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721.
by mercer 6y ago
I don't think I've seen anyone with their fingers stretched out or diagonal like that as a 'home row' position, though. It makes much more sense to 'default' to having your hands somewhat straight and on the ke
722.
by mercer 6y ago
My first encounter with ED25519 was via Gitlab. Didn't have a clue there was something 'else' to do and it's good to be able to read the discussion here. Can I assume RSA is still 'good enough' though and somet
723.
by mercer 6y ago
I use 'vanilla' vim on my servers, and I dislike the defaults enough that it bothers me, but not enough that I've ever gone through the effort of setting things up. Micro would be perfect in my situation, because I'd get
724.
by mercer 6y ago
Yeah, I was joking, but honestly I'd love to use this as a nice out-of-the-box solution if it had Vim keybindings. I use Emacs with Vim keybindings on my dev machine, and VSCode for most coding, so I only really use 'proper'
725.
by mercer 6y ago
Sadly no OrgMode though!
726.
by mercer 6y ago
Sadly no Vim keybindings plugin ;)
727.
by mercer 6y ago
Same here. While I've been programming since I was eight or so, working on a mod/total conversion for Thief and building levels for Jedi Knight was what got me properly on that track. I don't miss the days of JED/JKEdit
728.
by mercer 6y ago
And yet my high-end Android phone is slower and jankier where it counts most to me: UI stuff. From what I've read this has to do with the Android OS, and things are getting better and better. but my point is that this sluggishness is o
729.
by mercer 6y ago
This illustrates pretty well one of the main reasons I switched to Apple years ago: I know what I'm getting and at least until keyboard-gate it did "just work". While it's true that I could get better-specced laptop, pho
730.
by mercer 6y ago
Reliability was one problem. The other was that for many of us it was uncomfortable to use. I would actually feel some pain in my hands/wrists after using this keyboard for a while. Both the older keyboard and the newer keyboard are fi
731.
by mercer 6y ago
I find that the optimal solution is to load all images 'above the fold' (perhaps optimizing for a 'tall' screen) and lazy-load the rest, when they get close to being on-screen. if possible I also try to make sure loading
732.
by mercer 6y ago
Well hello there fellow Massassi Temple member! It's already kind of weird to regularly get comments from or interact with geek 'celebrities' both big and small, (saurik, Alan Kay, etc.). Sometimes it bleeds over into the rea
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by mercer 6y ago
I can also recommend Programming Phoenix. I've also heard good things about the LiveView courses on the Pragmatic Studio. "Programming Elixir" and "Designing Elixir Systems with OTP" are also good, the former more s
734.
by mercer 6y ago
However tiresome it can get, there is a value, or at least meaningful information in repetition in itself. The constant desire for 'new' can be harmful as a phenomenon. I suspect many politically unpopular bills/initiatives d
735.
by mercer 6y ago
I bought a 2017 MBP and figured that surely it can't be that bad in practice. It was, to the point where I could barely type sentences without having to correct double-letter inputs. And that's without anything failing. Thankfully
736.
by mercer 6y ago
I've seen multiple therapists and while every time I assumed the worst, every single time I was surprised by how seriously my issues were taken, or at least by how willing I was to believe this to be the case :). And I'm an incred
737.
by mercer 6y ago
And if possible/available, talking to a therapist can be a huge help. For various reasons I don't talk about various serious issues to my nearest and dearest, and it's been really helpful to have someone to talk to every two
738.
by mercer 6y ago
That would be step one out of the first three that I bother with :).
739.
by mercer 6y ago
I can't help but mention that I rather like the alternative approach of keeping steps 1-3, and using Phoenix LiveView (or C#'s Blazor?) for the rest. Not saying it's better or worse, but I quite like it.
740.
by mercer 6y ago
I'm a Vim guy but with Spacemacs it was easy to get into Emacs. The spacebar action to see following actions (whatever it's called) really helped me figure out what the keyboard shortcuts were for various commands, or it just told
741.
by mercer 6y ago
Oh I do the opposite too. Possibly more regularly. I'm very comfortable with pirating, but if I actually end up benefitting/consuming the product I try to find a way to pay for it.
742.
by mercer 6y ago
I sometimes find myself buying a book and then downloading a pirated version through Libgen. It's ridiculous.
743.
by mercer 6y ago
I've known a number of homeless people with serious mental illnesses who were both much happier and saner once they had an apartment (and, crucially, were helped with getting there).
744.
by mercer 6y ago
Ha, that's a good point, actually. I suspect it's mostly, but not entirely true. In my circles the 'meet at a bar or other public place' circle is significantly wider than the 'meeting at someone's place'
745.
by mercer 6y ago
It makes sense in theory. In practice I already know a bunch of people who will just claim they're from the same household. And many of those are not typically 'asshole' types.
746.
by mercer 6y ago
I was already a bit worried about the game-plan that the Dutch government presented. From what I understand, from June 1st on (or 2nd or so?) many venues, including bars, can open again with x amount of people per m2, and a maximum of 30 pe
747.
by mercer 6y ago
And they recently acquired Plataformatec, the company behind Elixir.
748.
by mercer 6y ago
This was how Blendle used to work, and for me at least it was very effective. Despite using it rarely, I probably still spent tens of euros on it. The ability to instantly get my money back if I didn't like an article played a big part
749.
by mercer 6y ago
I don't see how you could be any more up the ass of bad incentives. Nobody disputes that Microsoft's incentives are 'regrettable', so what point are you really trying to make?
750.
by mercer 6y ago
Nothing in your comment argues against the claim that all (both) parties are irredeemably corrupt though. You're just arguing that Trump is worse. I do agree with the latter statement, but I completely understand why so many people jus

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