blacksmithgu

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by blacksmithgu 4y ago
I'm on a similar boat with general malaise, breathing issues, and insomnia. Has been going on for about 2 years and has destroyed my quality of life and ability to do any kind of physical activity. Doctors have no idea and have essenti
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by blacksmithgu 4y ago
Whoa, very weird to see my plugin hit HN! Dataview was initially borne as "Notion tables for Obsidian", but quickly became a way to do flexible data annotation + querying after I realized how powerful metadata can be. Viewing your
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by blacksmithgu 4y ago
I love seeing modern language features coming to Java! Sadly, I suspect it will be at least a decade before I see Java 19 used anywhere I work...
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by blacksmithgu 4y ago
Chronic media consumption is not always based on avoidance. It is very easy to open social media during genuine downtime "for 5 minutes" only for an hour to pass before you know it. That is just bad self control due to dopamine ad
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by blacksmithgu 4y ago
Treatment for non-obvious disease is awful and slow. I feel mysteriously ill with severe breathing problems two years ago that was not COVID related and my doctors all scratched their heads. My last one just eventually shrugged and told me
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by blacksmithgu 4y ago
I've used Ktor for a few toy projects, and it's coroutine-based concurrency model is actually very cool. You can write very readable synchronous-looking code with just coroutines and message passing - highly recommend messing arou
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by blacksmithgu 4y ago
Even optionals with bad 'is null / get' assessors are better than nulls, because they come with nullsafe operators like map / flatMap and the 'get' call usually always errors or panics on failure.
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by blacksmithgu 4y ago
Any actively maintained codebase always devolves into crap. Scopes change, technology shifts, bugs patched; code quality monotonically declines as you trend away from the assumptions the program was written with. No amount of rigor and disc
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by blacksmithgu 4y ago
This article effectively read as "I want to write Go instead of Rust." Which is fine... just go write more Go instead of lamenting over aesthetic language design choices.
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by blacksmithgu 5y ago
While I generally support anything that advocates for less social media addiction, it's worth noting that self-improvement is an exhausting affair which can lead to its own brand of FOMO. There's no shame in occasional indolence o