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by rgoulter 3y ago
> the sky is the limit: with all the layer stuff. Some techniques I've liked / made use of (although I support may vary depending on the tool you use): - Using tap-hold to put Shift/Ctrl/Gui/Alt on home row under
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by rgoulter 3y ago
Related to "the 2013 Lara Croft is more feminist than the old Lara Croft", I liked Liana Kerzner's discussion on the topic (with a cute pseudo-dialectic at about 11:00 in). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kJMj
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by rgoulter 3y ago
I think if the spacebar were smaller, that's almost as good. Or, well, just treat the row with the 6U key as an additional bottom row.
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by rgoulter 3y ago
I think the pain that the python 2 to python 3 upgrade caused would discourage this. I also see many people complained about the removal of the long-deprecated egrep and fgrep commands.
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by rgoulter 3y ago
I asked an LLM "during the day, what colour is the sky?", and it told me the sky is typically blue, and that this has to do with sunlight scattering as it enters our atmosphere. I think it's worth using "hallucinate&quot
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by rgoulter 3y ago
Worth reading, from the description: """Biofire is a Colorado company that has spent the last 5 years or so developing a biometrically authenticated pistol, using both fingerprint and facial recognition systems. The gun is cu
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by rgoulter 3y ago
I think this unnecessarily dismisses 'AI' alongside 'Web3' just because a hype cycle has moved from one to the other. I wouldn't put them in the same bucket, though. Web3 had lots of jargon that made it inaccessible
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by rgoulter 3y ago
> Also, "in prod" is such an odd thing to say about Nix. It's a built-time thing. Nix doesn't run in prod. What people mean by "use X in production" is that X is a key dependency as part of the production pr
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by rgoulter 3y ago
Insofar as the discussion on the name "vanilla javascript" goes, this mixes metaphors. "Vanilla JavaScript" implies "without anything added".
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by rgoulter 3y ago
Related: Perun just released a video on Anti Satellite Weapons. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-xl0C6K2Nug
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by rgoulter 3y ago
One-shot shift = after tapping, the next key you press is shifted? That does seem useful. I also liked QMK's "caps word" feature. It's like CapsLock, but only for UNDERSCORED_WORDS. (i.e. the keyboard returns to non-Caps
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by rgoulter 3y ago
> > that's masochistic! ... I honestly doubt that these make your life easier. > 100% of the functionality without hand movement. Yeah, this is the key point. These keyboards ultimately trade-off "benefit of reduced hand
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by rgoulter 3y ago
Ah, I'm not necessarily arguing that "having a better keyboard will make you a more effective typist". I'm suggesting that "for keeping your hands on home row, it's much nicer if your thumbs are able to reach 2
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by rgoulter 3y ago
For example, without having to move my hand, my thumbs can reach Esc, Tab, Backspace, and Enter as well as having to push space. That's a benefit from the thumbs being able to hit 2-3 keys each. I think that's much nicer than havi
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by rgoulter 3y ago
> Keeping your hand exactly at home position is largely over sold on that regard... It's a marginal benefit, but it's still a benefit. The more significant factor than "qwerty vs colemak" is that the thumbs aren'
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by rgoulter 3y ago
'Suggesting a solution' somewhat indicates that the person receiving the suggestion didn't think of it (or wouldn't have thought of it, or couldn't have thought of it). -- Giving a solution is kinda like "see h
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by rgoulter 3y ago
It's suggesting that "the prevalence of 'fake' ChatGPT apps on the App Store" undermines reasons Apple has used to defend everything having to be installed through the App Store & Apple's app review process
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by rgoulter 3y ago
> nobody buys ads entirely untargeted (they're ineffective) I liked this argument from idlewords: https://idlewords.com/talks/what_happens_next_will_amaze_you... """Advertisers end up right back
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by rgoulter 3y ago
> At one point about a decade ago through my spotty memory they are pretty on par with reddit in terms of adoption and reputation Considering Google Trends for "quora" vs "reddit", it was never even close, generally.
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by rgoulter 3y ago
Most (all?) of your Makefile targets don't represent actual files to 'make'. You're using make to run a bunch of tasks, including where tasks may depend on other tasks having been run before. A task-runner tool like `jus
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by rgoulter 3y ago
> That legislation is about weaponizing existing tools Right. It seems entirely reasonable to be concerned that if 'hate speech' is applied too broadly, it can be used to silence political opponents.
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by rgoulter 3y ago
> > Hate speech is hopelessly vaguely defined > Incorrect! Most organizations have reached wildly close consensus on the matter That wikipedia article indicates: """Hate speech is "usually thought to include com
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by rgoulter 3y ago
Offering a solution/help may in some cases be interpreted as that the person receiving the suggestion is in a position where they need help. -- It's nicer to be in a position where you're a superior receiving help from subord
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by rgoulter 3y ago
"You Just Don't Understand" by Deborah Tannen. The author discusses that often when conflict in communication arises between men/women, it resembles the same tensions in cross-cultural communication. The author discusses
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by rgoulter 3y ago
> These people are not the target group for subscriptions, nor are they the majority. The iPad app will only be available with a subscription. This majority which does not prefer subscriptions do not have the option for "high cost o
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by rgoulter 3y ago
> ... perhaps Developer workstation is the most tricky to get right. ... I think the biggest 'risk' is there's a long tail of stuff a developer might want to do. The more niche some task is, the more likely it is that the
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by rgoulter 3y ago
> While the language is declarative your configuration is scattered... I think it's worth being more precise here. With a NixOS system, the configuration and services can all be declared from a single starting point. (Which is a ben
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by rgoulter 3y ago
> But the new latest thing from Google+Microsoft+Apple is 'passkeys' or 'passwordless' authentication, where you won't have a password. Two-factor authentication will be device+biometric, with the biometrics perf
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by rgoulter 3y ago
"kanban" is all about maximizing flow of completed tasks, and minimizing/limiting work in progress . Someone is either working on a task, or idle. A task is either being worked on (making progress), or it's not being
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by rgoulter 3y ago
I feel that this is less extreme than using "literally" to mean "figuratively". Several words in English have multiple separate meanings. > people say "break" when they mean "brake". You were still

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