innocentoldguy

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by innocentoldguy 14d ago
Yeah, but ddevault is well-known for being abrasive and disagreeable when people don't do all the things that he wants to do. EDIT: I'm not excusing this behavior at all. I find it detestable. I'm just pointing out that ddeva
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by innocentoldguy 14d ago
Why don't you install it in a VM and try it instead of embracing biased presuppositions that may or may not be correct? Also, I disagree that it has 0 improvements. For example: 1. Defaulting to the Windows key instead of Control for c
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by innocentoldguy 1mo ago
Isn’t that expected, though? If 100 of us were to write a five page essay on the chaffing mechanics of an Underoos wedgie, the likelihood that any of them are the same is pretty small, isn’t it?
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by innocentoldguy 1mo ago
I'm a writer with what may be an unpopular opinion. I have a college degree in creative writing; I do technical writing and programming for a living, and I used to publish technical articles on Linux, Python, Elixir, and other topics—c
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by innocentoldguy 3mo ago
Yes. They work fine in Chrome. Mellel is the only app I can think of where they don’t work.
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by innocentoldguy 3mo ago
Vitamin D is a lifesaver for me. I'm severely deficient, and if I don't take about 10,000 IU a day, I seem to get colds every five minutes.
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by innocentoldguy 3mo ago
Yes. Basic emacs keybindings work pretty much everywhere in macOS. I have run into a couple of apps that don’t behave correctly, but 99% of the time they work.
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by innocentoldguy 3mo ago
I was going to trade in an old truck and buy my daughter a Tiguan this weekend. I guess I’ll rethink that.
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by innocentoldguy 3mo ago
Self-help non-fiction books killed themselves by focusing on entertainment, in the form of amusing anecdotes, rather than substance. Most self-help books could be reduced to a 3-by-5 card without losing any of the core information.
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by innocentoldguy 3mo ago
I use Karabiner-Elements on macOS, and finding keyd was a godsend on Linux. I cannot deal with standard keyboard mappings and the lack of hold/tap keys.
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by innocentoldguy 3mo ago
I made a modal editor, like Vim and Helix, in Rust that has some prose features I wanted, and with a keybinding system I find more logical and consistent.
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by innocentoldguy 3mo ago
I've found that if I apply for any company that uses Workday, it's an immediate rejection, so I don't bother with them anymore.
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by innocentoldguy 4mo ago
Neither do I.
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by innocentoldguy 4mo ago
LLMs seem to have an easy time with Elixir and Phoenix in my testing.
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by innocentoldguy 4mo ago
I find Elixir's memory and threading models much more compelling than Go's for web services. There are many great libraries for Elixir as well, but if you need something else, Elixir makes rolling your own libraries very easy. I&#
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by innocentoldguy 6mo ago
I just found my BeOS 5 and BeProductive CDs from the late 90s. I wish I had something to run them on.
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by innocentoldguy 7mo ago
Philips is the company that came up with the term "Compact Disc" for CDs, so we can blame them for goofing up the regional spellings and making the world more confusing. I think Alan Shugart (or at least his team at IBM) started c
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by innocentoldguy 7mo ago
I have been around for a similar amount of time. Another change I have seen over the years is the shift from programming being an exercise in creative excellence at work to being a white-collar ditch-digging job.
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by innocentoldguy 7mo ago
I'm currently using Niri+Noctalia just to try them out, but I typically use Gnome and like it quite a bit for its simple, clean interface. I use macOS and Linux, and the way GNOME works makes switching between them easier for me than w
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by innocentoldguy 7mo ago
Django is perfectly capable. I'd use Phoenix for its scalability and performance, if it were me, but I've built large-scale projects in Django before, and it worked well.
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by innocentoldguy 9mo ago
I feel sorry for this woman. Meta did this to me because they're discriminatory dicks, so I know how she felt. Fortunately, I have a tremendous amount of family support.
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by innocentoldguy 9mo ago
I have the same question. I've been in the software industry since the early 90s and I've seen the "static types are the best thing since sex" fad fade in and out repeatedly during that time. Having used plenty of strong
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by innocentoldguy 9mo ago
No worries, and I forgive you for the sardonic Japanese. I wish you the best.
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by innocentoldguy 9mo ago
Hi, ursAxZA. Yes, you're describing an "elision," which is where speakers drop or blur sounds together to make speech more fluid, like the way some people say, "Sup?" when they mean, "What's up?" or r
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by innocentoldguy 9mo ago
You're welcome. I'm sure at some point, Gleam will figure it all out.
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by innocentoldguy 9mo ago
We are talking about writing/spelling, aren't we? Why would you want to confuse the hell out of those learning Japanese by spelling せんせい (sensei) using an E with a macron, a la "sensē," when that is not at all how you sp
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by innocentoldguy 9mo ago
> In Japanese, an E column kana followed by I sometimes makes a long E, like in 先生 (sen + sei -> sensē). While it is sometimes difficult to discern the combined E and I sound, especially for non-native speakers, the word 先生 (sensei) i
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by innocentoldguy 9mo ago
- No state machine behaviours. Gleam cannot do gen_statem. - Limited OTP system messages. Gleam doesn't yet support all OTP system messages, so some OTP debugging messages are discarded by Gleam. - Gleam doesn't have an equivalent
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by innocentoldguy 9mo ago
I don’t mean to minimize the huge effort by the Gleam team; however, Elixir cannot become Gleam without breaking OTP/BEAM in the same ways Gleam does. As it stands now, Elixir is the superior language between the two, if using the full
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by innocentoldguy 9mo ago
And, he delivers the line with such perfection.

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