rainingmonkey

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by rainingmonkey 4y ago
> people responsible for data systems are unaware of how other people in the company use their system. In some cases even the engineers using a system may not be able to understand what is happening because, according to a Meta engineer,
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by rainingmonkey 4y ago
This looks like a true lifetime's work, started in 1999 and still developed. From the description: It prooves that in other softwares, the signal to noise ratio in the code is very low. Free and closed softwares are no different in t
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by rainingmonkey 4y ago
For a language that is actually "easy to learn and use", look at Lua[1]. It's so easy to learn & use that children manage to be productive with it (the Roblox community). It's still powerful though. With few enough p
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by rainingmonkey 4y ago
I can hold the entire Lua spec in my tiny mind all at once, simplicity-induced quirks and all.
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by rainingmonkey 4y ago
> You can’t exercise your right to speech if you can’t buy posters or domain names for your cause. You can’t go to a protest outside of walking distance if you can’t pay for gas in your car, or a bus or train ticket. I think this aught t
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by rainingmonkey 4y ago
BeOS managed it, and Haiku continues to manage.
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by rainingmonkey 5y ago
Very comprehensive, thank you!
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by rainingmonkey 5y ago
Very nice! Apart from using Redbean (which looks interesting itself), could you summarize the differences between Fullmoon and Lapis?
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by rainingmonkey 5y ago
Have you considered kWin? Sounds like it meets all your requirements. If you're worried about 'bloat', it's surprisingly lightweight and you don't need to pull in a full KDE desktop environment.
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by rainingmonkey 5y ago
> while Fish has some nice out-of-the-box features, they’re all achievable in Zsh with a few lines of plugins. The point of fish is that there is no configuration required. You don't have to learn to configure it, you don't hav
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by rainingmonkey 5y ago
POSIX compliance has never brought me any issues, if I want bash syntax I just use `bash -c COMMAND`. You can invoke bash scripts with `bash SCRIPT` or just add the bash shebang `#!/bin/bash` to the top of your script, set the exe
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by rainingmonkey 5y ago
Everyone who remembers how much better phones with slide-out keyboards were. Commenters here seem to be focusing on the available OSes, but most flagship phones from a few years ago without a locked bootloader will run Lineage or Uubuntu To
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by rainingmonkey 5y ago
The idea of a diversified portfolio is that you buy stocks and other assets too . Stock market gains over the last 10 years may be impressive, but they're nothing compared to housing in certain key cities.
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by rainingmonkey 6y ago
> Prior to Covid, many of the busiest lines were operating near their capacity limits, so setting fares any lower would just cause even more severe crowding. This isn't the vindication of privatisation you seem to think it is. Passe
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by rainingmonkey 6y ago
Elsewhere on their blog (and especially on their gemlog) the author discusses and uses teh constructed language Toki Pona[1]. From wikipedia: > Capital initials are used to mark proper adjectives, while Toki Pona roots are always written
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by rainingmonkey 8y ago
>Peterson isn't making many scientific claims, or even claims as such. My first encounter with Peterson was hearing his "lobster theory", which struck me as such pseudoscientific piffle that I've tried to pay him as l
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by rainingmonkey 9y ago
Albania, Andorra, Armenia. Belarus, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Georgia, Gibraltar, Iceland, Liechtenstein, Macedonia, The Isle of Man, Moldova, Monaco, Montenegro, Norway, Russian Federation, San Marino, Serbia, Switzerland, Turkey, Ukraine, a
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by rainingmonkey 9y ago
Greeks in fact work the longest hours of any EU state. source: https://stats.oecd.org/Index.aspx?DataSetCode=ANHRS
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by rainingmonkey 9y ago
Wulfrunian is very common in Wolverhampton, though more common would be "from Wolves".