wool_gather

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by wool_gather 6y ago
Kudos for your self-awareness. Have a squirt of dopamine^W^W^W upvote. ;) I have noticed the same reactions myself, and dislike them. I am slowly and gradually learning to be able to deflect that angry defensive reply impulse. Simple awaren
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by wool_gather 6y ago
The Computational Beauty of Nature (published by MIT) belongs on anyone's list as well. It walks instructively through several different kinds of complex systems, including L systems, agents (Boids), cellular automata, fractals, chao
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by wool_gather 6y ago
I have a trick I've adopted recently for nonfiction that has helped me immensely to read more and keep reading.¹ If a portion of a book is unappealing for any reason -- I feel like I already know it, it's irrelevant, it's imp
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by wool_gather 6y ago
> a tutorial how to bootstrap a bibliography and an index card system for your research or other professional purposes Is this related to/inspired from Zettelkasten?
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by wool_gather 6y ago
> where did he indicate he was looking for feedback on these features? I thought it was in the release notes for v5, but I can't find them at this point to verify. I suppose I may be misremembering.
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by wool_gather 6y ago
The developer of Dash is very receptive to feedback (in fact I think this change was called out as something that he was interested in hearing opinions on).
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by wool_gather 6y ago
Agree; rule #1 of reviewing in my opinion is " trust your colleague whose code you are reviewing".
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by wool_gather 6y ago
The point is that it's not generic: there is meaning conveyed by the grouping that can't be expressed as an easy script (which is why there's a human writing the code in the first place).
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by wool_gather 6y ago
Absolutely; to tweak the analogy a bit, you wouldn't have much luck with the point-and-nod "interface" if you were trying to do something more abstract or complicated, like getting a loan or hiring a gardener.
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by wool_gather 6y ago
Apple's other attempt right now (on iOS) is Shortcuts, which is graphical-programming-y. But it's disadvantaged a bit because it started life (as a third-party app Workflow) outside the system, unlike Applescript.
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by wool_gather 6y ago
You make good points, though I'm sympathetic to the parent's point too. In the very layered federal system we have in the US, it might be possible for us to have it both ways. Non-U.S.-citizens could be given a vote in local/
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Corporate IT endpoint security should be respectful to employees(honest.security)
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by wool_gather 6y ago
A less hell-raising reading experience via Threadreaderapp: https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1336890442768547845.html
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by wool_gather 6y ago
It is extremely nice, but still feels a bit hemmed in by the "everything is a grid of characters" paradigm. Just a soupçon here and there of actual GUI elements (some kind of popover for LSP highlights, for example) would go a lon
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by wool_gather 6y ago
> It makes sense in some settings, but not in 1st order art. I'm forced to disagree -- in part -- here. There are plenty of beautiful and stirring (or even just intriguing) generative pictures out there. I agree in part, though: f
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by wool_gather 6y ago
Fair, and I definitely get what you're saying, but I would still argue that for (Java)doc-style comments that one useful one outweighs the cost of the repetition. And the reason is that you're not always just reading the header. W
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by wool_gather 6y ago
Sounds like we agree.
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by wool_gather 6y ago
I said "why isn't this a `URL` instead of a string". I know we should "Put that information in your types". The code is written. I can't safely make that change until I know the invariants, and if the person wh
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by wool_gather 6y ago
Sure; that's a classic useless comment. Counterpoint would be a useful doc, where did the 5 come from ? // Chosen by fair die roll. Completely random const kEschatonThreshhold = 5; val a = kEschatonThreshhold;
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by wool_gather 6y ago
Sure, if the name, type, and context of a variable can completely encode all the details that I need to know when working on the code, then fine, we can skip the doc comments. Do you think that's possible for every field in all, or eve
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by wool_gather 6y ago
I'd rather my colleagues repeat themselves in their documentation comments than provide none at all. So I think the habit of writing those comments is more important than making sure that every single one has no repetition. I'm wo
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by wool_gather 6y ago
> her incoherence did add to my, and particularly, my father's (her brother) grief. I sympathize completely, and I'm sorry for your loss.
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by wool_gather 6y ago
I think the situation is almost the inverse of your question, actually. :) The article's author already does almost everything on their iPad; so the use case is as simple as "I want to move that one last thing (coding) off my lapt
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by wool_gather 6y ago
Cancer is just a bad illness. I too have had the experience of trying to interact with family members in the terminal stages. Neither of them were using marijuana, and they were often not coherent (when they were even awake). Not to diminis
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by wool_gather 6y ago
The article is not even remotely suggesting removing type information. On the contrary, it's talking about some ways to augment a type checker with different grammar or ways of constructing APIs.
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by wool_gather 6y ago
FWIW, if you're playing from a computer, there are applications (Rogue Amoeba makes one) that can route the audio from Spotify (or anything) and send it over Airplay. Works great with a HomePod.
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by wool_gather 6y ago
Indeed; by John Regehr: https://blog.regehr.org/archives/1180 I don't think it has really been proposed anywhere though, unfortunately.
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by wool_gather 6y ago
Tip, instead of amending, it's also straightforward to "uncommit" a temporary commit when you come back to it. `git reset HEAD~` and the state of the commit becomes the state of your working tree instead.
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by wool_gather 6y ago
...? `yes` is not part of the C standard library.
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by wool_gather 6y ago
Well said. And frankly, this is true even of FOSS -- or why are there so many flavors of Linux? Even technical users are going to differ in the sets of opinions they hold and are qualified to hold. I care about which Python I have installed

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