cfiggers

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by cfiggers 4y ago
Yes, better to let small, scrappy startups like Microsoft blaze the trail
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by cfiggers 4y ago
> their understanding of LLM's is imperfect (as is the case for everyone!), and yet they come up with these statements of absolute certainty. Oh interesting, so when they accuse ChatGPT of being dangerous because it can be "con
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by cfiggers 4y ago
In return, as a token of my gratitude, I give you a script that allows horizontal scrolling in Excel with Shift + Mousewheel (bafflingly not a default in Excel, even though that's becoming standard almost everywhere else): ; Excel
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by cfiggers 4y ago
Same! A couple of my super-short must-haves are: ; Map CapsLock key to Control CapsLock::Ctrl ; Ctrl + Alt + Arrow key jumps to beginning/end of line/document; ; Add Shift to select as well ^!Left::SendInput, {Home}
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by cfiggers 4y ago
Nope, not weird. I feel exactly the same way.
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by cfiggers 4y ago
...holy crap. You just blew my mind. I have HUNDREDS of little AHK hotkeys. I use some of them dozens of times a day. I've been wanting some way to directly target Excel like this for literal years. Thank you!!!
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by cfiggers 4y ago
> seems to infer You mean "seems to imply".
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by cfiggers 4y ago
Cont'd: It's one thing to observe "Humans make mistakes all the time, therefore I should be humble about my conclusions and mildly skeptical toward others'." It's another thing to have a FUNCTIONAL MODEL of HOW
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by cfiggers 4y ago
I think this is a really thoughtful post. I'd encourage us (readers in general) not to trip over the specific illustrations that are being used to show a general point—namely, that when humans attempt to identify cause-effect relations
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by cfiggers 4y ago
Parent comment says: REPL is a priority to me, do you have that? cgrand's comment says: Not yet, but probably soon! Here's a link to donate My comment says: Before you donate, here's some context for what "soon" lik
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by cfiggers 4y ago
FWIW, I tried ClojureDart a little while back, had a good time, but thought to myself, "I'll be back when they have a REPL working." At that time you guys were saying things in the Slack like, "We already have a working
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by cfiggers 4y ago
It's because when you're under water ALL air is pressurized by the crush of the water around you. When the scuba tank releases air into your lungs (and therefore your sinuses, which are connected to your inner ears), it's sti
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by cfiggers 4y ago
Consider Kant's Categorical Imperative.[0] There's an argument to be made that the CI isn't quite perfectly "objective." But then again, it might be as close to such a thing as ethics can get. A summary of the CI,
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by cfiggers 4y ago
One interesting thing about comparing the relative merits of an entire adult life of monogamous commitment vs an entire adult life of non-monogamous free love is that no one person can try both.
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by cfiggers 4y ago
That's really interesting to me. Do you have a blog? I'd be quite interested to read any highlights or takeaways you may have from your tinkering. I spent a weekend playing with Alpine at some point. I really appreciate Alpine&#x2
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by cfiggers 4y ago
Haskell is a beautiful, elegant language. And the tooling is a trainwreck that keeps me from using it.
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by cfiggers 4y ago
> In a barely literate pre-industrial culture, yes, dominion = abuse. That's a pretty cynical interpretation. You may know that the book of Genesis was not originally written in English. The Hebrew word that is sometimes translated
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by cfiggers 4y ago
I'm not sure I understand. What's not workable about it?
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by cfiggers 4y ago
Ok, what about a compromise? I'll help pay for the roads that go to your house if you help pay for the roads that go to my house. I know your house is further away from city center than mine, so we'll end up spending more of our p
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by cfiggers 4y ago
Thanks for engaging so thoughtfully. I'm enjoying reading and thinking carefully about what you wrote. Is the past unchangeable once it has happened? I suppose you're correct that I assumed this to be so. I suppose you're als
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by cfiggers 4y ago
> Mutability is an essential feature of the Universe we live in. Everything changes, internally and externally, all the time. That's not obviously true, actually. From a certain standpoint, the Universe IS immutable. E = mc^2 means
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by cfiggers 4y ago
Another way to frame it (from the opposite direction) is a collective failure on "our" part (if there is such a thing as "us") to explore and promote genuinely interesting things just because they lack the sparkle of cli
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by cfiggers 4y ago
In Mortimer Adler's _How to Read a Book_ (1972) [0], he tackles this idea by distinguishing between "words" and "terms." Chapter 8 is called "Coming to Terms With an Author" and it is essentially all about
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by cfiggers 4y ago
Wow, I didn't think about paying customers who supplement their pricey apps with free ones for lower-volume or less-critical functions. This change makes Heroku objectively worse even for shops that are already paying top dollar. Thank
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by cfiggers 4y ago
Speaking as a pure hobbyist with no formal background in programming or computer science, I've learned a ton playing around with free Heroku dynos. That "holy shit, it worked" feeling is a hell of a drug. My proudest achievem
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by cfiggers 4y ago
This is helpful! Thank you for taking the time to write it up. I didn't know about '\&' as a way to "short circuit" groff from interpreting something as a macro that should be literal (such as a line-initial per
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by cfiggers 4y ago
Watching this interview inspired me to start playing around with groff. It has a very steep learning curve... And being as old/niche as it is, I've found it very hard to find any active community to get newbie questions answered.
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by cfiggers 4y ago
> Use XLOOKUP. Use INDEX and MATCH.
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by cfiggers 4y ago
> What I'd love to see is a language with a first class grammars to replace many uses of regexes or badly written DSL's, like what Perl6 tried to do. Recently I've been tinkering with an indie Clojure-like Lisp called Jane
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by cfiggers 4y ago
Have a look at Brave Goggles: https://search.brave.com/goggles

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