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by uglycoyote 5y ago
I tried the pomodoro technique yesterday. I had one successful pomodoro on the morning when it was quiet, and then when I went to take five minutes to clear a few things away before starting the next pomodoro, those five minutes some how be
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by uglycoyote 5y ago
Good article, but I found it a bit disorienting that I knew it was supposed to be a list of 10, but the numbers on each step kept resetting to 1 after each pull-quote.
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by uglycoyote 6y ago
another thing that ruins reproducible builds is date stamps in the executable. Microsoft's C++ compiler has that issue. I'm not sure how common that is in other compilers
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by uglycoyote 6y ago
I have two kids 10 and 12 who are absolutely hooked on scratch right now to the point where they spend hours a day. They are learning a lot. I think it is a great language for learning. It is limited in a lot of ways, but not having to typ
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by uglycoyote 6y ago
Yes it is a move of insisting that his wife take more power. I think it is very noble.
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by uglycoyote 6y ago
I agree with some of the other posters who are saying that that it is difficult to figure out what this does or who it is for. There's a huge headline saying "nodes for everyone". So, it's for my grandmother and my son
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by uglycoyote 6y ago
Now, imagine going back in time to 1996 and trying to explain to people in the supercomputer lab that 25 years later there would be legions of people using portable supercomputers because you need this to build javascript applications for w
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by uglycoyote 6y ago
How is it that the decompiled camera code has interesting variable names and even comments? I was expecting it to look more like the decompiled code from this article... With made-up and uninformative variable names. You mentioned collabor
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by uglycoyote 6y ago
True.. at this point I have figured out how to remap the qwerty ctrl-c ctrl-v etc to work as cut paste under Dvorak so having dedicated keys might just involve too much retraining, so maybe it would not be worthwhile
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by uglycoyote 6y ago
I was recently looking at another site linked from HN which had dozens of split keyboard designs. One of the ones that I really liked was the Matias Ergopro, which has dedicated Cut/copy/paste/undo keys. That seems really co
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by uglycoyote 6y ago
For me it was the arrow keys that drove me nuts and made me return my sculpt keyboard. I realized that without having some space around them, I needed to look down every time I wanted to find them.
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by uglycoyote 6y ago
UB means unsigned byte in this context?
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by uglycoyote 6y ago
I have only ever worked with people who call it etcetera.
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by uglycoyote 6y ago
I chose not to protest on the streets but I would still consider myself a BLM person
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by uglycoyote 6y ago
That's great. I also got interested to read about Erlang and the original Actor pattern there. In your motivation doc I clicked the Erlang/OTP link to the main Erlang page, but I kind of had the same problem there, of having a h
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by uglycoyote 6y ago
Thanks, because from the github page I had no idea what "Actor" meant, though I was interested to know more. Reading the code sample did not give me any better idea what was meant by the word "Actor" It would be great i
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by uglycoyote 6y ago
There's installation and then there's setup. I would agree with you that installation on linux is easy these days, but setup... no. I have tried moving over to linux several times throughout the years, but setup was always a huge
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by uglycoyote 6y ago
This is contrary to my experience. For instance if the types of function parameters aren't specified, the IDE won't have any way of knowing what the types of those parameters are and will therefore not be helpful with completio
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by uglycoyote 6y ago
I think rather than having to upload and describe each tile independently, it would be better to come up with a system which allows related sets of related tiles to be uploaded as a group Something like 9-slicing comest to mind ( https:&#x2
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by uglycoyote 6y ago
This is pretty neat! Here are a bunch of things that I would consider high priority to implement if I were making this myself, many of which you have maybe thought of: - Undo! I accidentally clobbered my carefully planned roads while drag
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by uglycoyote 6y ago
I dunno, I work in C++ in games and we spend way too much time thinking about how to manage memory. It's not a breeze at all.
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by uglycoyote 6y ago
He says that "Pinboard has more than 350K commits and is 20GB in size when cloned fully." I'm not clear though, exactly what "cloned fully" means in context of the unoptimized/optimized situation. He says it we
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by uglycoyote 6y ago
Are we talking about technological screens, like LCD screens here?
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by uglycoyote 6y ago
Yes I would think that you are dealing with sparse matrices with little clusters of nonzero values in a model like this. One could say that I'm "part of a terrorist matrix", and that my value in the matrix is zero. We are al
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by uglycoyote 6y ago
That's funny, I would have just chalked it up to "they are using a different sense of the word matrix", knowing that most dictionaries contain multiple definitions of the same word. But nice work making this mental leap, I h
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by uglycoyote 6y ago
Very similar to my story. But I'm curious, why would you need to use blank keycaps to learn Dvorak? I have always just typed on a regular QWERTY keyboard with software remapping to make it Dvorak. In that case, looking down at the k
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by uglycoyote 6y ago
I am a fan of your site and appreciate your thoughtful writing, but I found that I could not get very far through this article on mobile (and I usually read HN on mobile, not desktop). The problem is the layout. The font is small, and if
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by uglycoyote 6y ago
I bought some kuhl pants and the damn rivets that they put on the butt pockets were not only uncomfortable to sit on but have left unsightly gouges on all my dining chairs. I stopped using those pants once I realized where the gouges came
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by uglycoyote 6y ago
Yes.. not only offer the exact same features but any software that tries to implement the format would have to agree on the exact algorithms for the transformations represented by each procedural step. Any error in any one of those algorith
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by uglycoyote 6y ago
That struck me too... But now that I have read others here saying that he is known to rework his songs on the fly, this answer strikes me as BS. Was he just being completely sarcastic?

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