kfoley

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by kfoley 3y ago
For anyone looking to get started I highly recommend the StrongLifts program and the associated app, both free [1]. I neglected strength training for a long time because every time I tried to get started I would feel overwhelmed. Then I tr
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by kfoley 3y ago
Interesting, I've also got a Lodge. I use a low heat with a longer preheat, usually somewhere between a 3 or 4 out of 10 for for I'd say 2-3 minutes or so to preheat (not sure if that's relatively long or not). Maybe it&#x27
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by kfoley 3y ago
We use seasoned cast iron for eggs with very few issues. We used to use butter which led to some sticking, however recently we've been using olive oil and it's much better, with little to no sticking depending on what style we&#x2
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by kfoley 3y ago
I think French people, especially younger ones, are much more open to the use of English than stereotypes suggest. My favorite example is the French name for the movie "The Hangover", which is "Very Bad Trip". Not &quo
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by kfoley 3y ago
> You would think at least some of those issues could be avoided by living somewhere “more expensive”, but it seems like affluent areas actually have more ads. For whatever reason there are no (or very few) billboards in Northern Virgini
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by kfoley 3y ago
There are extensions that will automatically redirect you. I use this one [0] for Firefox and haven't had any issues. [0]: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/old-reddit-re...
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by kfoley 3y ago
I got hired from a "Who's Hiring" post about 5 years ago and it's been an amazing experience. I've been able to work on interesting problems without having to deal with a bunch red tape as I had become accustom to i
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by kfoley 4y ago
> Is there a browser that has that feature yet? I spent a few hours trying to figure out if Firefox did. It did not appear to. I believe this will be supported by manifest v3 extensions in Firefox[1] which is one of the features I'm
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by kfoley 4y ago
I used to have the same issue understanding the benefit. One simple example that helped it clicked for me was considering the `when` or `unless` macro. They're just very simple macros based around the `if` special form. Because they&
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by kfoley 5y ago
> When Buffalo NY's Tops International Market fired their baker for literally urinating in the cake batter used to make the store cakes, the union stepped in to defend the employee because as part of the union contract employees wer
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by kfoley 5y ago
> so maybe it’s normal to immediately record anything out of the ordinary? It does does seem to be fairly normal today. I once witnessed a woman struck by a car on a busy street. It was shocking to see how many people had their phones
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by kfoley 5y ago
The only problem is that there is often an option to allow cookies to "store site preferences" or something along those lines. My experience is this also includes your cookie preferences which means if you don't enable that s
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by kfoley 6y ago
Reminds me of something I experienced on HN and Reddit, though my case was a far less significant level. I posted a comment on HN in response to some article about Emacs. Later that day I saw someone had copied my comment word for word in
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by kfoley 6y ago
Here's[1] the CSS I use on my blog to treat the table of contents differently depending on screen width. I'm probably also "unqualified to be touching" this stuff so take it with a grain of salt. [1] https://
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by kfoley 6y ago
You can navigate to files in Emacs using `find-file` (C-x C-f with standard key bindings). That should prompt you to enter a path, which, without any customization, should perform very similar to a shell prompt in terms of using tab for fil
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by kfoley 7y ago
Doximity | San Francisco, CA | Full Time | REMOTE | Multiple Roles We develop products to connect health care providers and keep them informed of the latest developments in the medical world. One of our products that's gotten a lot of
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by kfoley 7y ago
> otherwise it’s just another walled garden that will wither and die out in a few years Or worse it's another walled garden that doesn't die out in a few years. Not because what it offers in trade for locking you in is worth i
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by kfoley 7y ago
Had a similar issue with an in house tool and learned that `click`, the framework we use for CLI's, has built in support for generating auto completions[0]. Could be worth it for others to check if such a feature exists for the framewo
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by kfoley 7y ago
This would change a lot of the current design but one option is to use AnkiConnect[0], it provides a network interface for interacting with Anki and creating/updating cards. There's a somewhat similar project[1] that lets you use
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by kfoley 7y ago
I think there's a place for synchronous communication as long as it's followed up by sufficient asynchronous communication such that people aren't left out. Sometimes it's a lot faster/easier to be able to get on a
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by kfoley 7y ago
Sphinx should support Markdown, we're using the instructions at https://www.sphinx-doc.org/en/master/usage/markdown.html for our project and haven't had any issues. Haven't tried it yet but you
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by kfoley 8y ago
It sounds like you are already an "atheist" of the wood burning debate, in which case the metaphor isn't intended for you and it's understandable you didn't relate. I think shortening it would lose the effect on the
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by kfoley 8y ago
Sincere question, is this really France's "first big information war"? I feel like there was a lot of similar activity leading up their election last year try to get Le Pen elected which wasn't successful but I'm n
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by kfoley 8y ago
It's not even necessarily cheap debt. A lot of my undergraduate loans were at rates of 6.8% which I consider somewhat high. The problem is it's easily accessible debt to people who have no concept of what tens of thousands of dol
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by kfoley 8y ago
I really like this idea, it's something I've been wanting to try out for a while now. I'm curious if using `run-with-timer` causes any performance issues in emacs. If so one option is to watch the value outside of emacs and