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by aib 28d ago
Did you steal my idea of Human-to-Trasformer Protocol??
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by aib 6mo ago
VarSets[0] introduced recently in 1.0 and mentioned in a grand-aunt comment are a good alternative to spreadsheets used this way. [0]: https://wiki.freecad.org/Std_VarSet
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by aib 7mo ago
That work like this often predicts a good portion of the technological advancements, but usually completely misses the mark on the execution and the enshittified commodification is why I like reading cyberpunk and other dystopian sci-fi.
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by aib 8mo ago
My default pull is ff-only. I don't like merging or rebasing by default. When working in a short-lived branch, I like to rebase. I usually get no or simply easy-to-solve conflicts. I like my small and numerous commits stacked on top
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by aib 10mo ago
You're absolutely correct! </s> The "how to modify an environment variable" bit and the bin-dec-hex table made me feel the same way. Then I saw the part explaining how to check for duplicates in a row... I'm s
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by aib 11mo ago
One more from me: mkcd() { mkdir -p -- "$1" && cd -- "$1" }
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by aib 1y ago
Most input is text, most output is text, commands are text. Vast majority of programming languages can process and produce text out-of-the-box. There are countless utilities for processing text. You can store, load, split and join text easi
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by aib 1y ago
I ended up writing a similar plugin[1] after searching in vain for a way to add temporary DNS entries. The ability to add host entries via an environment variable turned out to be more useful than I'd expected, though mostly for MITM(p
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by aib 2y ago
Just tried it on our codebase. Getting over a thousand errors, a good portion of which seem to be: ../../../tmp/typescript-go/built/local/lib.dom.d.ts:27982:6 - error TS2300: Duplicate identifier &#x
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by aib 2y ago
Exactly. They want _their_ oligarchs controlling their 99.(9)%. This ban is as close as you can get to open admittance.
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by aib 2y ago
(Not directed at the parent comment but the thread in general) I don't know why people are more interested in labeling it than explaining it. (Although admittedly, they go side by side.) Every grammatical aspect of "past time with
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by aib 2y ago
Is there some sort of explanation of what DMNO is?
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by aib 2y ago
So: "Sleep on it" is an effective strategy.
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by aib 2y ago
A pain point, for me, is having to explicitly type private functions. I like refactoring independent blocks out into functions, to separate the scopes and have readable summaries a la self-documenting code. Having to fish out and then expli
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by aib 2y ago
Ahh, very nice. It was fun to rediscover/relearn some of these things through this game. Very nice wording on the 5-color challenge! I think it was the perfect balance. One thing I was missing was the ability to move the points already
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by aib 2y ago
I tried using a PostgreSQL SKIP LOCKED queue once, turned out to be a mistake. It was a queue for a distributed worker pool. The simpler alternatives I was used to at the time (RabbitMQ) did not support joining (i.e. run task Y when all of
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by aib 2y ago
"[C] is simple but expressive, practical but admitting of elegance (think of some of the pointer arithmetic in K&R); it is small, fast, and portable; it is the lingua franca of programming and the language of languages[...]" H
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by aib 3y ago
This is ridiculous! Someone should fix it and send a p—oh.
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by aib 3y ago
At least you get English videos. A couple of times I've gotten videos in... Hindu, I think, by searching in English and clicking on a video with an English title. And it was a technical video, not much language-independent content.
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by aib 3y ago
I think that line has been blurry (blurred?) for a long time. Is it ill-intentioned when Apple slows down charging with non-authenticated cables because "they might be shitty and high currents can cause a fire"? If companies can h
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by aib 3y ago
IPv6 with a 16-bit payload size limit?
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by aib 3y ago
Indeed, this is how I did it. 2^28 is around 270 million. With little more than a handful options, it should be possible. Although I have to say, it turned out to be more difficult than I'd initially thought. Maybe it's better to
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by aib 3y ago
It's the identity element of the monoid, no? Similarly, the product of an empty list should be 1.
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by aib 3y ago
I think it is a text book example of the main difference in DNA between Google and Apple: Google is all about crowdsourcing. Apple is all about curation. What's in their DNA is being corporate entities answerable to
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by aib 3y ago
"Google Maps" is a misnomer. Call it "Google Business Search" or something similar, and the perceived problems disappear. Google Maps provides a small fraction of the functions of a real map. And this fraction does not e
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by aib 3y ago
I think the reason is simpler: Unchecked exceptions. Investing in (checked) exception safety is not as valuable when anything can throw an NPE.
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by aib 3y ago
> I wonder who coined the term? Nice summary at https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/enshittification (TL;DR: Cory Doctorow)
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by aib 3y ago
Try LESS='-X'
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by aib 4y ago
I would really like to try PowerShell, especially since it has a different paradigm than the "text" shells that I'm used to---but Microsoft's name behind it gives me pause. I can't rationalize it except for that eve
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by aib 4y ago
What worries me are the low-grade programmers. By delegating their work to tools like ChatGPT (and doing so always a level or two beyond the current abilities of the tools) they will manage to take us to newer lows.

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