sdegutis

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by sdegutis 6y ago
There's multiple levels of experience. Someone can get really good at the technical solutions without learning what the human problems are and how to solve them. For example, someone might dismiss IDEs as being unnecessary because tech
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by sdegutis 6y ago
The main thing I don't understand about Rust's async/await situation is how it's not very inefficient on the CPU given that it fundamentally uses polling? https://doc.rust-lang.org/std/future/tr
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by sdegutis 6y ago
Wasn't James Dean the "Rebel Without a Cause" in 1955?
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by sdegutis 6y ago
This sounds close to the GUI setup I've been looking for: something like Love2d except using Lua to create a WinForms program instead. Which led me to finding http://underpop.free.fr/l/lua/luainterface/
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by sdegutis 6y ago
> HN is notoriously bad at anything related to biology, evolution, and genetics. It's a combination of this ( https://xkcd.com/1831/ ) and this ( https://xkcd.com/793/ ) comic. People there ar
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by sdegutis 6y ago
Oh man, Chicago95 is almost enough to make me try out Desktop Linux again.
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by sdegutis 6y ago
Some people find it fun to clean and a chore to play video games.
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by sdegutis 6y ago
Wow, Minetest looks really cool: Minecraft clone with a Lua API for modding. This may get us back into using Minecraft modding as a way to learn programming. EDIT: Oh, it's a game engine. Is there a basic 'vanilla' Minecraft
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by sdegutis 6y ago
In your philosophy, music and art do not serve a necessary function, and eventually, even liking things will be made "more efficient" by using chemicals via pills to adjust the brain chemicals until the liking is added or the de
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by sdegutis 6y ago
This philosophy would eventually do away with art and music.
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by sdegutis 6y ago
> That seems very... bold. It's just traditional server-side sessions. Just done more complicatedly to work around React's architecture.
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by sdegutis 6y ago
That's because these kinds of games always were a form of work. When you have a higher purpose in life, these types of games drain you and leave you unfulfilled and unsatisfied and like we should have spent our time in a less tedious a
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by sdegutis 6y ago
I like the freedom of not having to maintain my own services. That said, the easiest thing is to just not need services. Then you don't need to host it and don't have to worry about who is hosting it and everything that could go w
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by sdegutis 6y ago
Scripting and generic IPC hooks are one of the coolest things computers can do, and they're more and more limited as time goes on. Just this morning I tried writing a Dark Mode menu bar app for OSX (I'm aware of NightOwl) and it&#
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by sdegutis 6y ago
The best UI for this IMO is a toggle with three choices: light, dark, and same-as-OS.
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by sdegutis 6y ago
CSS variables are the best way to do dark mode, just use the variable everywhere, set it on html or :root, and change it either in .darkmode or a @media for dark mode. They're pretty much supported everywhere dark mode is. Surprisingly
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by sdegutis 6y ago
Right but there’s a lot of people who don’t trust that that’s actually true, either thinking Apple is lying or thinking third party bad actors can probably hack the software and firmware to get that data. At least that’s my guess based on w
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by sdegutis 6y ago
The main things about Lisp: 1. The syntax: It's just parens/brackets, where the first item dictates the meaning of the rest, all separated by whitespace. That's the whole syntax of Lisps. If you have a good IDE (e.g. Emacs +
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by sdegutis 6y ago
Based on context, I kind of assume it's to avoid finger print data being collected.
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by sdegutis 6y ago
If you're using zsh and have a date like %D{...} in your prompt, set TMOUT=1 and define TRAPALRM to run `zle reset-prompt` and your date will auto-update. Full prompt at https://github.com/sdegutis/dotfiles/bl
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by sdegutis 7y ago
I guess it's subjective. I've been using Linux on Windows 10 pretty successfully for a year now to do some things that would otherwise be much more inconvenient.
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by sdegutis 7y ago
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/wsl/wsl2-faq https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/wsl/wsl2-ux-changes
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by sdegutis 7y ago
The very few times I've ever put in a check like that, I always do something like i < MAX_INT - 5 just to be sure, because I'm never confident that I intuitively understand off-by-one errors.
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by sdegutis 7y ago
> It's possible that the Pope also supports UBI for the idle. For the sick or those who otherwise can't work despite being willing to, sure. For those who willingly don't work, no. The Bible is super clear about this: &quo
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by sdegutis 7y ago
It works with terminal-based emacs too. It just inverses the background color of cells to fake the extra cursors.
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by sdegutis 7y ago
Multiple cursors plus C-x C-q on a dired buffer is amazingly powerful: you literally just make changes to the lines in the buffer and run C-c C-c to commit them, or C-c C-k to cancel. I've used this for very powerful mass-renames befor
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by sdegutis 7y ago
HN comments rarely make me laugh out loud, thank you :)
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by sdegutis 7y ago
I've seen it happen enough times where a significant amount of complexity can be removed altogether by addressing a problem at the root in a fundamentally different way. Thousands upon thousands of lines of code can just disappear[1].
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by sdegutis 7y ago
Oh I didn’t realize this is the same America Magazine which Fr. James Martin is “editor at large” of. I’ve been wanting to ask him about the many points at https://www.churchmilitant.com/main/generic/fr.-james-mart
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by sdegutis 7y ago
The article talks about UBI meaning getting money "just for being alive". But in the actual source[1], Pope Francis says: > This may be the time to consider a universal basic wage which would acknowledge and dignify the noble,

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