girzel

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by girzel 7y ago
SEEKING WORK: Seattle or remote, part time or short gigs only. Programmer since 2006. Tech includes Python and Django, plus the usual HTML/CSS/JS. Common Lisp (and other lisp-likes), and some oCaml. Postgres. The thing that intere
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by girzel 7y ago
Just wait till you see Emacs plus Gnus!
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by girzel 7y ago
I wonder if things have changed since 2007? (ie, why was this reposted?)
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by girzel 7y ago
Sure, I'm not saying these things can't be done, just that you get the distinct feeling that it isn't how Lisp was made to work. I might have been exaggerating about size, but 70 Mb is pretty damn big for a program that might
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by girzel 7y ago
I think the general consensus is that it's great for "getting big shit done" – in other words, it's hard to beat for creating large, complex programs, but relatively crap for scripting or smaller tasks. I'm still
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by girzel 7y ago
Every locale has its own indigenous yeast variants. Unless you go to ridiculous lengths to isolate your starter from the environment (which some people do, including sterilizing the flour used to feed the starter), it's going to eventu
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by girzel 7y ago
Dear "Seattle Woman": while you're in there, please dump Capital One's junk mail database, and set their address label printer on fire. Sincerely, another Seattle resident with a mailbox.
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by girzel 7y ago
You can write a computer program that returns incorrect information, I think that's the extent of it.
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by girzel 7y ago
> others only pretend to be conscious > how do I know if they're answering truthfully? > anyone who professed non-consciousness The ability to lie seems to me to imply at least some level of consciousness. How could/why w
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And Ocaml: https://ocaml.org/learn/tutorials/structure_of_ocaml_program...
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by girzel 7y ago
Seattle has a thriving network of neighborhood farmer's markets, so in principle I think it could work. On the other hand, those markets are one-day-a-week, not permanent installations. Also, far fewer people actually live downtown tha
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by girzel 7y ago
Again, this is drawn mostly from hazy memories of articles previously read, but my understanding was that plaque on the teeth of people who don't eat a diet high in sugars and refined carbs doesn't cause inflammation, ie it&#x27
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by girzel 7y ago
If you don't brush or floss, your teeth end up completely coated in a layer of plaque. I think I once read somewhere that, due to low-sugar diet everyone else is talking about, the plaque on people's teeth "back in the day&qu
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by girzel 7y ago
I wouldn't be surprised if they're handling this the way they handle most domestic censorship; not so much the iron hand coming down, but more a wheedling pressure: "why would you stir up so much trouble, don't you know
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by girzel 7y ago
> "Those elegant long-necked coffee pots? Their thin stems force the liquid to move faster for a given flow rate, increasing its momentum and decreasing its chances of adhering to the pot."
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by girzel 7y ago
I wonder if OSMand could take advantage of having a few street numbers. Right now, in the "address search" mode, if the number you're looking for doesn't exist, you're out of luck. But theoretically it could accep
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by girzel 7y ago
OSM isn't, but I suspect it's mostly because it's not high profile enough (the old "nobody bothers writing viruses for Linux" problem). If it were, I'm sure we'd see junk data. OSM's data is version c
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by girzel 7y ago
Would that include you being willing to switch to a completely new language that takes you a good decade to become fluent in?
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by girzel 7y ago
I like the idea that the job of the OS (or really, the DE) is to respond to why we're using our computers. Each application should have its own job, but the DE's job is to help us achieve our intentions.
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by girzel 7y ago
I think hard links could. To take the up-thread example, you have one folder called "Vacation2018", and another called "BestDogPics". The photo of your dog on vacation lives in both folders, but hardlinked together.
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by girzel 7y ago
> This doesn't make sense. They "File -> Save" to a location, right? That's a tag. The folder-hierarchy version of "unwilling to go through and tag all their files" is saving all files to the Desktop.
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by girzel 7y ago
My favorite Japanese restaurants in Beijing (I've never been to Japan) weren't sushi places, they were sort of barbecue places. A small roasted mackerel was often one of the best things on the menu. I'm making myself nostalgi
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by girzel 7y ago
This feels like Western science finding its own way towards the lessons already learned by Buddhist meditation. A lot of the same ideas, framed quite differently.
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It was great for GoT...
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by girzel 7y ago
I'm finding this to be the case as well. You're trying to detect complex patterns that can take a good week to suss out and influence, and yet which are changing on approximately that same timeframe. You're continually behind
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by girzel 7y ago
Is there a reasonable, standard, lightweight way of making fillable PDFs? In theory it does seem like a reasonable extension of PDF (people send me xls spreadsheets that have been abused as forms, and I want to stab them) -- is there any no
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by girzel 7y ago
BeautifulSoup! It even comes with more "enterprisey" class-name aliases, if you need them.
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by girzel 7y ago
Location: Seattle Remote: Sure Willing to relocate: Unlikely Technologies: Python, Lisp, OCaml Interests: I'm only partially a programmer; otherwise I work in publishing. I'm interested in digital publishing technologies, ebooks,
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Yup, that's still sounding a lot like Buddhist meditation to me. There, too, your mind isn't supposed to be quiescent, in fact one of the early pitfalls is "dullness", or simply shutting your brain off. You're meant
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by girzel 7y ago
What I probably should have added here is that Buddhist meditation practice gives you tools for understanding why distraction happens. The whole practice is an examination of the nature of the mind and its multiplicity, and why it is pron

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