chrisallenlane

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by chrisallenlane 4y ago
I favorited this post some time ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14233542 The Google Groups page is currently in a redirect loop, but if that gets sorted out, you may find the story that you're remembering.
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by chrisallenlane 4y ago
Thanks for the kind words. I'm glad you're finding it useful :) A documentation PR for Windows would be welcome. I've been meaning to reorganize and improve the documentation for months now, but it keeps getting line-jumped b
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by chrisallenlane 4y ago
I'm the author and maintainer of `cheat`, which started life (and continues life) as a "scratch your own itch" project: https://github.com/cheat/cheat I wrote it because I often forgot the shell commands
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by chrisallenlane 4y ago
> So your code can go as fast as you like I've been working on an (IMO) sophisticated tactical game with strong AI in Pico-8 for just about two years now, and I can say that this is not true. > which would require some kind of CP
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by chrisallenlane 4y ago
I've discovered a workflow I'm happy with. I run Debian stable on my workstation, and manage most of my packages with `apt`. As such, everything "just works," and flawlessly. For the handful of packages that I want to up
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by chrisallenlane 4y ago
This is petty, but I'm also constantly annoyed by the presence of the `snap` directory in my home folder, which (to my knowledge) is hard-coded and not configurable. Now, if I want to back up my home directory, I have to configure my b
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by chrisallenlane 4y ago
> $8m isn’t going to get you to 1/20th of Unity or Unreal The size and complexity of these engines can be a disadvantage, because not every game needs the features they provide. For some use-cases, it can be easier to work with a si
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by chrisallenlane 4y ago
This is the main reason I cancelled my gym membership. I got tired of going to the gym to clear my head, only to leave angrier than when I got there. I don't know why more gyms don't show sports on the TVs. It seems like a much mo
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by chrisallenlane 4y ago
> required a lot of hand holding from the devs who had been working on it from the start to teach me how to find/read and debug everything the "Ruby" way. Yes. And even just _finding_ relevant bits of code is difficult and
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by chrisallenlane 4y ago
I've been running a DIY model for about a year as well. My only complaint was likewise that installing the wifi antenna was _very_ tricky. I briefly thought I had broken it before it finally came together for me. (It sounds like they&#
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by chrisallenlane 4y ago
I'm the author of `cheat`. The two tools are somewhat less similar than they initially appear, due entirely to poor documentation on my part. If you're interested in a breakdown of the differences, I elaborated on this recently:
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by chrisallenlane 4y ago
`cheat` allows you to create cheatsheets on your local machine, so you can trivially create whichever Powershell cheatsheets you need. I don't believe we have any Powershell cheatsheets in the upstream community repo yet, but if you cr
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by chrisallenlane 4y ago
It is! There's a wonderful community-maintained `brew` package for it: `brew install cheat`
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by chrisallenlane 4y ago
I didn't link the article, but it's my pleasure. `cheat` was first and foremost a "scratch your own itch" tool. I'm very happy to see that others are finding it useful as well :)
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by chrisallenlane 4y ago
I'm the author of `cheat`. First of all, `tldr` is a lovely project, and if it's working for you, you should continue to use it. If there's distinction to draw between the two projects, it's that `tldr` (to my understand
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by chrisallenlane 4y ago
This was essentially my primary motivation for writing `cheat`. The `man` pages are thorough, but often lack examples demonstrating the common use-cases. I eventually tired of Googling "how to extract a tarball" (because I'm
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by chrisallenlane 4y ago
I'm the author of `cheat`. Regrettably, I agree with you regarding the lack of `apt` packaging as a major barrier to adoption. I've looked into creating it previously, but found it to be non-trivial. Like a lot of FOSS maintainers
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by chrisallenlane 4y ago
`cheat` is not a fork of `tldr` (I'm the author of `cheat`), though the latter is a lovely tool.
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by chrisallenlane 4y ago
Oh, weird. I'm actually the author of the `cheat` tool. Feel free to ask me if you have any questions about it.
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by chrisallenlane 5y ago
> 2. The swappable port system is actually a lot more useful than I expected. I'll second this. I was momentarily annoyed earlier in the week when I reorganized my desk, and found that the USB C port was on the "wrong" sid
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by chrisallenlane 6y ago
Perhaps this would align everyone's incentives: - Only honor PRs against repositories that have opted-in - Only allow repositories that meet certain "notability" criteria to opt-in (to prevent the creation of "fake&quo
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by chrisallenlane 8y ago
> there's also a subreddit called buyitonce iir. You're thinking of /r/BuyItForLife.
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by chrisallenlane 8y ago
Agreed. Discord is also what got me off of Facebook entirely. Discord today feels like how Facebook used to feel when it started: I'm actually friends with everyone on there, and we're having real conversations. There's also
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by chrisallenlane 8y ago
> I doubt it is permanent but the next few years will be difficult for media establishments when they need to restablish trust Why do you doubt it is permanent? I'm personally very pessimistic about this.
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by chrisallenlane 8y ago
There's no server here. This is just an executable written in node, which writes to a SQLite3 (flat-file) database.
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by chrisallenlane 8y ago
I'll throw mine into the pile of other solutions posted here. I hope someone finds it useful: https://github.com/chrisallenlane/node-did
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by chrisallenlane 8y ago
I don't know why people are giving you a hard time here. The quote is widely-known, and I appreciated your remark about the troubling lack of falsifiability criterion.
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by chrisallenlane 8y ago
If they can, they probably will.
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by chrisallenlane 8y ago
> BTW, with a blockchain solution, these are not at all "impossible to alter". That would only be true for a blockchain that is actually decentralized and heavily mined. An excellent point. I wonder if a market will emerge from
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by chrisallenlane 8y ago
This is sometimes referred to as "analysis paralysis."

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