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Side-stepping the Secretary Problem, unwittingly

evalapply.org
1 points·by pvdebbe·3 bulan yang lalu·0 comments

Eschewing Zshell for Emacs Shell (2014)

howardism.org
45 points·by pvdebbe·5 bulan yang lalu·24 comments

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pvdebbe
·8 hari yang lalu·discuss
I disabled quiet mode and I don't know what is revealed.
pvdebbe
·8 hari yang lalu·discuss
I have realized the same.

Only it is different 100 photos every year.
pvdebbe
·11 hari yang lalu·discuss
I had a linguist attend a CS class and he didn't know how to copy and paste.
pvdebbe
·bulan lalu·discuss
Will you update the list for us, a month from now?
pvdebbe
·bulan lalu·discuss
UTFv6
pvdebbe
·2 bulan yang lalu·discuss
I remember a moment in an early job interview. My resumé was all proper for this entry level junior position and everything was checking out. We turned to smalltalk to round up the interview.

"What sort of music do you like?"

(What sorta ques... you don't just throw this in without a warning. ahh I'm blanking out. What was it that I listened to last night??)

"Uhhh Mike Oldfield is one..."

"Ohh... (pause) ewww. But we won't let this hinder your application heh heh"

"hee..."

I got the position and rose to senior rather quickly. I didn't have any interactions with this guy since after this one interview. Maybe for the best. He didn't mean bad, he was just a bit out of his element 2nd-seat interviewing for devs.
pvdebbe
·2 bulan yang lalu·discuss
GP expressly said the wife does not code: she uses claude.
pvdebbe
·2 bulan yang lalu·discuss
What was the original publication date for this strip #568?
pvdebbe
·3 bulan yang lalu·discuss
Also contrast with the busy beaver problem and how much can be done with a small handful of instructions.
pvdebbe
·4 bulan yang lalu·discuss
Timepieces are a classic example of this.
pvdebbe
·4 bulan yang lalu·discuss
I really want somebody to mod this into OpenTTD because cargodist was a good step and a nice approximation for a time, it's no match to the "destination in mind" pax. I'm reduced to play commercial offerings like Transport Fever 2. But as far as I know, it would be a considerable undertaking.

Elsewhere in the thread chain:

>[OpenTTD has bad UI]

Hmm, really? It's cluttered with windows and options but I think the mechanics of windows popping and quick dismissing works out for this kind of a game really well. It scales across #n of monitors so well. I run mine on a 43" 4K television panel, no scaling, and I get all my screen estate I need. Works out so swimmingly.
pvdebbe
·4 bulan yang lalu·discuss
Tell me what happens if you run a Windows machine for say 12 months and decide to switch the GPU from NVIDIA to AMD (or vice versa)? Yeah.

In linux it tends to be a nonissue.
pvdebbe
·4 bulan yang lalu·discuss
Apple's hardware is their killer business.
pvdebbe
·4 bulan yang lalu·discuss
The biggest strength of Eshell, for me, is that I can maintain some sanity in Windows environments (with or without WSL). In linuxland, it's a tougher sell. Compared to term-mode and the others, Eshell hacks better and I can fine tune my tab completions. The best thing is that my keybinds integrate better across all emacs modes when I use eshell.
pvdebbe
·5 bulan yang lalu·discuss
Notepad going the way of Wordpad, EDIT.COM becoming the new Notepad.

What's next, in a few years we're rocking EDLIN when we need to operate on a text file safely?
pvdebbe
·5 bulan yang lalu·discuss
It ain't extinct shit if it can't even drive the car to have it washed.
pvdebbe
·5 bulan yang lalu·discuss
Common fonts are gigabyte downloads these days thanks to emoji support.
pvdebbe
·6 bulan yang lalu·discuss
I love this. Shouting into the void with the distinct feel, hope that if the idea was popular enough, it'd be brute forced back to existing.

I noticed that the input is not being treated any way before hashing. I'd remove all non-letter characters, and then lowercase everything before hashing to help with some unnecessary misses.
pvdebbe
·6 bulan yang lalu·discuss
I'm still using Firefox and loving it actually. Other browser engines don't support "zoom text only" anymore so my options are limited. And to my knowledge, there's nothing as good as uBlock Origin for those webkit/blink based browsers...

Yes, Firefox constantly introduces new degradation in UX but so far they always offer opt-out mechanisms for even the most obscure things...
pvdebbe
·6 bulan yang lalu·discuss
>just like Scorsese intended.

>before Scorsese made The Godfather

Can you let me in on the joke?