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by thom 2y ago
Run Emacs in screen on the server instead?
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by thom 2y ago
It's also on the iPad Pro. Only downside is you really do need the right cloth to be able to clean it.
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by thom 2y ago
There's an online playground for MLscript at: https://hkust-taco.github.io/mlscript/
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by thom 2y ago
As I understand it Tesser doesn't support ordering which makes it tricky for many types of logic. I'd like to be able to control exactly which parts of a pipeline are parallelisable without too much ceremony, but I can't say
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by thom 2y ago
Oh I think there’s a lot of good stuff baked in there. The big idea downstream is that you have incrementally calculated, indexed data structures to query all the results of this fancy CPS logic. It’s all slightly esoteric even coming from
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by thom 2y ago
Which is obviously very similar to how transducers already work in Clojure, but they still lack some of concurrency options of reducers. Getting all this on a smart, distributed runtime seems very promising.
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by thom 2y ago
How funny if we eventually come full circle and such knowledge bases end up like low-background steel in the economy of AI training. Either way, Eurisko remains one of the most interesting pieces of software ever created. I'd be fascin
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by thom 2y ago
Sure, and as I understand it anyone living in these places is probably doing reasonably well as the leaseholds are too short to get a mortgage. But as a country we're not doing particularly well building quality housing in cities eithe
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by thom 2y ago
If you work in Exeter you've probably already got an hour's commute each way. It's not unreasonable to consider making that two hours a hardship for many people, whether or not you consider that a worthwhile trade-off.
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by thom 2y ago
There's obviously a very good argument in the UK that the planning system is broken, and a good chunk of the incoming government's manifesto was an acknowledgement of that. But perhaps we can agree that while in general we might n
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by thom 2y ago
Like many puzzles, there’s a regular release of endorphins as you progress, and a lot of satisfaction in completing something. I enjoy puzzles just like reading a book or playing a game, it’s another world I can step into for a bit of an es
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by thom 2y ago
Don’t sleep on any of the boxes in the business model canvas! https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Business_Model_Canvas The most important thing I think that activity teaches you is that business is a huge multidimensional
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by thom 2y ago
What decisions are to be made based on the data? What tasks are users working on?
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by thom 2y ago
Small world: my first job out of university was working for Pete at the first company described here. It definitely was the kind of place you could add "_old.asp" to any URL and probably hit something. Ultimately I'm not sure
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by thom 2y ago
The first run isn't much fun. There are useful skills in just knowing how to build stuff, and knowing all the constituent parts of a running system. But overall I suspect you'd learn more in a year of using Arch. But on subsequent
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by thom 2y ago
Writing a screenplay about the Peace of Philocrates, the entire history of which is somewhat hilarious.
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by thom 2y ago
Microservices today have all the same problems as OOP, but vastly amplified. My kingdom for some more functional approach to architecture, with services as more or less pure functional transforms, and some sort of extremely well-typed data
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by thom 2y ago
To an extent you can get away with just sampling the output of the water shader to work out the water's effective height at any given point. Big changes in height, or buoyancy for non-static objects, indicate bigger angles hitting the
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by thom 2y ago
Not sure I’m proposing a single test suite, although some of these invariants are very likely applicable to multiple components or sites. I’m just saying that property based testing ought to be applicable to UIs, but it’s not the sort of th
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by thom 2y ago
You can see my street in Threads, but I’ve always found the film faintly hilarious, almost like a Python sketch. Ingrained class prejudice shining through I suppose.
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by thom 2y ago
I think Baldur's Gate is as much to blame for this - that was really the origin of these high-touch, narrative-driven, asset-heavy games, especially with voice acting. It completely demolished the keyword based interactions of the Ulti
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by thom 2y ago
And if you like this sort of tasteful take on retro RPGs, you might enjoy SKALD: https://store.steampowered.com/app/1069160/SKALD_Against_the...
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by thom 2y ago
Obviously this won't catch everything human QA can, but where an invariant can be expressed (navigating then going back should result in being in the right place, as mentioned in the article) it seems good to try and capture it.
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by thom 2y ago
I've actually been thinking lately about property based testing for UIs. In this particularly case, there should be an invariant for each entry in a radio button list that the selectable area covers the entire bounding box from button
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by thom 2y ago
I don’t personally care about the JS ecosystem. But OP is already using Gulp. He’s then calling Gulp from npm run. He’s then calling npm run from make. Adding make into the mix is solving nothing here. If you’re saying he should use make pr
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by thom 2y ago
Then he could just use Gulp, but I have no skin in this absurd game.
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by thom 2y ago
There isn’t even a need for a shell script. The author is already invoking three separate tools, each of which has a mechanism for invoking custom commands.
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by thom 2y ago
I wonder if there's an alternative universe where Fog Creek pushed Kiln - their hosted Mercurial product - harder and exploited the mindshare of Stack Overflow somehow. Perhaps if they'd tried to get open source projects and their
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by thom 2y ago
Even if you’re just paying on the phone, the double side click plus wait is a wacky gesture to make compared to just moving your thumb down a bit.
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by thom 2y ago
With Face ID you have to take your phone out, double click, then hold it up to your face and wait for it to work, then hold it out to do a contactless payment. With Touch ID you just take your phone out of your pocket with your thumb on the

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