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by bokchoi 4y ago
Thank you, this is great! I love the focus on OSX support and on uninstalling. As a nix newbie, it can be difficult to resolve some issues and sometimes re-installing is the simplest option. Is the end result of installing via the bash in
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by bokchoi 4y ago
I like it! It's nicely polished and their Pop Shop app installer is better than gnomes.
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by bokchoi 4y ago
NPR recently aired a story on the history of monopoly which was fascinating! https://www.npr.org/2023/01/25/1151367036/story-monopoly-ame...
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by bokchoi 4y ago
Pour one out for Powell's technical bookstore in Portland. I was sad when it closed in 2010.
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by bokchoi 4y ago
Babashka is great! I've used it for doing some munging of csv and xml files.
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by bokchoi 4y ago
Oh wow, the Herog Zwei reference brought back a lot of memories for me. I loved playing that with my friends. We had the same gentleman's agreement mentioned in the article. We also sometimes started the game and went away for 15min
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by bokchoi 4y ago
That was my first thought as well. I liked using E4X back in the day.
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by bokchoi 4y ago
And it's clojure!
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by bokchoi 4y ago
Like it or not, Taiwan is functionally independent. They have their own currency, passports, military, elections.
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by bokchoi 4y ago
The Lorax, The Cat in the Hat, and The Grinch movies also were completely warped by Hollywood.
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by bokchoi 4y ago
This is my favorite limitation: https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/JRACLOUD-21372
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A digital conflict between Russia and Ukraine rages on behind the scenes of war(npr.org)
3 points by bokchoi 4y ago|0 comments
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by bokchoi 4y ago
I'd say some things have been standardized quite well - 8 bit bytes, Unicode, http. It's the application layer that isn't standardized.
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by bokchoi 4y ago
I heard that Taipei will also install something like this but I'm not sure when. Taipei is an extremely noisy city with traffic cop whistles, loud scooters, and harbagttrucks that blare a time to tell you when to bring out your trash.
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by bokchoi 4y ago
> IBM got eclipsed this made me laugh, thanks
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Bits of History, Words of Advice (2020)(gbracha.blogspot.com)
27 points by bokchoi 4y ago|6 comments
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by bokchoi 5y ago
This is very impressive! I haven't done ui code in a while but I would have loved to have the integrated "devtools" helpers!
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by bokchoi 5y ago
Or Powell's in Portland. That place is a maze and it's fun getting lost.
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by bokchoi 5y ago
As far as paid products go, it seems like a no brainer to offer paid plans for privacy focused email or other g-suite-like collaboration services. It seems like Mozilla needs additional revenue streams.
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by bokchoi 5y ago
yay for neovim mapping Y to y$ by default. https://neovim.io/doc/user/vim_diff.html#default-mappings
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by bokchoi 5y ago
> The commandline experience is terrible. Nothing makes any sense. Not the names of the tools. Not their arguments. Why sometimes something is a binary and other times it's a mode of another tool, etc. As a casual user of nix, this
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by bokchoi 5y ago
> There are a lot of ways for a given sequence of characters, like !=, to end up in a source file. Depending on context, it doesn’t always mean the same thing. While this is true, it doesn't seem to come up that often in practice.
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by bokchoi 5y ago
I never got on the semantic web train, but a translation layer does allow you to make underlying schema changes. I poked around the ANSIWAVE BBS and it looks fun!
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by bokchoi 5y ago
The hackaday article doesn't add much. The actual article is: https://www.inverse.com/innovation/blinking-cursor-history
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by bokchoi 5y ago
Redundancy would be good reason.
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by bokchoi 5y ago
I'm not a python programmer, but the implicit string concatenation seems surprising to me.
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by bokchoi 5y ago
Wait, why don't you want to help your colleagues? That seems pretty shitty.
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by bokchoi 5y ago
The author is probably a sed or vim user: s/Thales/Einstein/
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by bokchoi 5y ago
"An Inquiry into the Probable Parallax, and Magnitude of the Fixed Stars, from the Quantity of Light Which They Afford us, and the Particular Circumstances of Their Situation." Paper titles were pretty awesome back in the day.
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by bokchoi 5y ago
I agree with the EU on this one. I hate having so many slightly different cables and adapters.

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