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by necrotic_comp 2y ago
Thanks. That makes sense. I guess I'm just super entrenched - very comfortable with my tooling and would generally write a one-liner for something like the above. The way I do it is a bit nuts though, and you're right, the above i
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by necrotic_comp 2y ago
so I don't understand what the usecase for a terminal file manager is. I've always felt comfortable using cp/mv/mkdir/etc. but I feel like I'm missing out. Can someone explain how and why you'd use this ?
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by necrotic_comp 3y ago
yep, I recently did something similar with data that wasn't updated properly and programmatically generated thousands of targeted SQL statements to fix our database. A little bit of python and a lot of shell scripting. One of my bigges
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by necrotic_comp 3y ago
Knowing the command line is one of those unsung critical skills of being a software engineer. Doesn't really matter so much what flavor of command line you're using (though bash is great for obvious reasons), but the ability to gl
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by necrotic_comp 3y ago
From my experience with Gitlab, it feels like Github but slightly worse so things aren't exactly in the place you expect them to be. Sourcehut is completely different, so (for better or worse) any user knows they have to adjust their a
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by necrotic_comp 3y ago
It's really a drag. I really really really want to like sourcehut and I like Drew Devault's stance on things, but it seems like it's one of those projects that's almost there but not quite. Github is great. However, it
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by necrotic_comp 3y ago
That was definitely a gigantic influence, I agree.
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by necrotic_comp 3y ago
This aesthetic is of its time but is really import - I went to the share@open air parties in ~2003 or so, continuing to visit periodically through their run at Santo's Party House. I didn't know anything at the time, and the over
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by necrotic_comp 3y ago
This is also just good practice in general. You learn through struggle, so giving juniors a safety net (when they don't know they have it), is a good way to get them up the curve.
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by necrotic_comp 3y ago
This is exactly my experience as well. I just ended up not taking notes.
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by necrotic_comp 3y ago
That's awfully harsh. People's brains work in different ways, and for some people separating movement from editing makes a lot of sense.
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by necrotic_comp 3y ago
This is true. It's so depressing to have your salary and responsibility go up, but still have the same living circumstances as you did when you had your first job out of college. I still don't have a laundry machine or a thermosta
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by necrotic_comp 3y ago
That's exactly right! I didn't see hackers until I was in my mid 30s, but when they had the initial flyover of the city representing tables in a database ... I had a moment where I said "my goodness, this is the closest repre
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by necrotic_comp 3y ago
There's also the Tex Shinobi, which I've been using for a long time now and is the best keyboard I've ever used. https://tex.com.tw/products/shinobi?variant=16969883648090
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by necrotic_comp 3y ago
Yes, agreed. The best way of putting this is "using google when google was actually good."
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by necrotic_comp 3y ago
Not to derail the conversation, but Slang is incredible. Its interface is old and archaic, sure, but it's the best and most expressive coding experience I've ever had. It took some getting used to (especially case-insensitive vari
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by necrotic_comp 3y ago
Using https://github.com/LukeSmithxyz/mutt-wizard , you can set it up so that you can view html emails in your browser with a keystroke. I've found it's the best of both worlds, since i don't really use
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by necrotic_comp 4y ago
Woah that is incredibly full featured and I've never heard of it. Down the rabbit hole I go...
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by necrotic_comp 4y ago
That's a really slick workflow and I totally agree that writing music is just listening to music in your head. :) I write a lot of multi-part scores (i.e for big band and small jazz combos) and the idea of linting to check for things l
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by necrotic_comp 4y ago
Nowadays, I'm so used to my new workflow of writing a script that checks my music, creates a LilyPond file (as well as a .musicxml to work in MuseScore4), and generating a PDF using lilypond. Can you expand on this a little bit more
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by necrotic_comp 4y ago
Recutils is great, but it needs a rewrite, I think.
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by necrotic_comp 4y ago
This is distcc.
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by necrotic_comp 4y ago
One could say the same thing about programming. If I'm playing or writing music for people, and they are enjoying it, I want to get paid.
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by necrotic_comp 4y ago
eh - I think Hacker News is qualitatively different. There's a lot of shared values here, and low-effort comments are actively discouraged. It's a lot more pleasant to read the comments here than on a place like Reddit, even in so
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by necrotic_comp 4y ago
The expectation is that they would take the long view and start investing in alternatives that pay more instead of burning the planet to the ground.
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by necrotic_comp 4y ago
This is so sanctimonious and makes me angry. Part of having kids is wanting your kids to have a life that's as good as, or better, than your current life. You want to give them all of the possible opportunities they can have in additio
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by necrotic_comp 4y ago
The process control in systemd I think is unambigously good, but it would be nice if it wasn't as tightly coupled with journalctl and all of the other random stuff it's gobbling up.
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by necrotic_comp 4y ago
"humanities is all about flattering whatever opinions the professor personally holds" - maybe at some universities, but not at a good liberal arts school.
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by necrotic_comp 4y ago
NY's public transit is not great. It works, but it's dirty, slow and unreliable.
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by necrotic_comp 4y ago
No it's not. It's pressure sensitive and about as fast or faster than a trackpad with movement. I've never had a problem with speed, even across multiple, large, monitors.

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