Xephyrous

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by Xephyrous 9y ago
PayPal froze my account a few years ago for "suspicious activity". I still don't know what that activity was. Support gave me the same sort of runaround non-answers as described in this article. I finally got to talk to so
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by Xephyrous 9y ago
It used to be that way, now when I try it F1 is a sign-in screen, F2 is my main GUI, F3-F6 are normal virtual terminals, and F7 is some process that I don't recognize.
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by Xephyrous 9y ago
You can run a headless Linux distro (although that's not exactly turnkey, I know). If you're already running linux, you can hit something like ctrl+alt+F3 to get a commandline only UI: https://en.wikipedia.org/wik
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by Xephyrous 9y ago
Here's a boingboing post that contains some of the text of the article: https://boingboing.net/2017/12/10/shanzhai-futurism.html
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by Xephyrous 9y ago
Classes definitely give you a lot of rope to hang yourself with (metaclasses, inheritance, MULTIPLE inheritance), but they have their place. I'll usually start with a function, but when it gets too big, you need to split it up. Somet
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by Xephyrous 10y ago
> "Don't let people pay for things because poor people might not be able to afford it" is offensive to "poor" people. It's important to distinguish what kind of "things" you're talking about,
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by Xephyrous 10y ago
Why do you want to work at one of the big 4 tech companies? Software engineering is a very big field, you don't need to be really good at solving coding puzzles on a whiteboard to be a good developer. Hell, there are developers who d
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by Xephyrous 11y ago
Archive.org cache: https://web.archive.org/web/20151226155815/http://www.forbes...
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by Xephyrous 11y ago
If you don't already use it, you should check out GNU Stow as a tool to manage those symlinks. You just make a directory (or directories) which mirrors your home folder, but with only the files you want to store in dropbox, and Stow w
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by Xephyrous 11y ago
I'd write that function like this: def absolute_path(path): if not path.startswith('/'): return '/' + path return path This way you don't have to keep track of mutating th
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by Xephyrous 11y ago
> Neovim however might help to solve this problems, but when that will see the light of day, it seems to be hard to find out. Neovim is working quite well already. I fully switched from vim to nvim months ago without any issues. Plugin
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by Xephyrous 11y ago
ipython has a killer autoreload function: http://ipython.org/ipython-doc/stable/config/extensions/auto... In [1]: %load_ext autoreload In [2]: %autoreload 2 In [3]: from foo import some_function In [4]:
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by Xephyrous 11y ago
I've been using spacemacs off and on for a few months, (although never as my primary editor). I really like their out-of-the-box config, and it's much easier and better than my previous copypasted amalgamation of an init.el file.
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by Xephyrous 12y ago
Are you using React.js directly through JS interop, or something like Om or Reagent to wrap it? What is your opinion of the various options available for React.js in ClojureScript?
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by Xephyrous 13y ago
Interesting topic and book although I highly recommended skipping this article in favor of the [NYT article cited]( http://mobile.nytimes.com/2014/01/07/science/cat-sense-expla... ). This title and article
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by Xephyrous 13y ago
I know this isn't what you're asking, but I imagine in this case it's because that's one of the challenges of regex golf. Matching regex, as short as possible.
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by Xephyrous 13y ago
Spot on critique. Two additions: What about pure carnivores? Surely their food doesn't want to be food, but carnivores do just fine. While I agree that the amount of corn we eat is absurd, to call it inedible is ludicrous. Raw corn
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by Xephyrous 13y ago
Is it just me or do the pictures of her look like her face has been heavily airbrushed? That's a bit ironic considering...
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by Xephyrous 13y ago
Not at all.
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by Xephyrous 13y ago
I'm having a lot of fun with this. I'll submit something soon. You swallow all exceptions and make the robot guard instead. This is nice, but it makes it hard to develop, because you can't see what went wrong. Here's
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by Xephyrous 13y ago
Oh, I didn't realize that. Thanks!
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by Xephyrous 13y ago
Is there any way to access the map in the Robot class? For the default map, I can just hardcode it, but if you do intend for a robot to be playable on multiple maps, they'll need some way of knowing which squares are obstacles and spa
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by Xephyrous 13y ago
Looks fun, can't wait to get started. In your instructions, you said to run the program, call: python kit/run.py yourcode.py yourothercode.py --render If you try to run run.py from outside of its directory, it can't
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by Xephyrous 13y ago
Also feels snappy to me on Firefox/Xubuntu
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by Xephyrous 13y ago
The nomenclature invites unnecessary confusion, as the terms are all already used ("How many simple seconds are in an actual second?"). Why not use metric prefixes on a day to come up with the names? This requires no new defini