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> :hook ((python-mode go-mode) . lsp-deferred)

Heh that’s a neat use-package feature I’m about to rewrite my .emacs with.

Does this mean less display flickering during Linux boot while the system tries to figure out what mode to use?

Grumpy old-ish fart, here. These fancy, ricer terminal things, whether it be emojis in your $PS1, clueless reinventions of TurboVision, or OpenGL crunch effects when I press a key, but all ultimately emulating a teletypewriter machine from the 1940s are just extremely cringy to me. Emulating one on top of a browser stack probably takes the cake though.

We had document/text oriented interfaces in the 80s that were also graphical like in Genera, a lisp machine OS https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genera_(operating_system) This should have been the direction we should have followed. Instead, Unix and X Window systems - the most expensive way to run a teletypewriter - some how won out in the economics of things.

I hope the current approach of fancy terminal apps is just a local minimum we can kick ourselves out of in he long term.

Have had a bunch of hens for several years now. It’s great fun and they’re pretty interesting pets. Mine roam around the backyard during the day eating grubs and, well, the lawn. At night they wander back to the coop on their own and I close the door to protect them from raccoons. Each has their own personality. Make sure to get a feeder that doesn’t provide access to critters other than your hens, eg. Grandpa’s Feeders and you won’t have rat problems.

As I recall, it was a mess of XML files you edit and slow Java based tooling.

With all of this technology applied, I am still disappointed by Netflix's recommendations – to the point of just giving up and doing something else.

But how will managers feel useful?

Can’t tell if that was sarcasm or not. I still have hardware from the DOS era. For example, Microsoft Works starts up almost instantly. That is definitely not the case with Office 365 in 2022. Latency is far lower back then too. I could go on and on.

How do I extend it etc and what’s the extension language?

I'm in the same boat as the GP. Talked to a few AMEs about my options back in 2019. SI involves thousands of dollars per year and and only applies to a few relatively old SSRI drugs. Ideally they want you to discontinue your psychiatric drug treatment – great job, FAA.

There's also the BasicMed rules. You can fly with BasicMed instead of 3rd class, but you need to have had a 3rd class to get the BasicMed, so I suggested to the AME that I could drop the drugs for 2 months, get the 3rd class, and then immediately apply for the BasicMed and hop back on whatever I was taking in the first place. One guy refused to talk to me after that.

There's a ton of practical Pharo books here https://books.pharo.org and Smalltalk books here http://stephane.ducasse.free.fr/FreeBooks.html

> a copy of your code the environment does some extra epicycles to copy it outside

Iceberg https://github.com/pharo-vcs/iceberg is the Git/etc. integration built into Pharo and works extremely well. You don't need to "file out" code if that's what you meant.

I’m working at megacorp at the moment as contractor. The local dev, cloud dev, cloud stage, cloud prod pipeline is truly glacial in velocity even with automation like Jenkins, kubernetes, etc. it takes weeks to move from dev complete to production. It’s a middle manager’s wet dream.

I used to wonder why isn’t megacorp being murdered by competitors delivering features faster, but actually, everyone is moving glacially for the same reason, so it doesn’t matter.

I’m kinda reminded by pg’s essay on which competitors to worry about. I might be a worried competitor if these guys are pulling off merging to master as production.

My eyebrows raised at “proprietary vpn protocol”, but I’m too much of a normie to understand if it’s really just a novel combination of standard things.

“tuberculosis, diphtheria, typhoid, Campylobacter, Listeria, Brucella, E. coli, Salmonella, and streptococcal infections” apparently.

I once tried a thermal paper print experiment for completed pomodoros to see if sense of accomplishment was improved with something physical.

What you’re seeing there in Windows is a two-dimensional, stylized representation of the bloody turf battles between business units within Microsoft. Most recently adtech has entered the battle and seem to be really killing it.

Turning into a nation of snitches with this and the Texas bullshit law and California’s ironic equivalent.

Industrial control systems

It's been ages since I've used K-means, but I thought you had a lot of freedom in how you define your distance function.

You don’t have to be on Facebook to live in a world affected by it unfortunately

How is it that you and user adielsa paste this same reply here multiple times?

So many projects seem to explain themselves by throwing “modern” in there somewhere.

There was an interview with Marcus on Sean Carroll’s podcast show recently. He seems to be more of an advocate for a hybrid approach than a one or the other guy (symbolic or gradients). https://www.preposterousuniverse.com/podcast/2022/02/14/184-...

Jesus Christ though, it is pretty embarrassing about the Nethack result.

> use secret undocumented APIs where you need to copy your cookies out of the browser to get access to them

Yea, thank you modern front end developers. This is my favorite start for scraping as well.

It’s a commercial thing. It’s called Pavlock.

I’m using a shock bracelet when accessing time wasters like Reddit and HN during “thinking. hours.” I can access them anytime but it comes with pain.

Seaside on Squeak (now Pharo), is still my happy place for web application development.

The large Toyota dealership I was last at offered a simple interest loan. I thought this must have been an unfortunate misuse of the word “simple” in a loan context, but I pressed him further and he definitely meant “simple interest” as in the one high school maths teachers warn you against.

Of course I agreed and payed it off the same week, but these loans must be targeted toward the uneducated or poor.