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by vvillena 6y ago
I switched my dev machine to Arch nearly 10 years ago. I was a Gentoo user then. Gentoo broke all the time, but Arch has been a rock-solid experience since day one. I can easily run the latest version of everything, and if anything doesn&#x
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And how do you arrive at the correct values for 'foo' and 'bar'?. The key feature of customize is discoverability.
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Rust has more syntax than other languages, but it's a cleverly designed language: every bit of syntax has one unique, clear meaning. Every bit of Rust syntax is intentional, and the official Rust documentation helps explain the reason
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Strings in Lisp are surrounded with double quotes. In this case, 'English is not a string, but a symbol. Symbols are arbitrary flags with readable names. There are lots of languages with symbols. Some of them even use the same syntax,
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There's a #lang sicp in Racket that emulates the Scheme of the SICP book, with all the functions you need.
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It makes complete sense to start using the mouse, and to keep improving our own workflows over time. Take the Mac interface: it's built in a way that allows users to just use the mouse, but everything is accessible via keyboard shortcu
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Why not? Some things make a lot of sense, like the context menu. The current right-click behavior just sets the text selection mark. This doesn't make much sense anymore: every other editor uses click and drag to select text using the
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This is a very common idiom in Scala. Function definition is slightly different, but usage is the same.
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Spacemacs has been in rolling-release mode for something like 3 years. Almost everyone using it just tracks the develop branch where features and fixes are merged daily.
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Projects like Doom Emacs and Spacemacs are frameworks. They contain lots of well-made, battle-tested code. They are extensible, too: they usually provide clear points for user extensions and customizations.
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The article points out a nice pivotal moment where Rails stops being as useful: when the server costs are higher than the engineering costs. I'd add that this shouldn't be a comparison based on a prediction, but on an actual month
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If you want to insert an image in an org file, drag-and-drop usually works, although the default UX isn't good (e.g. images show in its native size until you set a "#+ATTR_ORG: :width 600px" header above the image).
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That's the date when the licensed software becomes GPL-compatible. That's the main feature of the BSL.
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In a tech sense, yes, it's nothing more than a wiki. The difference lies in the usage: wikis tend to organize their content using encyclopedic categories and hierarchies. A Zettelkasten is supposed to be much more goal-oriented, so tha
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A Zettelkasten-style system is just a bunch of files in a single folder, with lots of links between them. What makes these kinds of notes work is the purpose they are written for, and the links. Two people can have the exact same notes, but
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Is there any specific thing that makes it ugly? I'm curious because I don't see the ugliness. Since I use Firefox 99% of the time, I just opened Chrome and Edge to check out their address bars. All three are extremely similar. In
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Rare materials are what made some trackers great. Remember what.cd? That was the most comprehensive music catalogue ever. And it worked. Also, there's the issue of people finding rare source materials, but keeping them to themselves, b
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But it's what it is. Most people active on Facebook 10 to 5 years are not active anymore, and young people avoid it. If Facebook wants to attract young gamers, they will need a new brand for their gaming platform.
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I'd say Slack replaces IRC chats, and, along the way, they transformed a niche tool into one more easily adopted by businesses. Instant messaging tools always cannibalize email conversations.
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The death of RSS is the death of the federated web model where users view and consume the content they want to. Modern alternatives like Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram do not serve users in the same way. Users happily consume the content
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Is there any modern airliner plane that still uses jets? IIRC all modern passenger plane engines are turbofan engines. Turboprops win at slower speed, while turbofans excel in the fast-but-still-subsonic range.
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> Subjectively, I see no point in having "val", "var", "let", "def", "fn" symbols which bring only noise to code. Usually, the reason is to make parsing easier. C++ is infamous for having
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Hahaha, it's true that Rust compile times are slower than its main competitors, due to the amount of work the compiler does. It's the same with Scala: even if some abstractions in both languages are zero- or low-cost during runtim
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The reason behind putting the type after the variable is that the resulting syntax plays way better with type inference. Scala is a clear inspiration for Rust in that regard.
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The difference lies in how it's organized. An encyclopedia such as Wikipedia is organized using an encyclopedic hierarchy of knowledge. That makes no sense for a personal linked notes system: the key is to avoid hierarchy, and tag and
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In the book "How to take smart notes" by Sönke Ahrens, there's a lot of thought given on the real value of tags. I'd say the problem you describe happens because you are trying to create a taxonomy using tags. Classifyin
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Sönke Ahrens writes about this similarity in his book "How to take smart notes". A linked notes system is indeed very similar to a wikipedia. The difference lies in the usage. In a personal system, there's a bit more "wi
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Isn't that what wikis are for? Just remember to avoid creating hierarchies, and focus on making information accessible in 2 ways: search, and links between pages.
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Creating a hierarchy of notes using folders can be counterproductive. It will be easy to classify the majority of notes, but some of them will match multiple categories, or even none of them. Unfortunately, those notes are usually the most
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Unfortunately, heavy cars are allowed higher limits, and that's part of the reason the automakers are pushing heavier cars like hybrid crossover SUVs.

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