zexbha

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by zexbha 2y ago
In my past life, I was a chef. I owned a restaurant in Ireland. I only purchased the cheapest Chinese truffles money could buy. Why? People only want to taste the oil anyway. I've worked with high end white truffles and the flavor is v
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by zexbha 2y ago
This is a surprise to me. That airport doesn't look at me twice when I travel through it. I've been >30 times and I'm foreign. Never once questioned anything I brought in. To be fair I'm not trafficking anything
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by zexbha 2y ago
I don't mean this to be a striking criticism of Emacs, however, I had the exact same experience. To be fair I've been using Vim for many years so that may have influenced how difficult it was for me to understand the Emacs key bin
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by zexbha 2y ago
Didn't go for the obvious 'GAMMA'?
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by zexbha 2y ago
In central Florida, Kroger is virtual.
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by zexbha 2y ago
Current EE undergrad (one semester left) and my university doesn't have ChemE so I'm sitting comfortably at the top of the chain :^)
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by zexbha 2y ago
This was great to read. I had never heard of Philip Hazel until today. Although I appreciate the work that he's done in maintaining PCRE, I hope that I am never in the position where I am still working on a project at that age.
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by zexbha 2y ago
I don't know this author, nor do I have much stake in this article, but I don't like this recent wave of blog posts that are riddled with low-effort memes. It's very distracting
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by zexbha 2y ago
I would not have observed this on my own. Do contractions make English harder to comprehend for non-natives? I'll have to avoid using y'all'dn't've
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by zexbha 3y ago
I can disagree. I work as a sysadmin/ database admin for a large church. A large portion of the congregation consists of engineers, lawyers, doctors, etc. Granted this is a famously upper-class WASP denomination, but it's a solid
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by zexbha 3y ago
I like these end clauses but they can get cumbersome in heavily nested control structures. Ruby, I'm looking at you.