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811.
by rgoulter 4y ago
In Emacs, I found the restclient plugin quite useful. https://github.com/pashky/restclient.el I imagine other editors have similar plugins.
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by rgoulter 4y ago
The appeal to arbitrariness goes both ways. If it's a minor choice, insisting it be changed is silly. "Get over it and move on" applies just as much to either. That people have feelings about a topic that's disproportion
813.
by rgoulter 4y ago
> signals that the author doesn't have an interest in working with the greater open-source community to develop it further or adopt it. This reminds me, there's a somewhat inherent affiliation in the flamewar over the branch na
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by rgoulter 4y ago
> Quickly transitioning ... out of teams? While those behaviours are (to varying extents) anti-social, I think some lee-way has to be given for people being human. e.g. To an extent, someone burning out and thinking "I don't ha
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by rgoulter 5y ago
The concept I'm reminded of is the related "meta-message". OP's site adjusts the register to something more polite. The confrontational statements are still confrontational when phrased more politely.
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by rgoulter 5y ago
Anki is killer for vocabulary (and I've heard health science), since this involves a long tail of terms you might need to recall with somewhat low frequency. Otherwise, if you use something frequently, you won't need effort to rec
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by rgoulter 5y ago
I wonder if it's just two different approaches to the world. In a transactional approach, I'm looking for the recipe; and just giving me the recipe (plus some useful tips for how to prepare the dish) is useful. "mommy blog&qu
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by rgoulter 5y ago
I suspect the links or references to xkcd follow a power law, where a few comics get linked to all the time. Relatedly, I believe it's rare to see an xkcd linked to above 2000.
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by rgoulter 5y ago
> What stops me from commenting, and from reacting to other people's comments, is the fact that the chances of starting a conversation are so low In person, a conversation is personal like this. In this discussion forum, it's c
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by rgoulter 5y ago
Yeah, maintainability is key. A lot of people like just managing playlists with a simple graphical console. This works fine if you just want a playlist now, but you risk things like forgetting why the songs were added to a playlist; or forg
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by rgoulter 5y ago
> While a for a PC keyboard, a basic membrane keyboard will do the job outside of maybe some very niche highest levels of competitive esports > > Mech keyboards and obsession with them are purely a luxury, hobby thing Some mechanic
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by rgoulter 5y ago
> but with this configuration, it gets tricky. It may also be unclear what you intend if while holding 'j', you start pressing another key. The behaviour is customisable. https://docs.qmk.fm/#/tap_hold?id=t
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by rgoulter 5y ago
I can't discern the difference between those tens of milliseconds of delay. Worth considering the time (and effort) saved from moving the hands to the modifier keys. It's nice being able to have the hands remain on the home row. E
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by rgoulter 5y ago
Even for the tap-hold functionality, there is kmonad. However, I think expensive keyboards (like the moonlander or the planck) are worth it for things like "symmetrical" and "thumb can use more keys than just the spacebar&quo
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by rgoulter 5y ago
I was raised on NZ marmite and love the stuff. However, it's easier to find the UK stuff worldwide. I only recently tried the UK stuff. I agree that the NZ one is much weaker in comparison.
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by rgoulter 5y ago
"Reproducible" is a nice word, but I feel like if the granularity of the contents is "other APKs", then it's not as useful as reproducibility in tools which allow more arbitrary contents. I know some people don&#x27
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by rgoulter 5y ago
"Neither env shebangs nor absolute path shebangs are generally ‘better.’ Either one may get you in trouble when used in the wrong context." I generally agree on the wisdom of "it depends and consider context", but.. An a
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by rgoulter 5y ago
Without admin privileges, it's not trivial to use nix.
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by rgoulter 5y ago
My favourite less-known GitHub feature is adding `.keys` or `.gpg` to a username will return the user's public SSH keys (or GPG keys).
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by rgoulter 5y ago
Org mode has a long tail of features. -- So org mode has a similar problem to how vi-emulation in other programs will often miss out on some niche behaviour. Using org mode as an outliner is likely to be easy in a variety of tools. A major
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by rgoulter 5y ago
> People stockpiled food before and after a few weeks deliveries came back enough to keep people from starving (they used the military to distribute food as well). IIRC, at the most restrictive lockdown, I was still able to have motorbik
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by rgoulter 5y ago
"project should be able to be built without nix" is reasonable. "Nix shouldn't provide compiler toolchain" is not. Nix's whole design is oriented around explicit description of inputs in programmatic descriptio
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by rgoulter 5y ago
> Are there any other advantages to using nix? The advantages are more pronounced for DevOps than for developers. e.g. for DevOps, Nix allows copying a package of software (and all its dependencies) from one computer to another, with con
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by rgoulter 5y ago
Nix wouldn't. Roughly, Nix's approach is to describe packages as a function of it dependencies as inputs. (And all the inputs have all their dependencies described in Nix, too). Nix doesn't do things like "install latest
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by rgoulter 5y ago
"Someone else replaces the good program with a malicious program" is the attack vector people are worried about when talking about sha256. But, since you're downloading & running code written by someone else, it seems wei
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by rgoulter 5y ago
The code in nixpkgs does contain some code that uses relatively sophisticated programming language constructs, such as lazy evaluation, partial function application, or fixpoints. -- So I'll say there's at least some friction to N
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by rgoulter 5y ago
Nix is wonderful, and very difficult. But, if you're talking about IaC, you need to more precisely talk about NixOps and how that compares to tools like Terraform or Pulumi. -- Overall, Nix isn't really aimed at solving IaC for cl
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by rgoulter 5y ago
I don't see that cryptocurrencies would inherently be better suited to dealing with paying open source contributing better than what you could do without cryptocurrencies. But, there's a lot of hype and excitement around cryptocur
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by rgoulter 5y ago
I'd take a look at the headers under the configuration options. (e.g. AWS, Git, Python, Status). https://starship.rs/config/ > Is there any reason why a prompt is written in rust? The prompt program supports a
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by rgoulter 5y ago
The starship prompt is astoundingly good value-for-effort. https://starship.rs/ It's very feature-rich, showing suitable context for a variety of tools, and can be customised if the defaults don't provide the inf

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