medstrom

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by medstrom 11mo ago
Big difference in portability between a foldable keyboard and a full laptop.
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by medstrom 11mo ago
IIRC, putting pipe operator `|>` at end of line prevents the expression from terminating early. Otherwise the newline would terminate it.
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by medstrom 11mo ago
That's almost concerning. I wonder if it'd be realistic to 1. put up a whiteboard somewhere 2. observe with some regularity what your routines are right now (non-judgmentally) 3. write them down (descriptively, not prescriptively)
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by medstrom 11mo ago
There's kinda not much to it. It's just that you have: 1. a full-fledged programming language 2. no namespacing (nothing is private) 3. no modern GUI concepts to take into account (no CSS `flex-direction`...) 4. no edit-compile-ru
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by medstrom 11mo ago
Reminds me of "default to null": > The mental motion of “I didn’t really parse that paragraph, but sure, whatever, I’ll take the author’s word for it” is, in my introspective experience, absolutely identical to “I didn’t really
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by medstrom 1y ago
PrismLauncher is excellent, it feels like it found the right level of abstraction. Automates chores without black-boxing what it's doing. And there's a makedeb for it! https://mpr.makedeb.org/packages/prismla
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by medstrom 1y ago
HN favors very fresh comments, to give them all some time in the limelight.
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by medstrom 1y ago
You make it sound as if it's pure aesthetics, but... an interface that makes it easier to undo a change is far from being lipstick on a pig, it's an upgrade in real function.
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by medstrom 1y ago
Most likely the GP who shares location with 30 people just doesn't get into these kinds of situations. Y'know, since they'd have stopped if they did.
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by medstrom 1y ago
For Surface devices: https://github.com/linux-surface/linux-surface/wiki/Supporte...
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by medstrom 1y ago
There's a skill to phrasing the prompt so the code comes out more reliable. Was some thread on here the other day, where someone said they routinely give Claude many paragraphs specifying what the code should and shouldn't do. Ta
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by medstrom 1y ago
Are you sure you got your info right? I'd not be surprised if they've been stuck at $60 after adjusting for inflation, i.e. costing around $30 in 1995.
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by medstrom 1y ago
> One daily update: We publish once per day around noon UTC, creating a natural endpoint to news consumption. This is a deliberate design choice that turns news from an endless habit into a contained ritual. Could you guys maybe print it
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by medstrom 1y ago
> But if you are self directed, recognize the ways in which it is useful, [...] it's really helpful. Yes, but once you get the hang of how to learn well from each exercise, it's interesting how the app will seem purpose-built t
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by medstrom 1y ago
Can you paint an example of a "partially broken compass" engineer?
46.
by medstrom 1y ago
Event-driven architecture.
47.
by medstrom 1y ago
Or just YYMMDD, since there's typically not all that many things you create in one day, so you can just browse among the search hits and it'll be obvious which of the hits you had in mind.
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by medstrom 1y ago
You're lucky to regard note names as stable enough that they work as unchanging IDs for you! But is it not then the same thing, because you already "allocated an ID" by naming it? Did you, before coming up with the 4-char ha
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by medstrom 1y ago
Aye, so this is fine as long as there's just one entity generating IDs, so it can automatically check for collision and re-generate. In a distributed system it's another matter. I'm currently using 6 base-40 chars (upcase and
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by medstrom 1y ago
In the spirit of "analog browsing", there is always https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/downthemall
51.
by medstrom 1y ago
"First Sea Lord" is such a great rank.
52.
by medstrom 1y ago
I found it much less striking. The original link is perfect -- and subjectively, I find it more "usable" that it puts everything on a single page.
53.
by medstrom 1y ago
Just found that GNOME seems to have lost support for tiled wallpapers... Unfixed for years https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/mutter/-/issues/1473
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by medstrom 1y ago
Long-press and download the image?
55.
by medstrom 1y ago
How would the distinction work?
56.
by medstrom 1y ago
Logseq has buggy syncing and imposes some odd constraints on your files if you want to keep it easy to edit the same file from both Logseq and Emacs, but in principle, it's all there! Not sure if it can execute code blocks tho.
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by medstrom 1y ago
I don't know if importing systemd would make any difference to the system declaration file that you write, where you'd still declare services in the Lispy way. Does it matter if it translates to systemd services under the hood or
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by medstrom 1y ago
Fair, I wasn't thinking about the details of how someone would lift out the bash history.
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by medstrom 1y ago
In some .profile or .envrc or what you'd call such a file, I suppose.
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by medstrom 1y ago
I presume they mean it's a website when you type it into an URL bar. And that you don't ever add website bookmarks to the homescreen, because that makes them similar to apps.

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