gimboland

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by gimboland 1y ago
Why do people write in a journal? Why do people pray? Why do people do rubber-duck debugging?
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by gimboland 1y ago
Genuinely curious (as someone who didn't know about the implicit ID mapping until today): given that IDs are global, why is doing this any worse (or in any way different) to using getElementById? I.e. why is it bad advice?
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by gimboland 5y ago
That's an idea that goes back to Hobbes' Leviathan.
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by gimboland 5y ago
> The weak don't deserve the products of their labor if they can't defend it. We've seen this as a fact of life since life has been a fact. Amazing how "may not be able to retain" collapses down to "do not d
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by gimboland 5y ago
Yeah, I do this; 2020 M1 13" MBP; 4K external monitor and iPad Pro on Sidecar, plus I keep the laptop open so I have three screens. I find Sidecar a bit flaky (it disconnects or freezes a bit too often to be breezily accepted), but w
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by gimboland 5y ago
Anybody who thinks cryptocurrency is in the class of assets which are "supposed to be able to sit there growing in value" really hasn't been paying attention.
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by gimboland 5y ago
I had that realisation when I saw this library: https://pint.readthedocs.io/en/stable/ (for a dynamically typed language, somewhat amusingly).
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by gimboland 5y ago
...aaaand it's more than 20 years old, so yeah, that kinda agrees with the point that it took us a long time to stop doing that because it's confusing.
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by gimboland 5y ago
Oh, has he apologised for the years-long pattern of sexual harassment as testified to by multiple women? I must have missed that, sorry.
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by gimboland 5y ago
Yup — that basically requires extremely high levels of compassion and unconditional love, something we can all aspire to, but in reality and in general forgiveness tends to be conditional.
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by gimboland 5y ago
I have not, and would be interested to see a link to that (the posting(s) in question, not the whole blog), particularly if it addresses the many accusations of sexual harassment, as my understanding was that this had not happened. Prompted
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by gimboland 5y ago
Not OP but they're not saying they want to use emacs keybindings, they're saying they want to use emacs keyboard macros [1], which I agree really are a very handy feature having no equivalent in JetBrains. [1] https://w
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by gimboland 5y ago
> I don't want to live in a world where we can't be forgiven. Forgiveness requires accountability and commitment to change, neither of which have been forthcoming.
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by gimboland 5y ago
The podcast "Containers" also covers how shipping containers have shaped the mordern world — well worth a listen, though I don't recall it mentioning this aspect of their logistics.
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by gimboland 6y ago
Haskell is what happens when you take the idea of pure functions (i.e. no side effects) _really_ seriously, and try to create a programming language that works in that world (modulo mechanisms for doing the side effects you _need_ such as I
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by gimboland 6y ago
+1 for BTT, particularly in combination with Karabiner Elements and goku to handle Karabiner configs in a good way. If you like tiling window managers, you can get a very similar experience (in terms of using the whole screen and being able
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by gimboland 6y ago
> but how did the author learned to love, and more importantly to "fear" the RH? What's there to fear? It's made abundantly clear: they learned to love it through the course they were fortunate enough to take as an un
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by gimboland 6y ago
I agree that some curation effort makes a huge difference. I have a "Queue" playlist into which I copy my "Discover Weekly" every now and then; then I listen to that Queue playlist, which lets me delete the tracks I don&
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by gimboland 6y ago
"Pretty sure" is a thought/judgement, not a feeling.
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by gimboland 6y ago
> The real killer feature of Haskell is that it is the closest language to mathematics and makes reasoning mathematically much easier than even other functional languages. And the reason is it's like that is its focus on purity.
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by gimboland 6y ago
"But clarity is also this", followed by a screenshot of a booking that says "$73/night" even though the actual cost is $92/night (which it doesn't say - you have to work it out yourself). I guess the autho
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by gimboland 6y ago
"Spanish flu" didn't start in Spain, after all.
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by gimboland 6y ago
Not so much that (I think Q has thus far been mainly a US phenomenon, though it _is_ making inroads here apparently), but mainly I'm seeing stuff around covid being a hoax and/or a control ploy, forced vaccinations, tracking chip
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by gimboland 6y ago
Interestingly, it's not just conservatives. I'm in the UK, and some of the circles I move in are a bit "hippy" (and thus not conservative/right wing at all) and some of those folks are absolutely lapping it up. It i
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by gimboland 6y ago
Well, fuck it.
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by gimboland 6y ago
Anyone else remember alt.sex.cost-benefits-accounting ? I swear it existed (around 1995?) but I've never been able to find any evidence for it.
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by gimboland 6y ago
Also useful for doing the development in the first place!
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by gimboland 6y ago
If you're using karabiner, you might want to use goku to configure it: much nicer: https://github.com/yqrashawn/GokuRakuJoudo
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by gimboland 6y ago
Via rust, obviously.
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by gimboland 6y ago
... because of rendering/scaling/4K? Or just anyway?

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