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by robotmay 6y ago
Haha yeah that's probably close to my experience too. But I wouldn't even dare try in other editors. My experience with vim always seems atypical when I read blog posts like this. For me it's a hard-to-kill, reliable text edi
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by robotmay 6y ago
I can boil my preferences for Vim down to a single thing that I can't find anywhere else: it's fast. I can open stupidly large files and not worry, or mash page down and have no lag. It's a pretty much invisible part of my da
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by robotmay 6y ago
If you're just looking to back up your photos off your phone, I use SyncThing to sync them to my server, which works quite well.
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by robotmay 6y ago
SmugMug and Flickr (same company these days) both do if you pay, and I'd trust them far more with photos than any of the bigger companies.
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by robotmay 6y ago
Hah yes this is definitely a part of it. Remote working spreads money around the country rather than concentrating it in expensive city-centres where the rich have stockpiled property. Good riddance to them.
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by robotmay 6y ago
Chrome?
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by robotmay 6y ago
Personally I don't install any OS that forces me to manually create my partitions. Ultimately it's laziness on my part but also frustration: if I've never used the OS before, how should I have an opinion on what partitions I
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by robotmay 6y ago
I'm a Rubyist by profession and I've tried Crystal multiple times but never really felt like I was enjoying it. I can't really put my finger on why, but perhaps it falls into the "uncanny valley" where it looks a lo
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by robotmay 6y ago
Ah ha, someone with the same experience as me. My degree is in Graphic Design, but I immediately ditched the idea of using it after university and took up programming instead because everyone has a fucking opinion when it comes to design.
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by robotmay 6y ago
I'm curious about the spamassassin integration. Do you know of any open source projects currently using it for a web application?
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by robotmay 6y ago
I'm personally interested in this too so I've created one :D https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/issues/273480
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by robotmay 6y ago
The Times is a News Corp paper so personally I don't trust or read it. Most of the news here in the UK is abysmal but the worst big papers are The Sun and The Daily Mail (probably the one you were thinking of).
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by robotmay 6y ago
My personal experience at GitLab: There's plenty of videos, but the really cool thing is that basically everything has a transcript, or meeting notes, or an agenda. And I think this hits a really nice middle ground that works for diffe
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by robotmay 6y ago
It does actually have mnemonics! However they're mostly for remembering the onyomi/kunyomi rather than how to remember how to draw the kanji, which is something the hiragana/katakana decks have (they use the mnemonics from h
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by robotmay 6y ago
I started learning again last week. This is now attempt #3 to learn Japanese for me and this time I'm coming at it differently to before. I tried using WaniKani in the past, and although it was good it wasn't quite what I needed.
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by robotmay 6y ago
I think of onigiri as a Japanese variant of the Cornish Pasty. I imagine it does have similar roots: making an edible wrapper for food that preserves it until lunch.
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by robotmay 6y ago
Urgh I am not happy about N64 game prices making a return. Honestly most games these days are not worth that amount of money for their content. I, like many people, will most likely just wait until the inevitable 75% off sale on them a few
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by robotmay 6y ago
Generally the minimum for a mortgage here is 5%, though I think it might be more like 10% in the current climate. If you can expand the distance to within 45 minutes you'd get a lot more for your money as that suddenly puts a reasonabl
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by robotmay 6y ago
Or use Mosh, which eliminates the keystroke lag.
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by robotmay 6y ago
Thank you for letting me know this exists! This sounds really entertaining.
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by robotmay 6y ago
It's one of my favourites too but it's a very quick way to find out who's the fastest reader of your friends when you recommend it to people :D It's pretty epic in many ways, and for me it's the ultimate revenge sto
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by robotmay 6y ago
I'd go further and say that a lot of software coming out of Japan is, if not of a poorer quality, then at least something to be assessed more carefully. This is particularly evident in videogames, where anything for PC is liable to be
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by robotmay 6y ago
I recently got back into photography and I've been seriously impressed by darktable. Its tooling is fantastic, and I was worried that I'd struggle now that I'm 100% Linux. The only downside is the workflow and interface. In m
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by robotmay 6y ago
Are there any existing projects looking to build a new browser based around Servo? Assuming that it's partially dead at Mozilla it would be interesting to see alternatives to the current big browsers cropping up that use it.
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by robotmay 6y ago
Mm I find oat milk has a really weird aftertaste that I don't find pleasant.
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by robotmay 6y ago
I have an S8 Edge which is narrower than these current phones, and even that I find too big. The previous generation iPhone SE was really the last phone that I didn't involuntarily drop on my face when trying to operate it whilst lying
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by robotmay 6y ago
The only reason I wouldn't buy the Samsung is because of their software. Their hardware is great but their version of Android is its own beast, which is great if you like it, but if you just want vanilla Android or to replace it with s
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by robotmay 6y ago
I suspect it does vary quite a lot based on usage. We live in a fairly cold place (Wales) and my girlfriend's phones tend to suffer more than mine do, as she spends a few hours in an exposed place most days. Towards the end of its life
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by robotmay 6y ago
Bit confused as to why mtgx's comment has been voted into oblivion, as it's a legitimate complaint with the Pixel line. My girlfriend has a 3a and it has taken about 3 months for the battery life to start being a minor issue; i.e.
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by robotmay 6y ago
Hah yes it was expensive, however I do use it so often that I feel I got very good value for money in the end. Check out some of their cheaper models as well, they're also quite well-reviewed and they import Zojirushi stuff too.

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