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Why do people write in a journal? Why do people pray? Why do people do rubber-duck debugging?

Genuinely curious (as someone who didn't know about the implicit ID mapping until today): given that IDs are global, why is doing this any worse (or in any way different) to using …

That's an idea that goes back to Hobbes' Leviathan.

> The weak don't deserve the products of their labor if they can't defend it. We've seen this as a fact of life since life has been a fact. Amazing how "may not be able to retain" …

Yeah, I do this; 2020 M1 13" MBP; 4K external monitor and iPad Pro on Sidecar, plus I keep the laptop open so I have three screens. I find Sidecar a bit flaky (it disconnects or fr…

Anybody who thinks cryptocurrency is in the class of assets which are "supposed to be able to sit there growing in value" really hasn't been paying attention.

I had that realisation when I saw this library: https://pint.readthedocs.io/en/stable/ (for a dynamically typed language, somewhat amusingly).

...aaaand it's more than 20 years old, so yeah, that kinda agrees with the point that it took us a long time to stop doing that because it's confusing.

Oh, has he apologised for the years-long pattern of sexual harassment as testified to by multiple women? I must have missed that, sorry.

Yup — that basically requires extremely high levels of compassion and unconditional love, something we can all aspire to, but in reality and in general forgiveness tends to be cond…

I have not, and would be interested to see a link to that (the posting(s) in question, not the whole blog), particularly if it addresses the many accusations of sexual harassment, …

Not OP but they're not saying they want to use emacs keybindings, they're saying they want to use emacs keyboard macros [1], which I agree really are a very handy feature having no…

> I don't want to live in a world where we can't be forgiven. Forgiveness requires accountability and commitment to change, neither of which have been forthcoming.

The podcast "Containers" also covers how shipping containers have shaped the mordern world — well worth a listen, though I don't recall it mentioning this aspect of their logistics…

Haskell is what happens when you take the idea of pure functions (i.e. no side effects) _really_ seriously, and try to create a programming language that works in that world (modul…

+1 for BTT, particularly in combination with Karabiner Elements and goku to handle Karabiner configs in a good way. If you like tiling window managers, you can get a very similar e…

> but how did the author learned to love, and more importantly to "fear" the RH? What's there to fear? It's made abundantly clear: they learned to love it through the course they w…

I agree that some curation effort makes a huge difference. I have a "Queue" playlist into which I copy my "Discover Weekly" every now and then; then I listen to that Queue playlist…

"Pretty sure" is a thought/judgement, not a feeling.

> The real killer feature of Haskell is that it is the closest language to mathematics and makes reasoning mathematically much easier than even other functional languages. And the …

"But clarity is also this", followed by a screenshot of a booking that says "$73/night" even though the actual cost is $92/night (which it doesn't say - you have to work it out you…

"Spanish flu" didn't start in Spain, after all.

Not so much that (I think Q has thus far been mainly a US phenomenon, though it _is_ making inroads here apparently), but mainly I'm seeing stuff around covid being a hoax and/or a…