jmhain

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by jmhain 5y ago
GTK is written in C, not JS.
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by jmhain 8y ago
The android phone app warns about suspected spam callers, and project fi has a spam filtering feature that has worked pretty well for me.
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by jmhain 8y ago
I switched to Dvorak years ago and it's one of the best decisions I've ever made. It has downsides (awkwardness when typing on others' machines, difficulty typing with one hand while on the phone), but the lack of pain in my
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by jmhain 8y ago
A good lightweight alternative is js-joda. I recently switched from moment.js and I've been very happy with it. https://js-joda.github.io/js-joda/
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by jmhain 8y ago
POWER9 is looking more and more attractive by the day.
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by jmhain 8y ago
Is it possible to match the end of a slice with slice patterns? Something like: fn foo(s: &[char]) { match s { ['a', 'b'] => (), [.. 'b', 'c'] => (),
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by jmhain 8y ago
From the section on TypeScript: > enums, which are basically like Java’s enums. They really aren't. Java enums are somewhat unique in that they are full-fledged classes, not just glorified constants. TS enums are much closer to thos
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by jmhain 8y ago
> Go has more of a focus on simplicity. But specifically on simplicity of implementation. Which often means pushing the complexity onto the developer. This line from the article is a pretty good summary of Go in general: > It looks to
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Making some wiggle room for engineering innovations(blog.intercom.com)
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by jmhain 9y ago
I experience something very similar. It turned out to be at least in part from eye strain induced headaches ("computer vision syndrome"). I started paying more attention to ocular health, including following the recommendation of
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by jmhain 9y ago
IdentityMind | Platform Engineer | Palo Alto, CA | FULLTIME | ONSITE At IdentityMind Global, we are building a unique platform providing Risk Management services to the financial industry: both traditional payments and emerging cryptocurren
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by jmhain 9y ago
IdentityMind | Platform Engineer | Palo Alto, CA | FULLTIME | ONSITE At IdentityMind Global, we are building a unique platform providing Risk Management services to the financial industry: both traditional payments and emerging cryptocurren
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by jmhain 10y ago
> We just don't provide Linux binaries, except Ubuntu Snaps, because it is extremely difficult to do. Have you considered packaging with Flatpak [0] as well? Very similar to Snaps, but it'll work with many distros instead of ju
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by jmhain 10y ago
I do this, but not mainly to find bugs, though on rare occasions I do. I almost always find something , e.g. stylistic aberrations, overzealous changes from an intellij refactor, debug statements I forgot to remove, part of another change
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by jmhain 10y ago
> Who the hell would write prose by making all the verbs blue, the nouns red, and the adverbs green (or something to that effect). Slightly off topic, but I think doing this could actually be useful for learning languages, especially hig
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by jmhain 10y ago
Because gut issues have been implicated in a whole lot of common maladies, but the precise nature of the interactions of gut bacteria and their human hosts has yet to be determined, making it very intellectually intriguing. Especially for t
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by jmhain 10y ago
I wouldn't quite call it "top hardware", but I've been very happy running Fedora on my asus zenbook ux305la.
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by jmhain 11y ago
Her talks are great too, I particularly enjoyed her strace talk [0]. [0] https://youtu.be/4pEHfGKB-OE
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by jmhain 11y ago
> Systemd, on the other hand, disabling their syslog is simply not an option You can set Storage=none and ForwardToSyslog=yes in /etc/systemd/journald.conf [0]. [0] https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php&#x2F
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by jmhain 11y ago
> I said the good programmers would eventually be pushed out by webdevs who were not as good, and here Mozilla is making the Rust language, which is merely a crutch for people not good enough to use C++. And C++ is just a crutch for peop
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by jmhain 11y ago
I made absolutely no claim that my experience provided any sort of scientific evidence for the efficacy of antidepressants. I merely stated that if you're on antidepressants, and are in remission, you probably shouldn't quit becau
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by jmhain 11y ago
> I look at it the other way: companies "pushing"[1] antidepressants not just on pregnant women, but on all of us, for years on end, should be putting out a very clear message that you should not take these medicines unless abs
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by jmhain 11y ago
Articles reporting negatively on antidepressants should come with a huge disclaimer to those taking them that they should continue to do so unless their doctor / psychiatrist recommends otherwise. It seems obvious, but after being most
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by jmhain 11y ago
Probably not easily, if at all. Additionally, it's ARM so you'd be limited to what's available in Arch Linux ARM. There's a Linux version of the very similar Intel Compute Stick for about $110 that you may be interested
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by jmhain 11y ago
Servo uses SpiderMonkey.
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by jmhain 11y ago
> Have they? Where? I'd love to see some on Evelyn. Me too. I was actually hit on Evelyn a few months back.
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by jmhain 11y ago
I appreciate the very well-thought-out comment. It seems to be fashionable to dislike SSRIs but I've been on an SSRI for a severe anxiety / panic disorder for around six years. and it's the _only_ thing that ever eliminated p
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by jmhain 11y ago
You might be depressed. At least, that was the case with me when I started sleeping all the time and lost interest in programming. I finally got the courage to explain it to a doctor, was prescribed some meds, and a couple months later was
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by jmhain 11y ago
Interesting. DownThemAll is currently the only reason I still use Firefox occasionally.
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by jmhain 11y ago
I suspect that I would experience the same, if I could stop. I've tried at least a half dozen times in the last few years, but the withdrawal symptoms (headache and intense nausea) never seem to go away, even after several weeks withou

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