benibela

40 ms·

1. 421.▲
   by benibela 6y ago

   I hate the bash manpage It is so long, I never find anything there And if I search for some command, like /if or /fi, there are far too many ifs in the text to find a useful match
2. 422.▲
   by benibela 6y ago

   I used to think that the best presentations are those where the slides are text only and the speaker just reads the text out aloud. Just repeating the text of the slides verbatim Because then I can download the slides at home, read them fo
3. 423.▲
   by benibela 6y ago

   Yes, when i realized how slow that CPU was, I decided that I needed a fast "i7", so I bought a laptop with an i7-4600U as replacement
4. 424.▲
   by benibela 6y ago

   I used to think my i5-780M CPU was a 7th generation CPU, and thus should be very fast
5. 425.▲
   by benibela 6y ago

   I have plans to put my Windows apps in the Microsoft store, because I have heard it is cheaper than getting a code signing certificate which would be renewed yearly But I switched to Linux, so I could not use any of the Microsoft tooling. U
6. 426.▲
   by benibela 6y ago

   Nowadays it is raku.org
7. 427.▲
   by benibela 6y ago

   Screen time leads to less blinking and drier eyes Perhaps that causes astigmatism? Perhaps the cornea needs blinking to stay stable?
8. 428.▲
   by benibela 6y ago

   So like the Centralia fire?
9. 429.▲
   by benibela 6y ago

   >The data architecture I use combines, in order of importance: (1) borg, for incremental deduplicated backups onsite and offsite; (2) syncthing, for duplication and synchronization across devices; (3) fim, for managing file integrity; (4
10. 430.▲
    by benibela 6y ago

    My mother believes that stuff, so I did not have glasses as kid and could not see much It worked well enough that my myopia did not progress. However, I got bad astigmatism Optometrists are really bad at measuring anything. Endmyopia probab
11. 431.▲
    by benibela 6y ago

    There is also a lot more research, see: http://www.myopia-manual.de/private/manual-2021-jan.pdf >The development of chicks towards emmetropization was observed at various levels of illumination: (10.000 Lux, 500 Lux
12. 432.▲
    by benibela 6y ago

    There was one famous study that discovered wearing weaker glasses made myopia worse, and then everyone was too afraid to make further studies
13. 433.▲
    by benibela 6y ago

    There are such measurement devices: wavefront aberrometers There are also corresponding glasses, but no smart glasses
14. 434.▲
    by benibela 6y ago

    Me too. It is really bad. Myopia is no issue when I work at the computer, since I can move closer, but with astigmatism I cannot read at all without glasses. It has recently increased to 3.5 diopter cylinder according to the measurement de
15. 435.▲
    by benibela 6y ago

    Just read a book outside with reading glasses
16. 436.▲
    by benibela 6y ago

    Me too, and then I got astigmatism
17. 437.▲
    by benibela 6y ago

    I just bought weaker glasses online. There you can choose any values
18. 438.▲
    by benibela 6y ago

    I thought it does not matter which instance one choosen, since you see posts from all the other instances?
19. 439.▲
    by benibela 6y ago

    > As a child did you spend 12 years not making friends in school, Indeed I never even had a single conversation in school >since school is for learning and not socialization? I did not even learn there anything. I learned basically ev
20. 440.▲
    by benibela 6y ago

    I still write almost all my code in Pascal Why am I wasting time on Pascal?
21. 441.▲
    by benibela 6y ago

    Although it might be badly incentivized If they give the employee a budget, it is a wage, and they have to pay social security fees on it (?). If they buy stuff for the company office, it is an expense and tax deducible.
22. 442.▲
    by benibela 6y ago

    The best way to access Win32 APIs has always been Delphi's VCL
23. 443.▲
    by benibela 6y ago

    As open-source developer, I make $0/hr :/
24. 444.▲
    by benibela 6y ago

    American version from below: The "you learn limits in like, 9th grade" comment reminds me of this one: Two mathematicians are in a bar. The first one says to the second that the average person knows very little about basic mathema
25. 445.▲
    by benibela 6y ago

    Or you just want to interact with a few servers, so you implement what the servers do In my case I wanted to interact with a few servers and not write a HTTP client, so I used an existing HTTP client library. Turns out, the library did not
26. 446.▲
    by benibela 6y ago

    Could change it like that: A mathematician, a physicist and a biologist are flying in a air balloon and are lost. They encounter a man walking below: The biologist asks him: "do you know, where we are?" "..." the man loo
27. 447.▲
    by benibela 6y ago

    >Also, in classical languages there is a color that is used to describe rust, e.g. "rubigo" in Latin. Such a weird way to have Rust, Ruby and Go in one sentence
28. 448.▲
    by benibela 6y ago

    https://fastrt.nilu.no/VitD_quartMEDandMED_v2.html
29. 449.▲
    by benibela 6y ago

    What if you only have a static website, HTML files only?
30. 450.▲
    by benibela 6y ago

    But also allow abbreviations like <i>foo</> or <em>foo</> or <em/foo/