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by mst 3y ago
A lot of the time it takes you from 0 to 0.1, but (a) every little helps (b) if you take them out for lunch or a post-work beer or whatever it can build a relationship where you can ask follow up questions via email. Ideal is if they have a
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by mst 3y ago
I have, and assuming your predecessor doesn't mind, you still get enough useful answers to make it worth it a lot of the time. Especially if you manage to get to just chatting about the project - at some point they'll almost certa
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by mst 3y ago
I kept regular tarballs of a project that used SourceSafe right near the start of my career, and found I was more likely to be able to find an intact copy of the right thing to diff against from my tarballs. I think after a year or so I rea
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by mst 3y ago
I've been in situations where even without access to the people knowing which of them wrote something gives me a better idea of how to backwards infer what (and of course sadly occasionally 'if') they were thinking while writ
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by mst 3y ago
This is the sort of situation where I'll consider progressive testing initially - i.e. write out the existing warnings to a file that you commit, add a test that fails if you get any that aren't in the file. As you fix the inherit
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by mst 3y ago
The same applies to comments. I have absolutely inherited codebases where one of the early steps was to make a commit excising every single comment in the code, because so many of them were old, lies, or old lies, that it wasn't worth
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by mst 3y ago
The gag with the spine art reminds me of this (video boxed sets of the series Monk): https://trout.me.uk/monk.jpg
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by mst 3y ago
To just reduce the current entries to those that exist, I'd probably do PATH=$(perl -e 'print join ":", grep -d, split ":", $ENV{PATH}') but that's because as a 20 year perl hacker and thus c
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by mst 3y ago
In practice, what I'm doing is: Click drop down, click report Tab x 3, Down x 5, Tab, Enter, Tab x 2, Enter That reports a user or tweet as spam and blocks them. Currently. Reporting was never that effective anyway but if something get
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by mst 3y ago
Control Panel ftw. I'm also eyeing https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/trab-tweet-reporter... for rapid block+report of the crud that accumulates on various posts, and pondering how much hassle it would be to
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by mst 3y ago
That seems to have the humans ride in passenger cars. The Channel Tunnel vehicle trains generally leave the humans in the cars during the journey: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LeShuttle
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by mst 3y ago
I was talking about (partial or full) elision of trailing consonants - so e.g. where the 'g' in 'trailing' gets swallowed. The flapping concept seems to be primarily about 't' and 'd' sounds mid-word,
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by mst 3y ago
> people think I’m saying ‘asian-hub’ pretty often Lots of variations on the theme of english pronounciation tend to elide or at least soften trailing consonants. (I just read that last sentence out to myself twice, once normally, once m
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by mst 3y ago
Having been one of the earliest non-author adopters of https://p3rl.org/Future the difference between having a simple (FSVO) callback and a 'thing' with a reasonably predictable API shape was huge once you were do
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by mst 3y ago
For templating/generating YAML it's worth a look at https://yglu.io/ and ingy's latest piece of madness, https://yamlscript.org/ I make no claim that anybody who does look will like either of
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by mst 3y ago
I think the goal is to have a language that feels like it was designed for level 3/4 but allows you to break out to level 5 as an escape hatch. Given how many configuration languages eventually end up with a half-assed level 5 (Greensp
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by mst 3y ago
I'm working on something that may end up being rcl-like. My intention is to make it something that can update existing configuration files just as well as -be- a configuration file, such that if somebody finds it useful, they can use i
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by mst 3y ago
Boeing was culturally taken over by McDonnell Douglas leadership. What's fascinating albeit somewhat depressing is that it seems something similar happened when McDonnell merged with/took over Douglas as well: https://a
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by mst 3y ago
I've bounced off haskell several times now (I'm probably due another attempt this year, I continue to be convinced the problem is one or more 'aha' moments that I just haven't managed to make click yet). The "f
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by mst 3y ago
Kernel is operative rather than applicative - i.e. fexpr-based - and I don't think you can get something quite the same without it. (arguably a macro is really just a limited fexpr that's executed and the results inlined at compil
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by mst 3y ago
I originally got a PAUSE id to upload to CPAN to add support for returning continuations from Guile code to Perl and being able to resume them as a function call on the Perl side later. That let me write linear async-await-ish logic code in
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by mst 3y ago
Yep, Ground, 1st, 2nd, 3rd etc. Which I would argue is close enough for me to consider it zero-based. Elevators in the UK mostly have G rather than 0 on the buttons so far as I can remember though; I've completely forgotten what mainla
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by mst 3y ago
[looks] Yep. Ta. Think I was on them in '03 when they were shiny and new and I was commuting from Morecambe to Bradford due to getting unceremoniously redeployed from Salford to Bradford after an acquisition. I do not recommend this as
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by mst 3y ago
The article itself is solid ... but my favourite part is probably the fact it has a collection of Foone thread links and it seems I'd missed some of them at the time.
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by mst 3y ago
I write quite a lot of code sat in beer gardens using an 80x17 or so terminal on an 8" tablet* plus a Thinkpad Tablet 2 bluetooth keyboard*. Usually have a temporary screen/tmux session while doing so to let me have my usual mult
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by mst 3y ago
I believe the technical term for this is 'circlederp.'
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by mst 3y ago
I can sometimes tolerate them at 1.5x or 2x speed. Generally though I hunt around for a transcript (even a shitty automated transcript is often just about readable -enough- if I'm interested) or google up articles on whatever the topic
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by mst 3y ago
Sadly, due to being on the first floor* I don't have a lawn. I do keep considering balcony mounts for what would've been the lawn defence cannon though. * en_UK first floor, mind, I know en_US insists on 1-based indexing rather th
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by mst 3y ago
Seems like given all he did was wiggle a handle it could also potentially happen accidentally. The glue comparison would be more akin to him breaking out logic probes.
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by mst 3y ago
You could have posted that opinion as a top-level comment and/or skipped the 'living under a rock' snipe in your initial reply, given they weren't talking about that so they focused on the thing they -were- talking about

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