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by techtalsky 1y ago
It's more like `ruff` for PHP.
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by techtalsky 1y ago
I was really excited when I read your post. I've long looked for a good MarkDown -> PDF or RTF workflow, so I gave KeenWrite a quick try. At first glance I really thought I'd be exactly the user for this tool, but quickly rea
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by techtalsky 2y ago
A note that if you have "uv" installed you can execute arbitrary python packages with the "uvx" command without needing to clone a repo: uvx --from git+https://github.com/beala/xkcd-password xkp
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by techtalsky 2y ago
There's proof! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vskQsSJ_IJg&ab_channel=hirud... Watching a playthrough I was surprised to see I'd never seen anyone get past level two.
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by techtalsky 2y ago
The author clearly needed to write the article they pitched, even if that wasn't supported by this source.
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by techtalsky 2y ago
Probably not. PillPack is MDP: multi-dose packaging, which is little packets containing multiple medications. All they're advertising here is regular bottled medications, which is a much easier-to-solve mail-order prescription proble
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by techtalsky 3y ago
At the same time, Reddit exists, and this is a community of people created by a VC company explicitly to have wonky tech discussions with other professionals called "Hacker News". It's fine every once in a while but I don&#x
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Beancount: Double-entry accounting from text files(github.com)
229 points by techtalsky 5y ago|123 comments
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by techtalsky 7y ago
Good call on Inform. It's certainly both novel and useful.
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by techtalsky 8y ago
Your anecdotal experience isn't an effective counterpoint though. Here's a citation in the neighborhood: http://www.pewsocialtrends.org/2017/12/05/americans-see-diff...
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by techtalsky 8y ago
It's actually really common for women who have experienced sexual assault to take steps (gaining weight, wearing loose baggy clothing) to avoid the male gaze.
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by techtalsky 8y ago
Technically, yes, as I understand the legislation.
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by techtalsky 8y ago
However this is something you can put in /use/local/bin and use alongside other command line tools with pipes
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by techtalsky 9y ago
OWASP guidelines are a good start.
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by techtalsky 9y ago
Muliline style /
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by techtalsky 10y ago
Even though the second Keen trilogy had richer graphics, I really loved the first Keen trilogy for the gameplay. The jumps and movement felt so much more physical. Keen would make this tiny pause as if winding up for a jump each time he j
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by techtalsky 10y ago
+1 for using Vagrant. This lets you bring instances up and down much more easily. Also, for most things you need (like say a Rails/nginx stack, or a LAMP stack) there's a prebuilt Vagrant box you can start from. Also, some moder
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by techtalsky 10y ago
Yeah, some aspect of Spelunky's spirit are obviously pulled from NetHack (Derek Yu, the creator, explains so specifically in the book about Spelunky).
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by techtalsky 11y ago
I'm sure they don't cost Amazon $200 to produce, and assumably they can just bill corporate customers for them if they're not returned. Some amount of loss is probably included in the cost to consumers.
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by techtalsky 11y ago
Looks like the advantages as listed are: - Very simple visual configuration software - Ability to view a graphical representation of device usage and prioritize a device - Ability to update the device without interrupting the connection - S
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by techtalsky 11y ago
You know, the age of ACTUAL pop-up windows really sucked, and it was amazing when browsers rendered them largely obsolete by limiting how websites could launch another window but at least all of those had the X in the SAME EXACT PLACE. The
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by techtalsky 11y ago
I "extensively monitor" both channels and find that they have their own advantages and disadvantages. When an important technology is announced, or there's some important tech event, I really want to see what HN says first.
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by techtalsky 11y ago
The main limitation is number of clients here. If you have a RESTful API, some ETL loaders, and several webservers running on EC2 all talking to your database, then you need a real client-server architecture. However, if you're runnin
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by techtalsky 12y ago
That would be wonderful. I have several friends who really struggle with CSS right now, and this kind of illustration is super useful. Floats are such a fundamental and confusing CSS concept. Any illustration of it would be useful.
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by techtalsky 12y ago
Really cool way of visualizing some CSS concepts but I would have loved to see "float". I think that's the one that gives people the most trouble. I think it would probably take several gifs to illustrate though. I do appr
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by techtalsky 12y ago
A pretty decent Time magazine article outlining the basic reasons: http://business.time.com/2012/11/20/why-so-many-americans-do...
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by techtalsky 12y ago
Well I always get a chuckle when I see people talking about 'eek'ing out a living, but I kind of get it. Eek! can be an exclamation of alarm, so eeking out a living would be just barely making it in a constant state of alarm. It
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by techtalsky 12y ago
Thought it might interest you that the term is "burying the lede". One of those weird terms like "champing at the bit" or "eke out a living" that uses a word that sounds like a modern English word but is actua
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by techtalsky 12y ago
It seems like there's a possibility you could work with one of these artists in some kind of promotion deal. You could have limited distribution of their track as a test app, and they could get a little promotion along with your cool
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by techtalsky 12y ago
I haven't seen much discussion of a more ideal way to solve this problem (to say: as a one-off like the author was doing, not reusable software), so I thought I'd just think about how I'd do something similar. Luckily there a

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