argiopetech

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by argiopetech 9mo ago
Check out the other mouse options. I learned FreeCAD 1.0 entirely on trackpad (Mac, no middle click). Now, if the random crashing were fixed, that would make a real difference for me...
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by argiopetech 10mo ago
I also like (and was lucky enough, as a young man, to find a physical copy of) Asimov's "An Easy Introduction to the Slide Rule." It's my favorite introductory text. PDF copies can be found on the web.
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by argiopetech 10mo ago
Faber-Castell had new-old stock in the mid 20-teens, but they ran out (of stock or patience) around 2016–2018. Picked up a 2/83N for under $100, and I wish I'd gotten more. I'd suggest some of those are on eBay now. Most of m
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by argiopetech 11mo ago
I typically recommend LYAH ( https://learnyouahaskell.github.io/chapters.html ), followed by Real World Haskell (already mentioned).
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by argiopetech 1y ago
I put those on the top or bottom desktop, but you could create a named workspace ( scratch ) and set up a keybinding to navigate to it.
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by argiopetech 1y ago
Zen browser (which is derived from Firefox) does a really good job of making this the default (at the expense of mainly supporting vertical tab lists, which I've come to love).
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by argiopetech 1y ago
Re. pane size, it's normal tiling behavior. Panes can be take the full screen or some percentage (I like 1/2, 2/3, and 1/3). If the widths add to 1, both panes fill the screen. If the widths don't add to 1, there ar
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by argiopetech 1y ago
This is addressed on the linked page. Quote: We're using xwayland-satellite rather than Xwayland directly because X11 is very cursed. xwayland-satellite takes on the bulk of the work dealing with the X11 peculiarities from us, giving n
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by argiopetech 1y ago
I'm away from the computer at the moment, but I believe I'm on 0.1.3 [0]. Noting the release notes, it does have many animations already enabled (but I have some or all of them disabled through config). I'm not recommending a
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by argiopetech 1y ago
Fair enough. "Overview" [0] presumably solves this, though. [0] https://github.com/YaLTeR/niri/wiki/Overview
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by argiopetech 1y ago
It's right of your editor, where it started. If you have (having had "Editor" focused, and just opened "TermT"): Editor | (TermT) | Term | Browser (FM) | Term | Browser | etc. (where pipe delimits a pane an
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by argiopetech 1y ago
This seems like a good place to note the "center window" keybinding for windows that don't fit well in the screen (e.g., 2/3 wide pane next to 2/3 wide pane, or 1/3 pane on the right end of the stack next to a
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by argiopetech 1y ago
Newly started applications receive focus, so they're visible by default. They are inserted right of the current view, so recovering the previous active pane is consistent ("left pane" keybinding, or the appropriate gesture).
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by argiopetech 1y ago
I'm still running an older version (ain't broke, won't fix), but I keep getting recommended the newer versions for features. I'll check them out eventually.
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by argiopetech 1y ago
In the same boat with you. Not quite the same configuration (some version change issues, lost it once in an 'rm' accident that followed a symlink to / [I learned that day...] and had to start from scratch, rewrote for fun onc
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by argiopetech 1y ago
Niri convinced me to give up xmonad. I ran xmonad exclusively for 14 years. Being able to have an unlimited number of windows on a desktop (without continually switching the tiling structure) makes them collections of topics rather than hav
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by argiopetech 1y ago
Not saying I agree with you, but where do you think the training data came from? The internet is full of socially awkward albeit prolific writers.
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by argiopetech 1y ago
Governments are overthrown regularly (I count 13 such cases just in the 2010s). Mine hasn't yet made it to the point where such actions are needed --- if and when it does, you may judge me by my actions. As for why we have government:
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by argiopetech 1y ago
And fair enough. Nevertheless, it's not an ad hominem to attribute to the state a characteristic which has been observed in every form of government. Barring the newest (though COVID response ["lockdown" and similar] provided
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by argiopetech 1y ago
Depends. For the Founders of the US, it was a base assumption that the state was a bad actor. It's usually a good bet (i.e., it pays off more times than not), IMHO.
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by argiopetech 1y ago
Effectively and technically. A motor is not an engine.
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by argiopetech 1y ago
Can you provide an example? I'm not sure how one would use it improperly...
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by argiopetech 2y ago
I did the back of the napkin math below: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42697255 Barring mistakes, it balances if we had avoided reducing the planet's vegetation by 20% since 1900. So much for that. That's o
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by argiopetech 2y ago
But it might change what we view as a legitimate mitigation strategy. For example, could we burn oil at 2024's rates with 1900's forests and not have net-positive CO2 levels? Back of the napkin: - We're producing ~37 gigatons
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by argiopetech 2y ago
Based on the official website[0], it would appear the package name is necessarily not quoted. This doesn't strike me as odd at all. It's an identifier, not a string. The quoting of the import, on the other hand... [0] https:&#x2F
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by argiopetech 2y ago
They're back to making me take my belt off, though. I had purchased a belt with a plastic buckle specifically for this purpose...
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by argiopetech 2y ago
There's nothing more permanent than a temporary government measure...
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by argiopetech 2y ago
Silly tradeoff, but typical of motor sailors/sailing. Wind isn't blowing the right direction? Easier to motor than tack. Sailing upwind? Easier to motor than have the guests stumbling into walls due to heel. Variable winds? No win
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by argiopetech 2y ago
In this case, though, the boat was designed to run in many conditions (e.g., under engine, at anchor, etc.) with the keel retracted. The keel was only intended for use under sail.
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by argiopetech 2y ago
Haskell also has typed holes (with a similar -fdefer-typed-holes) since 7.10. I've described it in slightly more detail here in a previous post in this thread [0]. Typed holes (but not the defer- option) have been enabled by default fo

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