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by vaylian 4y ago
> More often than not it results in me literally sobbing under my desk. Sometimes you just need to get things out of your system. I feel much better after a good sob. The brain is not a perfectly designed machine, but a bug-ridden contra
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by vaylian 4y ago
The thing that worked for me: Don't try to be focused on coding efficiency when learning Helix. I've used Vim for well over a decade and I'm very fluent in it. But when I decided to learn to use Helix, I shifted my mindset to
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by vaylian 4y ago
I will think about it
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by vaylian 4y ago
Clojure is the language that made me understand why Lisp matters: We can express ideas and instructions in a programming language with just a very basic set of tools. And we can use these tools to craft powerful and elegant abstractions. In
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by vaylian 4y ago
I'm also skeptical. Most EU laws take a very long time to be negotiated, because different countries bring forward different needs/desires. But I do think it is hard for the average citizen to notice that there is a new law being
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by vaylian 4y ago
What I find interesting in this context: Most FOSS licenses have a no-warranty and no fitness for any purpose clause: GPL 3: there is no warranty for the program, to the extent permitted by applicable law. except when otherwise stated in wr
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by vaylian 4y ago
> You may be thinking "what?" Exactly. But I guess it makes sense, because Framework wants to occupy the economic niche of repairable electronics. And the Steam Deck is definitely a good starting point for expansion, so that th
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by vaylian 4y ago
That only works if other players accept that you play with proxies. I personally am completely fine with proxies, but I know that not everyone is. And game shops that allow people to play with proxies can get in trouble with WoTC.
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by vaylian 4y ago
A bit more context: * Wizards of the Coast (WoTC) has been tasked by Hasbro (which owns WoTC) to drastically increase profits over a few years. * WoTC has been aggressively increasing prices on Magic the Gathering (MTG) and drastically incr
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by vaylian 4y ago
> It killed our USB stick in just days, though Too many writes?
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by vaylian 4y ago
That's news to me. Do you have a link to an article explaining how it works on Mac OS?
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Let me introduce you to ctrl+c which is the same as <ESC> in most cases (notable exception: visual selection mode)
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True. But it would help some managers to understand that there is more to programming than just achieving business goals.
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by vaylian 4y ago
> WebTorrent is the first torrent client that works in the browser. YEP, THAT'S RIGHT. THE BROWSER. Not quite. Opera had built-in support for Bittorrent for quite some time: https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearne
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by vaylian 4y ago
Exactly. Iterating on an idea is much easier to do in Python, because you can just use lists, dictionaries and sets to solve most problems. Python's string manipulation is also a lot easier than Rust, because you don't have to thi
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by vaylian 4y ago
> Those of you who are against air travel for climate reasons, can you share a source that has convinced you that it is a real problem? 1. As others have said: Many things contribute some non-trivial percentage to climate change. And any
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by vaylian 4y ago
I'm pretty sure it was punch cards
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... until you get into modulo arithmetic and then things come crashing down.
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by vaylian 4y ago
The problem is that the stacktrace shows you all the gory JVM details that are irrelevant to your Clojure code. Even when your code is 100% Clojure, the Java classes, that are the foundation for Clojure, are shining through when you get the
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by vaylian 4y ago
From the article: > In videos from the Dutch museum posted online on Thursday, one of the men says: > "How do you feel when you see something beautiful and priceless being apparently destroyed before your very eyes?" > &q
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by vaylian 4y ago
You could answer: I just got a new phone 2 days ago, because my old one broke down.
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by vaylian 4y ago
what is SoL? > What if you don’t have a smart phone? Remember, that you want something from them (entering the country). They can refuse you if they don't like your old-fashioned lifestyle.
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by vaylian 4y ago
That is a really complex feature. XKCD 1425
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by vaylian 4y ago
This is really cool. Is there any information on what kind of (standard) hardware/software this is using to communicate with the mobile phone network?
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by vaylian 4y ago
> Is there a backup tool for age? Can you elaborate? You can combine age with tar to create an encrypted archive. > But it seems the key itself is 128 bits! Thus in the symmetric mode, Age provides 128 bits of security. Maybe create a
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by vaylian 4y ago
I'm familiar with GnuPG and I'm trying to understand how I can actually use age in practice. There doesn't seem to be a good explanation beyond the command line usage. My current understanding based on various pieces across t
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I do that, depending on the topic. Because I know that there will be some people who are late to the party with good comments.
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The thing that age is missing: A description of how to use it properly. I've looked into age several times and it is supposed to be a GnuPG killer for file encryption. But there is afaik no document or talk that describes how to use ag
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I like the book as well. But I think it suffers a bit too much from technooptimism for answering the question "how to avoid a climate disaster". I appreciate Bill Gates's optimism, but it's a dangerous gamble to only tal

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