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by ratrocket 2y ago
With admittedly close to zero sailing experience, I would think that if your boat (no matter how big or "tiny") is getting "considerable" water onboard, you have bigger problems than your canned food. It doesn't mak
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by ratrocket 2y ago
I agree with this practice. Another benefit is it makes it easier (slightly, but still) to grep the man page for what the options do. The corollary must be "write programs that take long options".
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by ratrocket 2y ago
https://archive.ph/HnYWh
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by ratrocket 2y ago
Whether you've seen his movies or not, this 35 second video clip is David Lynch gold ("David Lynch on product placement"): https://youtu.be/F4wh_mc8hRE?si=SJwtz31ZEWuW9rk7 (Has swearing off that matters for y
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by ratrocket 2y ago
The "funny" thing for me about `fd` is that the set of operations I use for `find` are very hard-wired into my muscle memory from using it for 20+ years, so when I reach for `fd` I often have to reference the man page! I'm g
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by ratrocket 2y ago
Perhaps interesting (for some) to note that hyperfine is from the same author as at least a few other "ne{w,xt} generation" command line tools (that could maybe be seen as part of "rewrite it in Rust", but I don't w
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by ratrocket 2y ago
I think the point you're replying to still stands, it's just moved "up" a level: If someone cared to look into the financial history of someone with no grocery store payments on their credit card (why are they looking in
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by ratrocket 2y ago
Without judgement, but I think it's arguable that pinboard.in is "living". Maybe semi-alive at this point. One article about this: https://notes.kateva.org/2024/09/the-end-times-have-come-for... Sea
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by ratrocket 2y ago
> If you want to refer to a WiFi phone you call it that. To its credit, the thing under discussion is literally called "WiPhone", which sounds to me like a direct play on "WiFi phone".
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by ratrocket 2y ago
If you're interested in freediving or want to know more about it, and you like reading, James Nestor (maybe more well known for his book "Breath" about... well, breathing through your nose) wrote a book called "Deep&quot
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by ratrocket 2y ago
Maybe this site is more current: https://anvil-editor.net/download/ (it at least downloads over https...) I couldn't find a link to a repo on anvil-editor.net anywhere, but I didn't look too deeply. I'
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by ratrocket 2y ago
I'm not sure if this would be a solution for you, and I've never used it myself, but I found this interesting secrets management project a few years ago that I always find myself thinking "is that what I want?": https:&
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by ratrocket 2y ago
That's a good question, for sure. I clicked on the OP (and then here) because the company I work for is in the early stages of bringing this functionality (linktree, ffm.to type thing) in-house, so I was curious to see what's on o
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by ratrocket 2y ago
Good observation. I believe the name for that is "induced demand".
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by ratrocket 3y ago
Ugh! I'm not too surprised to hear this. I deal with Shopify daily at work and once installed the Shop app to troubleshoot some problem we were seeing. I didn't get to the point of noticing what OP points out, but it immediatel
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by ratrocket 3y ago
This looks cool! It doesn't do quite the same thing, but a tool I've had good luck with for quick-n-dirty grepping of JSON is gron: https://github.com/tomnomnom/gron (which I'm sure I learned about from
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by ratrocket 3y ago
There's a great book about caracaras from a few years ago called "A Most Remarkable Creature: The Hidden Life and Epic Journey of the World's Smartest Birds of Prey" by Jonathan Meiburg. I highly recommend it! (And a t
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by ratrocket 3y ago
For reference & context, I believe (I hope!) this is the "first big thread on GitButler": https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39356042
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by ratrocket 3y ago
There's a (dead) comment lamenting that you can't access Github with javascript turned off. The Oasis repo seems to be mirrored on sourcehut, though, so if that's more acceptable: https://git.sr.ht/~mcf/
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by ratrocket 3y ago
Ah, thank you for the clarification. I read the linked to (by me) comment too quickly and/or without thinking enough! Cheers!
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by ratrocket 3y ago
A comment up-thread (currently) says/implies Oasis is a successor to sta.li by the same person. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39143029 I also thought sta.li when I saw this was about a statically linked linux sy
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by ratrocket 3y ago
If you believe wikipedia, the Murderbot half your wish is coming true: On December 14, 2023 Apple TV+, announced that it had ordered a television adaptation of the Murderbot series. Alexander Skarsgård is set to star in and executive pr
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by ratrocket 3y ago
Definition of "modern art": "Modern art includes artistic work produced during the period extending roughly from the 1860s to the 1970s". via https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modern_art "Modern&qu
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by ratrocket 3y ago
Very cool! I've been wanting to build either a Cape Falcon canoe or F1 kayak for a few years (and might get the chance -- read, "have the space to" -- soon). If you see this & can elaborate, how did the Cape Falcon buil
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by ratrocket 4y ago
https://archive.ph/DeK8H
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How to Ask for a Raise, Without Alienating Your Boss Along the Way(nytimes.com)
1 points by ratrocket 4y ago|1 comments
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by ratrocket 4y ago
Anyone else wanting to search for the book "Midlife" -- it seems to be this one, by Kieran Setiya (full title: "Midlife: A Philosophical Guide"): https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/34427017-mid
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by ratrocket 4y ago
Not to get too off topic, but can you name perhaps a "top 5" of shows/movies available on BBC iPlayer right now? What I've been recommended there has always been top notch, but it's hard (for me!) to find the gems
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by ratrocket 4y ago
Thanks for this book recommendation, looks very interesting! It's available to check out from archive.org. Four different versions, here is one: https://archive.org/details/menwomenpianosso00loes_0/
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Chromium Web Store (for ungoogled chromium)(github.com)
2 points by ratrocket 4y ago|0 comments

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