Arguggi

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by Arguggi 11y ago
A substitute for the conky part in my $ conky | dzen status bar. It's practically a learning exercise. I was inspired by posts like this one [1] to give the free monad a spin and after ~300 lines i'm almost done. But then I found
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by Arguggi 11y ago
I just switched from dmenu to the contrib prompt, only thing to look out for is that the searchPredicate function of the XPConfig doesn't actually seem to do anything. Setting: searchPredicate :: String -> String -> Bool
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by Arguggi 11y ago
This seems pretty similar to the Haskell Maybe Monad. "Learn You a Haskell for Great Good!" has an example[0]: routine = case Just (0,0) of Nothing -> Nothing Just start -> case landLeft 2 sta
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by Arguggi 11y ago
You can stop certain packages from being updated [0] but the wiki explicity says it's "unsupported" [1] so probably best to update everything and hope nothing breaks. New packages for the "core" repo, for example th
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by Arguggi 11y ago
pacman (Arch's package manager) does not build from source, it downloads binary packages from the repos just like Ubuntu. Differently from Ubuntu packages are usually as vanilla and up to date as possible. You build packages from sourc
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by Arguggi 11y ago
Shameless plug: I've been trying a list with every issue I encounter while using arch [0], as of today I've had ~10 issues in ~170 days. Each issue has taken me ~5 minutes to solve. [0] https://arguggi.co.uk/blog&#
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by Arguggi 11y ago
TFA and your blog post both mention SLiM as a login manager, according to the Arch wiki[0]: "The SliM project has been abandoned (the project homepage is down, leaving a github mirror), and is not fully compatible to systemd, including
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by Arguggi 12y ago
I've been trying to keep a problem log for arch updates for the past few months [0] but I haven't tried not updating for a while. Now I'm curious, so I guess I'm trying it for a month [1]. [0] https://arguggi.
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by Arguggi 12y ago
The usual "Arch is unstable" convinced me to put up a very simple jekyll blog [0] with all the arch related problems I run into from here on out. I've only listed the last 2 problems now. As months go by the list will probabl
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by Arguggi 13y ago
I agree that only answering "You just committed a fallacy, goodbye" would not be the right choice, but at least mentioning it and then try to explain why I think it's relevant doesn't seem so wrong.
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by Arguggi 13y ago
Am I the only one troubled by the last example? And then suppose you encounter a woman who tells you that because of the insults she has received from guys in the skeptic community, she has decided that the skeptic movement is fundamentall
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by Arguggi 14y ago
I had trouble with the "You can't read without subvocalization." part too. I can't understand if by subvocalization he means moving your throat/mouth or simply repeating the words you are reading in your mind without moving any muscles. Wik
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by Arguggi 14y ago
"So who governs what is the correct application and interpretation of data?" Morozov doesn't worry about the correct application of data but, from what I understood reading the link, is more worried about this: "Morozov fears a future in wh
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by Arguggi 14y ago
"The solution proposed here is "Don't have data". Because if we stick our heads in a hole, it'll all get better?" I don't think this is the solution Morozov is proposing. He's just saying that collecting and distributing more data will not