shadytrees

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by shadytrees 2mo ago
PTACs suck. Well-maintained, newer models suck less, but they still suck. Unless well-insulated, the sleeves leak air (and humidity). And there's a duopoly between Ice Air and Islandaire, so they get to charge more for maintenance. The
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by shadytrees 3mo ago
The Balatro game that Fable spit out (Flipside) https://play-flipside.netlify.app/ is buggy but fun. Fable also fixed one of my personal pet peeves. Unlike Balatro, it comes with a calculator to preview the score!
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by shadytrees 1y ago
Scroll through his X account -- Charlie Kirk and DHH content are some recent entries. He is one of those people who thinks tech should be apolitical without really interrogating what apolitical means or how it affects people who have been m
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by shadytrees 1y ago
Kling's politics aside, he's also had a history of abandoning projects after hyping them up on social media and attracting contributors. Here is what happened to SerenityOS and jakt, for example: https://github.com&#x2F
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by shadytrees 1y ago
Maybe not common, but there’s Control.Arrow.(>>>)
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by shadytrees 2y ago
try this alt stylesheet https://ddanluu.com/nothing-works
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by shadytrees 2y ago
Rider's recent free non-commercial license makes F# a much more attractive option for macOS, I think
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by shadytrees 2y ago
James Somers writes beautifully; https://www.newyorker.com/contributors/james-somers has some of his other writing
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by shadytrees 2y ago
reminds me of why the lucky stiff's hoodwink.d project, in a good way
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Building security into the redesigned Chrome downloads experience(security.googleblog.com)
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by shadytrees 2y ago
> I made fermented hot sauce once, and i don't think it was sufficiently different to other kinds to be worth doing again. But then, i have only done it once! +1. I spent hours lovingly sanitizing and prepping and waiting for habane
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by shadytrees 3y ago
Formatted with minimal CSS: https://ddanluu.com/seo-spam
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by shadytrees 3y ago
Yes, this article is borrowing liberally from Passage of Power (2012), the fourth book: > Lucy’s father was not as pleased with his new quarters. Two days after the Johnsons moved in, he told West, “Mr. West, if you can’t get that shower
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by shadytrees 3y ago
Apropos of nothing, except that it shows off that Firefox implements the OpenSearch spec correctly, here's a Wordle clone my friend Nolen built in Firefox's address bar: https://eieio.games/nonsense/implementi
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by shadytrees 3y ago
I think you're using concurrency in a non-traditional sense https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1050222/what-is-the-diff... and I also think you're being a little bit uncharitable
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by shadytrees 4y ago
formatted for wide monitors https://ddanluu.com/wat
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by shadytrees 4y ago
Related: https://idlewords.com/2023/1/why_not_mars.htm
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by shadytrees 4y ago
The person who founded Elliott Management (Paul Eliott Singer) is far from a saint, but he has been astonishingly accurate during his career. According to Wikipedia (I did a big deep dive into this hedge fund and person after reading the su
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by shadytrees 4y ago
Yes, raising an exn in OCaml is close to jumping to an address stored in a register. https://stackoverflow.com/a/8567429 As a result, raising and catching exns in OCaml is cheap. List.fold_until in Base, for example, i
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by shadytrees 4y ago
Check out https://bauble.studio too
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by shadytrees 4y ago
+1 Sisters with Transistors. I watched this in the dark at the Metrograph, a theater in the outskirts of Manhattan, with maybe six other people, and the experience was transcendental.
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by shadytrees 4y ago
Fun fact: GNU Readline and Bash are maintained by a single person. https://tiswww.case.edu/php/chet/readline/rltop.html#Maintai... In case you were looking for more examples of "open source being held to
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by shadytrees 4y ago
There's a memorable Stripe CTF from 2014 that had something similar (Gitcoins). This brought back fond memories of that.
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by shadytrees 4y ago
I agree!! I think having APL be a embedded domain-specific language is the perfect fit. I don't want to give up record and union types when I'm programming something large; but some piece of the app I'm writing will want to p
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by shadytrees 4y ago
This is what got me and my friend into APL-likes. My friend even made an APL-like towards the end. I assert that APL is one of the main, definitional pillars of programming languages, the way Lisp and C and Prolog are. It is extraordinarily
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by shadytrees 4y ago
stark apple subtweeting vibes in this post
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by shadytrees 4y ago
Agreed. This seems like a newspaper trying to squeeze an article out of a weak signal.
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by shadytrees 4y ago
I hope the author has found their way to joshua stein's blog: https://jcs.org/
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by shadytrees 4y ago
I found them: https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/bash.git/log/ Cool comment
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by shadytrees 4y ago
Yes, there's the NSEvent ecosystem. Cocoa also lets you two-way bind a state object with the view as long as the state object (whether it's a controller or a model or a view model) implements key-value coding; notably, the blessed

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