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by gsinclair 5y ago
You can achieve this by using your own keyboard (one which has extra programmable keys) or by using Karabiner (or AutoHotKey or …) to make life easier for you. For instance, if you hold C down it could interpret that as Command-C.
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Yep, sure, and if that kind of code change was a frequent experience then I can imagine myself thinking multi-cursors would pay their way. As it is, I’d be perfectly happy using hjkl (because the change sites are so close) and cw and . and
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A gross misunderstanding of viruses in January of 2022 is indistinguishable from a troll. I applaud your patience in replying so well, or even at all.
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by gsinclair 5y ago
But what if they offer a (level of) service that SMS/MMS does not? Surely they can’t be dismissed so easily by a rational person?
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by gsinclair 5y ago
WhatsApp isn’t as heroic as that: for a long time it was phone-only.
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by gsinclair 5y ago
The quality of your written communication makes this high school teacher’s heart swell with pride.
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by gsinclair 5y ago
The editing task you set is admirably met with VSCodium, indeed, but the task itself seems irrelevant to real coding. In what circumstance do you see that three disparate changes of that nature all need to be made? In reality, you would thi
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by gsinclair 5y ago
Fines would probably lessen the government’s reputation among voters, though. Risky to amass too many.
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by gsinclair 5y ago
I’d love to hear what’s good about Windows Explorer. I used Windows for many years and never found it (edit: Explorer) satisfactory.
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by gsinclair 5y ago
Coen singular, in this case.
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by gsinclair 5y ago
I have no inside knowledge, but I expect there are a great many significant and very successful Clojure apps…that are single-purpose within single companies, never discussed publicly. Clojure conference videos seem to support this notion.
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by gsinclair 5y ago
Another flu that responds to vaccines sounds good, though.
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by gsinclair 5y ago
Word’s modern Equation Editor.
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by gsinclair 5y ago
Being woke is not simply that, though. At the risk of being pejorative, it involves being smug about possessing such awareness, and judgemental about others’ supposed lack of it. That smugness may be exuberant but innocent (e.g. teenagers),
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by gsinclair 5y ago
"No reason to use monospace fonts at all" is a stretch. It can be nice to line things up easily.
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by gsinclair 5y ago
> Edit: to add on, bikes are like 1-2 orders of magnitude cheaper than cars too, both in upfront and ongoing costs also. It’s super unfortunate that it still gets the stereotype as a “rich white people” activity when it’s really so much
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by gsinclair 5y ago
I’m slowly developing a note-taking ecosystem that’s kind of duct-tapey but works well for me. Nothing is hosted anywhere yet, but the main thing is the ideas. I find I want to _accrete_ information, not mutate it (in most cases), so the ma
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by gsinclair 5y ago
“A woman who was trespassed by two Timaru supermarkets for failing to comply with mandatory mask wearing rules, …” I’m Australian (NZ-adjacent) and have no idea what that means.
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by gsinclair 5y ago
I really like this answer, but I do think a flag “cleanup_required” could be a clean way to express the code as well, with “if cleanup_required …” after the switch block. But yep, I have no complaints with the code as presented.
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by gsinclair 5y ago
I teach high school CS and have eventually come to the same insight, and found that novice programmers do indeed understand primitive BASIC much more easily than Python. Python seems simple to us, but there is so much abstraction even in
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by gsinclair 5y ago
I’ve seen that video before but thank you for reproducing Bernstein’s words here. They bring great joy even in print.
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In Mac, you can tile two windows on the screen to organise them side by side. See the Window menu. I can’t comment on the second wish.
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Isn’t the M1 a significant innovation?
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Interestingly, solving symptoms can be important. My wife went to the physio with a sore back. He treated it with massage, of course, but equally importantly, he told her to take (over the counter) painkillers in substantial doses for 2-3 d
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by gsinclair 5y ago
And it's simply amazing that functools doesn't fill this gap.
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by gsinclair 6y ago
My experience of other coding challenges is: here's the problem, and you submit source code which is run against many test cases to confirm correctness. Advent Of Code only asks you to submit an answer, not source code.