chewxy

12 ms·

91.
by chewxy 5y ago
With a kill ring you can ignore this weight. Problem?
92.
by chewxy 5y ago
The OneWheel operates based on balancing mass. So you put more mass on one side, the OneWheel moves that way. Put more mass, it goes faster. Some people drive using their hips (me included), some people drive using their shoulders (I don&#x
93.
by chewxy 5y ago
I'm quite annoyed. I was working on a minor-mode because I tire of having to switch to my browser for asciiflow. Reading this article, it turns out artist-mode is built in to stock emacs. And it's quite good, better than anything
94.
by chewxy 5y ago
"Gender" as a concept came in linguistics first[0]. Social sciences co-opted the word later in the 1950s (Simone de Beauvoir comes to mind as one of the first people to use "gender" in its modern sense). The linguistics
95.
Quickly Annotate Your Machine Learning Dataset with One Weird Trick (It's Lisp)(blog.chewxy.com)
2 points by chewxy 5y ago|0 comments
96.
by chewxy 5y ago
I did a similar thing with CUDA docs for Go : https://youtube.com/watch?v=7R39CMW4MJQ
97.
by chewxy 5y ago
> If keyboard keys were small e-ink displays, easily configurable and accessible by programs, programmers would have come up with a lot of interesting stuff already. I have a QMK based keyboard. The most interesting thing I did was to ha
98.
by chewxy 5y ago
Same problem on a bunch of websites, even those on HN's frontpage. All feature a varnish cache Guru Meditation Error. Some kind of global CDN is down I guess
99.
by chewxy 5y ago
I ran `magit-version` and I got Magit 20201225.4, which I assume is the 2020 Christmas edition of Magit. Did they suddenly switch to semver?
100.
by chewxy 5y ago
My favourite purchases from the last two years: Cleaning tool: HiZero Transport-related: OneWheel Work Related: My PC All these have provided ridiculous amounts of utility. The HiZero proved itself within the first week. The OneWheel took a
101.
by chewxy 5y ago
this seems like it's very very niche (and very specific to the niche that I am interested in!)
102.
by chewxy 5y ago
At Atlassian, they built a Portal inspired portal that connects the Sydney and SF office during one hackathon. Basically a camera behind a 2way mirror (and decorated with blue/orange LEDs in an oval frame). Tonari looks a lot more like
103.
by chewxy 5y ago
This is a 3D monitor. Not a light field display like Starline. The traditional glasses free 3d monitors rely on special coatings on the glass to "split" the direction of a pixel. Some coatings are electronically controlled (like S
104.
by chewxy 6y ago
C-x-8-RET has been most useful to me for unicode maths symbols. Having said that, I have a layer on my keyboard dedicated to APL symbols. I highly recommend QMK keyboards for shennanigans like these
105.
You merely adopted dark mode(whoo.ps)
3 points by chewxy 6y ago|0 comments
106.
by chewxy 6y ago
Runnning around does not make a child with ADHD more sedate or perform better in the classroom. "Just go do some exercise" is like telling depressed people to "just cheer up". Yes, exercise definitely helps. But it doesn
107.
by chewxy 6y ago
Funnily I'm subscribed to Corridor Digital and Nebula. These were the first things I thought about when I saw the headline. And now I know where Luke from LTT went and why despite "not working at LTT anymore", Linus seemed to
108.
by chewxy 6y ago
A constant reminder that code is data but data is not code.
109.
by chewxy 6y ago
smh.. these people. A basic firewall gets you places.
110.
by chewxy 6y ago
> there is no such thing s as Goats-as-a-service. Interesting note: I went to a farm stay last weekend. In New South Wales, blackberry thornbushes are pest plants in farms. And what the smaller farms do is they rent goats from people who
111.
by chewxy 6y ago
it's just how old people talk. Rob Pike speaks of syntax colouring in the same way - he quotes the Bible. I don't see it as condescension though. I think it's just a way of speaking.
112.
by chewxy 6y ago
d'oh?!
113.
by chewxy 6y ago
His argument on Fuschia is worth listening to tho. But the rest, yeah, pretty meh
114.
by chewxy 6y ago
I followed this until the part just slightly after "see how natural it is?" Then it's suddenly How to Draw an Owl. I don't follow the monoid part. Anyone can help elaborate?
115.
by chewxy 6y ago
Do you also offer assembly services? As someone who recently been unable to work on electronic components (small parts, easily swallowable, in a small apartment = danger), I'd highly appreciate it
116.
by chewxy 6y ago
I tried mounting my Ergodox EZ to my chair like you (almost exactly too: 3D printed mount + gorillapod). I found the TRRS cable between the halves to be very very annoying to get in and out of the chair. How did you solve that problem? I on
117.
by chewxy 6y ago
guilty on the latter. tho only contributors to my packages and coworkers complain about it. I am fine with it.
118.
by chewxy 6y ago
Came here to post this. Tho most times my undo tree are single characters.
119.
by chewxy 6y ago
I have named my machines after Doctor Who planets for the last 18 ish years. All new machines start as Gallifrey (workstation) or TARDIS (laptop). Then as they stop being my primary devices they get other planet / ship names. The torre
120.
by chewxy 6y ago
Dgraph Labs uses it. I am a bit ambivalent about it. For example: https://dgraph.io/blog/post/putting-it-all-together-part1/ Here it says 7 comments. But you only get to see one. You have to click into the di

More ›