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Comment · 1 month ago
It’s not the first time I see you explaining Go concepts at this level of abstraction, focusing on “why” of the design. I feel like official docs are often like “here’s the API, use it”, and I often leave with the thought that it’s designed for the ease of the person doing the implementation, not the user. Thank you.
Comment · 1 month ago
Ctrl-lpj is ingrained in my fingers.

Ctrl-l to clear the screen, Ctrl-p to select previous command, Ctrl-j to enter it again. I don't even use Enter key when in terminal anymore.

When you want to pause entering a command for a moment do Ctrl-a to go to the start of the line, and type # to comment out. Then Ctrl-j. You can return to that later with Ctrl-p, then Ctrl-a again and Ctrl-d to remove that comment.

To edit complex commands you might want to use Alt-e to enter $EDITOR.

Comment · 1 month ago
For fish shell users, you get chronological directory traversal with Alt-Left Arrow and Alt-Right Arrow.
Comment · 6 months ago
Yeah, would like to know as well. I think the applicative functor was originally call "Idiom", another weird name.
Comment · 6 months ago
For an entire book about the topic, see "The physics of filter coffee" by Jonathan Gagné.

Also

> This can be achieved using an espresso machine (figure 1), or with smaller contraptions at much lower pressures such as a moka pot or AeroPress.

Please, just stop. They're not even remotely close.

Comment · 6 months ago
Retirement accounts are a thing in Europe though. In Poland for example there's IKE and IKZE. IKE is a bit simpler of the two. If you hold your money on IKE until you're 60 you're not paying taxes on that. Can invest in stocks or bonds.
Comment · 6 months ago
Well, ackchyually, you can not pick P, it's just not cheap. You could imagine a network behaving like a motherboard really.
Comment · 8 months ago
There's a Polish electronics forum that's infamous because it's kind of actively hostile to them noobs. "Blacklisted power supply, closing thread." is a micro meme at this point.
Comment · 8 months ago
But is the system choking? Or, are you certain it would choke with half the RAM you have? It's a well know thing that OS will book majority of the RAM you have and that's actually not a problem at all.
Comment · 8 months ago
What gets me the most is that all the "correct typing posture" images seem to indicate that it's best to keep the keyboard low, close to you, elbows bent around 90 degrees. In this position the palms are naturally positioned so thumbs are pointing up, and you need to force the palms to be level with the keyboard (that's pronation/supination if I recall correctly). That's just madness to me, I can't last more than few minutes in that position.
Comment · 9 months ago
Eh, so too good to be true.
Comment · 9 months ago
We found an ancient tablet, dated it, reconstruded a long-dead language well enough to read it, reconstructed the night sky on that day, five and a half thousand years ago, found the orbit of this thing, and connected it to a geological formation thousands of kilometers away. Humans can do some amazing stuff.
Comment · 9 months ago
Baba is You is literally a sokoban for software engineers, highly recommended. It's quite difficult though.
Comment · 9 months ago
Yeah, sorry for not being clear enough. I just struggle how a good faith market can even exist. I immediately start thinking how participants would be incentivized to cheat by neglecting or even introducing vulnerabilities to win. Maybe I’m just a bit too cynical and/or should do more reading on the topic.
Comment · 9 months ago
How isn’t a knowledgeable person incentivized to find vulnerabilities but not disclose them?

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