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by metafunctor 4y ago
I'd argue git is confusing for many people because they don't understand the data model. The solution is to learn the basic data model instead of pretending that "a branch is a ref" is not true. Because it is true.
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by metafunctor 4y ago
The same happens with any user agent.
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by metafunctor 4y ago
This has nothing to do with binary versus text.
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by metafunctor 4y ago
In the early 1990s, I was part of a group of high school students who wanted to enter the Finnish demo scene. I was responsible for coding most of our demos in 386 assembler. One of the things I wrote was a player for MOD, ST3, and S3M musi
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by metafunctor 4y ago
It's a well-known concept here in northern Europe, and I must have seen the acronym before, but I did not recognize it.
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by metafunctor 4y ago
Wouldn't this be treated like parking fines by the very rich—just a tiny price to keep broadcasting whatever drivel they feel like?
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by metafunctor 4y ago
Yes, good point. This in fact what I've done previously in an application that was dealing with monetary values. They were basically fixnums with a unit piggybacked on, plus some money-specific operations. The money type should be co
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by metafunctor 4y ago
You should define separate types for “cents” and “dollars”. And, probably operations to convert between the types.
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by metafunctor 4y ago
I have teenage children, and I had to explain to them what gaslighting really means. It used to refer to subtle psychological manipulation over a long time to achieve a brainwashing effect. For the TikTok generation, “gaslighting” is just a
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by metafunctor 4y ago
I had no idea this even existed, and I've run into this problem with notes myself! This seems like something that should be a default.
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by metafunctor 4y ago
The code is released under the Apache-2.0 license. Doesn't seem complicated to me at all.
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by metafunctor 4y ago
That's how I ascended in NetHack the first time — reading the source code. There were quite a few things there that I don't think I would've ever discovered otherwise.
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by metafunctor 4y ago
Yeah, the items could load more snappily. On my M1 there's a delay (0.2 – 0.5 seconds?) between clicking an item and it showing up — enough to make it feel annoyingly laggy. I haven't used Gnome in decades. To me it looks just l
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by metafunctor 4y ago
In recent years I've been using the search bar a lot anyway, since the modal nature of the old System Preferences app wasn't great for quickly checking through several settings screens. And I often forget where some settings are
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by metafunctor 4y ago
Gamifying non stop daily “contributions” does not seem healthy to me. I work 5 days per week. I may not commit every day. Typically I will, except when I'm ill, or my close family is seriously ill, or there's a funeral, wedding,
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by metafunctor 4y ago
My Second Edition K&R (purchased in the mid-90s) is only 272 pages, including the index.
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by metafunctor 4y ago
At least the recent Finnish/Swedish keyboards do have both ⌘ and “command” written on the key. Likewise with ⌥ (option) and ^ (control).
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by metafunctor 4y ago
Wow, that's a lot of books! Assuming 10% of those books are, in some way, in your opinion, better than the other 90%, what would you say were the best couple of dozen books you've listened to? How much would you say the performer
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by metafunctor 4y ago
The Magic Keyboard for Apple Silicon macs has a Touch ID button. Works great.
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by metafunctor 4y ago
Not sure if you were around 20 years ago, but you sure couldn't expect everyone in tech to understand machine instructions as well as the layers above, all the way up to corporate politics. But some people, yeah, they could do it. That
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by metafunctor 4y ago
Wow. These reasons match exactly why I've built open source software in the past (now running on your iPhone). Fun. Rewarding. Feels important. Pure. Maybe didn't save my life, but given a different start, definitely plausible
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by metafunctor 4y ago
Sellers obviously want certain settlement for all purchases regardless of amount. If bitcoin needs a similarly hierarchical trust-based settlement systems as banks, how is that different from traditional banking?
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by metafunctor 4y ago
This tangent caught my eye, too, but for the opposite reason. I never really understood why someone might enjoy watching people falling off of skateboards, or things breaking, pets making a mess, etc. Apparently stuff like that is very fu
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by metafunctor 4y ago
They do provide private networks now, but AFAIK they didn't in 2017. Today, one could use “vSwitch” or “Cloud Network”, or both, to set up private networking. But, if you want to easily encrypt all traffic, Wireguard might still be a
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by metafunctor 4y ago
So many things to comment on this, but I'll just address two points. One. Finland has not been phoning it in. There's a reason Russia has not invaded Finland after they we pushed the fuckers back during WW II. This is not remote
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by metafunctor 4y ago
Not just PII, but access tokens to 3rd party systems in case of integrations and whatnot. A Sentry data leak could include valid access tokens to, say, all data on a customer's Docusign account. We try to make sure data like that is s
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by metafunctor 4y ago
I've being running their self-hosted version, and it's kind of OK. Nowhere near as nice as, say, GitLab's Ubuntu packages which you can simply apt-get install, unattended automatic (security) updates are available and work we
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by metafunctor 4y ago
Zefort | Software developers | Remote | Finland | Full-time Zefort ( https://zefort.com/ ) is a bootstrapped SaaS focused on contract management and eSignatures. Our SaaS product helps companies archive, find, sign, and mana
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by metafunctor 4y ago
Sorry for being populist. Design is created for a purpose. If your goal is to ”take over the web”, a design that appeals only to a small minority means your design failed. Also, Figma's website looks pretty normal. It's barely
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by metafunctor 4y ago
Luckily, I don't see this “taking over the web” at all. This looks like design created by people who aren't good at design.

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