bjeanes

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Comment · 2 years ago
Command + P worked for me in Firefox, but Command + Shift + P did not.

Further, because I don't type in QWERTY, I noticed that _some_ shortcuts seem correctly mapped in my layout, but others are not. The Option+N shortcut for a new note just starts the "˜" combining character (expecting a following character like "n" to form "ñ") when using the "n" key in my layout. However it works if I use the physical "n" key (which is my "k").

I feel like that explanation is pretty poor, but yeah basically some shortcuts seem bound to the physical key location whereas others seem bound to the mapped key. I wonder if they are declared differently?

Comment · 3 years ago
I just preceded the asterisks with a backslash.
Comment · 3 years ago
Comment · 3 years ago
You've made the thing in my brain I've wanted to build for a while but which felt too hard. And you've made it self-hostable! You legend... thank you!
Comment · 3 years ago
> Has to anyone asked ChatGPT to refactor existing horrible code?

I'm not sure if "horrible" but I did experiment with getting it to refactor some code. I also gave it code with a bug and asked it to fix it (I described the bug), which it was able to do. I didn't test very complicated scenarios though. In the bug fix case, it was code to wrap, indent, and prefix a block of text.

Comment · 4 years ago
Looks like the new 2.0 guides doesn't have anything regarding views and templates yet. Is that a documentation gap or is it like some of the closer ROM integration, where it will be 2.1 where that is functionally fleshed out?
Comment · 4 years ago
I wish Mozilla had been able to keep pushing harder with their servo project. IIRC, one of the earliest upsides I remember hearing about to justify creating Rust (in order to build servo) was that the increased safety with regards to concurrency could allow a web renderer to parallelise computation across _underclocked_ cores, thereby setting a new benchmark for battery consumption.

Granted, that was more about mobile devices but it still stuck with me. Effortless and safe concurrency would tip the scales to having hundreds of low power cores instead of a dozen high powered cores. I want that world, esp for mobile devices and laptops.

Comment · 4 years ago
The title text for the image implies it might be about ImageMagick, but that's probably dated now since the likes of vips
Comment · 4 years ago
Helix too, it seems, though I haven't used either for more than 10 minutes each.
Comment · 4 years ago
Yeah I use them too. I keep meaning to set up Firefly III to try it but Pocketsmith _has_ been really good. For a period of time I had accounts in a couple of countries and it was one of the few tools which let me get a multi-currency view of all my finances across the globe. Highly recommend.
Comment · 4 years ago
As an early adopter of actions I remember that it was wildly different in its first version (beta perhaps?) than it is today. I have no source to back this up because it was too long ago, but I feel like I remember hearing at the time that the reason it changed so much was _in part_ because of the ADO presence. So I think you're right that the vision was there before hand, but what we have today is very much because of the influence of ADO (in particular, the mandate to run actions _on_ Azure, IIRC).
Comment · 4 years ago
Agree 100%. Also, thanks for hiring me into Heroku at the time, even if it's behind both of us now <3
Comment · 5 years ago
That scene gave me chills while watching it, and chills just now while re-watching it.

So good.

Comment · 5 years ago
Yeah. And when you might actually _need_ to change, it could be while doing a 3-point turn in the middle of a busyish street. You really don't want to be lingering in the middle of the road trying to coerce the AI into believing you really do want to change directions...
Comment · 6 years ago
I worked with her (I was on the team she was initially hired onto at Heroku) and she is one of the best hires we ever made, hands down.

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