gonzus

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by gonzus 6y ago
Does something like Google Plus Code ( https://maps.google.com/pluscodes/ ) help in this case? This sounds exactly like the use case they wanted to support (and that was supported by other systems prior to GPC), so I am
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by gonzus 6y ago
I'm going to post this as a top-level comment rather than an answer, so that nobody feels under attack. I don't know Kovid other than from being a Calibre user and from reading about him (mostly here on HN). But I do find many of
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by gonzus 6y ago
I will take the opportunity, then, to particularly make the point and install this lovely version 13.
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by gonzus 6y ago
There are a few projects I absolutely could not live a professional life without: PostgreSQL is one, SQLite is another. All my appreciation and congratulations on a great release!
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by gonzus 6y ago
This kind of arithmetic is always very unclear and causes all kinds of confusion / miscommunication. This is why I always prefer to be explicit about the absolute numbers (maybe in addition to the relative percentages): "it used 1
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by gonzus 6y ago
Do you have a working link for the epub version? The one on the page downloads a text file with three lines, with tags version, oid and size.
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by gonzus 6y ago
I knew this rang a bell: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G9_l8QASobI (from Jan 2020).
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by gonzus 6y ago
I believe a good fit for Unix commands is using a pipeline where the output of your command (say, ls) is converted to JSON, so that later in the pipeline you can use jq to filter / count / etc in a structured, non-whitespace-depen
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by gonzus 6y ago
Evelyn Widmer-Schlumpf's given name is "Evelyn" and her (adopted?) family name is "Widmer-Schlumpf", so the correct way to refer to her just by her family name would be "Widmer-Schlumpf". [I am Swiss BTW.]
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by gonzus 6y ago
You should be using `git commit -v` then; it will include the full diff of your changes, so you can quickly check them while writing your commit message.
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by gonzus 6y ago
Yes! Star Wars was a SINGLE movie. No subtitle. And originally no "Episode IV", which, when it appeared, was VERY confusing...
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by gonzus 6y ago
Exactly. He could as well have created this jewel: https://motherfuckingwebsite.com/
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by gonzus 6y ago
I think changing priorities is a risk that has to be taken into account whenever you are considering any task that will extend for a long time -- rewriting code is just one example. If you have to go on for many weeks / months on a p
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by gonzus 6y ago
I wanted to chime in and revel in your company... Something similar (but never as bad as your painful description of AZERTY) happens with Spanish keyboards, and there are even varieties for different Latin American countries. As you mention
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by gonzus 7y ago
Anybody who knows more Greek: is this word in any way related to a Greek word for excrement?
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by gonzus 7y ago
In all honesty, this sounds to me like a whole lot of BS and hype. The name is pretentious, the quotes are ridiculous ( "Deep Learning est mort. Vive Differentiable Programming." ; "there will be a need for the creation of a
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by gonzus 7y ago
This is also an example of how difficult naming can be. This is arguably a "ranking" (1=low, 5=high), not a "priority" (1=high, 5=low).
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by gonzus 7y ago
I stand corrected; this was in fact discussed before, right here on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17087469 -- very nice read.
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by gonzus 7y ago
I just watched a documentary about how Super Mario 64, a game for Nintendo consoles, was reverse engineered in a way that will also generate byte-identical objects when being compiled. I found this nothing short of amazing. This is the link
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by gonzus 7y ago
More info please? That sounds pretty hard / impossible to do.
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by gonzus 7y ago
Do you plan to self-host at some point, and get rid of the dependency on the (external) TS compiler?
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by gonzus 7y ago
Can you share which database mapping tool for NodeJS this is?
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by gonzus 7y ago
I wish I could argue against your reasoning, but sadly I think you are totally correct. Here's to hoping we are both proven wrong.
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by gonzus 7y ago
This is really sad news. I love Mathologer. This day sucks.
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by gonzus 7y ago
I would. I am keeping an eye on the zig programming language, exactly because of these reasons: https://ziglang.org/
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by gonzus 7y ago
You will come to forks in your career path more than once. Do not underestimate the importance of choosing what makes you happy. Do not overestimate the benefits of choosing what brings in more money. In short: choose happiness over money,
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by gonzus 7y ago
This is a great trick, thanks! Much appreciated.
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by gonzus 7y ago
All of that is very well and I am glad those people find that approach enticing, but I would hate it myself. I participate for the pure joy of solving a puzzle and learning more idiomatic ways of doing that with my language of choice. If th
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by gonzus 7y ago
For me it was the ideal way to wade into the rust waters last year, and quickly find out it (rust) was not my cup of tea, at least not at the time. This year I will try to follow along in zig, and see where that takes me.
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by gonzus 7y ago
I played a bit with redo some time ago. It hit a chord with the way I like to do things (small, minimalistic tools that do one thing right). But it was hard to find my way around it, and for certain things (commands that produce more than o

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