midgetjones

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by midgetjones 2y ago
If you're in a terminal and want to edit just that command (and Vim is your $EDITOR), you can type `ctrl-x ctrl-e` and it will open your command in a buffer. Once you're satisfied, you can `:wq` and the edited command will be read
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by midgetjones 2y ago
> The genius of this was that Jamie Oliver was of course famous
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by midgetjones 2y ago
Hi :) Cool project! Just FYI, there is already a fairly well-established project with that name. https://www.graphiti.dev
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by midgetjones 2y ago
Have you tried magnesium? I've found the oil spray applied to the soles of the feet effective.
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by midgetjones 3y ago
That looks great! I'm not sure it was available in 2018 when I looked. I tried a few options, but posting to twitter & subbing to the account was the quickest hack that worked reliably.
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by midgetjones 3y ago
That's amazing!
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by midgetjones 3y ago
Absolutely! My original plan had been to scrape their website using Selenium or similar. I quickly noticed that they had employed lazy loading, which would have made that all but impossible. It took me a good few minutes to realise that if
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by midgetjones 3y ago
Hi! I answered this in the other post, but the Postgres UPSERT was the key. By using a combination of attributes (It may have just been name & D.O.B), In a single operation I could figure out if the cat has been posted (and update the e
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by midgetjones 3y ago
Good question! The primary reason was to learn Elixir, so this was just a well-timed excuse to explore the language (and Phoenix, the web framework). The secondary reason was that my wife was the main client, and she doesn't respond we
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by midgetjones 3y ago
Well played!
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by midgetjones 3y ago
Thanks! Probably the only side project I've ever seen through to completion
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by midgetjones 3y ago
A few years ago, my wife and I decided to adopt a rescue cat from battersea.org.uk. However, it was a frustrating experience as the staff didn't always update the website regularly, and we'd find that any suitable cats would be sn
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by midgetjones 6y ago
The main moral of this story is that people like to claim hindsight for some sort of psychic power.
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by midgetjones 6y ago
Flash came out in the mid 90s. I'd say there was a decade before they became practical and cheap enough to outnumber desktops
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by midgetjones 6y ago
For most of Flash's lifespan, laptops and smartphones were not really a thing.
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by midgetjones 6y ago
I've been using Vim Vixen[0] since the WebExtension switch, and I haven't noticed any missing features. I'd be curious to see how you found it in comparison. [0] https://github.com/ueokande/vim-vixen
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by midgetjones 6y ago
Gleam is pretty young, so I wouldn't expect the community to be huge. Not sure what you mean by 'Phoenix on Gleam', but you could write core code in Gleam and use it in an Elixir/Phoenix app, no probs https://
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by midgetjones 6y ago
He did demand royalties, he gets a 40% cut as well.
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by midgetjones 6y ago
My least favourite was Quentin Tarantino demanding a songwriting credit for Fun Lovin' Criminals' Scooby Snacks, just because it sampled a few seconds of dialogue from Pulp Fiction.
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by midgetjones 6y ago
The only people that think April Fools jokes are funny are the ones performing them, or PR departments. I have no idea what sort of pizza that would be, but I don't think it's that subjective. All the people disagreeing with OP in
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by midgetjones 6y ago
Didn't Dyson move all his manufacturing to Singapore at the same time as loudly espousing Brexit? Waiting for the v2 of the ventilator that has a ball attached, and costs an extra £100.
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by midgetjones 6y ago
I totally agree with your second sentence. Nobody's saying "ban jokes, I hate humour". Just this specific type of joke, at this specific point in time.
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by midgetjones 6y ago
Fair enough, good ones can exist. But every year April 1st becomes such a barrage of PR stunts, mostly not of that quality, that I'd rather companies didn't waste the resource.
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by midgetjones 6y ago
I agree with you, but in agreement with OP, April Fool jokes just aren't funny. They're inherently mean. You can be funny without tricking someone, and everyone is already on an emotional knifepoint at the moment.
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by midgetjones 7y ago
Seems to be struggling a bit. Alternate link: https://web.archive.org/web/20200309074327/http://frankforce...
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by midgetjones 7y ago
Don't chase birds for fun
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by midgetjones 7y ago
This seems an appropriate time to mention Shobaleader One, Squarepusher's live project, as their stage gear is a sort of Kendo uniform with a full-face LED matrix. The masks don't look quite as impressive in the video[0], but live
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by midgetjones 7y ago
I think that's more a result of recording technology improvements, so it wouldn't have been practical or possible in those days.
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by midgetjones 7y ago
They keep talking about access to data, but not what's happening to the data itself. Is it being deleted? Sold?
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by midgetjones 7y ago
In my experience, noise-cancelling headphones have made a big difference. The music doesn't need to compete anymore and you can lower the volume and enjoy the dynamic range. I also wonder if the resurgence of vinyl, and rise of home pr

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