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by jgtrosh 7y ago
Thanks, I've been interested in aphantasia because it kind of resonated with me while being clearly more extreme than my personal experience. What you describe sounds very much like what I feel and it's quite pleasant to read such
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> 18-25 kids in a class means you can only give each kid maybe two minutes of individual attention an hour, and maybe less. Anecdata: in my quite successful french public middle and high schools, I've never been in a class with fewe
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by jgtrosh 7y ago
Just bought a Casio digital watch this morning because it has a countdown timer you can adjust up and down. I'm a happy ape right now.
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by jgtrosh 7y ago
Conversely, do you find that this criticism applies to Lua?
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by jgtrosh 7y ago
Clearly, there are better ways to share files than scp from work desktop. I should have said that having forgotten to push changes to a remote repo, turning the desktop off partially caused quite a bit of extra work in an already very busy
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by jgtrosh 7y ago
> I don't know what to take away from the single screenshot. Maybe it would be helpful to record an animated GIF or a screencast to demonstrate it in action? Agreed. Vi-style editing of pixel art is a new concept that needs to be de
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by jgtrosh 7y ago
That comment was saying that technical support is the natural understanding, and that this lack of clarity makes it a weasel-word. This is especially true since there are more straightforward alternatives such as the one that was given.
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by jgtrosh 7y ago
Thanks for reminding me that I exceptionally turned off my office PC today, leaving inaccessible the latest version of a paper I need to submit this weekend Today, it wasn't worth the savings.
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by jgtrosh 7y ago
There's good software to extract voice from audio though! One time I had this webpage [0] open, forgot about it, until a colleague started a phone conversation from the other side of the open space, my laptop's mic picked it up an
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by jgtrosh 7y ago
Wow, very impressive. Do you also believe it's a viable language with which newcomers should start writing scripts? Edit: follow up question is Do you believe bash / POSIX shells actually follow KISS principles? Not questioning wh
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by jgtrosh 7y ago
Have you read Bash Pitfalls[1]? Do you write truly correct Bash/POSIX code? Do you still love it? [1]: https://mywiki.wooledge.org/BashPitfalls
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by jgtrosh 7y ago
Hello, Your comment infringes on my patent regarding commenting style. Please cease and desist.
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by jgtrosh 7y ago
Probably not what you have in mind, but today I saw that KDE interacts well with a phone app to ease device interaction. https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.kde.kdecon...
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by jgtrosh 7y ago
I think for many people emulators are a sweet spot between technical challenge and potential usefuleness. You can actually improve the state of the art, and it's fun and challenging, and people will actually be thankful!
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by jgtrosh 7y ago
I was thinking of r3ddit but 3ddit is good too.
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by jgtrosh 7y ago
I seem to remember there was a polemic about supermarkets locking their bins from scavengers. Did you have any problem at the time? Was it before or after there was a change of law? Just a few more questions out of curiosity from a fellow f
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by jgtrosh 7y ago
Ok, interesting counter argument. I guess it's “the package's fault”, but you are right that this arises from a potentially unnecessary layer.
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by jgtrosh 7y ago
Android is an interesting use case. It would probably be mostly useless to SSH from an Android if the TUI ecosystem wasn't so prevalent. You probably also refer to Windows and MacOS, but that just corresponds to another type of difficu
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by jgtrosh 7y ago
When you are only using Linux machines, X mostly just works, while correct terminal bahaviour and appearance depend on configuration and TUIs. I'm not praising X nor am I shitting on TUIs, also I have indeed had more problems with X in
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by jgtrosh 7y ago
The comment was indeed saying that TUI is easier to set up over SSH than GUI. In my experience, it depends. X can be a pain, but getting a compatible font and terminal behaviour on the client can be a pain too.
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by jgtrosh 7y ago
Instead of not providing reasons you don't agree with, it would be better UI to provide them but if selected deny the action with an explanation. I think I saw this done on TripleByte's website during the sign-up process where the
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by jgtrosh 7y ago
Thanks I'd never seen this. So there have been quite a few incidents, but the takeway at the top seems to be there has been no fatality “at high-speed”. I guess that's something to be proud of, but that's still far from a per
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by jgtrosh 7y ago
Maybe round paper fans?
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Depends on the accepted practices. For example in France it's always welcome (AFAIK).
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by jgtrosh 7y ago
This is tricky. There is IMO no good technical way to implement the requested features without breaking core human respect of the users. What would be a better approach to the problem? What about an approach like the one regarding smoking i
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by jgtrosh 7y ago
> One of Dante's lesser hells is surely reserved for anyone that mixes tabs and spaces. Mixing tabs and spaces for indentation is demonic, while mixing tabs for indentation and spaces for alignment is the only good choice with
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by jgtrosh 7y ago
See also Wat from 2012: https://www.destroyallsoftware.com/talks/wat
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by jgtrosh 7y ago
That describes making some "bad" values illegal, where I believe the problem here was that they didn't expect the value.
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by jgtrosh 7y ago
Most networks are far from energy proportional; that is general usage barely affects consumption for cables which are “always on”.
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by jgtrosh 7y ago
Maybe it could be added to the list of falsehoods programmers believe about names: https://shinesolutions.com/2018/01/08/falsehoods-programmers...

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