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1. 301.▲
   by kbd 7y ago

   Despite controversy, walrus operator is going to be like f-strings. Before: "Why do we need another way to..." After: "Hey this is great". People are wtf-ing a bit about the positional-only parameters, but I view that as
2. 302.▲
   by kbd 7y ago

   Sure. Something is generally considered more elegant ("nicer") when it has fewer terms. (I'm really happy with my own argument above why Python's indexing is "optimal".) But I'd put what I think you'r
3. 303.▲
   by kbd 7y ago

   I don't think that's a correct reading. You're talking about this section, correct? > When dealing with a sequence of length N, the elements of which we wish to distinguish by subscript, the next vexing question is what su
4. 304.▲
   by kbd 7y ago

   I wasn't arguing so much that it was "objective proof", but that in contrast to "The reason for zero indexing is historical, related to pointer offsets. I don’t think anyone chose them to be easier for people.", I w
5. 305.▲
   by kbd 7y ago

   > The classic example is getting the last element of an array. Good point, in Python I don't notice that the last element is arr[len(arr)-1] because Python provides arr[-1]. I think in general your point is that it's natural fo
6. 306.▲
   by kbd 7y ago

   I can't believe I'm jumping into the inevitable 1-based indexing discussion, but I'm surprised to see you say that one-based indexing results in "less "+ 1" or "- 1" things in your code". Most ar
7. 307.▲
   by kbd 7y ago

   This I can agree with. Rust, appropriately, has special syntax for similar semantics.
8. 308.▲
   by kbd 7y ago

   It's just syntactic-sugar. From the proposal ( https://github.com/golang/go/issues/32437 ): f, err := os.Open(filename) if err != nil { return …, err } is simplified to: f
9. 309.▲
   by kbd 7y ago

   I'm excited/hopeful about Nim's prospects. The list of "high level languages with garbage collection and exceptions that compile down to an efficient native binary" is very small.
10. 310.▲
    by kbd 7y ago

    Cats nails are naturally needle sharp, they can't help but hurt you if they catch. They actually grow out from underneath so as soon as new nail becomes exposed it's super sharp. Cats also have instinctual behaviors that involve s
11. 311.▲
    by kbd 7y ago

    A couple of the things that make it much better for me are plugins: zsh-autosuggestions and zsh-syntax-highlighting. I think those are both fish-inspired, but getting those features in a bash/posix-compatible shell is the best of both
12. 312.▲
    by kbd 7y ago

    Can't edit this anymore. pick-status-files = "!f() { git status -z | xargs -0n1 | cut -c4- | fzi --print0 | xargs -0to git "$@"; }; f" can just be: pick-status-files = !git status -z | xargs -0n1 | cu
13. 313.▲
    by kbd 7y ago

    Yay. Btw, one more improvement. TIL xargs will skip blank inputs (depending on bsd/gnu xargs, flags etc...), so my version above: rif = "!f() { rev=$(git pick-commit); [[ $rev ]] && git ri $rev~; }; f" can ju
14. 314.▲
    by kbd 7y ago

    Sure: https://github.com/kbd/setup Here's my git config with a bajillion aliases: https://github.com/kbd/setup/blob/master/HOME/.config/git/co... Since git comma
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    by kbd 7y ago

    This is a great idea, thanks for it! I've done similar things with using fzf to git add, git diff, and so on, but I hadn't thought of using it to pick a commit to rebase from. I made a few changes so I figured I'd post them b
16. 316.▲
    by kbd 7y ago

    Just tested it and 'history -a' behaves how you say. Maybe it was an older version of bash that had this behavior. Edit: now I'm obsessing about reproducing this behavior from years ago! If anyone knows what I'm talking
17. 317.▲
    by kbd 7y ago

    Yeah I know, I was just making a distinction from cortesoft's "I want everything I've ever done" in my history. I was saying "so do I, except I want active sessions separate" (which as you point out, they are
18. 318.▲
    by kbd 7y ago

    Yes what I wrote doesn't exclude that. The only distinction is that you generally don't want all your sessions' histories interleaved. I.e. when you up-arrow, you only want your current session's history, without random
19. 319.▲
    by kbd 7y ago

    Bash's broken history is what finally got me to switch to Zsh. The history behavior you want is: 1. each line of history is appended incrementally, but 2. each shell session only has access to its own history unless you specifically re
20. 320.▲
    by kbd 7y ago

    It's frustrating when Internet articles don't include publication dates. It's not like it's paper where someone didn't think to record the date. The date certainly exists in the database, filesystem, etc, the auth
21. 321.▲
    by kbd 7y ago

    > I'm not sure it's any better than CSV or PSV (pipe), and it also doesn't interoperate with existing tools. I think the point is that it's largely a formalization of what unixy tools already do.
22. 322.▲
    by kbd 7y ago

    That actually seems to be the de-facto Python style. Even Guido said at some point that that's his convention.
23. 323.▲
    by kbd 7y ago

    Thanks for mentioning that project. I'm wasn't familiar with it, but the difference seems to be that Jupytext is a tool to convert notebooks between ipynb and text formats, while VSCode supports the same format (#%% cell delimiter
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    by kbd 7y ago

    If you ever put notebooks in source control, you owe it to yourself to try the text-based notebooks supported in Visual Studio Code[1]. They're round-trippable with real (i.e. browser-based) notebooks, yet are much better for collabora
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    by kbd 7y ago

    I know that's the answer for running multiple sessions at once, but even if you're a tmux expert I don't see how people live with only one window . I constantly have multiple iterm windows open and frequently open new window
26. 326.▲
    by kbd 7y ago

    How do people use Alacritty as a daily driver when it can't open more than one window?
27. 327.▲
    by kbd 7y ago

    I keep all my config source controlled and have my own setup program that creates symlinks and so on, along with a "bootstrap" script that starts from a clean Mac and installs and configures everything I need: https://g
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    by kbd 8y ago

    See the top couple comments on this thread (from within the past month) by q3k: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19254828 That should be impossible in Fuchsia.
29. 329.▲
    by kbd 8y ago

    Agree about some of the inconsistency, especially in preferences. It really feels like creaking around old corners of the 20+ year old UI it is. Microsoft needs to work on that. Also swipe-typing on the keyboard doesn't work in all app
30. 330.▲
    by kbd 8y ago

    I second this recommendation for anyone looking for a (non-Apple) tablet these days. The Surface Go is a good tablet and its built-in stand works really well. It's a "real computer" too, with a surprisingly usable snap-on key