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by mst 3y ago
I really wish python would steal 'let' from JS, specifically in a block scoped form - coming from perl's 'my' as a way of life, python's (and ruby's) function level scoping and "surprise! variable jus
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by mst 3y ago
"I'm not limited by any actual knowledge here" is an excellent way of putting it and I shall endeavour to remember it next time I'm in such a situation. Poor though my memory is, it happens often enough that I have a dec
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by mst 3y ago
Maybe validate the idea by prototyping whatever features you want atop Fossil first? Might want to see if you can catch rkeene on libera#tcl for a few minutes at some point - IIRC he has his own Fossil+CI type setup with custom BuildKit int
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by mst 3y ago
Was that a typo for task or is 'astk' a punnily named task runner in its own right? (sorry for the dumbass question but it could go either way)
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by mst 3y ago
Aha, I see now. Thank you for the clarification.
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by mst 3y ago
For all its flaws as a programming language, VBA made an excellent bodging language and I salute your expedient field hack.
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by mst 3y ago
I'm not sure how my "quite a lot of use cases" and your "not all use cases are narrow use cases" are meaningfully different (slightly) to you. This isn't a snipe, mind, it's me being unsure if we even disa
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by mst 3y ago
A lot of people don't really need to go Full k8s, but I think swarm died in part because for many users there was -some- part of k8s that swarm didn't have, and the 'some' varied wildly between users so k8s was something
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by mst 3y ago
I suspect small specific purpose models are actually a better idea for quite a lot of use cases. However you need a bunch more understanding to train and run one. So I expect OpenAI will continue to be seen as the default for "how to d
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by mst 3y ago
You are -mostly- right but there is also the factor where a specific sort of negative reaction can actually function as a recommendation later. I've definitely missed out on work sometimes due to having a reputation for being about as
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by mst 3y ago
Could you expand on the generics point, please? That sounds interesting but I can't quite get my head around it.
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by mst 3y ago
I get the feeling that learning rust can be a "bang your head against it until you get an 'aha' moment" sort of affair, much like learning git. Some people pick up rust quickly because it clicks into their brain early, s
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by mst 3y ago
"Private cloud" as a term still kinda makes me itch, but I don't recall encountering an alternative that was more obvious and it's clearly the usual term of art at this point. I suspect that while I do appreciate how som
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by mst 3y ago
> Bonus: I add another link to each toot that opens it in the instance of its author, where I have access to the full reply chain, of which my own instance often captures only a subset. A very simple solution to one of Mastodon’s unfortu
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by mst 3y ago
Aha! Thank you!
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by mst 3y ago
I don't see anything connecting the marcel site and the oilshell.org site, am I missing something (like, say, "this is a different osh") or did you just not get around to writing that up yet? (to be clear, this isn't a c
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by mst 3y ago
I would imagine the target market for these is "people who want a RISC-V development machine" at which point the price to performance ratio doesn't need to be as good for it to still be useful for the potential customers. Tha
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by mst 3y ago
This is the point where I wonder if partnering with quinnypig's crew might not make sense in terms of effectively serving those clients.
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by mst 3y ago
Those two things aren't mutually exclusive. They could be trusted by a bunch of people to probably screw things up less than alternatives and to at least be -trying- to care about the community, while still having made more than enough
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by mst 3y ago
So far as I can tell it's emacs' internal indent style and some configurations end up using it for things that aren't emacs internal code. Exactly how said "some configurations" came to be I never figured out, it ma
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by mst 3y ago
> Mechanical outlet timers: You plug this into an outlet, it slowly spins once per day, and the pins determine is the outlet is active for each 30 minute period. [...] > Many use these with light for plants. Or, it can be nice to wake
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by mst 3y ago
Your emacs config may. Their emacs configs didn't. Hopefully most distros' default emacs installs do the right thing these days but it's not something I've checked because these days pretty much everybody already has a s
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by mst 3y ago
I don't honestly know the details, I'm an heirloom-vi user and was just on the other side of the conversation from the confused newbie multiple times. So "apparently under some distro configs in some circumstances it does tha
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by mst 3y ago
The one issue with this is for things like markdown where a code block is space-indented - if you want an empty line as part of the code block rather than two code blocks then you need a line that contains -only- the indentation. I would ex
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by mst 3y ago
I prefer -vi- defaults so: au! set noai set sm set cp setf none set nocindent set nosmartindent filetype off inoremap <Left> <NOP> inoremap <Right> <NOP> inore
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by mst 3y ago
> Emacs famously has its idiosyncratic brace style and indentation style using a mix of tabs and spaces that no-one else uses. Specifically, 'one indent is four spaces, two indents is one tab, repeat', which caused utter carnag
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by mst 3y ago
Agreed, though also I really appreciate this sort of "obvious" experiment, because the incentives really aren't set up to encourage it and we've been surprised often enough over the centuries that Actually Double Checkin
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by mst 3y ago
> our greatest science-fiction hope for achieving warp drive has completely evaporated Damnit, "was completely annihilated" was Right. There.
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by mst 3y ago
My point is that it isn't unheard of for something sufficiently badly wrong, and that article cleared the bar hard enough that I was honestly surprised that wired published it at all. I find it highly likely that Google -do- try to inf
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by mst 3y ago
This makes me wonder if there's any record of why Motorola thought that feature was worth implementing in the first place.

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