hyperjeff

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by hyperjeff 5y ago
> Yes, it's just muscle memory and you can always re-train it, but there's very little return for my investment. As a data point of one, I've found the return to be enormous and the investment suprisingly small. You have a
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by hyperjeff 5y ago
> Whatever reading comprehension advantage they may carry is completely negated by the fact that they can't be typed from a regular keyboard. There's a curious blindspot among coders with regard to customizing their main interf
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by hyperjeff 5y ago
This presumes one isn't using real tab characters in their code. (No idea why they claim tabs are 8 spaces, as they're their own character.) The rest of these arguments are just curious decisions by a certain community. The point
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by hyperjeff 5y ago
Working very well on my (3rd gen) iPad Pro, fwiw.
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by hyperjeff 5y ago
Especially Carlos’s Beauty in the Beast, one of my fav albums. It seems to have a strong Indonesian influence in places, and I’ve since found similar exotic tunings in music from there.
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by hyperjeff 6y ago
Some nice symbol selection here. It’s a great thing to customize your keyboard layout. On the Mac side, there’s a nice tool called Ukelele: https://software.sil.org/ukelele/
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by hyperjeff 6y ago
“4 weeks of paid parental leave” — I’d change this to 4 weeks of paid caregiving.
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by hyperjeff 7y ago
I agree that usually one uses a higher level API, but I've worked on commercial apps that use Metal both for graphics and compute. The code is not so unweildy as is suggested here. An old triangle test app I have here shows only about
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by hyperjeff 7y ago
Every shell can make its own version, but here's a wrapper in fish which I named pstl: eval (echo "pastel $argv" | sed 's/ | / | pastel /g') Now you can pstl "random | mix red | lighte
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by hyperjeff 7y ago
Yes, well said. Math is not any form of programming, and programming is not math. Studying the relations between the two can be very helpful, and the difference itself is interesting. One may have specific reasons to us FP to cleanly decoup
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by hyperjeff 8y ago
turning off #blog-post's padding and the .blog-content-card's left & right margins makes the layout nice on a desktop.
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by hyperjeff 8y ago
Ex-PhD student in general relativity here, also slowly going thru that book. If anyone wants to start a reading (slack?) group together, I’d be interested. I have no one to talk to about this stuff IRL.
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by hyperjeff 8y ago
Isn't this exact feature available via Do Not Disturb? I have DND on 24/7, and you can quickly turn it off for Lyft/etc if needed. If you make groups within your contacts you can even hone the whitelist and can fairly quickly
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by hyperjeff 8y ago
macOS (in its NeXT-based lineage) has always come with many scripting languages (php, perl, python, ruby, applescript, awk, *sh, etc) as part of a standard unixy setup, even before Apple themselves made use of them per se in the system. Whi
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by hyperjeff 10y ago
Of course, the author would agree that it's not close to real-life assault. If I said, "I shot a bear in virtual reality," it would be missing the point to complain that it's nowhere close to real-life bear shooting. No
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by hyperjeff 10y ago
oh, geez, yes of course. sorry, old habit from before the say command.
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by hyperjeff 10y ago
also fun is to append `osascript -e 'say "all done!"'` or somesuch if you're within decent earshot. you can even pipe in context-specific info.