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marchelzo

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About marchelzo

On a life-long journey.

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    Show HN: clickity – mechanical keyboard click sounds when you type on macOS

    inspired of course by https://apps.apple.com/us/app/klack/id6446206067 sound files are from https://mechvibes.com/

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    They were :) Before I took the time to write a vim syntax file I just used the Rust one with a couple of tweaks and the syntax was close enough that it sort of worked.

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    Comment #32377146

    Neat game. I was bored so I wrote a little brute-force solver in my toy language. Takes almost a minute to solve today's puzzle though: http://paste.pr0.tips/hgs

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    Comment #12645603

    I agree completely. I couldn't believe it when he made that Frame struct and completely abused RAII just to execute some code at the beginning and end of a block. The only really b…

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    Comment #11754418

    I'm not familiar with this concept. What are the benefits?

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    Comment #11592266

    Or as I've recently taken to calling it, the GNU+ACM Software System Award.

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    Comment #11457206

    With `[a] -> Maybe a`, it's not so bad if you use `catMaybes` from Data.Maybe. map transform . catMaybes . map safeHead

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    Comment #11448458

    What does B/E stand for?

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    Comment #11230223

    "You are a married lady older than 32 who makes more than $52,000/year You're either a married, middle-aged lady ... or you use your phone like one." 19 year old male. The only app…

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    Comment #11041053

    Presumably for the same reason that people prefer native applications on iOS / Android to using web applications in mobile browsers. This approach allows you to tailor the controls…

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    Comment #10336175

    It counts characters rather than bytes. Maybe it's a GNU thing? EDIT: It appears to be part of POSIX wc.

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    Comment #9833712

    I got curious when you said they don't take themselves seriously. There are some pretty funny files in the /lib/ directory of their source tree. https://code.9front.org/hg/plan9fro…

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    Comment #9750627

    AFAIK, the force of gravity propagates at light-speed, so every particle in the universe is not being acted upon by every other particle in the universe via gravity, because the di…

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    Comment #9741949

    Sorry- but you mean that you didn't eat anything at all for 23 days? And you felt energized?

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    Comment #9720317

    I think something else that could have impacted their results is that for some people, the knowledge that they are being tested changes the way they think/perform quite drastically…

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    Comment #9571278

    flexbox + viewport units have made this better.

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    Comment #9476906

    I don't drink coffee terribly frequently, but I'm still intrigued by this Dandy Blend drink... has anyone else tried it? Even for the samples, it costs $11.60 to have it shipped to…

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    Comment #9259573

    What do you mean by "native operators like ? and if uses == and not ==="?

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    Comment #9232451

    6716 confirmed most secure 4-digit PIN.