pharaohgeek

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by pharaohgeek 3mo ago
As someone who relies on their iPhone for a lot these days, I find this a bit ridiculous. However, as someone who grew up with a Commodore 64 and learned how to code on it at age 6, I LOVE the nostalgic look of it!
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by pharaohgeek 3mo ago
There was a KRAS conference a couple of weeks ago, and as I understand it that's exactly what happened. It is such a game changer that they could not contain their excitement. For all the ridiculous talk of "they're being p
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by pharaohgeek 3mo ago
I was fortunate to participate in the trial for this drug for over a year. It is nothing short of a miracle drug (although there is still more that can be done). I was forced to withdraw after the drug lost its effectiveness and my diseas
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by pharaohgeek 3mo ago
The Johns Hopkins Children's' Center is looking at trialing it for rhabdomyosarcoma, a particularly deadly form of cancer that primary targets children. If successful, this would represent a HUGE leap forward in its treatment.
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by pharaohgeek 5mo ago
As I understand it, though, it's really not well suited to server-side Swift development. Doesn't leverage SPM, requires Xcode, etc. I'd LOVE a revival of AppCode (or Swift support in CLion) that would facilitate server-sid
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by pharaohgeek 5mo ago
It doesn't feel like it if you're living in MOST places. I bought my first house 6 months after graduating from college (2000). It cost me roughly 3x my salary at the time. I know what I pay new grads right now, and it's w
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by pharaohgeek 6mo ago
Started using Solaris 7 in college when Sun made it available for free. All you had to do was fill out a web form! I absolutely loved it. To this day it remains my favorite OS to use. I love macOS and its ease of use (plus its Unix-ish
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by pharaohgeek 7mo ago
Thankfully, you can disable that feature
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by pharaohgeek 8mo ago
I do miss JetBrains' AppCode and their support for Swift in CLion. I wish they would open-source those plugins so that they can continue to be used in modern versions of CLion.
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by pharaohgeek 8mo ago
I absolutely love Swift. I find it to be such an elegant language. I've done a few macOS/iOS apps with it over the years, but have really come to love it on the server. There are a couple of areas I feel could use some improvem
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by pharaohgeek 8mo ago
I began using Solaris in college when Sun made Solaris 7 free for anyone who wanted it. I still remember getting the huge package of CDs in the mail and installing them on my Pentium II desktop at home. It quickly became my favorite OS.
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by pharaohgeek 9mo ago
I love macOS, but definitely do miss the days of a more utilitarian look. The old Unix GUIs like CDE hold a special place in my heart.
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by pharaohgeek 9mo ago
As part of my post-cancer screening, I have received a full-body MRI every year since 2017. In 2024, it discovered pancreatic cancer. Grateful for those years where it found nothing, but even MORE grateful when it did catch something!
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by pharaohgeek 11mo ago
I remember the first time I found this list and playing around with it using Microsoft QuickBASIC. I couldn't believe how much more functionality it opened up to me. Mouse support. Graphics support. Fun memories!
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by pharaohgeek 1y ago
App code was a really great IDE, Especially if you were developing server-side Swift. I wish JetBrains would've open sourced the plugins so it could carry on
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by pharaohgeek 1y ago
ElasticSearch and OpenSearch are certainly egregiously guilty of this. Their API is an absolute nightmare to work with if you don't have a supported native client. Why such a popular project doesn't have an easy-to-use OpenAPI s
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by pharaohgeek 1y ago
I'm using it on my most recent projects and have had a great experience. It doesn't have the ecosystem of a language like Java, which can be frustrating, but it certainly handles 90% of my needs out of the box. I've never h
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by pharaohgeek 1y ago
Sadly, Jetbrains no longer sells AppCode or supports their Swift plugins for CLion. I WISH they would open source the plugins, as CLion is far superior to Xcode. For now, though, we're really stuck with either Xcode (Mac) or VSCode (
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by pharaohgeek 1y ago
Unfortunately, even that isn't supported any longer. I do a lot of server-side Swift development and would LOVE to be able to ditch Xcode for CLion and the Swift plugin.
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by pharaohgeek 2y ago
Aspiring pancreatic cancer survivor here. This is excellent news. Part of the reason this is such a deadly form of cancer is that there are often no symptoms until it's far too late. I know that there is a blood marker - CA19 - can
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by pharaohgeek 2y ago
I've often said I would LOVE a modernized version of CDE. Smooth out some of the edges, GREATLY improve the font rendering, etc. but keep the feel that this is a system designed for work . I love the polish of macOS, but there'
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by pharaohgeek 2y ago
I have PiHole running on a Raspberry Pi 4, along with a couple of home automation services. PiHole acts as my DNS and DHCP servers, and works GREAT! Plus, I'm able to manually block sites on a per-client basis (such as when my kids a
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by pharaohgeek 2y ago
8 years cancer free and counting. Here's the truth of it: It's going to SUCK. There's no sugar-coating it. There's no way around it. You're getting poison injected into you and hoping that it only kills the bad
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by pharaohgeek 2y ago
What ever happened to the X.Desktop GUI mentioned in the article? I'd never heard of it before, and the Wikipedia article on it never mentions what happened to it.
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by pharaohgeek 2y ago
No, my cancer was a sarcoma in my left shoulder.
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by pharaohgeek 2y ago
Young-ish cancer survivor here. I would add "9a. Don't ever go to a tanning salon" to this list, per my oncologist. There are genetic factors that caused my cancer, so naturally I was worried about recurrence. Her comments to
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by pharaohgeek 2y ago
Compiling Java to native code via GraalVM is really amazing. The Quarkus framework supports this, and the startup time and memory utilization is incredible compared to the JVM. I deploy native-built Java apps as AWS Lambdas and the startu
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by pharaohgeek 2y ago
Writing server-side Swift in AppCode or CLion was a breeze, too. The interface was so much friendlier than XCode. It's a real shame they discontinued Swift support.
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by pharaohgeek 2y ago
Is it safe to assume you’ve written a custom Javadoc renderer? If so, this is long overdue. The existing renderer for Javadocs produces ugly — though functional — results. I’d love to see an alternative rendered implemented to generate s
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by pharaohgeek 3y ago
Couldn't agree more! I find it to be a very elegant language and a real treat to program in. I do mostly Java for work, and wish Swift had the open source ecosystem that Java has. There are so many support libraries and frameworks i

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