toomanyducks

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by toomanyducks 5y ago
Just working! We don't need more features, we need the ones we have to work well! I have to put a lot of effort into making my computer reliably join meetings with working sound, video, etc. Yeah, there's a ton of reasons this is
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by toomanyducks 5y ago
I mean I've read some of the Aristotle mentioned, and I think it's a very and unservingly individualistic approach. The bits that I read took into account your effects on others, but not others' effects on you, aside from t
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by toomanyducks 5y ago
A while back I saw someone implement pattrn matching over Rust/Haskell-like algebraic data types with macros in C99. Think it was called something like Datatype99
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by toomanyducks 5y ago
right, but what variability? how much? what time period? without labels and numbers, the graph is pretty meaningless in that department. All I know is that something changed, which is not enough information to be at all useful.
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by toomanyducks 5y ago
im going to cry
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by toomanyducks 5y ago
my code's in there? im so sorry everyone
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Ask HN: What's the weirdest/best thing you've done with Emacs?
72 points by toomanyducks 5y ago|42 comments
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by toomanyducks 5y ago
I also think that as more high profile people leave Twitter, the extremes of canceling are going to die down. It's pretty well accepted in the leftist communities that canceling has become more than a bit too impulsive and reductionist
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by toomanyducks 5y ago
which windows terminal? Last time I had to use cmd or power shell, I ended up losing random lines of output. The new one (I'm blanking on the name) didn't have that problem, though.
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by toomanyducks 5y ago
This direction feels too natural to me: there's so much motivation for a corporation to control the consumer that I don't see how any individual solution will enact change as a steeply uphill battle. The whole situation is almost
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by toomanyducks 5y ago
This may be true, but it's important to recognize that science isn't exhaustive, and it's frequently conflicting. It's also not definitive, and when there's a complex issue, science, a form of inductive reasoning, c
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by toomanyducks 5y ago
It's really frustrating because the technical stuff is actually really cool! I like automating what I can! Gitlab provides a ton of tools for that, and it's fantastic! But it becomes increasingly hard to figure out, not imo becaus
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by toomanyducks 5y ago
that's also really interesting, thanks!
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by toomanyducks 5y ago
Is it fair to say you're citing identity politics and the presence of ideology as a cause of problems in society? Re identity politics, I'm trans and it helps me a lot. It feels like an intermediate between misogyny and the abolit
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by toomanyducks 5y ago
This. It's really easy to view our neoliberal climate as wholly dependent on the individual when you're priveralaged and already, in some way, succeeding. I did, and then I came out as trans, and also as nonbinary. Now, 'the
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by toomanyducks 5y ago
I used to think about this a ton, and then I just gave up and went with an independently created clone of Christine Dodrill's method - take a notebook, write the things you want to do, write about them, and use a new page for the next
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Shadow Programming Language(shadow-language.org)
4 points by toomanyducks 5y ago|0 comments
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by toomanyducks 5y ago
If I see a character I can't enter in someone's code, I think I'll run away. It's cool and all for your code, but sooner or later someone else is going to have to deal with it.
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by toomanyducks 5y ago
I'm also asexual. I'm well past worrying about that, even if I did follow your logic there.
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by toomanyducks 5y ago
Here's my controversial opinion - the best individual solution is to do less stuff. To me, it doesn't make sense that a problem caused by over-zealous production will be solved by over-zealous production. We can't really expe
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by toomanyducks 5y ago
In my experience, OOP is taught to basically everyone in schools (AP CS is usually in Java, and so was my DSA class) which makes the jump into FP hard to wrap your head around: I've tried a few things in Haskell, and I kept trying to u
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by toomanyducks 5y ago
That is not something I've ever heard before - could you explain further, provide some links maybe?
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by toomanyducks 5y ago
Maybe some of this is due to how little variation there is: I've yet to see a politician who isn't neoliberal (though Trump was more than a bit fascist at times). Even 2019-20 Andrew Yang still built his ideas (mainly UBI) off of
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by toomanyducks 5y ago
but will it? my very limited experience with animation has been characterized by control: it's storytelling and creation where the creator is responsible for every fraction of a second. The value of this type of AI is in ceding contr
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by toomanyducks 5y ago
Stenography (typed) - maybe it'll be a useful skill in the future, maybe not. It's an excuse to spend an hour a day dissacosiating and developing muscle memory, and I need that dissacosiation a bit too much.
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by toomanyducks 5y ago
I think it's valuable to shift the focus from the information to the presentation of information. The information isn't controlled by Google, but the presentation absolutely is, and as mentioned elsewhere, makes the ML look author
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by toomanyducks 5y ago
solution looking for a problem? though if anyone does know of problems this solves I'd love to hear about them, this is an incredibly cool solution.
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by toomanyducks 5y ago
> Windows is more than justn operating system So we decided to make meaningless and confusing UI changes! Nevermind that billions of people rely on their knowledge of this OS's interface, fuck 'em! We're just so damn innov
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by toomanyducks 5y ago
I think a recent version of Windows I had the misfortune of setting up also required a Ms account: no option for a local install. It's also possible that I'm just stupid and didn't see it, but (shrug)
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by toomanyducks 5y ago
firefox, because userchrome modifications can be pretty. i have no other justification for my choices.

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