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by mechanicum 1y ago
A small practical example of how you might use this: https://imgur.com/mTS0vHO Helix on the left and a Clojure repl at top-right in terminal panes. Portal data viewer in a browser pane at bottom-right.
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by mechanicum 1y ago
You can have that. Cmd-Opt-Shift-V or H to split with a different profile, or use the move/swap options in the context menu to put any panes in the same tab after creation.
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by mechanicum 1y ago
When you say Terminal app, do you really mean shell commands? i.e. do you want to run something in Terminal.app that will demonstrate the expanded colour range? Try btop, a resource monitor with true colour support and 37 builtin themes.
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by mechanicum 1y ago
I know. My question is, isn’t the reason the command line tools work the way they do simply that they’re essentially the BSD programs (give or take an Apple patch), with BSD options, not because they needed to work that way for Apple to get
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by mechanicum 1y ago
> because macOS is adhering to the UNIX specification Isn’t it rather that Darwin was based on BSD 4.4? I’d imagine GPL 3.0 is a bigger impediment to them ever migrating to GNU tools than any desire to be UNIX certified.
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by mechanicum 1y ago
The % register contains the path for the current buffer, you can insert that into prompt commands with <C-r>%. <C-w> at the command prompt deletes the last word, which in this case will be the filename of the current buffer, lea
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by mechanicum 1y ago
It’s about hand movement, not desk space. The “missing” keys are on additional layers reached via a modifier key, or by overloading keys on tap/hold, or by increasingly esoteric methods the smaller the board gets: chording, tap dance,
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by mechanicum 1y ago
It’s common niggle but, as far as I know, nobody is sure of the precise rationale for placing every key, only the broad explanations of the layout that Dvorak published and promoted. The layout wasn’t based only on letter frequency but they
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by mechanicum 1y ago
I think they mixed up their sources. The jeep/ox comparison appears to be from the 1944 US Navy report: https://archive.org/details/APracticalExperimentInSimplified... (Typewriting Behavior, for the curious: http
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by mechanicum 1y ago
I’m curious what led to that conclusion. As far as I remember, making concurrency easier to manage was always presented as one of Clojure’s primary objectives. It’s fundamental to the design e.g. a major motivation for all core data structu
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by mechanicum 1y ago
On that page they have Cmd + Esc mapped as the shortcut for the global system menu (see “Teleport”), and it looks like the CEO is a NeoVim user[0]. I guess they anticipate users hitting escape a lot. Making it a large target doesn’t strike
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by mechanicum 1y ago
I don’t think that necessarily follows. The age of the surviving fragments today isn’t the whole story. We could presumably infer it still wasn’t “missing” as recently as a thousand years ago from later sources referring to it, even if the
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by mechanicum 1y ago
As an alternative, perennial HN recommendation atuin ( https://atuin.sh ) logs time, duration and exit code (among other data) for every command. That way you only have to look at it when you need it, and you can also figure out w
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by mechanicum 1y ago
They bundled it into the Traders & Barbarians expansion.
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by mechanicum 1y ago
At least on Mac, when you install them locally, Creative Cloud makes them available to every app like any other font. They’re just regular OpenType files, albeit with “beware of the leopard” levels of filesystem obfuscation, so it’s fairly
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by mechanicum 2y ago
> This tool doesn't really create sparklines, but it does create small charts The gif at the top doesn’t demonstrate everything included. From the text: “There are currently three variations: bars, dots, and dot-lines (line charts w
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by mechanicum 2y ago
Relative to their traditional construction material, twigs, it’s probably no worse.
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by mechanicum 2y ago
I mean, doing that is pretty much what made him (semi-)famous in the first place ( https://gist.github.com/chitchcock/1281611 ).
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by mechanicum 2y ago
Clojure has doc and source functions. For example: user=> (doc clojure.core) ------------------------- clojure.core Fundamental library of the Clojure language user=> (doc +) ------------------------- clojure.core&#
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by mechanicum 2y ago
It’s 100% a niche interest, they’re not going to become the mainstream option. But it’s a niche (competitive gamers and mechanical keyboard enthusiasts) with deep pockets, to whom “buying a new keyboard” is basically no barrier at all.
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by mechanicum 2y ago
Some old IBM keyboards had a solenoid built in, thumping the inside of the case with every key press to provide feedback. For example: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1qw6ebySet0&t=906s Probably the most practical DIY o
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by mechanicum 2y ago
Unlikely, at least in the sense being discussed here. A Hall effect sensor works by running a constant current in one direction while measuring the potential difference in a different axis. The keyboard’s PCB needs to be able to register a
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by mechanicum 2y ago
If you like mechanical keyboards with relatively light to mid-weight linear switches, you’ll probably enjoy Hall effect switches. Being contactless, they’re extremely smooth, quiet and reliable, and being able to set the actuation point exa
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by mechanicum 2y ago
In the original (1861) article (big red link halfway down that page), Figure 2 (the tower reaching above the surface) is described primarily as a ventilator to draw away “smoke and foul air”. He had thought about it. Atmospheric/pneuma
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by mechanicum 3y ago
Rebellion’s model is still pretty old fashioned, so it depends on the example. I think there’s one collection of _The Order_ so far (“Die Mensch Maschine”, print and digital), beyond that you currently need the individual Progs. I’m pretty
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by mechanicum 3y ago
Q. A couple of people have already asked me about how you wound up with 20,000 lines of code in the original. I expect there was a fair bit of manual mucking about? A. Actually I made a mistake with that 20,000 lines of code statement –
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by mechanicum 3y ago
The text is in an element with CSS intended to make it “screen reader only” by visually hiding the element. Reader mode ignores those rules in the same way a screen reader would. The unpleasant side-effect of this approach is that anyone us
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by mechanicum 3y ago
I think JUXT are primarily a consultancy? But they are also offering paid support plans for xtdb: https://www.xtdb.com/support/production
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by mechanicum 3y ago
If you can’t get that working, Alfred[1] is a similar app with Snippets functionality including rich text, dynamic replacements, and is configurable to bring up the search by hotkey. [1]: https://www.alfredapp.com
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by mechanicum 3y ago
It’s not Prolog, but the related miniKanren has been widely implemented.

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