mftb

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by mftb 2mo ago
Thank you for saying this. I've been saying this for years. No one listens.
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by mftb 3mo ago
It's GNU Readline[0] or similar. It's all over the place, on Linux at least. Being GNU it defaults to emacs, but the vi support is also excellent. The first thing I type in any foreign bash is 'set -o vi'. [0] - https:&
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by mftb 3mo ago
I generally agree with you about UIs (if by shit you mean they've thrown away a ton of utility), but I don't think his video was bs, maybe just moved too far from it's original context.
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by mftb 4mo ago
For some reason your reply immediately caused me to imagine Ross Geller shouting into the phone, "Operator", like the, "Pivot" scene from friends.
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by mftb 5mo ago
This is a good and useful breakdown. There are lots of ways to get an education and continue learning.
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by mftb 6mo ago
Location: California Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: Yes Résumé/CV/LinkedIn: Available upon request Email: hn[dot]canteen389[at]passmail[dot]net Technologies: C/C++, Go, C#, Microsoft .Net, Java, XML/DOM, HTML, ASP&#x2F
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by mftb 7mo ago
Stand your ground.
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by mftb 1y ago
gg
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by mftb 3y ago
DB engine appears to be sqlite. It's in the tags on the main page and there's a file full of sql to create what looks like a sample db in the data/ dir.
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by mftb 3y ago
Choosing to name variables with a single character has nothing to do with syntax. At most it could be considered idiomatic, but there's no reason to slavishly follow every idiomatic choice, just as there isn't in natural language.
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by mftb 3y ago
Ah, good eye, ty.
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by mftb 3y ago
I appreciate your write-up, it was well done. How long did you spend on this? I'd be most interested to know how long, not counting writing the blog post.
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by mftb 3y ago
See response to sibling comment.
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by mftb 3y ago
I think I just responded too hastily. I am working in Go. There is file IO going on in addition to the calculation (which because of a NAS or whatever could also be network IO). As a practical matter I had never felt the need to offer cance
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by mftb 3y ago
You've misunderstood how go routines work. You need to put the "go" keyword before the function call in order for it to be run concurrently.
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by mftb 3y ago
This isn't true. I have use cases that don't require cancellations or timeout. The tasks I'm running don't involve the network, they either succeed or error after an expensive calculation.
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by mftb 3y ago
To me this is proof that doing a good visualization is really an art. I saw this on hn for a couple hours, but really didn't think much of it. As soon as I clicked through the funny names, and "continents" brought a smile to
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by mftb 3y ago
I never said I stopped reading anything.
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by mftb 3y ago
Manipulators frequently admit their manipulations, knowing that they work on you anyway. There's nothing novel there.
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by mftb 3y ago
From the linked post: > I cheated a bit there, I admit. I changed one of the words. The name that the saint used in that passage was not ‘Ahriman’. It was ‘Antichrist.’ That's manipulation. That's gross. That's a shame. Th
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by mftb 3y ago
This was an excellent summary, ty.
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by mftb 3y ago
Surprised, none of the more functionally minded have jumped in. Looks interesting, I'll be taking a look, when it ships.
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by mftb 3y ago
lol, the nuclear option. You don't mess around, but really, I think the answer is, never quit Vim.
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by mftb 3y ago
That's the spirit! (but I can't help it if you've mistaken a cleverly disguised web browser for a text editor.)
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by mftb 3y ago
...but then the difficulty of quitting Vim becomes a feature. Can't crash the system by exiting, if you can't exit (taps head meaningfully). /s
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by mftb 3y ago
> As we all know, nobody uses emacs. Ha! Old school. It's boring now that we're all pals.
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by mftb 3y ago
That's awesome. That's exactly the kind of thinking that turns L's to W's.
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by mftb 3y ago
Peter Gabriel is fucking courageous. I love it. I'm a 50+ programmer. I can absolutely feel this shit pressing on me. Good. Are people right that there are ethical concerns, absolutely. We need to get busy realizing the potential and d
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by mftb 3y ago
I also got middling results. I gave it a novel NASA picture of the moon passing in front of the earth, taken by the Deep Space Climate Observatory Satellite, so an unusual vantage point. First it was just wrong, and said that it was a pictu
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by mftb 3y ago
Yea, I definitely wasn't trying to quantify it's value. ChatGPT definitely appears to be proving valuable to people. I was just challenging the idea that so far it's acting in a tutor/instructor/mentor type of role.

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