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by jasperry 2y ago
The black-boxiness of dune has frustrated me as well, but to its credit it does a lot of work for you. Its biggest problem might be documentation; at least the last time I looked at it, there were only very basic examples plus a listing of
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by jasperry 2y ago
One reason this method seems good is that it requires you to write down a new list each day. For me at least, it's easier to write a fresh list and get started on that than to get motivated by a list I wrote before. Writing a new list
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by jasperry 2y ago
This is great. It makes me think there's something about the simplicity of a line-based interface for both editing and running code that we could still learn from in today's tooling. The interface to BASIC programming had to be si
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by jasperry 2y ago
Yes, everything is ultimately dependent on physical resources, but the value creation is at a higher level, and you hopefully get more value out of less resource as things advance. I don't consider AI a positive example, it's a hy
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by jasperry 2y ago
That's true, but more and more products are moving away from dependence on the physical resources. Kids don't buy toys much anymore, they play digital video games. You can see a doctor on Zoom instead of driving to their office. I
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by jasperry 2y ago
Value growth isn't tied to physical resources anymore, it's increasingly ascribed to intangible things, such as intellectual property. I'm not saying that growth is guaranteed to continue, just that economies have already bee
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by jasperry 2y ago
The URL is encrypted in HTTPS/TLS. An eavesdropper can see you making a TCP connection to the server, but everything above that layer, including the HTTP header with the URL, is encrypted payload.
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by jasperry 2y ago
I wonder if there is any research that draws insightful connections between these theoretical models of variable binding and the usual way of writing a compiler with nested symbol tables.
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by jasperry 3y ago
The issue is that most validated scientific results aren't directly applicable as life advice. It's better to be aware that applying them always involves some subjective interpretation, and that's not always better than some
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by jasperry 3y ago
To me, whether books like Cal Newport's cite scientific studies is beside the point. The goal of reading a book like "Deep Work" isn't to gain objective knowledge of results in psychology, but to get some nuggets of wisd
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by jasperry 3y ago
I would qualify this by saying yes, put the source code in the book, but only if there is something to learn from reading the code. That used to always be the case, but now there's so much boilerplate required for libraries and framewo
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by jasperry 3y ago
I agree with that. I guess my question is: do you always use two panes to copy? And does your file manager have something like tabs for different contexts where you would not necessarily be moving files between them?
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by jasperry 3y ago
Honest question about two-pane file managers: I understand that dual-pane is useful when you need to see the contents of two folders for copying and syncing multiple files. But for me, that seems like a minority part of my usage. More commo
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by jasperry 3y ago
It's very interesting that he is strongly for the use of computation in math, but strongly against using computer logic systems to formalize proofs--see opinion #184. I'd love to hear other people's take on this. I saw how pr
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by jasperry 3y ago
I also came here to put in a word for Resilio. It's the fastest and most hassle-free thing I've found that doesn't require a server. SyncThing was always very slow to reconnect and update for me.
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by jasperry 3y ago
I've come to appreciate Aldi; my wife's nose for bargains has helped me see that they hit a sweet spot of lowest price/sufficient quality for many items. However, their days of being genuinely cheaper than other options may b
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by jasperry 3y ago
Great article that captures and organizes a lot of information that's not so easy to find with Google. I've spent many hours tweaking the Freetype antialiasing settings and interpreter version to get font rendering "just righ
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by jasperry 3y ago
> Advanced math that isn’t necessarily useful in your college career is absolutely essential to teach high quality thinking. You've put into words something I wish I could tell everybody. The impact of achieving a level of rigorous
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by jasperry 3y ago
This is a really good question. When you write generic code in a language with higher-order functions, type signatures can get pretty hairy with type variables and quantifiers flying around (forall a. a -> foo a). In a functional languag
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by jasperry 3y ago
When I was in college in the 90s, my friends and I would occasionally watch old Gumby reruns just for laughs, and we were frequently floored by how surreal it was. Gumby definitely had a weird vibe, and the animators weren't afraid to
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by jasperry 3y ago
Deceptive billboards trying to steer tourists away from the actual Mammoth Cave National Park have continued up until recent times. I'm not saying there aren't other caves worth exploring, but when there's a giant "Welco
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by jasperry 3y ago
Strong agree from me, though what I do is less involved than the article. I normally just take a few per-chapter summary notes in an org-mode outline, in a filename that starts with the year I read the book. Recently I started creating my o
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by jasperry 4y ago
The double-space after the period is good when using a monospaced typewriter, because for readability there should be more space between sentences than between words (not twice as much, but that's the best you can do with a typewriter
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by jasperry 4y ago
This triggered a memory from my childhood of finding Basic programming books published by Tab in the musty corners of my town's public library. Back when both computers and books seemed to be full of mystery and wonder.
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by jasperry 4y ago
The leftmost bit is wrong, it should be a 0. It becomes 1 at y2k38, when the signed value will represent Jan 1 1970 minus 2^31 seconds.
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by jasperry 4y ago
I remember how Print Shop-made banners were all over my elementary school in the 80s. The fonts became instantly recognizable to me. It was easier to make banners then than now, because continuous-feed printers were more prevalent.
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by jasperry 4y ago
One of the top use cases for OCaml is to build interpreters and compilers for new languages. Its syntax and type system makes it very natural to navigate tree-structured data, such as ASTs. It has a great parser generator library, Menhir, a
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by jasperry 4y ago
Thank you for this information, I'm interested. Does Gala let you bind keyboard shortcuts for window moving/resizing actions? That's the main reason I'm still using OpenBox with XFCE.
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by jasperry 4y ago
I see. I guess the only solution is to go on a theme hunt, then. I use Bunsen themes with XFCE, and haven't encountered that problem, but I don't use a lot of GTK3 apps.
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by jasperry 4y ago
Scanning through the feature list, the more straightforward management of the application/mime type associations is a big win to me. Like probably most people who use XFCE, I appreciate how it focuses on small, incremental quality-of-l

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