philsnow

67 ms·

931.
by philsnow 5y ago
> Few environments will provide this either though. I used vim for ~12 years and then emacs for ~12 years, and this emacs has never been able to handle large files well. vim meanwhile has zero trouble with files of any size that I'
932.
by philsnow 5y ago
Every comment here is about peculiarities of Office versions, but the article gave me false nostalgia for working at a place like Microsoft in the late 90s / early 00s. Evil Empire-ness (are_we_the_baddies.gif) aside, I mean.
933.
by philsnow 5y ago
Line of sight / laser is restricted by the curvature of the earth but VHF can go (a bit?) farther.
934.
by philsnow 5y ago
Emacs doesn't lend itself well to running on machines you've never logged into before, or ephemeral machines/containers/etc. It's not a tiny sleek thing that you can start anywhere and have the same experience (that
935.
by philsnow 5y ago
Shouldn't that code just do whatever tzdata says, and when tzdata says "don't change for DST", it just doesn't?
936.
by philsnow 5y ago
When reading a recipe I always end up mentally translating the prose / steps into a DAG, but I don't have enough short term memory to keep the DAG in my head so I'm constantly re-compiling as I'm working. When I write my
937.
by philsnow 5y ago
Not related to Tech Noir, but since people are posting their favorites in this thread: Gunship released "Art3mis and Parzival" [0] a couple weeks before the movie Ready Player One was released. I had liked the book and was lookin
938.
by philsnow 5y ago
I cling to using Chrome's support for shortcuts-as-apps: go to whateverteam.slack.com, hamburger menu -> "More tools" -> "Create shortcut..." -> "[X] open as window". At least on Mac, it creates
939.
by philsnow 5y ago
The name cries out for an icon derived from a 'won ton' (americans usually pronounce it wahn tawn but the canto pronunciation is exactly like 'one tun'). https://www.google.com/search?q=won%20ton&tbm=
940.
by philsnow 5y ago
Just stop using browser extensions. No you don’t need a JSON prettifier that has full powers and can read data from web pages on any domain. You don’t need a thing to help you to compose English prose better (or maybe you do but don’t use
941.
by philsnow 5y ago
... or faster.
942.
by philsnow 5y ago
> Gmails spam filtering lately is atrocious. I've gotten 3-4 emails in my inbox in the last week that all are 'from' a different Russian / eastern European woman, have body text == the very short subject line, and hav
943.
by philsnow 5y ago
Could you get by with just outline-mode?
944.
by philsnow 5y ago
or when the back of the car is covered in snow or a million other reasons
945.
by philsnow 5y ago
In the same vein as "you can't go home again" (you can go back to the physical location, but you have changed, anybody living there has changed, the buildings have changed etc, to the extent that it's no longer the same
946.
by philsnow 5y ago
If I understand Zulip's threading correctly (I can't log in right now to check), it imposes a strict two-level threading system. Quill ( https://quill.chat ) has nested channels but unlike Zulip, clicking on the "o
947.
by philsnow 5y ago
To me, seeing that punctuation is soothing. It's finding another person who I know thinks the same way I do, if only about this one, pedantic thing.
948.
by philsnow 5y ago
> a great manager, she has worked no joke 100 hour weeks for the last 7? months She sounds dedicated but hardly "great". In my mind great employees don't need to spend 100 hours working any week, let alone 7 months in a
949.
by philsnow 5y ago
If you can manage to tame it, auditd will give you a much more comprehensive look at what has happened on your machines. osquery is more like polling (on a long interval because it's heavyweight) but auditd is processing events from t
950.
by philsnow 5y ago
I had set up some minecraft servers in my k8s homelab behind a proxy that routes clients to the right server depending on the domain name they're connecting to. Everything inside the k8s homelab uses subdomains of k.myvanitydomain.com.
951.
by philsnow 5y ago
how is the name unfortunate? from the site: > Plumbum (Latin for lead, which was used to create pipes back in the day)
952.
by philsnow 5y ago
Wait, how can it do it with writes/increments? Does it keep track of which rows are hot and add a short but stochastically distributed delay to writes to try to coalesce more updates into a single hit to the DB? I would think you&#x27
953.
by philsnow 5y ago
Do the RNAses become irrevocably "stuck" when they try to process the 5' end of one of the pictured zika RNA molecules? It seems so: > These things pile up inside the cell and start disrupting all sorts of other cellular
954.
by philsnow 5y ago
Whole Foods has a variety of international and somewhat better domestic chocolates, but don't use price as any kind of proxy for quality when you're looking at them. I recently ran a dark chocolate tournament for my brother-in-law
955.
by philsnow 5y ago
Costco has great bacon, sliced fairly thick (though not as thick as you'd get from a butcher)
956.
by philsnow 5y ago
I want to get my 12 and 10 year old children into programming, but I won't show them löve because of this naming issue. It's otherwise an ideal library for them, but I show them pygame/qbasic/logo instead.
957.
by philsnow 5y ago
unrelated to CDNs but IIRC vitess did/does query coalescing too -- if it starts to serve a query for "select * from users where id = 123" and then another 20 connections all want the same query result, vitess doesn't sen
958.
by philsnow 5y ago
I do the same thing (want to iterate on some complicated jq query -- or, let's be real, blunder around with my loose grasp of jq). I use https://github.com/lotabout/skim#interactive-mode instead of fzf. funct
959.
by philsnow 5y ago
My iPhone X has burn-in from Google maps navigation. The killer combination seems to have been many hours on a mount in the sunlight behind my windshield, running a moderately intensive app (generating a fair amount of heat) that always ha
960.
by philsnow 5y ago
99.9% sure that I did, but I had to transcribe the address by hand since I couldn't long-press to copy it like I expected. Tapping the email address in the app opens Mail.app, which I've never bothered to set up in 6 years of iph

More ›