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by rgoulter 4y ago
I'd say power tools provide value despite having to put effort into them. It took me a long time to learn git. When starting out, I could only follow some rote commands, and wasn't able to work my way out of mistakes. Or, tools li
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by rgoulter 4y ago
> When I do try Nix people say “oh don’t do it that way, even though that’s what the docs say, now the way to do it is this new way.” What were you trying to do such that the way the docs said to do it was wrong?
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by rgoulter 4y ago
> What they add from vanilla Nix. Flakes add a couple of things: 1. They ensure the version of nixpkgs used is 'locked': In pre-flake Nix, working with nixpkgs involved using channels. The channel more/less was a clone of
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by rgoulter 4y ago
> Some tooling (such as asdf-vm[0]) didn't work, and it wasn't clear as to why. Note that this was something that I expected and was ready to work around as needed Tools like Guix or Nix are oriented around describing packages
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by rgoulter 4y ago
> Unfortunately, most people in Europe seem to be done with fountain pens after the first few years of elementary school. I grew up in New Zealand. Our writing stationery was pencils; the teachers didn't want young students using pe
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by rgoulter 4y ago
> Beer is normally neither monetarily free TBH the main place I've seen the phrase "free beer" is a Simpson's joke: people stand in front of a sign saying "free beer", but after Homer drinks many cups, the s
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by rgoulter 4y ago
Vim (and its cousin, Emacs) are quite terrible out of the box, with the excuse that it's "configuration over convention". It's not efficient for many different developers to each learn how to configure Vim to the point w
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by rgoulter 4y ago
> anyone who takes them has to use an 18th century pirate ship, weapons, costumes, the lot. Flintlock pistol and cutlass, rum and hardtack, sodomy and the lash. If we're going to use 18th century laws, we should stick to 18th centur
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by rgoulter 4y ago
I like tools like Magit, or using NixOS, which seem close cousins to this "you put in a bit more effort, and get a better tool" attitude. I've never looked into window managers. If I prefer to have all windows I'm using
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by rgoulter 4y ago
Well, I'd much rather maintain an application written in Rust or Go, than written in C. But for gaining understanding, I think because C is so 'raw', I think that makes it useful for developing further understanding as a prog
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by rgoulter 4y ago
I'm currently using a 5x12 keyboard as is. I think seeing it in a smaller form factor is wonderful. One advantage to designs like this is the thumbs get to press more keys (2-3 each). I imagine that especially with such a small device,
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by rgoulter 4y ago
https://github.com/89luca89/distrobox may be of interest to you. Although I'd argue "Docker without containers" is a UX achieve.
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by rgoulter 4y ago
Indeed. I liked this GDC talk from Andrew Przybylski, about video game addiction. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vVwu4RDChsY He discusses that it's worth understanding how these bad behaviours work. He argues that it&
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by rgoulter 4y ago
I think GP meant "Selection Expression", abbreviated as "SEX" in the manual. https://www.gnu.org/software/recutils/manual/
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by rgoulter 4y ago
> What does the customizable firmware get me? I've never considered "layers" on a pointing device, like a keyboard. I could see it as useful; although maybe not with these trackball designs. I'm not sure what form fac
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by rgoulter 4y ago
One weird idea I heard was along the lines of "pay $x to read an article; if you didn't like the article, you can choose that the next person who reads it gets refunded". One kindof criticism of social media is that it's
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by rgoulter 4y ago
Traditionally, I'd think of setting up my developer machine as spending a day or so to install all the programs I need to work on whatever projects. Services like GitPod are about serving a development environment remotely. The blogpos
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by rgoulter 4y ago
Heh. I react the same way. "It's good to be tolerant." "Even of Nazis!?". I heard a nice proverb the other day: "The child who is not embraced by the village will burn it down just to feel its warmth". See
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by rgoulter 4y ago
I'm kinda curious what you think about these principles: 1. Treat people like human beings, not political abstractions. 2. Criticize to uplift and empower, never to tear down or destroy. 3. Root everything you do in love and compassion
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by rgoulter 4y ago
> Would you contend that the offensiveness of racial slurs like the n-word is not a settled issue? John McWhorter would. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/04/30/opinion/john-mcwhorter-n-... Or perhaps more
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by rgoulter 4y ago
The trouble is, I think it's painfully clear that the incentives from advertising / social media has led online journalism to a place where speed takes priority over quality.
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> the world is clearly experiencing a massive crisis of trust because we have failed to find reliable trustworthy signals now that broadcast Internet communication makes it so easy to create and spread nonsense . Hmm. I think you could
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by rgoulter 4y ago
What implementation of FizzBuzz do you use in your production environment?
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by rgoulter 4y ago
It looks like a PAM thing. (Where if you screw up your PAM setup, you'll lock yourself out of your computer). Results of Yubikey usage look mixed. It looks like there are some caveats around Full Disk Encryption, and with use with M1 M
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by rgoulter 4y ago
Another tweet thread lists the items which were sold on Etsy, saying the items he sold promoted, supported, or glorified hatred or violence towards protected groups, which Etsy describes as "including items ... demeaning or disparaging
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by rgoulter 4y ago
The story I was thinking of was where a director sent him the criticism, and he shared the criticism within the company. From this summary of a TED talk Dalio gave in 2017: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/employee-sent-h
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by rgoulter 4y ago
Bridgewater's approach sounds interesting, albeit not for everyone. Ideally, you want to catch mistakes sooner rather than later. People don't want to admit they made a mistake; or people don't want to sincerely criticise oth
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At each extreme: A source code file with very few lines will mean more cognitive load is required to remember which file (or package) some functionality is, and likely more effort to maintain the code. Whereas, source code files which are v
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by rgoulter 4y ago
If level of customizability is your main metric: Emacs can go from this: https://emacshints.files.wordpress.com/2013/09/spash1.png to this: https://github.com/rougier/nano-emacs
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by rgoulter 4y ago
If you're retaining vim on your workstation for quick editing of files, I'd encourage you to keep an eye on the Helix editor. https://helix-editor.com/ There are three nice things about it: it flips vim's &lt

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