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by scelerat 9mo ago
hehe
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by scelerat 9mo ago
I think it took me about four months of daily use to know most of the editor basics without having to pause to look up things. Another eight for it all to feel natural. And, maybe about six years later, it remains my favorite text entry and
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by scelerat 9mo ago
The implications of the ongoing ruptures to the global political and economic order are significant. Tech is both influencing and influenced by these changes.
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by scelerat 9mo ago
Completely agree, but at the same time I can't bring myself to believe that reinforcing systems like the electoral college or reinstating a state-legislature-chosen Senate would yield better outcomes. Most people I know who have strong
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by scelerat 9mo ago
Good people too. a friend of mine used to babysit for them
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by scelerat 9mo ago
similar observation here, with a 2.33-year old. In small doses we've exposed him to videos[1], never unsupervised, never as a parental substitute, but there are a class of them (which happen to be the lowest-effort, highest-contrast, m
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by scelerat 9mo ago
I wonder if there is a somewhat predictable formula for the shape and size of the tail of a "death spike" based on rankings or other factors within this study?
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by scelerat 9mo ago
Very helpful comments in much of the example code.
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by scelerat 9mo ago
But Dash does acknowledge this, only slightly obliquely and I think more usefully broad: reason #3 Markdown succeeded: Built on behaviors that already existed. It succeeded because it came from the culture it was born in. Email formatting c
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by scelerat 10mo ago
I love seeing a Definition List (DL/DT/DD html tags) in the wild. Often more hassle than its worth to make them appear the way you want, but semantically pleasing and underused.
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by scelerat 10mo ago
I just re-did my resume last week using Typst, and the experience had me contemplating building some kind of generator as well! Anyway, I really enjoy using Typst.
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by scelerat 10mo ago
> Give me something that qualifies your anonymous remarks or its not worth anything to me, its just he said she said. This is where journalistic reputation comes in. Do you trust the journalistic entity providing the story? Do they have
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by scelerat 10mo ago
The current administration is regressive and explicitly, triumphantly anti-expert. Within this environment the decision to eschew the font that was expertly designed for present needs in favor of one designed in the past for different ones
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by scelerat 10mo ago
> we recommend keeping task-specific instructions in separate markdown files with self-descriptive names somewhere in your project. Should do this for human developers too. Can't count the number of times I've been thrown onto
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by scelerat 1y ago
I suppose an upvote should be sufficient, but I am so unhappy with the new UI I am actually holding off switching to a new M4 MBP and sticking to my old M1 still on Sequoia 15.7.1. I also try to give these things time and I am usually ok
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by scelerat 1y ago
I think group moderation/points emerged as a remedy for trolling and the flame wars which would ensue. And not only flame wars but also simply low-quality, substance-free posts. In certain unmoderated Usenet forums, and later web forum
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by scelerat 1y ago
Just seeing those names brought back a lot of memories. I was especially fond of Superpaint and Deneba Canvas. But I also got a lot done with MacDraw Pro, which I think at the time was considered limited. Still love OmniGraffle which itself
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by scelerat 1y ago
I use native browser bookmarks all the time for project- or work-oriented purposes, organized into folders. All my dashboards, git repos, various hobby stuff, etc. I miss del.icio.us. That was my favorite, by far.
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by scelerat 1y ago
I could never get italics to work correctly when in iTerm2/tmux mode. Pure tmux, yes, iTerm no tmux yes, iTerm+tmux I would get weird background colors instead of italics. It's been a while so I don't remember specifics
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by scelerat 1y ago
I ran into so many little annoying color and font issues with vim, tmux and iTerm2 that I gave up on tmux (for local work). What small benefit I got from tmux on my local machine (basically surviving updates and a little more session persis
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by scelerat 1y ago
> natural solution would be to increase the number of teams Reminds me of my dad (b. 1945) talking about his HS sports experience in the early ‘60s at a large (~3500) Southern California public school. Not only were there varsity, JV and
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by scelerat 1y ago
I didn't see the post as pissing into the wind so much as calling out several caveats of coding with LLMs, especially on teams, and ideas on how to mitigate them.
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by scelerat 1y ago
cmd-K for Cut? I don't ever remember that on the Mac. I remember the lower left row on the US keyboard was always the first four operations from the nearly-ubiquitous Edit menu since day one. Z - Undo X - Cut C - Copy
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by scelerat 1y ago
Linguistics and history of language folk: isn't there an observed slowdown of evolution of spoken language as the printing press becomes widespread? Also, "international english"? Is this an observation of a similar phenomeno
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by scelerat 1y ago
It seems there's some kind of corollary to what you're saying to when (in the US) we went from three major television networks to many cable networks or, later, when streaming video platforms began to proliferate and take hold --
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by scelerat 1y ago
It seems to me that an underlying assumption of every so-called "social" app is that its users wish to avoid contact with people in real life. That the users wish for some sanitized, safe and dimensionally meager simulacrum of hum
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by scelerat 1y ago
Very annoying. Designers, ui developers: please don't do this, it sucks.
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by scelerat 1y ago
Cassettes had a bit of a resurgence in the late aughts to 2010s among DIY/punk/indie bands due in part to the widespread availability of cheap (often free) old players, older used cars with tape decks, and cheap four track recordi
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by scelerat 1y ago
HTML5 is a long way from the simple hypertext document format embodied in early versions of HTML. It is that way from necessity: how the web and applications built upon it using HTML have evolved. HTML started off being very simple and very
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by scelerat 2y ago
I find myself spending so much time correcting bad -- or perhaps, more appropriately, misguided -- code that I constantly wonder if I'm saving time. I think I am, but a much higher percentage of my time is doing hard work of evaluating

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