neillyons

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Comment · 18 days ago

Just speculating, but I suspect Apple are releasing this because Jony Ive and OpenAI are working on something similar.

Comment · 1 month ago

Elixir concurrency feels like magic with async_stream https://elixir.hexdocs.pm/Task.html#async_stream/5-options

  [
    "https://httpbin.org/delay/1",
    "https://httpbin.org/delay/2",
    "https://httpbin.org/delay/3"
  ]
  |> Task.async_stream(
    &Req.get!/1,
    max_concurrency: 3,
    ordered: true,
    timeout: to_timeout(second: 2)
  )
  |> Enum.to_list()

Comment · 1 month ago

WhatsApp status could also work

Comment · 2 months ago

I remember reading that in early versions of Python there was no built in True and False. Each user would implement this themselves as

True = 1

False = 0

then later these got added to the language. In Python 2 you could still reassign and swap them so that 'if False' was actually true!

True, False = False, True

Python 3 you could no longer reassign them.

Comment · 4 months ago

Pronouns

Comment · 8 months ago

I stopped my 1Password subscription last year and started using Apple Passwords. The user experience is great if you switch to Safari with fingerprint login.

Comment · 10 months ago

My favourite is this disclaimer in the question. lol

> Is there any way to force install a pip python package ignoring all its dependencies that cannot be satisfied?

> (I don't care how "wrong" it is to do so, I just need to do it, any logic and reasoning aside...)

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/12759761/pip-force-insta...

Comment · 10 months ago

When visiting Ayers Rock in Australia I stayed in Alice Springs. While I was there I learnt that Alice Springs exists because it was a repeater station for a telegraph line that stretched from Southern Australia all the way to London. There would be people listening to morse code, and tapping it out again to the next repeater station. Blew my mind that there was a wire that went all the way to London from Australia!

Comment · 10 months ago

Can anyone recommend a native macOS app with a calendar like this that supports .ics calendars?

Comment · 10 months ago

Bitcoin doesn't take into account that humans are forgetful.

If you forget your bank card pin code they would post you a new card and pin, if you phone them up. I've done this a couple times in the past pre-smartphone banks.

If you forget your bitcoin password you are never getting access back.

Comment · 11 months ago

Does Elixir have any footguns like this? As it is immutable I don't think any of these are possible.

Comment · 1 year ago

If you imported from Safari/Chrome in the onboarding. Go to Settings -> Personalization -> Browser Memories.

It has summarized my browsing habits and interests. Very impressive.

- "The user has a routine of checking their Fastmail inbox daily around 08:27"

Comment · 1 year ago

Elixir via the Task module https://hexdocs.pm/elixir/Task.html

Comment · 1 year ago

I did a speed awareness course as I got caught speeding and was told if there are lamp posts the speed limit is 30mph unless stated otherwise.

Comment · 1 year ago

Crunchbang was such a good distro! I ran linux for about seven years. Ubuntu and then Crunchbang. Had my 2012 MacBook Pro dual boot into Crunchbang. Battery life was awful. It had no automatic fan control, so the laptop got so hot I could barely touch it. I ended up writing a bash script to manually control the fans using function keys https://gist.github.com/nwjlyons/b29ee6f7e26595f55a2a

As cool as it was, I can't be bothered with any of that these days. Just give me a Macbook Pro, as I know it will work and have amazing battery life!