joaonmatos

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by joaonmatos 4y ago
I suppose you think animals exist out of thin air, as opposed to the reality of their needing more plant-based calories, for the calories they provide you, than what you’d need if you cut out the middleman.
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by joaonmatos 4y ago
So it is the first option - having to pick a random username for a website with no social features.
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by joaonmatos 4y ago
Enlighten me: If I’m registering with my favourite store’s frequent costumer program and emails are “idiotic”, do I need to take the time to pick a username for a system with absolutely no social features, or do I just memorize the 12 digit
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by joaonmatos 4y ago
I guess you can read “Imperialism, the Highest Stage of Capitalism” by V.I. Lenin to explore the topic more
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by joaonmatos 4y ago
Or maybe they thought that a good use of the remainder of their life was to fight for other people to be able to make that choice regardless of whether they could get to Geneva or not.
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by joaonmatos 4y ago
Sanders is a social democrat - not a liberal as you described, nor a democratic socialist as he describes himself.
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by joaonmatos 4y ago
Atom was unbelievably slower than VSCode for any comparable set of capabilities. What do you mean bloated?
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by joaonmatos 4y ago
Maybe I just have horrendous taste, but I just get GitHub Theme Light and am done with it. Do you tend to be nitpicky around aesthetics?
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by joaonmatos 4y ago
As long as you keep the Head of Government away from the sovereign, presidents can be harmless enough to avoid this kind of polarisation. Maybe look at Ireland or Portugal as examples of republics where the president keeps the constitutiona
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by joaonmatos 4y ago
LLVM is geared towards providing a single toolchain for frontends to target, but is essentially made to target von Neumann/serial-ish/homogenous machines. You can get an overview of its philosophy in Lattner’s original 2004 paper
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by joaonmatos 4y ago
Yep. The main case cluster in Portugal has been traced back to a sauna in Lisbon, and already people are reverting to harmful 80s/hiv era jokes like ‘the homosexuals are f**ing monkeys’.
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by joaonmatos 4y ago
Call me a simpleton but I upgraded simply because of wslg. I know that you could forward X11 before but seamless integration of graphical Linux apps is too big of a boon. The other stuff I don’t really care. I have 0 stuff on the desktop an
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by joaonmatos 4y ago
Probably some ease of embedding concerns, don’t quote me on it though.
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by joaonmatos 4y ago
Weird standards for “nice weather”. I would use: - temperatures around 15 degrees, so a place that went from lows of 5 in the winter to highs of 25 in the summer - rarely overcast. Growing up in Porto I don’t really have a problem with su
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by joaonmatos 5y ago
This blog is about how in the tech industry we keep wanting to build all the tech for our blogs and end up not blogging at all. Comment, reply, message etc. with whatever you may want to say.
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Who gives a sh*t about the tech, just write something: how I started my dev blog(blog.joaonmatos.com)
3 points by joaonmatos 5y ago|2 comments
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by joaonmatos 5y ago
OP here. This is my first blog post ever. It's about using receivers in inline functions to simplify builder patterns. If you have any suggestions about improvements/general critiques, feel free to comment here, message me or open
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Fun DSLs in Kotlin – Builders and Receiver Types(blog.joaonmatos.com)
2 points by joaonmatos 5y ago|1 comments
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by joaonmatos 5y ago
Global Hotkeys for something like Quake terminal, or voice chat push-to-talk. Obviously I don't see why you would encumber the core protocol for it, but a subscription model for it as a wlroots or FreeDesktop portal could be interestin
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by joaonmatos 5y ago
To provide a counterpoint to comments here, I only started listening podcasts when Spotify added them and know they are the most important use of the app for me now. If tomorrow Spotify removed podcasts from the apps, I'd probably canc
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by joaonmatos 5y ago
Discord is still way worse in text chat. I (as a uni. student, so take it with a grain of salt) am involved in managing several large projects - overseeing 4 teams of around 10 people each. We decided to use Discord as the university did no