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by rgoulter 5y ago
Many may be cynical.. but, say, Chloe Valdary's Theory of Enchantment looks wonderful. https://theoryofenchantment.com/ At least, I found its principles striking: 1. Treat people like human beings, not political abstra
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by rgoulter 5y ago
Grant Sanderson (3blue1brown) was recently on a Numberphile video where he explained Bertrand's Paradox. An under-specified question meant that there were good arguments for different answers, depending on how the question was interpre
903.
by rgoulter 5y ago
One use case I liked for nix-shell shebangs was having a Python script which used Jinja templates. By adding a line like `#!nix-shell -i python ...`, it means that I could just run this Python script with "nix-shell generate.py".
904.
by rgoulter 5y ago
I'm glad to see nix mentioned. It's maybe a little too weird to be able to practically recommend generally. (It's very difficult to deal with unhappy cases; you really need to know what you're doing to work through those
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by rgoulter 5y ago
The command line interface is the easiest interface to script around, but it's also probably the least discoverable. GUI programs have much better discoverability. But ... it's generally hard to drive them with a keyboard. Emacs&#
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by rgoulter 5y ago
FWIW, HN now has a "top links of the day" under the "past" link at the top: https://news.ycombinator.com/front
907.
by rgoulter 5y ago
What kindof keyboard do you have such that it doesn't fit keycaps? Even the niche datcyl manuforms will support cheap keycaps (even if they might not be compatible with high-profile keycaps).
908.
by rgoulter 5y ago
This kinda reminds me of Steve Yegge's writings about different kinds of programmers. His main taxonomy is that there are programmers who prefer mistakes are caught as soon as possible, vs programmers who don't mind fixing things
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by rgoulter 5y ago
Relevant SMBC comic: "Mister President! India is suing for half of our data!" https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/2012-08-29
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by rgoulter 5y ago
> It's not a build script, it's a derivation. I think this one's a fair example of a specific terminology, though? The idea of building a package in a certain way, and storing it in a certain way, is foundational to the Ni
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by rgoulter 5y ago
Right, it's unpleasant to see snark. I hope my original comment doesn't read that way. I mean more "the Nix language isn't much different from something you're familiar with". > "you should start out by
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by rgoulter 5y ago
In 2022, I think it's a reasonable expectation that API documentation can be accessed as rendered HTML. -- e.g. Haskell's or Rust's documentation even links to the source for the packages. On the other hand, I think it's
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by rgoulter 5y ago
If you're using Nix on your system, you can also find nixpkgs symlinked under ~/.nix-defexpr/channels/nixpkgs/pkgs/ or so.
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by rgoulter 5y ago
Nix is wonderful, but absolutely is under-documented. (In part due to a small community, etc.). A couple of examples I've run into: https://github.com/NixOS/nix/issues/2259 showed people trying to make u
915.
by rgoulter 5y ago
"""The first is relatively simple: they developed their own programming language to do configuration, which is not very good and is extremely difficult to learn. The vast majority of people using NixOS do not understand the l
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by rgoulter 5y ago
Flamebait: Some topics generate discussion which is "more heat than light". These are more likely to attract low-effort comments, rather than comments which demonstrate curiosity. The low-effort comments tend to increase conflict.
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by rgoulter 5y ago
I tried a customisation of a keyboard with per-key RGB LEDs, which would light up the key if it was defined on that layer. As neat as it sounded, I don't think it was very useful. Once you're use to your custom keyboard layers, yo
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by rgoulter 5y ago
One place where typing speed does impact other people is synchronous messaging, like Slack. If you're asking someone for help, you're requesting their attention. It's better if you can type with sufficient speed to give plent
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by rgoulter 5y ago
> particularly in cases where it’s important to be authoritative. I think this is lens makes the advice clearer. "Don't explain yourself" or "use of authority doesn't require explanation" smells gross becaus
920.
by rgoulter 5y ago
I'm worried that, as far as you go to avoid offending others, people might go further to be offended, if "being offended" means "I get to silence others".
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by rgoulter 5y ago
Other than tutorials and music, there's music's cousin: "for noise in the background". I'll put documentaries or other informational content on as "noise in the background". If I'm trying to sleep or
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by rgoulter 5y ago
One way I see `.env` files used is with NodeJS webservers which will read in the .env file. But more generally, in shell usage: On Unix machines: direnv https://direnv.net/ (It doesn't support powershell; but I see the
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by rgoulter 5y ago
I think you're thinking of the URLs like git@github.com:<owner>/<repo>.git
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by rgoulter 5y ago
My favourite example of Ship of Theseus is the joke about the axe which has had its head and handle replaced: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jIdUEzQKyJo
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by rgoulter 5y ago
It's a nice-to-have feature if you've got a Bluetooth mouse, and are working with a desktop. (Otherwise, your laptop's trackpad will be better). It's easier to drive a cursor with keys on the keyboard compared to fiddlin
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by rgoulter 5y ago
Well, except for leftpad.
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by rgoulter 5y ago
Three features which I wish were copied from WP: - In the alphabetical lists, you could tap on each letter which would bring up a navigation grid of the letters. This made it really easy to jump to e.g. 't' with two coarse taps (c
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by rgoulter 5y ago
I think WP failed because there weren't enough of the right apps on it.
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by rgoulter 5y ago
:) e.g. magit is keyboard focused, and a much nicer interface to git than the CLI.
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by rgoulter 5y ago
> 10 years ago, it wasn't anywhere near 6/10 Right. If your starting assumption is "games meant for Windows just don't work on Linux", then you'll be surprised by just how much Proton supports.

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