michael-ax

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by michael-ax 5y ago
EXACTLY! I just came back to add this observation. I started to code at 14. At 20 i was consulting and ran across my first system with a mouse. I quickly realized that there was no profit in using it with my right hand since that was neede
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by michael-ax 5y ago
I'm in the middle of redoing my 5 yo config from the ground up for emacs'29 to take advantage of byte code compilation* -- and there's a lot happening in that accessibility of features space! there are new better completion f
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by michael-ax 5y ago
please take a look at the performance. having made a change or two I've let the page sit in chrome for ~30mins before noticing that it was keeping that CPU at ~95%.
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by michael-ax 5y ago
in other words, they haven't thought to make the damn name and case-sensitivity preferences configurable. how odd is that.
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by michael-ax 5y ago
one is counting distance, the other one buckets. alias the fn name to datebucketdelta to make the different problems memorable individually. :)
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by michael-ax 5y ago
fwiw, there's a switch in every ext. mic. jack. plug in an un-wired connector, cut of the wiring post, smooth with a nail-file or put on a crowning drop of glue so it won't rip your bag and you're done.
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by michael-ax 5y ago
now you're touching on the limits of knowledge of those making choices and might be tempted to rate them. that's out of scope for the deciders at that level, the parents in that story. ... the point is that they know the situatio
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by michael-ax 5y ago
think of it as a label for the process by which you decide to prioritize cleaning up different areas of your house -- and utility becomes a rational and humanizing thing. using it to prioritize your relations forces you to grapple with subj
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by michael-ax 5y ago
emacsclient can also talk to multiple emacs-servers by name. this is awesome to keep different sets of buffers available. also, there's zile.
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by michael-ax 5y ago
to operate and use a tui like emacs with confidence and start typing at the speed of thought: consider putting a photo of your keyboard next to your screen and painting the keyboard a nice uniform black. your body-mind's intelligence w
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by michael-ax 5y ago
definitely ubiquitous. we applied rle encoding for time-series and triac control systems 43 years ago after getting some guidance from a mainframe guy - but since RLE is practical so that we even use it to give direction to people on the s
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by michael-ax 5y ago
its not 'significantly better'. but also ask "why are the tables of content prefixing the contents of all my books?" its taken ages, but with this model, c lib authoring has finally taken something that was a core streng
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by michael-ax 5y ago
ask your suppliers and customers?
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by michael-ax 5y ago
throw when heavy, pull when light. its crazy. https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-good-kind-of-... https://owlcation.com/stem/What-is-the-Mass-Effect-Gravity-A...
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by michael-ax 5y ago
I'm proud of everyone else that picked up on the piezo analogy! so cool! Here's a deeper look on the idea and the mass-change experiments: https://owlcation.com/stem/What-is-the-Mass-Effect-Gravity-A... edite
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by michael-ax 5y ago
are you aware of any voxel-space toys that can run these? 'cause i think that -- as volumetric beings, we need that space to think right. will check out the vids. tyvm!
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by michael-ax 5y ago
fine, very fine, a new/better fb-terminal is a good thing; still i wonder if this thing couldn't embed itself into a bash-process and serve tui frames with a scriptable curses api so that you could, for ex, have some tabs and butt
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by michael-ax 5y ago
the links you want: https://weizman.github.io/?javascript-anti-debugging-some-ne... https://github.com/weizman/awesome-javascript-anti-debugging
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by michael-ax 5y ago
so ein quatsch!
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by michael-ax 5y ago
why do passwords cover accounts not scopes? if passwords also covered account scopes -- which is what this tool enables one to monkey-patch into the OS, i could give you my password so you could gorge on my code without me having to worry a
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by michael-ax 5y ago
Thank you, I think I'll rig that up.
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by michael-ax 5y ago
Yes, those _are good, i have an Alt-F9 alternate desktop for guests, but a 2 letter password for her to bypass the screen-lock and change the music or something would in fact remove my sometimes duress, i think..
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by michael-ax 5y ago
perhaps i could use that as a screensaver password to share with my girlfriend? it would close spreadsheets, emacs, un-mount journals and personal drives. PAM's used to reauth from the screen-saver, right?
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by michael-ax 5y ago
i'd love one for keepass and https://www.presslabs.com/docs/code/gitfs/ :)
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by michael-ax 5y ago
I'd love to see this in c, for scheme/racket.
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by michael-ax 5y ago
I was hoping for more even better UI's designed by programmers
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by michael-ax 5y ago
yes, now imagine you could have the performance benefit of pre-computed hashes for that rsync process .. and we'd have zsync. :)
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by michael-ax 5y ago
Why am i thinking that an auto-generated wikipedia/.zsync file could be the best way to maintain local copies of that site and others like it? Server-side maintenance/generation of .zsyncs might be transformative wherever replicat
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by michael-ax 5y ago
An orbital perspective on 2..3..4..5000 years of human history in a 10 minute read. What's not to like?
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by michael-ax 5y ago
https://www.unix.com/man-page/mojave/2/fclonefileat/ summary: this is a nice cow/cloning wrapper for use on a single ssd partition! -- but cloning not copying between volumes or partitions is .. and

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