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by tsm 6y ago
For me it's just a touchpad issue; my USB optical mouse is completely fine
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by tsm 6y ago
> All of a sudden you're spending 2x normal for a while. Not a lot of people can do that. Then stagger it—an extra box of dishwasher tablets this paycheck, an extra box of garbage bags next paycheck. Overall consumption doesn't
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by tsm 6y ago
You can write your own driver for Metabase without _too_ much hassle: https://github.com/metabase/metabase/wiki/Writing-A-Driver
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by tsm 6y ago
I do a lot with 18th-century music and living history, where long esses are prevalent, and it's been a common point of confusion for students/the public that turns into a gag. I released a book of original music a few years ago[1]
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by tsm 6y ago
My generally-pretty-friendly workplace has recently had quite a bit of viciousness about: a) bbatsov's response to calls for Rubocop to be renamed b) The use of "master" as the canonical branch's name in our main git rep
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Refusing to Learn(aaronhawley.livejournal.com)
2 points by tsm 6y ago|0 comments
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by tsm 6y ago
> Maybe it lost something in translation? Native Spanish speaker here, and the original text is just as lackluster
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by tsm 7y ago
I learned Common Lisp in high school over a decade ago and have been passively looking for a CL job that doesn't require relocation since. This has been hard (though I did land a few Clojure gigs). Is anyone aware of active Lisp shops?
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by tsm 7y ago
What about seeing normal images and videos?
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My Time at Snap(medium.com)
481 points by tsm 7y ago|247 comments
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by tsm 7y ago
That requires actual domain expertise outside of being able to hack together a webapp, though. Learning what you need to know about the dog-walking industry takes something on the order of weeks. Learning about medicine, finance, etc. is ac
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by tsm 7y ago
I do, but I also switched back to Firefox recently (after using Chrome for ten years) and it's slower. What _is_ the fastest feature-complete browser in 2019?
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by tsm 7y ago
It's simpler than that: a branch is just a pointer to one specific commit (with a specific SHA)
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by tsm 7y ago
Firefox Focus has had tabs for a while
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by tsm 7y ago
I grew up in Honduras and got a third-degree sunburn during Holy Week (Semana Santa, when everyone goes to the beach). It became intolerable the night before Easter and my mother took me to the ER. Most of the lights were off, and there was
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by tsm 7y ago
<pedantry> "Kopi" is Indonesian for "coffee", so "kopi luwak coffee" is in the same vein as "ATM machine" and "PIN number". "Kopi luwak" or "civet coffee" are the p
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by tsm 7y ago
I don't see how that's avoidable in any language that doesn't require explicit variable declaration
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by tsm 7y ago
> It leaves me to believe the website has been purposely handicapped so that the native app becomes more attractive. This is literally true. They also have a pretty aggressive nag policy for prompting you to install the app when you use
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by tsm 7y ago
When I was getting into Linux as a teenager in 2008 esr came up a lot, but apart from writing The Cathedral and the Bazaar and a few shorter essays and contributing to relatively-minor opens source projects…what has he actually done? Especi
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by tsm 7y ago
I took this course from the author (with a draft of the now-published textbook—I'm in the acknowledgements for proofreading help) and thoroughly enjoyed it. I hadn't thought I was much of a math guy, but it made set theory and pro
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by tsm 8y ago
Thus national holidays ("holy days").
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by tsm 8y ago
Christians have observed a first-day (sometimes "eighth-day") Sabbath since the second century AD. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sabbath_in_Christianity#Early_...
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by tsm 8y ago
Unrolled: https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1060659941491363841.html?...
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Desert Flooding(carbon.ycombinator.com)
3 points by tsm 8y ago|0 comments
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by tsm 8y ago
Please provide a citation
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by tsm 8y ago
http://web.archive.org/web/20130911042424/http://www.sequoia...
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by tsm 8y ago
At the time I hadn't used Clojure
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by tsm 8y ago
I learned Common Lisp and "enough" CLOS in high school, was blown away by CLOS's power†, and have spent the entirety of my professional career wishing that I could have a job working on a complex system in CL that used all of
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by tsm 8y ago
I had a fantastic high school English teacher who had word count maximums (that were generally pretty low: 500-1000 words) and graded based on how well-argued the point was. Really encouraged tight writing.
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by tsm 8y ago
As a Chicagoan, the perceived value of an office's location tends to be directly proportional to how close it is to the center of town. Downtown is well-served by both the intracity bus/train system and the unrelated intercity lig

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