oats

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by oats 9mo ago
Is this a joke? Am I going crazy? I don't like this future we're going towards where we have to trick our software (which we can no longer understand the workings of) into doing what we tell it to by asking it nicely, or by puttin
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by oats 1y ago
What does "burn-after-read" mean? Just that it can't be retrieved a second time?
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by oats 3y ago
What? How do you derive that reading from the parent comment?
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by oats 4y ago
When I used `pass`, I synced the password store between all my personal devices with Syncthing (non-centralized file syncing tool) and kept the store history with git. This worked surprisingly well and was even pleasantly usable on my phone
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by oats 4y ago
Indeed, his dedication to fitness and taste in fine leather clothing is quite admirable!
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by oats 4y ago
It's a band-aid solution really, but I can recommend you check out the launcher Lawnchair. It looks and behaves much like the stock launcher, but is far more customizable, letting you change the things you mentioned. Thankful that Andr
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by oats 4y ago
Oh ok then, I forgot that there aren't people who are further right-wing than the Republican party...
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by oats 4y ago
Wait, that /only/ works on MacOS?
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by oats 4y ago
Your website design is delightful!
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by oats 4y ago
I made the exact same move for the same reasons a few weeks ago. The UI is a little... dense, but plenty featureful and made working with required oauth for my school Outlook email pretty easy.
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by oats 4y ago
IRC bot! You just need to pull in a lua sockets library to get going.
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by oats 5y ago
Ukraine, like countries often do during war, has temporarily banned amateur radio activity: http://www.arrl.org/news/amateur-radio-in-ukraine-ordered-of...
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by oats 5y ago
Or pattern matching that takes account of the empty list case. Orrrrr using a fold! I usually find when I start matching on list values that the function could be better expressed with a fold instead.
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by oats 5y ago
Nor is "central planning" a socialist concept. The only remotely consisent throughline in the vast spectrum of socialist thought has been democratic ownership or control of one's workplace. In fact, many strains of leftism ex
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by oats 5y ago
That's still functional, monads aren't impure or anything :)
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by oats 5y ago
There's a lot of different lisps out there, but in general: - simple syntax - extensible with macros that mesh well with the language - tend to be expression-oriented, which some people favor - usually have pleasant functional programm
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by oats 5y ago
That's what's in the sidebar, but a quick browsing of the posts in there suggests a more socialist bent to me.
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by oats 5y ago
It's something in between IMO. A moka pot cannot produce the pressures necessary for making traditional espresso, but it does produce a strong, slightly viscous coffee and occasionally some crema. A lovely brew on its own!
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by oats 5y ago
Fennel is a lispy language that transpiles to, maintains the semantics of, and seamlessly interacts with Lua! It’s a fun little language to mess around in, and does a good job showing off some of Lua’s Scheme heritage, while also using some
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Fennel 1.0.0 Released(lists.sr.ht)
6 points by oats 5y ago|1 comments
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by oats 5y ago
There's a certain level of bastardhood at which it becomes hard to feel sympathy for someone's demise. I don't know which side of the line Thomas Midgley Jr. is on, but he's reeeaaal close to it.
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by oats 5y ago
Could... could you enlighten me please?
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by oats 5y ago
Is this not almost how logic programming (prolog, etc.) works? You tell the language some things which are true, and then it'll be able to infer answers to "questions" you ask: https://wiki.c2.com/?LogicProgra
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by oats 5y ago
A few coders from each new generation rediscover the lisp arts... https://xkcd.com/297/
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by oats 7y ago
I have been running my mail server on a digitalocean vps without any spam-block issues for about 2 years now.
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On the Turing Completeness of PowerPoint(youtube.com)
3 points by oats 9y ago|0 comments