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by rmunn 4mo ago
iTunes was responsible for my moving from iPhone to Android. My first phone was an iPhone 3G. But I could not simply transfer .mp3 files onto it from Linux; I had to run iTunes to transfer music onto the iPhone, and that meant loading up a
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by rmunn 4mo ago
And then load up MusicBrainz Picard to tag it after-the-fact; I've found some cases, usually on more obscure music, where Youtube metadata was close to right but wrong on some details. But it had enough details to allow Picard to fin
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by rmunn 4mo ago
Haven't used EDN myself but from a read through the docs, I'm pretty sure that on user tags, the deserializer just says "Here's the tag, and here's the object it was tagging" and lets the consuming code decide
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by rmunn 5mo ago
I'm not yolkedgeek but I can give my own answer: EDN has tags. Tags start with `#` and are followed by a symbol (which is a lot like an identifier except that a lot of punctuation is allowed in symbols, because EDN derives from Lisp sy
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by rmunn 5mo ago
> The model definitely remembers previous exchanges within the same conversation. No it doesn't. They get added to its context, and it reads them afresh when answering the next question. That's not remembering. If your short-te
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"... all the benefits without additional parenthesis too?" I guess you don't like Lisp's syntax. I didn't either until I realized the key insight: when you're writing Lisp, you're basically writing an AST.
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by rmunn 5mo ago
See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bonneville_Salt_Flats — the salt flats are extremely flat (as the name implies), and because of all the salt, no vegetation can survive. Look at the pictures: there are no trees, no gr
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by rmunn 5mo ago
The AI instructions in the `specs.md` file gave me a couple clues, e.g. `at` is the directory where the worktree should be created. And it's clearly using btrfs subvolumes for managing a collection of related Git working trees; there&#
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by rmunn 5mo ago
Where's that guy with the ButlerianJihad username when you need him?
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by rmunn 5mo ago
I'm just one datapoint, but my Framework 16 (bought a little over a year ago with no OS, has only ever had Linux installed on it) has never given me trouble with firmware updates. I've updated the BIOS twice, and other firmware, a
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by rmunn 5mo ago
Since logging into the backdoor account produced a `#` prompt instead of `$`, it was uid 0, so the last will and testament was either in `/root` or in `/`, depending on how the non-backdoor root account was set up. Plus, if Flynn
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by rmunn 5mo ago
Tron Legacy was, I think, only the second film soundtrack I ever purchased (first one being Lord of the Rings). It's still among my favorite music to listen to while coding; something about it just puts me in the "flow" fra
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by rmunn 5mo ago
And you can't know ahead of time, when you're training the model, what business domains it will be used for. Someone may decide to use it to optimize the watering and fertilizer cycles of their automated potato-growing setup, and
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by rmunn 5mo ago
It's an acronym that matches an extremely common word, making it not easily searchable.
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by rmunn 5mo ago
Considering the first thing I saw in the thread was https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48244891 where the values returned from sp's sine function was compared to the correct values, I'm going to take any such op
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by rmunn 5mo ago
Not OP, but I'm guessing by running the code on itself, i.e. turning the code into a QR code (or a series of them), then scanning those QR codes on the phone and reassembling them using a text-editing app on the phone.
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by rmunn 5mo ago
Slight correction: Jews were religiously prohibited from charging interest... to other Jews . (As I understand it, and someone please correct me if I'm wrong: not being Jewish myself, my information is second- or third-hand for most
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by rmunn 5mo ago
That brings up an interesting point about the ethics that attorneys have to follow. (Not an attorney myself but have relatives who are, so someone please correct me if I get a detail or two wrong). Attorneys are supposed to represent their
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by rmunn 5mo ago
This is one of the essays linked on his site: https://paulgraham.com/lwba.html Which just links to the same ASCII-text link at https://sep.turbifycdn.com/ty/cdn/paulgraham/bbnexcerpts.txt , so
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by rmunn 5mo ago
Tailscale for your laptop, phone, etc. to be able to talk to the other computers when away from your home WiFi. (Optional, but makes syncing easier). Syncthing, talking to your Tailscale IP addresses if you use it, or your private WiFi netw
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by rmunn 5mo ago
I should mention what is becoming my favorite thing about LazyVim's default config, which is the "flash" or "seek" command (LazyVim maps it to `s` so I think of it as "seek") from https://github
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by rmunn 5mo ago
Something rather similar to visual mode, and which I've learned to like a lot, is the https://github.com/folke/flash.nvim plugin (NeoVim only since it uses Lua). It gives you a commmand you can bind to a key ( htt
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I think you're right and visual mode is underused. It gives you the best of both worlds: "cw" meaning "change word" for when it's obvious what you're going to be selecting, and "v3wwwc" for &quot
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I never edited the default config much. But then I discovered https://www.lazyvim.org/ . Turns your copy of NeoVim into an IDE. I still haven't edited the default config much, actually. But now I'm probably 2x to 3
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by rmunn 5mo ago
I have typed either :wq or ZZ into so many files in VS Code... :-)
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by rmunn 5mo ago
Never really learned emacs so didn't know TRAMP existed. When was it created? I was given that advice ("vi will always be available on the server") in the late 90's so I'm curious to know if TRAMP was an option my p
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by rmunn 5mo ago
I started learning vi around the same time, but in my case (since I was expecting to work on Unix systems for decades, which has proven true) it was "because it'll always be there." I.e. if you're SSHing into a server to
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That's what the title is now, except that "Fourth" is now "4th". Was it meaningfully different at the time you posted that comment?
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That a Democrat-leaning paper would criticize Republican politicians is not surprising. A better test of independence would be whether they criticize Democratic politicians (when they do things deserving criticism, that is: I don't exp
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by rmunn 5mo ago
I stopped buying cartridge-based inkjets years ago. I'm happy with my Canon G3020, which uses ink tanks (built into the printer, not a third-party addon that the manufacturer will claim voids the warranty). And it's impressive how

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