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by rgoulter 5y ago
John McWhorter wrote an article discussing the word. e.g. The head of the NAACP used the word in 2003. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/04/30/opinion/john-mcwhorter-n-...
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by rgoulter 5y ago
Obviously if you could remember everything useful for no effort, that would be ideal. Roughly, Spaced Repetition Studying (SRS) is based around the idea of recalling something just before you would otherwise forget it; and that the time it
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by rgoulter 5y ago
https://github.com/mcobzarenco/zee#features Stuff like use of tree-sitter seems neat.
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by rgoulter 5y ago
> And what does scene construction, story arc and so on mean when you can do anything ? I'm reminded of this video, where a game-playing husband discusses his non-gaming wife's attempts to play games. https://www.you
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by rgoulter 5y ago
I've only given Helix a brief try, but I think there are some things to be excited about it as a keyboard-focused editor: Its out-of-the-box experience seems much nicer than vim (or even kakoune). Helix takes a lot of inspiration from
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by rgoulter 5y ago
Slack on Windows 3.11 https://github.com/yeokm1/w31slack C# on Windows 3.11 https://www.hanselman.com/blog/net-everywhere-apparently-als...
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by rgoulter 5y ago
I can recommend "Spiritfarer" under "emotionally impactful", too.
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by rgoulter 5y ago
> How about an alternative that just has a sensible policy about what can and can't be posted? I'm reminded of https://slatestarcodex.com/2017/05/01/neutral-vs-conservativ... """Th
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You can't draw great conclusions from the Ukraine videos(youtube.com)
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by rgoulter 5y ago
The quickest, most practical taste for Nix would be: https://nix.dev/ I'd start with trying to use Nix before going with NixOS or home-manager.
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by rgoulter 5y ago
> Non technical people don’t need most of those keys But... if you're non-technical, then considering you may encounter a situation where you need to use the keys (e.g. "press ctrl+alt+delete"), choosing a keyboard where i
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by rgoulter 5y ago
The size of the spacebar on a standard keyboard takes up the space of 6 keys; but people will push the spacebar in the same place. It's nicer for the thumb to be able to access more keys, and nicer to not need to rely on the pinky fing
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by rgoulter 5y ago
I feel like "it's split and column-staggered" is different than "this switch has this actuation curve" or "it's lubricated with this grease". I find typing with Dvorak so much more comfortable than
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by rgoulter 5y ago
The thumb is strong, and the pinky finger is weak. It would be better to use the thumb more, and not rely on the pinky finger as much. Compared to a standard keyboard, these small keyboards typically have more keys for the thumb to access.
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by rgoulter 5y ago
> The major downsides being that it can get expensive fast (at least if you're picky) Or if you think "oh, it looks like fun to design a keyboard PCB". :o)
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by rgoulter 5y ago
I was amused to see a "3-ingredient brownie" recipe where the 3 ingredients were: cookie dough, oreos, brownie dough.
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by rgoulter 5y ago
I think "open source is political" uses the word 'political' in a significantly different way than stuff like "I'd hate to see more politics in software discussions". Consider: "Open source is politic
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by rgoulter 5y ago
I'd say the common cases, (especially if someone has already done something similar that you can copy-paste from), are reasonably straightforward. Generally, getting a good understanding of Nix takes some time. It's hard because y
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by rgoulter 5y ago
Ideally! In practice, for use cases where you're spelunking through different directories and running different commands: you're going to have an easier time either staying in a terminal (where opening a GUI to perform a task is a
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by rgoulter 5y ago
> That is the "tragedy of good enough" and why Nix, NixOS, jails, FreeBSD or anything else won't be as popular until vaguely low skilled developers can get easily started with them. Maybe things just need to cool down and
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by rgoulter 5y ago
> The problem is that it lulls you into thinking it serves the purpose well enough and then eventually things break. Then they get more broken. Then you can't figure out which thing you installed is breaking things. Then you finally
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by rgoulter 5y ago
> I wasn't even close to learning how to use nix as I wanted. > Some of the comments here actually gave me hope that the juice will be worth the squeeze, so I'll jump back in tonight. I might switch to `nix.dev` tutorial tha
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by rgoulter 5y ago
Loosely, I'd compare it to using Emacs or Vim instead of VSCode. You'll have a steeper learning curve, but it has power-user benefits.
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by rgoulter 5y ago
> Can't build with nix-build. After long time searching it seems like you're supposed to run nix-build -E 'with import <nixpkgs> {}; callPackage ./default.nix {}' - shouldn't there be a simpler way for
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by rgoulter 5y ago
> As someone who tried Nix-- never understood what the big selling point is-- what can Nix do my existing tools can't? (without me spending 6 months) Right. The benefits are clearer for DevOps than for developer workstations. (e.g.
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by rgoulter 5y ago
The claim I'd make in favour of Dvorak is that it's much more comfortable than QWERTY, without an impactful drop in speed. (Though, after using Dvorak for long enough, it's about as fast as QWERTY for me). I have a video on Y
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by rgoulter 5y ago
Heh, I got curious: https://github.com/fish-shell/fish-shell/issues/4918#issueco... Prob'ly easiest to open the command in an editor. (C-x C-e in bash; A-v for fish) and use mouse support there.
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by rgoulter 5y ago
The article says the word isn't "inherently evil". The author argues in a well-meaning way that every usage of the word 'ethnic' would instead be better served by another word. The style guide says "Don't
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by rgoulter 5y ago
It's a trade-off of convenience vs security. If you're worried a password will leak, how frequently should you rotate it to maintain security? e.g. Even rotating yearly still seems a chore if you do it for websites you don't
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by rgoulter 5y ago
Right, I've seen "an LTS set of packages would be nice" as a point before, I agree that it would be good to have.. but I think the communities for this are too small to support it. I've not used Guix, but have used Nix.

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