arrakeen

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by arrakeen 4y ago
a more apt title for his youtube series would be "What Makes This Song" since he just breaks down the components of a song without explaining what makes it great. 12Tone is better in that regard, though
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by arrakeen 4y ago
it's extremely useful for defining ublock origin rules
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by arrakeen 4y ago
> Perl might fit that bill may i submit https://metacpan.org/pod/Acme::Bleach
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by arrakeen 4y ago
it might be useful for those having a hard time understanding what "fake" means here to think of it in terms of the shovelware games found on our modern app stores. sure, they're still technically games and they were technica
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by arrakeen 5y ago
> is the platform disbanded? amigaos had a major new release less than a year ago so i guess the amiga ifdefs should stay
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by arrakeen 5y ago
> The reality is that the docs are fine then show me where `nix-env`'s `--arg` and `--argstr` is documented.
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by arrakeen 5y ago
sure a "parallel xargs" can ostensibly be implemented in POSIX sh but that's merely the tip of the iceberg with what parallel can do. why not just skim the documentation and give it a try?
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by arrakeen 5y ago
> Last I looked at the source for GNU parallel it looked like mountains upon mountains of Perl I would rather not depend upon, personally, but to each his own. i used parallel for years under the assumption that it was written in C and o
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by arrakeen 5y ago
parallel is so useful and i use it multiple times daily. i wish its `:::` syntax was supported at the shell level so i could use it for every application
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by arrakeen 5y ago
though it wont work for the author's usecase, if anyone is looking for a good remote X11 solution, take a look at xpra.
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by arrakeen 5y ago
happy birthday! the thing that made me realize that perl was a truly great, one-of-a-kind language was Acme::Bleach[0] [0] https://metacpan.org/pod/Acme::Bleach
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by arrakeen 5y ago
i could've sworn i saw kobayashi using a kana keyboard in one episode and thought that would be difficult to program with. does anyone here know if kana keyboards just have hiragana overlaid over the qwerty layout?
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by arrakeen 5y ago
hopefully i'll be able to search for usages of a library's function without getting 30 pages of that library's source code cloned in vendor directories
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by arrakeen 5y ago
> if you really want to learn kanji properly you also need to learn stroke order i think this depends on what your goals are. for example, if i only wanted to be able to read and type japanese, why would i care about stroke order?
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by arrakeen 5y ago
those PRs are appalling.. bots talking to each other, commenting to run bot commands, bots adding and immediately removing labels. as if the github PR user experience weren't bad enough
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by arrakeen 5y ago
in japanese it's エアコン (eakon)
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by arrakeen 5y ago
agreed. i can't wait to see wachowski subvert the "redpilled" meme. i mean, the trailer starts out by saying "triggered" so i have a strong suspicion this will be the case
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by arrakeen 5y ago
adapting the Sunday variation of boyer-moore algorithm to search backwards from point
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by arrakeen 5y ago
highly recommend the works of radix, especially FIRE&ICE2
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by arrakeen 5y ago
yup TwitterChirp is the computed font according to firefox
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by arrakeen 5y ago
looks fine to me on linux, surprisingly. though i doubt that the designers tested on a linux box with a tweaked fontconfig edit: here's a comparison with helvetica https://i.imgur.com/BJlHQhf.gif
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by arrakeen 5y ago
just to keep the non-serious stuff together, this topic always reminds me of this tweet: https://twitter.com/PPathole/status/1116670170980859905
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by arrakeen 5y ago
plenty do—frexxed and resource off the top of my head—which is why the fact that my externalized a1200 keyboard solution not mapping the help key is super annoying
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by arrakeen 5y ago
i've been listening to dozzy's "plays bee mask" constantly for the last two weeks. really excellent ambient/synth/drone/whatever
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by arrakeen 5y ago
not vscode, but i do this with org-mode in emacs-- it's how i draw my sequence diagrams for work!
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by arrakeen 6y ago
I recently built a new computer and i couldn't believe how difficult it was to find a beige case. I ended up finding a beautiful NOS server case from 2000. now if only I could find a monitor that wasn't black.
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by arrakeen 6y ago
neat idea-- i had never considered MIDI as a low-data transmission method for live jamming
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by arrakeen 6y ago
infinality is long dead and its rendering engine has been upstreamed to freetype. here's a more up-to-date guide to font rendering on linux: https://pandasauce.org/post/linux-fonts/
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by arrakeen 6y ago
"killing" might be an extreme way of putting it, but it's definitely showing that the older models to determine music popularity are outdated (billboard, top 40 radio) see also Post Malone Shatters 54 Year Old Beatles Record:
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by arrakeen 6y ago
PBS news hour

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