gimboland

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by gimboland 6y ago
Ah, the heady days back when everybody bought books written by Don Box which only Don Box could understand! (Edit: yeah, of course, that was DCOM not CORBA, but anyway, that's where I flashed back to. :-) )
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by gimboland 6y ago
https://blog.ganssle.io/articles/2019/11/utcnow.html
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by gimboland 6y ago
In an RTL language, you don't even need to mirror it. Or, to put it another way: if you think it needs to point to the right, is that because the text you read flows that way? This then makes me wonder if the large portion of the world
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by gimboland 6y ago
So it is! I stand corrected - thanks! I am, however, still open to the possibility that I was right in the past, and that he recently added the dates. ;-)
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by gimboland 6y ago
Kent's stuff is good but I have a niggle with him (and an annoyingly non-zero bunch of other bloggers): no publication dates on his posts. As someone who always makes notes of what I read, and who wants those notes to include publicati
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by gimboland 6y ago
I use autojump, but I liked the idea of having an fzf-powered menu pop up when invoked without any args (which is not how autojump behaves). So I made rustled this up (zsh): https://pastebin.com/aLmqJVRy
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by gimboland 6y ago
fzf's great. I use it for a quick/easy git branch menu, complete with preview of recent history of each branch: https://pastebin.com/R91bP2qa
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by gimboland 6y ago
> Everyting else seems to be cross platform and runs ok on Windows, or even linux. Yes, but then you have to run Windows or Linux. I think that people don't (on the whole) get Macs in order to run particular software, but many (myse
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by gimboland 6y ago
That's not true. Here's the relevant law: http://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2020/350/contents/made Here's the relevant section of that law: http://www.legislation.gov.uk/u
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by gimboland 7y ago
Plus redstone is much easier to read than elisp
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by gimboland 7y ago
Well done. You have confirmed what they said: > and the solution was something like "you are using it wrong - you need to use marks instead".
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by gimboland 7y ago
I, too, have read the linked article.
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by gimboland 7y ago
Merging threads?
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by gimboland 7y ago
> Or it is harder to force people into quarantine. From the article: > Harris believes that the rapid spread of Spanish flu in the fall of 1918 was at least partially to blame on public health officials unwilling to impose quarantines
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by gimboland 7y ago
If you're disappointed in the American government on this, you haven't been paying attention for the past two years. They are handling this crisis exactly as they showed us they would.
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by gimboland 7y ago
The London underground has fabric seats. I wouldn't call the Tube pristine, but I appreciate not having plastic seats.
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by gimboland 7y ago
No, it wasn't the mental model, it was literally this picture, i.e. the image, down to the colours and everything.
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by gimboland 7y ago
As soon as I opened that page I had a flashback to playing Elite on my ZX Spectrum as a 10-year-old. I had to look twice at the map to check it didn't show Lave and Reidquat. And that's really weird, because now I look into it, I
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by gimboland 7y ago
I hear you on the double-quoted strings; and that's why the only black configuration I allow myself, is "skip-string-normalization = true" in my pyproject.toml
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by gimboland 7y ago
FYI, You can replace the keyboard on a 2011 MBP; I've done it. Fiddly but not especially difficult. The 3rd party keyboard I replaced it with isn't as good as the original (in particular the backlight is very leaky) but it's
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by gimboland 7y ago
OTOH, AirPods don't meet a minimum standard of quality for me, namely that of actually staying in my ears. They just kind of sit there, dangling, and fall out as soon as I turn my head. Only earbuds with an in-ear seal stay in — it jus
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by gimboland 7y ago
Abstraction isn't just about reusability; it's also about comprehensibility. I put a lot of effort into lower layers that abstract away complexity, not so that my business logic is reusable, but so that my business logic is easy t
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by gimboland 7y ago
More on where "pets vs cattle" comes from: http://cloudscaling.com/blog/cloud-computing/the-history-of-...
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by gimboland 7y ago
Philippe Palanque and the Interactive Critical Systems research group at Toulouse [1] have been ploughing this furrow for years, on the academic side but with industrial applications mainly in avionics. So this kinda stuff is happening, but
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by gimboland 7y ago
Not a comment on the content, but I really wish people wouldn't publish blogs without an obvious publication date. I learnt react this year; I spent quite a bit of time researching and reading, and obviously there was a _lot_ of ground
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by gimboland 7y ago
If you want to go deeper into Karabiner-Elements, perhaps check out goku [0] — it allows you to write Karabiner configuration in a much nicer configuration language. [0] https://github.com/yqrashawn/GokuRakuJoudo
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by gimboland 7y ago
Hot tip for more space in your menu bar: Bartender — https://www.macbartender.com/
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by gimboland 7y ago
I upvoted you, but what is up with so many comments here starting with "I mean, "? I assume that if you wrote it, you meant it.
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by gimboland 7y ago
In python since 1999: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!msg/comp.lang.python/DfzH5... :-) (Though not in the stdlib til v2.1, April 2001)
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by gimboland 7y ago
Yeah. You're not wrong. Sadly, while HN is full of people of great technical expertise, it's also full of people whose knee-jerk reaction to reading _anything_ here is to think of how they can say it's wrong, preferably in a

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