rlamacraft @rlamacraft@social.cleverlibre.org
Software engineer by trade. Programmer by hobby too (in addition to basketry and spoon carving). Personal website: https://rlamacraft.uk/. Gemini capsule: gemini://gemini.rlamacraft.uk
Joined Jan 2020
English lockdown tiers summarised:
1. Beer
2. Beer with chips
3. No beer
4. No chips
Source: https://reddit.com/r/ukpolitics/comments/kg8ehx/_/ggdkh32/?context=1
10 men have made more than $400 billion since the pandemic began. Makes me sick. #eattherich
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The executive producer of Dr. Who states that the doctor didn't know his real age (implying when he does state an age its a guess or a lie).
"The thing I keep banging on about is that he doesn't know what age he is. He's lying. How could he know, unless he's marking it on a wall? He could be 8,000 years old, he could be a million. He has no clue. The calendar will give him no clues."
In retrospect this makes a lot of sense. When your ona different planet at a different point in time every other day you have no real reference point to judge your own age by. Eventually you simply have no idea if you 100, 1000 or a million.. Days and years on planets are all different and you never stay for long enough to count it...
So I have a bunch of numbered comments in a text editor, designed to reply to a select set of numbered points. I copy that text into JIRA, and what does it do?, it coverts it to 1, 2, 3… WHY‽‽ Why would you do that??? Who wants that??
Sometimes I wish we could just use a set of org files checked into a godamn git repo. It’s not hard.
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I really do not grok people who go through life not creating anything, not questioning anything, taking the path of least resistance every time. But this is the norm???
Google Chrome Developers YouTube channel is putting out a whole bunch of privacy related dev tips videos — that’s would be like oil industry putting out YouTube ads talking about how wonderful it is to give people the choice of green energy. Wait, they are??
Is the easiest way to edit plain text files on iOS really to run an entire VM?? If I can’t edit files containing a sequence of UTF-8 encoded characters is it even a general-purpose computer?
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#Vim hint of the week (because I'm searching this regulary again):
You can insert the word under the cursor while in command mode with:
<CTRL-R><CTRL-W>
This comes in handy when you want to [s]ubstitute a word, without having it to retype again.
:%s/<CTRL-R><CTRL-W>/newWord/g
There’s something satisfying about making a code change that deletes more lines than it adds (even if it is only by one)
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I should write a "JavaScript tutorial" that just teaches you how to build websites without JavaScript and never acknowledges JavaScript at all.
Just noticed I have 7 different types of flour in my cupboard at the moment…
@hamjb@mstdn.social That’s a good point you make about high ceilings. I guess today, now that energy is cheap and lighting is efficient, the answer is to have lots of lamps. Still annoying though
Who came up with the idea that the primary form of artificial lighting in a room should be on the ceiling in the centre — no matter what I’m doing, no matter where I am, I’m always working in my own godamn shadow
The American media needs to tell it how it is: the numbers are approaching a 9/11 everyday.
How anyone can continue to work at Google is beyond me
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2020/dec/04/timnit-gebru-google-ai-fired-diversity-ethics
Hate it when governments get in the business of arbitrarily choosing products to legislate against https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/nov/30/scotch-egg-to-the-rescue-minister-says-it-can-be-substantial-meal #RepealVAT
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Is recursion supposed to be difficult? I don't get how someone would not get it.
What a brilliant name for a society https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Society_for_the_Diffusion_of_Useful_Knowledge?wprov=sfti1
Nutmeg on garlic bread: don’t knock it until you’ve tried it
Software engineer by trade. Programmer by hobby too (in addition to basketry and spoon carving). Personal website: https://rlamacraft.uk/. Gemini capsule: gemini://gemini.rlamacraft.uk
Joined Jan 2020
