jmort253

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by jmort253 3y ago
I've often thought the same thing about someone pushing this information out there simply to push the stock prices down. I'm wondering if it all will eventually blow over and if it's a good time to invest in AT&T and Ver
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by jmort253 3y ago
Cool! I was in the process of reading the JavaScript version. Converting the book to various languages will help spread the concepts in this book to a larger audience.
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by jmort253 3y ago
I didn't know about the opium. He mentioned not getting addicted to things in the book. I bet he was talking about all of the things he had done wrong in his life. Do what I say not what I do.
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by jmort253 3y ago
When I read Meditations by Marcus Aurelius, the book was written in second person point of view (using you/your vs I/my or they/theirs). It sounded like the former emperor was talking directly to me, but later I found he was
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by jmort253 3y ago
I think the best way to find a project is to scratch your own itch. What kinds of problems do you face that an existing tool could solve, if it just had that one feature? That is how I ended up contributing to maintaining Seleniarm for Ra
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by jmort253 3y ago
> You can do that in Linux... I think I _may_ have done that before. What I thought was interesting is FreeBSD just did that without any extra steps. When I "apt-get install" a desktop environment in Ubuntu or Debian and reboot
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by jmort253 3y ago
Exactly. I was on an M1 Mac, so trying to emulate x86/64 would have been painfully, unusably slow. For simple console stuff on the terminal, it's ok. But when the GUI is involved, or anything with a lot of computation, having to
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by jmort253 3y ago
On that note, maybe I should try the other BSD flavors then.
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by jmort253 3y ago
I tried FreeBSD on ARM64. I couldn't get the browsers, like Firefox or Epiphany, to load without crashing. I'm not sure if it was something I was doing wrong or if the ARM ecosystem just isn't well supported yet. I was also
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by jmort253 4y ago
I like the example using well-named local variables to put together the regular expression into something really readable. It reminds me of the chapters in Uncle Bob's Clean Code book on naming using functions and local variables. When
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by jmort253 5y ago
Glad to see the MagSafe back and the SD card slot. Reminds me of the 2015 Macbook Pro before they started pulling all of the ports.