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by mackeye 10mo ago
(i worked a _little bit_ on dwl) each wlroots upgrade is a pretty small diff on the dwl source. the annoying part is, as dwl is configured with patches, every patch author has to update their patch to the new 0.x, as dwl is quite minimal, a
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by mackeye 10mo ago
i was being charitable, not obtuse. a great number of my closest friends are trans; no element of their experience as i observe it fetishizes the very concept of transition, and those who've spoken to me about it are quite opposed to t
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by mackeye 10mo ago
fuck off
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by mackeye 10mo ago
to be honest, i've been playing violin for a number of years and my strategy is still to listen to a part of the song, rewind until i can play it (even if slowly), then write that down. some of the pieces i want to write down are twin-
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by mackeye 10mo ago
i'd say it's less predatory for all users to have the same algorithm. maybe on HN, the userbase is small enough, and the articles generally focused enough, that it'd be less impactful were the algorithm somewhat divergent per
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by mackeye 10mo ago
the hn front page is the same for all users --- on ig, im happy to see my friends' posts, but i really dont need the slurry of palantir-chosen brainrot/racist reels interspersed in there, lol (and that applies to most social media
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by mackeye 10mo ago
i was transcribing some songs for violin after picking it back up (mostly metal, which i have to take some liberties with to sound good on a violin + kick drum :> ), and thought about writing a language (maybe a rust steel module) to han
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by mackeye 10mo ago
they clarify that point in the first sentence of that header, > i mean, in some sense if you work as a professional programmer it is a competition, because the job market sucks right now.
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by mackeye 10mo ago
> If you derive your identity from being a programmer you are actually harmful why mandate compartmentalization to this extent? what is so harmful about software as art (or expression, etc.)? if i write a weird personal project, what &qu
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by mackeye 10mo ago
> to make people want them to stop in the sense of "writing a brainfuck compiler in ed," not in making them so uncomfortable they beg for release. plus, "feminization" is not a fetish, at least in the sense of making
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by mackeye 10mo ago
nushell ( https://www.nushell.sh/ ) is essentially perfect for this use case! i use it rather than posix(y) shells for most projects where id normally reach for python.
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by mackeye 10mo ago
try thumb-key [0] if you're willing to go for something unorthodox :-) the swipe-style keyboard cut my typos by ~90% (though i was particularly bad at using phone keyboards, lol). [0]: https://github.com/dessalines&#x2F
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LilyPond – Essay on automated music engraving(lilypond.org)
1 points by mackeye 10mo ago|0 comments
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by mackeye 10mo ago
> For small n we can directly implement the definition. For large n, the direct approach would be slow and would accumulate floating point error. is there a reason the direct definition would be slow, if we cache the prior harmonic numbe
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by mackeye 11mo ago
semantic code style varies plenty between people; i can often tell who wrote which code, among the members of my research group, even though we format our code. i'd prefer to be recognized by my preference for short lambdas (vs. defs)
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by mackeye 11mo ago
did you have an issue with the parentheses or the capitalization :)
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by mackeye 11mo ago
ime, the benefit of vscode over a text editor (i prefer kakoune, which has present, but low, community support vs. n?vim/emacs) was relatively seamless debug sessions. almost any other element is exceeded in an editor, to me --- the gi
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by mackeye 11mo ago
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/01/health/alzheimers-dementi...
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by mackeye 11mo ago
i can visualize only faint wireframes and blobs, if that makes sense. the closest analog is, my internal monologue can speak, as if i were to physically speak, but i cannot "hear" it with my ears. i can visualize "where"
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by mackeye 11mo ago
colonial revolutions tended to be fought by those for whom death was preferable to existence. i don't disagree that, in this age, the chance of success is slimmer, and will continue to shrink as such --- there's probably some crit
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by mackeye 11mo ago
i think this is a good article, but these statements, > If populism is merely a strategy, not an ideology, then why are certain ideas seemingly present in all populist movements (such as the hostility to foreigners, or the distrust of ce
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by mackeye 1y ago
apologies, i probably should've written `fmt` there (which does the same thing). `reflow` is a `fmt` clone i wrote, without the knowledge `fmt` existed --- that was a bit embarrassing for a friend to eventually point out, that my idea
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by mackeye 1y ago
(for kakoune, not helix) i've used kakoune daily for almost 2 years now, and i still mix up e.g. `(?<!` vs `(?!<` for lookbehind regexes. i appreciate the ability to select a region and watch whether my regex has selected what i
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by mackeye 1y ago
in kakoune, this is `<a-i>p<a-j>|reflow<ret>`. which is obviously not as simple as `gq`, but you can rebind this, add things like auto-reflow as you type, etc., rather trivially, and rebind them (and a lot of these types o
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by mackeye 1y ago
anecdotally, my trans friends who took puberty blockers and eventually started hormones are happier for it, and my trans friend who was sent to conversion therapy jumped in front of a train (and lived, and is well now). the literature is re
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by mackeye 1y ago
what!? conversion therapy does not work. if you, your child, and your doctor all agree that the best thing for them is a lobotomy, should that be allowed?
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by mackeye 1y ago
this is a long-tired sympathy of colonialism. social relations are slow to advance --- and slow further when under occupation, or (e.g.) a genocide. it's not as if gay marriage is legal in israel.
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by mackeye 1y ago
i think it's the opposite, that they _want_ file_10.txt to come before file_9.txt by default, but that file explorers fail at this. it's rare that i want true alphabetical sort, but it's convenient for cases like tfa where al
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by mackeye 1y ago
how is its startup time? ive wanted to learn it or ocaml for a while and might take the plunge
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by mackeye 1y ago
been on a bit of a cs binge lately and have been missing GO --- will have to try this, thank you!

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