narwally

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by narwally 6y ago
And search is good now. But apart from the HD video, the search, the aqueducts, the roads, the education, the browsers that don't crash all the time, and the wine... what have the Romans ever done for us?
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by narwally 6y ago
Sounds like having your libraries stored in git repos and then having your programs point to the commit they want to use. Something like this would solve headaches that there are innumerable tools for. A much more elegant solution for the p
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by narwally 6y ago
If this is what it sounds like would it be like making a /path directory and defining it as a union of all the directories containing executables. almost like an efficient and idiomatic way to create a single directory containing symli
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by narwally 6y ago
I know exactly what you mean, sometimes I could get a hold of a guidebook for a game that I didn't even have the system for; I just enjoyed reading about the world and the systems at play inside of it. Hell, I've never even played
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by narwally 6y ago
That's the one. It's an impossible looking shot that even if you know how to do VFX is hard to figure out. It's actually done with a combination of some pretty simple techniques, but like any good bit of magic, it only seems
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by narwally 6y ago
The Park Tool youtube channel is good at explaining things in a lots of detail without being convoluted. It should cover 95% of what you'd need to learn. The hardest part is trying to figure out what components are compatible with what
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by narwally 6y ago
Yep, I've seen that multiple times. Just knowing how to check your limit screws occasionally would save a lot of people some future headaches. It would be cool if for a certain price range and kind of bike you could get insurance that
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by narwally 6y ago
"This prevents opportunistic theft but if this space is shared with others (apartment blocks and offices) it in fact serves to increase the economies of scale for prepared thieves who break into your storage area late at night with a
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by narwally 6y ago
Yep, the most expensive components on an ebike are the battery and motor, you can cut the top tube and pull those components out and sell them for 500+ a piece on the used market. The batteries usually have a lock that is supposed to keep t
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by narwally 6y ago
For damage, how do you handle things likely caused by poor maintenance? I used to work as a bike mechanic, and there were plenty of times where a customer's bike got completely trash if they had just learned how to do some very basic r
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by narwally 6y ago
I agree that it is another layer of complexity, but when it works well it's a really good layer of abstraction for user space programs to interact with the kernel. It's only when issues arise that the extra layer brings in more co
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by narwally 6y ago
I'm sure I could track down the issue, I just didn't have the time. I was just hoping to use it to install a more up-to-date package here and there just to dip my toes in the water and go from there. I really like the idea behind
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by narwally 6y ago
And with all the options you'll almost never have to rely on snaps.
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by narwally 6y ago
my favorite part of arch is using the AUR and customizing PKGBUILDS to suit my needs. I recently was messing around trying to get the emacs native-comp development branch built on my machine. I was running into some issues, then tried in an
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by narwally 6y ago
I tried nix on Ubuntu recently so that I could get an up-to-date, non-snap emacs (if you already think emacs is slow to load, you should see it as a snap), and the resulting build was giving me all kinds of issues, even with just the vanill
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by narwally 6y ago
It really does remove multiple layers of complexity that usually stand between your mental model of what your transformation function should do and the code that actually implements it. With Specter if I can clearly articulate the transform
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by narwally 6y ago
I think certain hands on skills are an exception to this. I can't imagine Bob Ross teaching me to paint through a manual. But programming is such a text based activity, so youtube is great at the what and the why, but text is still the
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by narwally 6y ago
This has been my experience as well. In that introductory period when you're first dipping your toes into a new topic I think youtube videos are great at getting you introduced to the vocabulary you're going to need to pick up. So
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by narwally 6y ago
using hiccup to write html has been a godsend. I find it much easier to visualize the html that hiccup will generate vs JSX, and I can do arbitrary manipulations on it just like I can with any other clojure data structure.
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by narwally 6y ago
I have the opposite issue trying to write in emacs-lisp after doing lots of clojure. I try to: (mapcar my-func my-list) and it throws void-variable and then I remember that I have to add the #' reader macro to have it read as a
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by narwally 6y ago
There's already an emacs-jupyter package that provides an emacs api for interacting with the jupyter kernel through either a repl or org-mode source blocks. It provides output from the jupyter kernel in latex, svg, and png among others
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by narwally 6y ago
And the Mac kill ring is separate from the clipboard so that means you can have two things copied at once and insert them with separate keybindings. Unfortunately the kill ring only contains a single element, so has no history. some other u
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by narwally 6y ago
I know the navy is also working on a gps alternative for their nuclear submarines. They currently use inertial navigation, but they still have to surface periodically to recalibrate it using radio signals. Ideally they would eliminate the n
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by narwally 7y ago
Another issue is that they're not made to be repaired at all. If anything more than a tube breaks on it, then you'll likely be better off just buying another department store bike because the repair will either exceed the cost of
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by narwally 7y ago
I work as a bike mechanic at one of the largest Specialized dealers in the US. A couple of times a week we have people that come in with bikes they bought from direct to consumer brands and attempted to assemble themselves. People regularly
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by narwally 8y ago
It doesn't help that most languages that advertise having a REPL really have more of an interactive shell than a true read-eval-print-loop. Lisps do a really good job of making a distinction between the reader, evaluator, and the print
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by narwally 8y ago
Do people actually put that kind of stuff on resumes? I've done a good handful of MOOC courses (usually not all the way through to be fair), but I can't imagine actually paying for a certificate so I can put it on my resume. If I
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by narwally 8y ago
You don't want any holes in the ozone layer because it absorbs UV light, but you also don't want a thick ozone layer anywhere because of its greenhouse properties. It's a balancing act, and mass commercial adoption of this te
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by narwally 8y ago
I had to try at least a dozen antidepressants to find out that Lexapro was the only one that noticeably worked well enough to be worth the side effects. When my sister started suffering from depression as well, her doctor actually had her a
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by narwally 8y ago
I've been dealing with a severe case of major depression for the last five years. I've been on every class of anti-depressant under the sun, at one time being on five different medications at once. None of it was able to fully lif

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