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by foobarbaz33 2y ago
I sometimes read hacker news with Emacs eww. An easy way to get dark mode. In Emacs-eww, the nested replies are rendered flat, not indented, but you can set up a search on the "parent" hyperlinks. then search forward to move down
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by foobarbaz33 2y ago
A fun little adventure and a break from the normal school stuff. And you could shoot buffalo. Pretty much all of America grew up playing this a few times during "library time" at school. It was a time before anyone had a 3D online
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by foobarbaz33 2y ago
No way man. REPL is *more* useful the bigger, more massive the project. I work on massive C# website that takes forever to warm up and get running. Stuck on old .net framework. A rebuild/rerun of the website after each little change is
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by foobarbaz33 2y ago
ditto this. I bought a random linux book with a redhat CD. My first linux experience. I went through college with that distro on my desktop PC.
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by foobarbaz33 2y ago
Make it clear in the interview you are ready to be a good office drone. Say you "respect the chain of command". Managers love that. Make it clear you are not a primadona. You are hire-able. Just wipe away any preconceived judgemen
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by foobarbaz33 2y ago
> ...charm? I say Go. It works nicely with old school tooling (editor, tags, grep) and a command line. That's a charm for me. Advanced tooling is available. You can take 1 step further with LSP integration. Or 2 steps further with a
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by foobarbaz33 2y ago
> ...devil you know is better... Yes. Losing 15% of your income to jump into an even more unpleasant environment would suck. Your current job doesn't sound all that bad. Wait for a 10% bump before switching.
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by foobarbaz33 2y ago
Status and titles are important to many people. Bestowing a title is a free way for companies to satisfy that itch for their employee. "Engineer" is not a formal credential or legally protected title in the USA. All sorts of jobs
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by foobarbaz33 2y ago
Minesweeper is a nice Emacs game I like to play. It gets you familiar with the basic Emacs movement keys. install it: M-x package-install minesweeper play it: M-x minesweeper movement (control key optional): n, p, f
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by foobarbaz33 2y ago
> Get my Master's? No, not worth it. A bachelor's in comp sci can be a handy credential. But anything past that has diminishing returns.
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by foobarbaz33 2y ago
Might depend on your workflow. Let's say you are in a private feature branch. You do many commits, 1 per minute to create save points as you work on some mind bending logic. You need those saves to go through no matter what, even when
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by foobarbaz33 2y ago
> Do you believe that AGI is possible? Yes. A bunch of atoms orbiting around a star ended up in a configuration that can think. Our star dust human brains. The fact we exist proves atoms can be configured to have GI (no need to call it a
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by foobarbaz33 3y ago
> What did people use before it? Emacs + tramp to use local editor. Maybe not quite as good as VS-code's client/server based tools, but I believe tramp does not require any special software to be installed on the server so it p
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by foobarbaz33 3y ago
I'm so sorry you fell into this debt trap. At this point you can't afford to play around with a startup. Most likely the startup will flop while the 10% interest never lets up and destroys you. You need to start making money yeste
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by foobarbaz33 3y ago
> Go on champ. Show us how it’s done. The baseline product can and has been cloned by many people. Hacker news is one of those clones. Whipped up with minimal effort in a meme language no one ever used before. Getting popular is the tric
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by foobarbaz33 3y ago
Question: Do you like to work unplugged with the laptop on your lap? Answer-Yes: get a macbook. The apple M chips are the best (only?) way to get desktop power in a battery efficient package. Answer-No: don't get a laptop at all. Get a
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by foobarbaz33 3y ago
I do something similar. We use a minified version of the production DB (baseline). People create numbered sql scripts. A helper script will restore the baseline DB on their local laptop, then apply the new sql files against it. You develop
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by foobarbaz33 3y ago
You are right. Your friends are wrong. Index fund and chill. > have it available for me in 20 years when I retire. Just 1 random person's superficially informed advice: I bet a US index is going to do better than all-world over the
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by foobarbaz33 3y ago
I'd vote C++. Rust is terrible for complex problems requiring experimentation (ie don't know what you don't know) and tight feed back loops. For gaming it's probably the wrong choice.
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by foobarbaz33 3y ago
They all use evil-mode for Vim emulation. So it's just their choice of defaults and configuration style that sets them apart. Doom might have a slight edge with a focus on performance. Evil-mode is not the only way. There are other app
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by foobarbaz33 3y ago
Steve Yegge also made js2-mode. Which is basically treesitter for javascript. He was ahead of his time on dev tooling. I'm still using js2-mode to this day.
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by foobarbaz33 3y ago
I have the M1 mini too, but 16gb RAM. It's decent value for the price. Desktop power in a nice little energy efficient package. I have a linux desktop PC that sounds like an airplane is taking off. I can play games like Dota 2 on the
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by foobarbaz33 3y ago
Maybe this app's real purpose is to be malware. Start off as a useful app to gain a large user base (trojan horses). Charge for it too, that makes it seem even more legit, but have a free tier to grow the user base. Then silently turn
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by foobarbaz33 3y ago
> I want... the whole file to be visualized After reading your post more closely i see you want the entire file contents, not just the diff. Or maybe the full file contents with diff markers included? That would likely produce HUGE, most
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by foobarbaz33 3y ago
You can view both the log and the diffs combined into 1 output. git log -p -- filename This can be a bit overwhelming with huge output, so I prefer to view the history log and the diffs separately. I pipe the raw log into tig, a vi
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by foobarbaz33 3y ago
> It suck ls for those who can't afford a place to live because of the inflated prices. Wouldn't a bubble pop help these people? Wouldn't the ruling class on the opposite end of the leverage chain have benefited greatly wi
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by foobarbaz33 3y ago
Yo dawg. I heard you like leverage. So I put some leverage inside your leverage to help prevent the tower of leverages from falling.
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by foobarbaz33 3y ago
> compensation is amazing STAY where you are. Money is freedom, accumulate until you reach escape velocity. You can sharpen your programming sword on your own time. It's nice when job and personal interests align, but if your workpl
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by foobarbaz33 3y ago
I remember wasteland 2 (from steam/wine) crashing on Linux when you finally entered the rangers headquarters. Luckily a linux kernel developer played the game and figured out what was going on. He told everyone how to fix the game wit
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by foobarbaz33 3y ago
There's always 1 person anecdotes. Monohar the body builder and early Mr. Universe winner lived to 104. Continuing to lift to the very end. I'd wager he was the most mobile centenarian ever too.

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