cfiggers

20 ms·

211.
by cfiggers 3y ago
Termux uses a sandboxed file system by default, but you can give it access to the rest of the phone's shared files by running `termux-setup-storage` from within Termux (more details at: https://wiki.termux.com/wiki&#x2F
212.
by cfiggers 3y ago
> It is surprisingly difficult to get numbers on how much oil is used to extract, refine and transport oil. Damn, I've never thought about that before. In hindsight that feels like an obvious thing to consider but this is the first
213.
by cfiggers 3y ago
Tableau and Power BI are the most common off-the-shelf options these days, but a lot of especially large well-established businesses have bespoke solutions that they paid to have implemented sometimes a decade or more ago that are still cho
214.
by cfiggers 3y ago
"Manufacture a consensus"?
215.
by cfiggers 3y ago
> This post persuaded me to not take much of a look at Janet. Do you mean to say that you were intent on taking a good look at Janet when you woke up this morning, but because of this post specifically your mind has been radically ch
216.
by cfiggers 3y ago
Maybe the answer is to make every individual instance of a copyrighted work in an AI's training set a full breach of copyright, for each monetized/monetizable inference made by the trained AI. Maybe Open AI alone has already racke
217.
by cfiggers 4y ago
Grammatically, 1.5 donut is wrong and 1.5 donuts is correct. So, in this case "1.66~ dozens" (because 20 / 12 = 1.66~) is pedantically correct. (...But logically and intuitively everything I just said is extremely stupid beca
218.
by cfiggers 4y ago
Basically, all the same arguments you've heard in favor of open source in general. Today, board developers have to pay if they want to license ARM. And with recent developments coming out of ARM, the price to pay is going up by a lot,
219.
by cfiggers 4y ago
I really like the writing style. I wouldn't describe it as "cutesy" at all, just informal.
220.
by cfiggers 4y ago
Isn't the very cheapest M2 Mac Mini still like, $600...? That seems to put you in a completely different price and performance category than even the most kitted-out RPI possible, even at inflated grey-market prices.
221.
by cfiggers 4y ago
The word "Fu" (pronounced "foo") is a reference to "Kung Fu," a Chinese martial art. It is used colloquially in combination with other words to mean "something someone has to practice to become a skilled e
222.
by cfiggers 4y ago
Have you been recommended his blog series/book only, or the playlists on YouTube as well? I really like his recorded lectures on YouTube and they cover similar ground in a similar order to the blog posts (from what I've read—I&#x2
223.
by cfiggers 4y ago
> If you are going to use a top 5 popular programming language like the rest, your results are going to be average. That generalization seems hard to defend. I think you assign too much importance to choice of programming language. For o
224.
by cfiggers 4y ago
Every time I go through an airport the thought occurs to me that it could make for a really cool sim game. I will check yours out!
225.
by cfiggers 4y ago
Here's some Gists that show a simple example of each concept: - Key chords: https://gist.github.com/CFiggers/ccb6bc911ee87f423f558368128... - Right-click menus: https://gist.github.com/CFiggers&#x2
226.
by cfiggers 4y ago
Sure, here's a Gist for each one: - Key chords: https://gist.github.com/CFiggers/ccb6bc911ee87f423f558368128... - Right-click menus: https://gist.github.com/CFiggers/96bc37ca468909c9ec83252144
227.
by cfiggers 4y ago
All of my favorite things are little AutoHotkey shortcuts. I have several that basically just execute a Regex replace on whatever text is currently highlighted. It's ridiculously convenient to just have those functions ready to go any
228.
by cfiggers 4y ago
That seems like a slight exaggeration to me. The linked Reddit poster put the word "cuts" in quotation marks, indicating illustrative use of the word. Most likely they meant harmless (but uncomfortable) pressure indentations from
229.
by cfiggers 4y ago
Where did you find a MacBook with a 15 foot screen???? No wonder you don't need a second monitor, good grief
230.
by cfiggers 4y ago
AutoHotkey enables Emacs-like extensibility at the OS level rather than the application level. Some of my macros and shortcuts apply in every text field I interact with , even this comment field on Hacker News. Whether I'm editing in
231.
by cfiggers 4y ago
Typo on your front page—"enfrocement" should be "enforcement."
232.
by cfiggers 4y ago
Your non-expert/non-specialist perspective is precisely what would be most valuable to me, a fellow non-expert/non-specialist. Your use case is similar to mine. You sound like you have a low threshold for extraneous BS that might
233.
by cfiggers 4y ago
I would definitely read a blog write-up of any length on this, if you either already have or would be interested at all in making one.
234.
by cfiggers 4y ago
I like this framing. It's not that aimless, excited newbies can ONLY make small things for their own use. It's just that doing so makes an important and easy-to-mess-up part of the process (i.e. collecting and synthesizing end use
235.
by cfiggers 4y ago
Trust me, it's worth it. Most people have no idea the kind of unethical shit that HIPAA and then the ACA regulated out of existence—stuff that would make you say "How in the name of all that is holy was that legal until 1996???&qu
236.
by cfiggers 4y ago
https://xkcd.com/1053/
237.
by cfiggers 4y ago
...are you seriously arguing against the very concept of planning in order to take a shot at this solo engineer's hard work?
238.
by cfiggers 4y ago
> I'll be digging into your code. My apologies in advance, then! (Ha.) The "main" function is at the very bottom of src/joule.janet. So I'd recommend starting there. As for debugging, Janet embraces REPL-driven d
239.
by cfiggers 4y ago
Janet is really powerful. Here's a small TUI text editor I'm writing in it, if you want to see a non-trivial example: https://www.github.com/CFiggers/joule-editor
240.
by cfiggers 4y ago
I see some comments in here with the sentiment, "Clojure—What am I missing?" Here's an attempt to answer that question. I am just a hobbyist and enthusiast programmer with no formal background in programming or CS, and no rea

More ›