igemnace

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by igemnace 3y ago
I like this video from minutephysics to get an intuitive sense for it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tmNXKqeUtJM It addresses a different question (Why is the Solar System Flat?) but it touches on the question of why thin
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by igemnace 4y ago
As I understand it, Vivaldi is Chromium, with a custom chrome UI rendered as a React app run similarly to an extension, but more privileged. The source they publish there are the changes they made to allow the "extension, but more priv
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by igemnace 4y ago
A lot of features Vivaldi has are definitely "nice-to-have" level, especially stuff they seemingly put in for fun like Philips Hue integration. But there are some very functional settings I use that I just miss in every other br
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by igemnace 4y ago
I use both. I mainly still keep mutt for encryption and signing. For general, day-to-day use, I prefer aerc because I grok its configuration more -- I believe one of its key advantages is its simplicity of configuration. I find it much easi
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by igemnace 4y ago
Just because you use async/await doesn't mean you can't use Promise.all. In fact, my immediate intuition with the await examples was to parallelize with Promise.all. await Promise.all([/* build promises */])
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by igemnace 4y ago
I actually address that directly in the blog post. I do use Markdown and Pandoc. But going extremely lean on the HTML, editing the documents directly is pretty refreshing. I'd go so far as to say it's a joy to do.
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by igemnace 4y ago
https://ig.emnace.org I write my pages as plain HTML documents. Pretty refreshing! I have a blog post detailing the rationale: https://ig.emnace.org/articles/simplicity-of-web-page.html But the gist of it i
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by igemnace 9y ago
It's not a find replacement at all, even! fzf just actually calls find by default, so a naked call to fzf will actually give you the same results as find | fzf. Search specifically for directories, that's find -type d | fzf.
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by igemnace 9y ago
`const` doesn't mean immutable data. It means immutable variables, i.e. you can't reassign to `const` variables. You can mutate the data regardless (push to an array, add a new key to an object), unless the variable points to an i