, reactions. Reaction #1: Whoa, that's a lot of assumption that serious professionals operate within incorporated businesses, anybody else is frivolous.
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    by akkartik 3y ago

    Yes, but my workflow is very unconventional: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aD6vmbmzdBo
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    30 Years of Lua(lua-users.org)

    2 points by akkartik 3y ago|0 comments
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    by akkartik 3y ago

    Ok that makes sense once you bring up netsplits. (Are they still as prevalent as they used to be? Or did the network grow more robust over time? Or is just the reduced usage of IRC that makes them matter less?)
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    by akkartik 3y ago

    Oh it was immediately clear that your original comment was right in the first half. The irssi example isn't intended to rebut that. I was rebutting the second half: that it was obvious . As someone who has thought about IRC for a coup
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    by akkartik 3y ago

    In fact I see this block in my .irssi/config: servers = ( ... { address = "irc.efnet.net"; chatnet = "EFNet"; port = "6667"; }, ... );
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    by akkartik 3y ago

    <moleman> I call EfNet a server.</moleman>
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    by akkartik 3y ago

    PG's essays do have dates. Try clicking through to all the items in http://paulgraham.com/articles.html . I can't remember ever seeing one that didn't have month and year. OP wasn't written by PG, though.
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    by akkartik 3y ago

    I'm gonna join the 2 other commenters to say: stop using Google Chrome.