marklgr

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by marklgr 1y ago
Could you elaborate?
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by marklgr 3y ago
I've been using the Boldvoice app (no affiliation), it's not perfect but pretty good; my spoken English has definitely improved in a few months. I would recommend it.
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by marklgr 3y ago
Can't be natural selection, can it? Sheer luck?
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by marklgr 3y ago
If someone finds a way, I'm in.
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by marklgr 4y ago
FWIW, if you just like the filename on the left, you still can save forks with: `<quux grep xkcd`
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by marklgr 4y ago
> But we should look at what Lua did for Neovim. There has been an explosion of development effort now that Neovim finally added a reasonable programming interface. It is very much debatable whether Lua is the "reasonable programmin
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by marklgr 4y ago
Reading the docs and searching into it on a regular basis is the single best advice I could give to Vim users wanting to improve. The odd cheatsheet, the post with a few tricks and cool plugins, all those can be well and good, but nothing b
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by marklgr 4y ago
> "If you have to write more than 10 lines, then use a real language" I swear, there should be a HN rule against those. It pollutes every single Shell discussions, bringing nothing to them and making it hard for others do discu
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by marklgr 4y ago
It's a case of knowing the wooledge website (and working with shellcheck), or not. Picking snippets on stackoverflow will probably do more harm than good, tbh.
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by marklgr 4y ago
I still remember 3223 :)
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by marklgr 4y ago
Did you hang out at Maubert Electronics? I also recall a few RTC servers, blast from the past!
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by marklgr 5y ago
Yes, it can be cryptic and not beginner-friendly, but it's powerful and once you know it, you know it; it will be useful for years if not decades, as opposed to some tools or frameworks du jour that are sometimes as cryptic. The main i
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by marklgr 5y ago
Good book, for all levels, I recall stealing several snippets into my cheatsheet.
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by marklgr 5y ago
String bets not allowed, whatever their encoding ;)
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by marklgr 5y ago
Not OP, but I would say that we, regular Bash users, don't really write complex programs in Bash, even though it depends on what you call "complex". Some of our programs can be pretty long, and we can do more within Bash than
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by marklgr 5y ago
Multiple-cursor editing is a nice and cool feature, and for what it's worth there are some vim plugins to get it in vim, but let's see the alternative: - multiple-cursor: select non-contiguous pieces of text, then edit them all at
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by marklgr 5y ago
I also like and use tools like sed and awk; using the vim internal tools are very easy to learn if you come from there, and they have the advantage of being better suited for working with whole buffer (multilines, paragraphs etc.), instead
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by marklgr 5y ago
Yes, if you want/need an IDE, by all means do. Vim is an editor, a very powerful one with all sorts of tools, but it's generally ill-advised to try and make it work like an IDE. As far as I'm concerned, as a grey beard sysadm
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by marklgr 7y ago
Churchill, IIRC.
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by marklgr 7y ago
Slightly tangential, but that former stance you describe partly is a consequence of the age-old dualism between emotions and reason, to which people quite frequently subscribe despite strong evidence in the last decades from neurosciences t
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by marklgr 7y ago
To each his own I guess. As far as I'm concerned, I'm mainly interested in the one-column spreadsheet, tweaking a few input rows and checking how it impacts some other rows. I still use instacalc from time to time, but now I often
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by marklgr 7y ago
I like dc too, and wrote this plugin for Vim: https://github.com/fcpg/vim-colddeck The power of old tools :)
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by marklgr 8y ago
Emails are cheap, quick and asynchronous (contrary to phone), there's a log of the conversation which can be forwarded if need be, and you can attach data to it (document, video etc.). You can sort your mailbox according to your needs,
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by marklgr 8y ago
IIRC, he claims that foreign aids directly help autocratic rulers stay in place, by giving them means to pay off their vital support. So he says that it clearly prevents uplifting people or teaching them democracy, since they are the first
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by marklgr 8y ago
No need to call others' opinions ignorant when you have another one. Here's a good book dealing with foreign aids, among other things: https://www.amazon.com/Dictators-Handbook-Behavior-Almost-Po...
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by marklgr 8y ago
Drones can be produced and deployed in higher quantities than aircraft, and with AI you won't necessarily need one man behind each drone. So yes, it is potentially worse than aircraft, for the same reason a police/army of bots cou
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by marklgr 8y ago
> The guilty don’t feel guilty, they learn not to. Along with the usual "If I didn't do it, someone else would".
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by marklgr 8y ago
Signaling is also a strong component of luxury; you let everyone know that you have means, good tastes, and that you belong to such and such circle. Some brands don't even bother to deliver superior quality products, they just "se
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by marklgr 8y ago
> I kept having to go back to the documentation to remember the best way to convert a string to all uppercase... was it: Wouldn't you have the same issue with just any programming language?
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by marklgr 8y ago
To me, the main reason of Python success vs Perl is that it's much easier to learn, so anyone can jump in even with limited programming experience.

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