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by eeh 6y ago
> Generally, subcultures. If you know about it now, you've already missed it. I don't know about it, even now. Can you explain a bit more? Is it just that the pandemic adjusted the value of certain industries/services, and
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by eeh 6y ago
https://micromobility.io/podcast is a good podcast on this topic.
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by eeh 6y ago
Is your perception of yourself being a procrastinator a result of having "been indoctrinated from an early age to be productive, to schedule every moment"? Taking a view from Positive Psychology, the ABCDE explanation for this tho
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by eeh 6y ago
> Perhaps the difficult emotion that 'lazy' people are avoiding is admitting to themselves that they're ok making that trade-off. I don't think it's that simple. During low periods, I let plates/wrappers&#x2
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by eeh 6y ago
Is the author of the project a fluent speaker of English? Not everyone will be familiar with slangs in various countries.
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by eeh 6y ago
The EU. The article mentions: "We are excited that the Nlnet Foundation has sponsored this work!" https://nlnet.nl/project/GNUMes/ mentions "This project was funded through the NGI0 PET Fund, a fund
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by eeh 6y ago
> When I hear about slavery, I think about the poor people that did not have any freedom, not about black people. There have been african slaves in africa, asian slaves in asia, european slaves in europe and native american slaves in nat
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by eeh 6y ago
Modifiers on home row has been the killer feature for me. Do you have all four modifies on each side?
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by eeh 6y ago
I use an Ergodox. I have long thumbs but can only comfortably reach 2 (3?) of the 6 buttons in the thumb cluster. The whole point of the Ergodox for me was to avoid uncomfortable movements, so I don't use those keys. I'm happy wit
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by eeh 6y ago
During outages, linking to the site risks making outages worse. Consider linking to the status dashboard instead: https://status.stripe.com/
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by eeh 6y ago
Which story do you recommend first?
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by eeh 6y ago
This is the approach advocated for in https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3735293-clean-code . I like it, but I know some language communities don't.
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by eeh 6y ago
> Our code means code written by individuals working within the USA or at an American Institution. USA occasionally has a reputation for being insular, but I'm happy to see you bucking the trend and embracing institutes across the c
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by eeh 6y ago
CSIRO didn't invent WiFi. CSIRO invented and hold one of many patents used in WiFi. https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2012/04/how-the-aussie-g... That said, I recall concluding CSIRO were unfairly trea
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by eeh 6y ago
> Honestly, I dont think so. Your honesty is appreciated. Facts are welcome too. > I think they mostly use our code. What's "our code"? The strongly connected set of open source software that happens to be written in En
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by eeh 6y ago
Yes. Also, tonne is accepted for use in SI: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_System_of_Units#...
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by eeh 6y ago
> Unfortunately, due to not understanding exponentials, many advocated for starting the lockdown later: hence the UK's delayed lockdown and therefore highest death toll in Europe. UK's strategy was as advised by various epidemi
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by eeh 6y ago
I can't say for sure that the time I've spent working with Emacs has been overall net positive, but I enjoy it, and it's changed how I think about the interface between users and their programs.
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by eeh 6y ago
I think people are aware US doesn't have a good track record. We don't have to make this a competition.
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by eeh 6y ago
I agree Java streams and concurrent collections are great. I agree Go cannot offer similar things due to a weaker type system. I willingly code Go day-to-day. I miss Java streams, and sometimes the codebase is slightly worse due to the lack
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by eeh 6y ago
Are you suggesting all new typed languages have generics? What makes you so sure there isn't room in the design space for a typed language without generics? As much as I like generics, Go's popularity is a success: programmers hav
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by eeh 6y ago
Go is a popular language. A common criticism is lack of generics. Go has sought advice from the type theory community. This is the result. What alternative for Go do you know of that doesn't involve going back to 2001 technology?
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by eeh 6y ago
> In my entire career I have never seen more confusion and misunderstanding about how to use frameworks than I have when working for companies listed on major stock indexes with multi-billion USD market caps. Is it actual confusion, or j
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by eeh 6y ago
I think there's some merit to this, but it's a bit strict. Suppose I'm at 80 characters, and everyone agrees this is a reasonable line. Then suppose I refactor a variable that was 3 characters and its now 12 characters, and e
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by eeh 6y ago
I only have a old ThinkPad x230 to discourage me from spending lots of time on computers but that does not work.
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by eeh 6y ago
TFA explains why he didn't use RAID1: "I put in one hard disk per device for maximum redundancy: any hardware component can fail and I can just use the other device.". If the motherboard dies on one device, he still has a wor
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by eeh 6y ago
If it's not interesting, move on. I'll answer it literally: seeing what equipment other engineers use can give ideas for one's own serup. stapelberg is an effective engineer, so I'm glad he shared it.
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by eeh 6y ago
NixOS, Emacs, Haskell, tiling window managers. They're a clique in the tech world. I think a unifying theme is to have a small foundation that the user can develop within. Going a bit further on my soapbox, you might also be into philo
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by eeh 6y ago
I can understand why following the master branch can result in massive rebuilds. Does Guix offer a branch that contains code that has been built by the CI builders? In which case, when a user grabs a package they'll be able to grab the
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by eeh 6y ago
Does Guix's remote build caching help avoid every Guix user having to build the full bootstrap? https://guix.gnu.org/manual/en/html_node/Substitutes.html

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