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I stopped my 1Password subscription last year and started using Apple Passwords. The user experience is great if you switch to Safari with fingerprint login.

My favourite is this disclaimer in the question. lol > Is there any way to force install a pip python package ignoring all its dependencies that cannot be satisfied? > (I don't car…

When visiting Ayers Rock in Australia I stayed in Alice Springs. While I was there I learnt that Alice Springs exists because it was a repeater station for a telegraph line that st…

Can anyone recommend a native macOS app with a calendar like this that supports .ics calendars?

Bitcoin doesn't take into account that humans are forgetful. If you forget your bank card pin code they would post you a new card and pin, if you phone them up. I've done this a co…

Does Elixir have any footguns like this? As it is immutable I don't think any of these are possible.

If you imported from Safari/Chrome in the onboarding. Go to Settings -> Personalization -> Browser Memories. It has summarized my browsing habits and interests. Very impressive. - …

Elixir via the Task module https://hexdocs.pm/elixir/Task.html

I did a speed awareness course as I got caught speeding and was told if there are lamp posts the speed limit is 30mph unless stated otherwise.

Crunchbang was such a good distro! I ran linux for about seven years. Ubuntu and then Crunchbang. Had my 2012 MacBook Pro dual boot into Crunchbang. Battery life was awful. It had …

Golang will panic with a runtime error index out of range if you index out of bounds. There doesn't seem to be a nice built in way to do `arr.get(3)` like in Rust. slice := []int{1…

Curious to know what people are building where you need to optimise like this? eg Struct Field Alignment https://goperf.dev/01-common-patterns/fields-alignment/#avoi...

> really hard to cultivate a community of people who have a deep love for something, but for some reason can't see what is actually wrong with it that drives ppl away Elm is anothe…

wow.

You still need to be careful, as this won't catch panics from go routines launched from your http handler.

I looked at the Apple watch but choose Garmin as it has a physical button to start and stop my run. I don't know if this is still the case but with the Apple watch I think you have…

Cognitive load example in Go. It is common to give variables single letter names. Now you have to build up a mapping in your head that for example `a` means `Auction`. You could sk…

Yep, Django's on_delete behaviour being implemented in Python instead of SQL has caught me out a few times over the years. I often do `on_delete=models.DO_NOTHING, db_constraint=Fa…

Definitely "Code Red" for Google Search

You can also get a Japanese Working Holiday Visa which allows you to work in Japan and stay for a year. https://yoyogi.io/en/how-to-get-a-japanese-working-holiday-v...

I recently started learning Swift and Swift UI and was surprised at how complicated the language is. Especially regarding reactive instance variables. eg. @observableObject. Didn't…

get_in(x.a) better example would be nested. get_in(x.a.b.c)

Nice feature in this release is the addition of `get_in/1` which works with structs. eg. `get_in(struct.foo.bar)` If `foo` returns `nil`, accessing `bar` won't raise.

Here is the roadmap https://hexdocs.pm/elixir/main/gradual-set-theoretic-types.h... The next milestone will include a mechanism for defining typed structs.