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by pjz 2mo ago
I'd appreciate a 'shuffle' button that just re-mixed-up the letters into a different order. I find this keeps me from obsessing on adjacent letter pairs that my eyes/brain lock onto.
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Show HN: Hardbar – compile-time defined i3bar(github.com)
2 points by pjz 3mo ago|0 comments
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by pjz 5mo ago
on a linux box try `man ascii`
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by pjz 10mo ago
uhhh... that's mostly on your browser. The css is at the top and pretty skimpy. If it really bothers you, find a styler extension that will override the CSS to render it more pleasingly.
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by pjz 11mo ago
This seems like it could be an rdf query tool, though offhand I don't know the ref to the right rdf schema.
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by pjz 11mo ago
>having to eff around with the crap show of Ruby/Python/Node envs and how every person likes to use different tools for setting those up This was the problem I wanted to solve, and I ended up on nix+direnv (and am considering d
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by pjz 1y ago
Funny, I see it as them choosing not to add another de-facto 'standard' ala https://xkcd.com/927/ .
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by pjz 1y ago
The practical problem with logging by time is that it's not resource constrained: holding N seconds of logs, even when each line is a bounded size, takes potentially unlimited memory. Logging 'by count' used a bounded amount
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by pjz 1y ago
The problem with the 'characters are just numbers' approach is that they're not _just_ numbers.. with the advent of unicode, they're _sequences of numbers_... so bytes thus can mean different things when part of a a sequ
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by pjz 1y ago
My first thought was that a library was writing fake books to poison LLMs that were using their corpus without their permission, and that someone had developed a tool to identify such books.
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by pjz 2y ago
>The logical endgame of that approach is to have a big tug-of-war between two big coalitions ...why just two? He specifically mentioned advocating for ranked choice voting, which would make it a tug-of-war between N coalitions, and woul
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by pjz 2y ago
Crashing due to lack of a sufficient terminfo is indeed more of a lazydocker problem than a ghostty problem. See the issue above for a workaround.
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by pjz 2y ago
This is an off-by-one interpretation of the zero-one-infinity rule :)
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by pjz 2y ago
> And why 32 entries? I ran this benchmark with a bunch of different bucket sizes and 32 worked well. I have no idea why that worked out to be the best. If you were using 2-byte ints, this is likely because cache lines are 64 bytes, so 3
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by pjz 2y ago
I was just wondering what the author's opinion of Zig's take on C-interop would be.
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by pjz 3y ago
I hope so; the dump site will surely be found, and the movie will be rescued. I'm reminded of someone digging up a trove of ET cartridges for the Atari 2600 from the dump where they were disposed of.
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by pjz 3y ago
...right? Anyone remember Pinball Construction Set?
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by pjz 3y ago
My understanding is that 44.1k is to improve error correction. 44100 == 2^2 * 3^2 * 5^2 * 7^2 ... something about vertices of a hypercube.
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by pjz 3y ago
Besides the obvious attention play, he might be going for an acquisition play... "Why bother writing our own iMessage for Android when we can just buy this little company that's already done it?" There's obvious issues
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by pjz 3y ago
re: presentation remote controls: Look into remote controls for, say, Kodi. You're sure to find the wiki listing a bunch of ways to control Kodi from your couch, which includes bluetooth remotes of various flavors that should meet
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by pjz 3y ago
Here's an in-the-wild, long-standing example of a table used for bit reversals: https://gitlab.com/libtiff/libtiff/-/blob/master/libtiff/tif... The function to do the same for a byte is...
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by pjz 3y ago
Don't you guys watch Mythbusters? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xzw2iBmRsjs (Mythbusters bust 'bull in a china shop stereotype')
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by pjz 4y ago
Yup. I've used Linux for a couple decades of writing python and Java. I've gone from dwm to wmii to i3. Latest gig gave me an M1 macbook, and I tried to use it... 6mo later I ask for and received a replacement linux box. Reaso
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by pjz 4y ago
Does IMAP search not give you most of this functionality? I wrote a little mh-like cli for IMAP awhile back ( https://github.com/pjz/mhi ) that lets me search just fine, though it's admittedly single-folder-at-a-ti
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by pjz 4y ago
I use etckeeper for this, along with a cron entry to put the currently-installed set of packages into a file (/etc/packages.installed). Thus rebuilding becomes: base-install, pull /etc, reinstall-packages, re-checkout /
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by pjz 4y ago
If the emphasis is on the the interaction between the protagonist and the new environment, I've also heard it called a 'fish out of water story'.
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by pjz 4y ago
My understanding is that while it used to be true that manual transmissions were more efficient due to humans keeping the engine in the torque sweet spot, it's no longer true since automatics can have so many more gears than manuals.
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by pjz 4y ago
I worked at a place where we had an open dev/support slot for multiple months to cope with increased load due to our success. In the meantime we all just did more support and less dev. My suggestion to management that the existing te
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by pjz 4y ago
I've been doing this for a few years now and definitely agree! I use .home.git as my .git-aside name and also named the access alias 'homegit'. I didn't know about `git config --local status.showUntrackedFiles no` so I j
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by pjz 4y ago
hint: instead of using .gitignore, use .git/info/exclude - then there's no extraneous files in $HOME. And I agree, symlinks seem like a smell.

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