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by iamevn 5y ago
I've got a nitpick that x.val() in Java is not accurately represented as (val x) in a scheme. there's a few different ways schemes do objects but two common ones are to either: Treat x as callable and call it with a symbol represe
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by iamevn 5y ago
Reminds me of tell-tales on sailboats which are similar bits of string attached to sails which give feedback about how you might need to adjust your sails to keep the wind moving over them smoothly.
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by iamevn 5y ago
The most exciting part of this for me is having dependencies for different projects specified in a shell.nix file in the root of that project. then I just run nix-shell and get an environment with those dependencies isolated from the rest o
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by iamevn 5y ago
>DrRacket shows the region affected by an #; S-expression comment by fading the commented-out region. Oh cool, I use #; all the time and that's bothered me just a little bit each time.
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by iamevn 5y ago
maybe not, but it seems really odd that an established ship-building company would build something that can't make it down-river like that
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by iamevn 5y ago
did not realize you had to look to the side to see your current speed in a Tesla, that seems really odd
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by iamevn 5y ago
> > Wanting to join the Google protest, and then being threatened by management with being fired for taking PTO to join the protest effort I read that as the author wanting to not come into the office through the protest. They wanted
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by iamevn 5y ago
The terrifying video the introduction describes: https://twitter.com/ffoqboss/status/1444746707925827584
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by iamevn 5y ago
Like the author, I missed my favorite game enough to buy an arcade rhythm game a few months into the pandemic. It's a shame Konami/Sega/Taito are so picky about who they sell to and therefore who gets to be on their network.
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by iamevn 5y ago
Probably referring to this behavior from TFA: > Previously you could choose to “never combine” apps so you had one-click access to each document. Now you are required to use two mouse actions to open each. If you have "foo.txt"
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by iamevn 5y ago
fwiw I've gotten a debian install to the point where I'd rather wipe and reinstall than fix thanks to a combination of pinning, bad pip hygeine (why oh why is global install default), and not being sure where to go to learn how to
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by iamevn 5y ago
I hope you can enjoy some rest in the coming weeks/months. Personally I have found that it was beneficial to completely stop myself from doing any sort of side project/fun programming for at least a week or two after leaving my la
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by iamevn 5y ago
A couple months ago I pulled my x220 that I hadn't used in 3 years out of the closet and got it all updated to do some hobby programming while visiting parents. My only other laptops were a work machine (X1 Carbon, I want to say from 2
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by iamevn 5y ago
agreed, I'd be more interested in syntax highlighting in my pager than in cat.
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by iamevn 5y ago
I quite like how fish does process substitution. foo (bar | psub) Instead of syntax it's just a plain function. docs: https://fishshell.com/docs/current/cmds/psub.html source of psub.fish: https:
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by iamevn 5y ago
> Ethereum is moving to Proof of Stake For how many years has this been used a defense of Ethereum? Any time Ethereum has been criticized over proof of work, the transition to proof of stake is brought up and it's always "8 mon
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by iamevn 5y ago
You might enjoy https://typescripttolua.github.io/ I tried a bunch of different typed luas before landing on this project and having a really wonderful experience incrementally porting my most recent love2d thing over and t
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by iamevn 5y ago
iirc that was something like mustard gas and the blowing into a straw was to get the victim to breathe deeply (after emptying lungs blowing)
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by iamevn 5y ago
> Can't hear what someone is saying directly to me because I'm obsessed with minutiae. This was something I had no idea was a symptom of ADHD before I got diagnosed. It was extremely distressing to experience. I'd be sitti
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by iamevn 5y ago
Even if you get Google employees to see (which you almost certainly have now), it's frustratingly difficult to escalate this sort of issue internally. While I worked at Google (not in YouTube) I'd tried to escelate this sort of is
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by iamevn 5y ago
One thing that bothered me a lot when I tried to use vscode (with the best vi bindings I could find) was that the vi bindings only actually worked within specific text areas if I want to do something like filter things in the problems pane,
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by iamevn 5y ago
I don't know about boosting productivity but the mechanical keyboards I've used have been much more comfortable than the mushy rubber dome keyboards or those extremely thin apple keyboards that feel like you're just mashing y
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by iamevn 5y ago
here's a good post on the topic (from 5 years ago but things haven't changed too much afaik) https://eev.ee/blog/2016/04/30/embedding-lua-vs-python/
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by iamevn 5y ago
I feel similarly but I'd love to have these ligatures if the programming language actually understood the characters the ligatures look like too.
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by iamevn 5y ago
> All the money that enters the system is from investors and from players. > Those are the same thing because both players and investors can cash each other's money out. There's literally no distinction between both things.
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by iamevn 5y ago
I love my keyboard with Matias quiet click switches but they absolutely did have a bad batch that die super quickly. Had to buy a bag of spares to swap a few switches out. These appear to not be Matias though based on the stems https:&#x2F
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by iamevn 5y ago
How is the token increasing in value outside of people speculating on it? The only money entering the system is investors and fees drain that out of the system. Without people spending, not investing, the system is doomed to hurt people who
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by iamevn 5y ago
do you have fish_update_completions somewhere that runs when you start a shell? maybe ~/.config/fish/config.fish?
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by iamevn 5y ago
they're just functions so they end up in files in ~/.config/fish/functions/ $ alias foo bar $ function foo --wraps bar --description 'alias foo=bar' bar $argv end these two are basically eq
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by iamevn 5y ago
I've found fish to be absolutely wonderful for shell scripting. I can throw together a loop or a function with the sort of confidence I never could have in bash.

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