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by rgoulter 4y ago
The readme mentions someone wrote an ob-restclient.el https://github.com/alf/ob-restclient.el
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by rgoulter 4y ago
Sure, I wouldn't come to that conclusion solely based on that point either. I think that 'university administration is bloated' is more/less accurate, though. e.g.: "The number of non-academic administrative and pro
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by rgoulter 4y ago
I generally liked APoSD. I liked its notion of symptoms of complex code. I liked its framing of complexity as related to dependencies involved in calling some function. -- If a function has more parameters than it really needs (too many dep
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by rgoulter 4y ago
> ... I think the snarky code purity response here ... I think if we can agree "taking on tech debt can be a good approach" and has dignity, we also have to agree that wishing for code without tech debt is also dignified. :o) W
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by rgoulter 4y ago
The point of a method name like "I_suck_and_..." is to discourage misusage of the API,or at least provoke conscious thought about whether it's a good choice to make. That the name adds friction is an intended feature, not a b
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by rgoulter 4y ago
> ... have this kind of code purity complex ... I think it's fair to describe "tests are order dependent" as technical debt. Taking on a bit of technical debt for better code velocity is an option. It may be a good option
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by rgoulter 4y ago
> The fact that tests test arbitrary things should be enough for you to reconsider what you're saying. You can't possibly know if I'm "totally incorrect". You'll have to explain, then, the significant differ
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by rgoulter 4y ago
I think it's fair to argue "the costs/drawbacks of using NixOS as a desktop outweigh the benefits". But, I think that discounts the value of enthusiastic tinkering, and learning a complicated technology. Nix is unusual a
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by rgoulter 4y ago
https://lethalman.blogspot.com/2016/04/cheap-docker-images-w...
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by rgoulter 4y ago
> In my experience, splitting the keyboard in half delivers 95+% of the ergonomic benefits with virtually zero tradeoffs beyond the couple of days it take to adjust to it. "standard layout, but split" doesn't quite do enou
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by rgoulter 4y ago
There's a difference between: "I have a <very large> YAML file, and it takes yq <some long time> to parse, whereas <some workflow I use written in rust/c> takes <much less time>". "Go is slow
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by rgoulter 4y ago
I liked Chloe Valdary's explanation/interpretation of The Heart Part 5 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QQ4tncELtgc
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by rgoulter 4y ago
Different use cases / priorities, & different acceptance of trade-offs. Consider, say: Arch Linux is bleeding edge, but requires a lot of knowledge / elbow grease to get working. NixOS allows for declaring the whole operating
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by rgoulter 4y ago
I think a reasonable compromise is "keyboards with 2-3 keys for each thumb". Rather, with 2-3 keys for each thumb, and either using home row modifiers (with tap-hold, or with chording): it allows for really minimizing the need to
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by rgoulter 4y ago
> Are there any other rough edges I should know about? I think the easiest to encounter is that programs downloaded from the internet might not 'just work' for various reasons. (e.g. because they're linked against librarie
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by rgoulter 4y ago
> In imagining what I would call various Europeans, I would probably say Germans or English people or Italians, or people from Spain, but I would definitely say the French and there seems to be some hint of negativity to it. Really? To m
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by rgoulter 4y ago
There's a saying "Python is the second-best language for everything".
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by rgoulter 4y ago
See also: - https://www.keybr.com/ for learning touch-typing discipline with not-quite-English words. - https://monkeytype.com/ for a very pretty online touch typing website, with many features.
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by rgoulter 4y ago
> ... why it isn't ready for prime time yet ... I think for a professional / team setting, its learning curve is sufficiently steep enough that it'd be risky to adopt with only one or two team members familiar with Nix. Wr
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by rgoulter 4y ago
I'm not familiar with Environment Modules. I see they're popular in HPC? One difference: On Nix's homepage ( https://nixos.org ), the first word which stands out is "reproducible". -- If I search the read
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by rgoulter 4y ago
> MacOS is still a second-class citizen in the Nix world and a fair amount of stuff doesn't work properly In my experience: With fewer nix users on macOS, it's more likely you'll run into software which isn't in the b
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by rgoulter 4y ago
A `flake.nix` file provides a consistent entrypoint to your codebase, which is nice when using Nix generally. For NixOS specifically, you can point `nixos-rebuild` to a flake & have it switch config. I also find nix flakes have a nicer
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by rgoulter 4y ago
> Why should I invest time? It's not for everyone. Specifically, because Nix's 'costs' are upfront (for likely future benefit), nix isn't well suited to just-get-it-done pragmatic attitudes. -- e.g. if you'd
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by rgoulter 4y ago
I'm somewhat reminded of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Ones_Who_Walk_Away_from_Om...
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by rgoulter 4y ago
Yeah. For two-hands-on-keyboard tasks, relying on layering is good. For gaming, I make use of a number row.
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by rgoulter 4y ago
:o) I can agree that a discussion about health benefits would be more compelling with data. As an anecdote, I'll say I find my ortho keyboard using a Dvorak layout much more comfortable to type on than row-stagger QWERTY; and certainly
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by rgoulter 4y ago
Consider the index-finger columns: On the LHS, the index-finger RFV. The finger rests on the homing key F, with R to the left. On the RHS, the index-finger column is UJM. The finger rests on the homing key F, with U also to the left of F.
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by rgoulter 4y ago
> One can try to get away with very few keys ... The first thing I added was two columns on the right side that kinda just bring back the punctuation I'd say if you look at a layout like miryoku https://github.com/ma
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by rgoulter 4y ago
> There’s little data that says ortho has any health benefits over staggered. Sure. But the standard row-stagger is asymmetrical; the way a hand types with the left hand is not mirrored by the right hand. I'd be very surprised if th
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by rgoulter 4y ago
> We could do a lot better... I think the biggest win would be getting rid of the big spacebar, and replacing it with more keys. (The thumb is much stronger than the pinkies; but we use the pinkies for all sorts of keys, and the thumb on

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