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by kcartlidge 2y ago
Dev fonts is usually synonymous with fixed width (mono) fonts, and for good reasons. Those reasons are discussed by iA Writer in interesting detail [1]. However they do so as a precursor to their own duospace font, "iA Writer Duo&q
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by kcartlidge 2y ago
> What would you preserve if the internet were to go down tomorrow? Nothing. I'd be too busy celebrating. (Even though I'd likely be out of work.)
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by kcartlidge 2y ago
https://archive.is/jF7Qr
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by kcartlidge 2y ago
And me too in the UK. It also only applies going forward, so the default opt-in means they've already taken what they want before we get a chance to say no. Though to be fair I never expected otherwise.
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by kcartlidge 2y ago
EPUB (even v3) uses some Dublin Core metadata. Unlike the page the thread refers to it's presented as `<dc:title>` not `DC.Title` but other than that it's the same thing. Only a handful of tags are used. https:/
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by kcartlidge 2y ago
And: > Pick was originally implemented as the Generalized Information Retrieval Language System (GIRLS) As an aside, though, I really enjoyed working on a Pick system a few decades back.
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by kcartlidge 2y ago
I was a Pick user back in the late 1980s and that was, indeed, my first thought too.
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by kcartlidge 2y ago
I'd strongly consider returning the machine. This is very far from my normal experience with an 8GB M1 over several years (as a developer as well as a casual user).
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by kcartlidge 2y ago
> I have sadly to use one M1 with 8gb and it is really painful. I've been using an 8GB M1 for a couple of years, including for development with C#, Go, Python, and Rails. I've had triple-figures of browser tabs open, Office
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by kcartlidge 2y ago
> retail customer experience and return policy is unmatched ... make it suck like Europe. Maybe it's great in the US, I don't know, but it far from sucks in Europe. Amongst other things for returns policies you have a guaran
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by kcartlidge 2y ago
Generation Kill is an excellent (short) series. Recommended.
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by kcartlidge 2y ago
This is the story the film Brotherhood of the Wolf (with Mark Dacascos and Vincent Cassel) is based on. Long, action-packed, slightly confused, and very stylish; a good watch.
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by kcartlidge 2y ago
The phrase 'terrible advice' is unwarranted when it comes to a simple comment saying to use one-way cryptographic hashes rather than storing passwords. I offered a technically correct warning for a single case, and also specifical
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by kcartlidge 2y ago
> If you accept id+password, either you are storing them, in which case you are a target (prepare to be boarded), or someone else is. Without specifically commenting on the relative merits of all the auth options being mentioned in the
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by kcartlidge 2y ago
> One micro feature I implement on my blog that I would like to see everywhere: a single-page index of all the posts I've got a variant of this on my own blog [1]. Full site contents generated automatically from (and grouped by)
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by kcartlidge 2y ago
On my iPhone SE 3: - Accessibility -> Display & Text Size -> Colour Filters -> Greyscale switches it on. It also sets the default colour filter which is helpful because ... - Accessibility -> Accessibility Shortcut ->
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by kcartlidge 2y ago
Thanks - I'll take a look.
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by kcartlidge 2y ago
Loads of little things, but you specifically asked for daily use so: - Rectangle for window management (I appreciate you have Magnet and tastes differ) - MarkEdit is an excellent (free) Markdown editor - Highland 2 (not free) for mo
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by kcartlidge 2y ago
Out of curiosity, here's a bit of C# to do it. This randomly populates a 10x10 grid then looks for a random target in a randomly located 3x3 sub-grid. As per the question I've ignored error conditions, but using the simple expedi
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by kcartlidge 2y ago
I don't use Xcode itself, but do use the Xcode command line tools. I've found the simplest way to install them on a new machine is to open a terminal, try and run `git` (which isn't yet installed), and then you're autom
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by kcartlidge 2y ago
> it's probably not career-ending to take a few year break but I don't know much about this anecdotally This is true. A fair while back I left database and dev work for a few years. Tried my hand at kitchen design and sales,
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by kcartlidge 2y ago
All I can say is I have both and I use both most days. In addition to work-issued Windows laptops, so I have a reasonable and very regular comparison. And the comparative experience is exactly as I described. Always. Every time. > y
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by kcartlidge 2y ago
Not individually, no. Though it's often done simultaneously. That said you're right about lots of RAM in that I wouldn't bother using the 8GB M1 Air for Docker or running LLMs (it can run SD for images though, but very s
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by kcartlidge 2y ago
> If memory serves, JPI did a Modula2 compiler that looked quite a bit like Turbo Pascal. There was. I bought (and used) it twice back in the day. It was fast, simple, clean, modular (as you'd expect), and the IDE was the best ID
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by kcartlidge 2y ago
> If you go for the base model, you are in for a bad time, 256GB with heavy swap and no dedicated GPU memory (making the 8GB even worse) is just plain stupid ... their base model at somewhat affordable price are deeply incompetent I go
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by kcartlidge 2y ago
Most gave been mentioned, but as they probably won't be I'll include these: - The Extended Circle - an Anthology of Humane Thought by Jon Wynne Tyson - Letters from the Desert by Carlo Carretto
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by kcartlidge 2y ago
Years ago I took a dev role at a very well known UK organisation, a prestigious brand supposedly good for the career. Their systems turned out to be smoke and mirrors of the most braindead kind. One and a half days in I'd seen enough
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by kcartlidge 2y ago
Maybe we have different circles. I'm one amongst many using Net on other systems (Mac & Linux) as well as Windows. Larger enterprises which use VS on Windows often deploy the results onto Linux servers too (especially with micro
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by kcartlidge 2y ago
Fair enough - I get how with your use case these are issues. I usually have a lot of files but most of them are single to tens of megs at most, so it works for me and I've never had the sync issues and upload failures you describe desp
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by kcartlidge 2y ago
I tried most of them over the years. Google lost files, OneDrive took forever, iCloud is too limited. SpiderOak was massively slow. Dropbox was the best for performance and reliability but eventually I tried PCloud and have used it happil

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