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by philsnow 4y ago
> I don't really care whether fetuses are people are not. ... well, if they are, then abortion is murder, right? I don't see why you wouldn't care whether they "are people" or not. It seems crucial, at least if
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by philsnow 4y ago
> the [X] debate has always been about forcing a specific belief system on everyone, once [X] have been {taken away, granted}, they will move to the next part of their belief system to force on others. Substitute any [X] you like in the
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by philsnow 4y ago
Are you arguing against certain people or against certain positions? > The self-proclaimed "pro-life" movement also strongly supports the death penalty, strongly oppose any sort of financial aid for poor children, are typically
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by philsnow 4y ago
> I don't think newborn babies are people either What is it, exactly, about newborn babies (for now, I'll ask about embryos later) that makes you think they are "not people"? Is it something they do, or something the
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by philsnow 4y ago
I haven't used Autohotkey or skhd but I use hammerspoon for any kind of macos UI automation and it's pretty great, and uses lua instead of applescript.
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by philsnow 4y ago
This size of company and mindset seems pretty well served by MicroConf [0], which tends somewhat to the bootstrapping crowd but is very much not the "4 hour work week" crowd. ... Is that what you mean by "optimize for lifetyl
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by philsnow 4y ago
> I genuinely don’t understand why Google got it right with Circles Do you mean on google plus? (Or did that feature make it to other parts of the gooverse?) The feature on Plus that I desperately wanted was "squares", or face
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by philsnow 4y ago
I browsed through the guide a bit, but it seems to be anything but comprehensive, rather it's quite similar to comment threads like this where there's a smattering of less-well-known hidden functionality among the more obvious stu
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by philsnow 4y ago
I twitched a little when I saw lists and dicts included as default arguments in one of the examples: def main( ..., obj: dict = {"even": "dicts"}, my_list: list = ["or", "lists!"],
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by philsnow 4y ago
Would Hammerspoon fit your use case? It lets you write lua to interact with all kinds of system APIs. It's roughly the first thing I install on a new mac.
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by philsnow 4y ago
When I do this with for instance a Finder window, it just "zooms" it. You can get the same effect if you go to the Window menu -> Zoom. "zoom"ing tells macos to make the window fit the content that's inside of
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by philsnow 5y ago
Seems to depend on your particular less, see the last sentence of this paragraph from `man less` on my machine: &pattern Display only lines which match the pattern; lines which do not match the patte
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by philsnow 5y ago
I use skim / `sk` for this kind of task: https://github.com/lotabout/skim . For example, for iterating on jq incantations, I have in my shell rc file: function jqsk { sk --tac --ansi --regex --query . --
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by philsnow 5y ago
Also while inside less: & shows you only lines which match a pattern. You can hit & multiple times and less will show you only those lines which match every input pattern. A ^N right after & negates the pattern. & respec
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by philsnow 5y ago
Ah, I had no idea you could do that. I don't generally use the expose / mission control swipe gestures. ... Actually I just realized I haven't bothered using spaces in years (since before Catalina I think), maybe I should t
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by philsnow 5y ago
In my xmonad setup only one window (and thus screen) has the focus, so I would need to hit the key that switches focus to my B monitor (for me that's Mod4+e, B monitor is Mod4+q) and then Mod4+3. True about indexed access; some other w
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by philsnow 5y ago
I just wish "spaces" worked like xmonad workspaces [0], specifically that in xmonad there are some number of workspaces (9 by default) and each display is a view into _any_ of those. Macos has a checkbox "Displays have separ
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by philsnow 5y ago
Don't forget Amazon Sidewalk. You pretty much have to live on some acreage to be free of this stuff.
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by philsnow 5y ago
I guess this is the modern equivalent of the c10k problem http://www.kegel.com/c10k.html
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by philsnow 5y ago
I've either played and didn't like, or never played to begin with, almost every single game mentioned in the sibling comments. My favorites: Towerfall, Bastion, Transistor, Pikuniku, untitled goose game, Stardew valley, Kentucky r
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by philsnow 5y ago
PC / xbox+playstation / switch are almost completely separate markets. It has never entered my mind that "I should buy an xbox/playstation", not once. I have had NES, (original) game boy, SNES, gamecube, wii, and
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by philsnow 5y ago
Just on this subtopic, this is a great chocolate pie recipe that doesn't use any dairy but instead uses silken tofu https://www.foodnetwork.com/recipes/alton-brown/moo-less-cho... likewise, you wouldn't
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by philsnow 5y ago
Having units as part of your types improves legibility for whoever's writing code too, not just reviewing. You won't make (as many) silly mistakes like adding a value in meters to another in seconds.
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by philsnow 5y ago
Well, they spent a ton on things like this https://newsroom.ucla.edu/releases/expanded-housing-guarante... so _somebody's_ gotta tighten their belt
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by philsnow 5y ago
> In plain language it is vastly more important that you vibe with the person you spend hours talking with about your problems than that they have training. 100% agree, and thank you
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by philsnow 5y ago
> your subculture’s priest/shaman My subculture's priests are priests. When my wife very suddenly passed away, I spent a lot of time with a therapist. They're not the same thing. Have you ever seen a therapist?
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by philsnow 5y ago
> The general pattern I've encountered with graphviz is to start with it and hope you're done before it starts segfaulting on your data I've generated diagrams from various sources of data in AWS (security groups, EC2 ins
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by philsnow 5y ago
Just a heads up, I tried clicking the download button on https://www.blender.org/download/ from Firefox 97 on an m1 mac and it sent me the x86 dmg. I don't know how it autodetects platform but maybe double-check
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by philsnow 5y ago
Especially in smaller markets, there aren't very many agents. You can get a lot out of inviting realtors to coffee from time to time. When somebody is thinking about selling, they often talk to realtors early on, so you can learn abo
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by philsnow 5y ago
What model year was that sprinter?

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