codesnik

Nice. When I saw some javascript live music arrangement experiments, I thought that forth is syntactically better for that task because of postfix notation - no need to select and execute parts, keywords could be self-adding/playing.

huh. I wonder if it's possible to use those hooks to add syntax highlighting to shell commands claude issues, or to replace full path to current directory with ./

now, let's combine both.

even if black sea deluge happened sufficiently rapidly, you're several thousands years off. Current theories date it to about 8 thousand years ago.

unless you're spawning them for new connections.

yay, horse vomit.

yes, ruby inherited this from perl, though 'or' has lower precedence than 'and' in perl, and they're equal in ruby. Which sounds like something going to cause mistakes, but I yet to see 'and' and 'or' together in the same expression in ruby.

yep. claude keeps "habitually" trying to use `rg -rn` instead of `rg -n` because it was instructed to use "rg" instead of "grep" by Anthropic, but uses arguments for grep: `grep -rn`. My instructions and "memory" are not helping. "Oh, I did it again, and you've instructed me not to". Older tools are better for current "agents".

but glasses were made of glass, and nowadays most are plastic.

Instead of relearning how to knot bunny ears, I make the first crossing the opposite way to granny knot, it's somehow easier for me.

I had the same problem in air travel industry. Our ticketing officers were never able to communicate how the ticket commission rules from our partners should be interpreted. I ended up adding a test framework, that allowed to add examples and counterexamples of existing flights to each rule, to verify that they are applied the way they'd assign commission by hand.

nowadays you can vibecode some half-ass headless browser automation using your email-password or even weird corporate sso.

but why solar system is so out of scale?

git's mental model is very, very small, if you care to learn it. Then all the commands and their "inconsistencies" start to make sense - they operate on the model almost without any magic, and not on whatever is user's intent (it can vary a lot)

contactless ATMs

I've tried to come up with the reason they don't do it, and thought MAYBE they were afraid people would put PINs for the cards there and they thought it's a bad idea. I wonder why I even tried to invent a good reason for them, designers could just lack perspective and do not care at all, even in apple.

good for you and your particular bank.

give me ability to write a damn whatever on the card. My bank provides USD, EUR and other currencies on different cards with exact same cover. Maddening.

I can imagine that we don't have this option just because people would put their PINs there, and maybe it's not exactly secure enough, but sprinkle some validation on top and we'd be ok.

which is much better than nothing, but is a fairly recent addition

huh, I've never thought to check my github id. I don't remember myself being an early adopter.

i think it is the other way around. Git is pretty simple internally, and its ui is just knobs and levers to reach into that simple reliable internal structure. This is why for some people it seems like a mess - they want button "do what I want" (and all people and their needs are different), and for other people it's clean - open the throttle, engine will rev.

huh. I just did what you describe above (on tahoma) and was able to tab into the list of bluetooth devices, no problem.

do you have "Settings > Keyboard > Keyboard navigation" on? I thought it is on by default, but apparently it isn't. Without it "tab" only jumps between text fields and checkboxes.

There's also an "Accessibility > Keyboard > Full keyboard access", which gives more controls.

strange. Some keyboard shortcuts in os x are kinda weird and not intuitive to linux or windows users, but they are there. It's totally possible to use mac without trackpad. even cmd+tab switcher has a lot of hidden (but googlable) things: while still holding cmd after initial cmd+tab, you can close apps with q, switch to other apps with tab and (cmd+)shift+tab or left/right arrows, show app windows with down, etc. There's also a cmd+` for switching between one app's windows. I still find that distinction weird from usability perspective, but it's not too hard to adapt to it.

yes they do. check ruby for example.

I wonder, why that kind of ambiguity or complexity even comes to your mind at all. Just because python is weird?

def foo(self, arg=expression):

could, and should work as if it was written like this (pseudocode)

def foo(self, arg?): if is_not_given(arg): arg=expression

if "expression" is a literal or a constructor, it'd be called right there and produce new object, if "expression" is a reference to an object in outer scope, it'd be still the same object.

it's a simple code transformation, very, very predictable behavior, and most languages with closures and default values for arguments do it this way. Except python.

you could just treat argument initialization as an executable expression which is called every time you call a function. If you have a=[], then it's a new [] every time. If a=MYLIST then it's a reference to the same MYLIST. Simple. And most sane languages do it this way, I really don't know why python has (and maintain) this quirk.

basically all object oriented languages work like that. You access a member; you call a method which changes that member; you expect that change is visible lower in the code, and there're no statically computable guarantees that particular member is not touched in the called method (which is potentially shadowed in a subclass). It's not dynamism, even c++ works the same, it's an inherent tax on OOP. All you can do is try to minimize cost of that additional dereference. I'm not even touching threads here.

now, functional languages don't have this problem at all.

it starts with a pretty common char, but almost never gets in the way to the point I forget it exists. Meanwhile docker -t uses ^P which I use all the time for history instead of arrow keys. It's possible to configure it, but it's not worth the hassle on servers. Really, really annoying.

how does dichromatism restricts flight license? no instrumental flights? no night flights? something about perceiving warning lights on some panels?

pcr amplifies all sequences, correct or wrong, no? and as I understand it, it works on short snippets the best.