gimboland (u/gimboland)

gimboland commented on If you're remote, ramble stephango.com/ramblings... · Posted by u/lawgimenez

gregoriol · a month ago

"with no expectation that anyone else will read them" => this is depressing, why would anyone ramble (or do anything actually) with this in mind?

gimboland · a month ago

Why do people write in a journal?

Why do people pray?

Why do people do rubber-duck debugging?

gimboland commented on Just use HTML justfuckingusehtml.com... · Posted by u/kyrylo

throwanem · 4 months ago

Wait, this actually says to use the implicit ID mapping on the global object? That hasn't been good advice since about 1999!

edit: I checked and wow, it really does. Good grief, did an AI write this? Use getElementById or querySelector or querySelectorAll or any other remotely modern web API method instead.

gimboland · 4 months ago

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 getElementById? I.e. why is it bad advice?

gimboland commented on Ask HN: What do Russians on HN think about this war? · Posted by u/sgallant

TrapLord_Rhodo · 3 years ago

In the book the soverign individual the author speaks at depth that a "Monopoly on violence" is actually what keeps society safe.

gimboland · 3 years ago

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

gimboland commented on Ask HN: What do Russians on HN think about this war? · Posted by u/sgallant

TrapLord_Rhodo · 3 years ago

When i was in the Air Force, I interacted with alot of russians "On the other side" when wee were building FOBs in eastern europe afteer the invasion of crimea. At work, It was all about defeating the russians. After work, it was about out drinking the russians.

We laughed, we joked but at the end of the day we knew our bossees thought eachother enemies. And at the end of the day we knew that we were activeely working to kill eachother.

That didn't seem to bother us. Alot of people in the military believe what the world has taught us not to believe... That we are the greatest nation in the world and use of force is the only thing that is tangible and real in this world. You're right to Life liberty and property is an illusion and at any point i can kill you and take what you've worked hard for to save. Is it Moral? Yes, because it's real life. The only Amoral things in reality is these illusions that morality exist.

Asking what the russians think isn't the right question. The right question is what percentage of nationalist exist in russia. Because i can tell you one thing, Nationalists believe in this war to their core.

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.

Good Luck Comrades, but one day i will have to kill you for your virtuos beliefs.

gimboland · 3 years ago

> 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" collapses down to "do not deserve" here.

gimboland commented on Every M1 Mac is due for a 2022 refresh with faster M2 chip, new designs macworld.com/article/6123... · Posted by u/orangebanana1

gnicholas · 4 years ago

Apparently the M1 can support an external plugged monitor and an iPad via SideCar. Not a big monitor, to be sure, but it's not nothing. [1]

1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P_pBL2fMux0

gimboland · 4 years ago

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 freezes a bit too often to be breezily accepted), but with a big iPad (mine is basically A4 paper sized) and SwitchResX in play, it's not bad at all.

Edit: ... and having said all that, I'm looking forward to upgrading some time in the next year and going back to two "proper" external monitors. I'll still love using the Sidecar'ed iPad Pro as a second screen when working in cafes, though...

gimboland commented on My own personal AWS S3 bucket blog.jonudell.net/2021/10... · Posted by u/judell

mhdhn · 4 years ago

what do you mean? it was an asset, a long-term investment. it's just supposed to be able to sit there growing in value. why is it gone, that's not supposed to be possible unless credentials were gotten and funds stolen

gimboland · 4 years ago

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.

gimboland commented on Where do type systems come from? (2017) blog.felipe.rs/2017/07/07... · Posted by u/signa11

cb321 · 4 years ago

If by "type systems/checking" one refers to constraints on "valid operations in context" like comparisons, subtractions, additions (or maybe in a prog.lang context assignment to lexically static identifiers) then physical units of measure (seconds, meters|its ancient cousins, etc.) were the first type system. I.e., one cannot add/compare/etc. meters & seconds without conversion and not all conversions are possible.

This remains the first such system most people learn in elementary school. Historically such ideas arose along with measurements themselves and computations upon their results like comparison/subtraction/even taxation.

Yes, this is all (typically) manually checked and explicit metadata symbols are carried through calculations. I still think it's the primordial example that few mention in discussions like these.

gimboland · 4 years ago

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

gimboland commented on Big list of HTTP static server one-liners gist.github.com/willurd/5... · Posted by u/raytracer

kazinator · 4 years ago

The XWindow system used -long -opts long before that.

gimboland · 4 years ago

...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.

gimboland commented on John Sullivan resign as executive director of the Free Software Foundation social.librem.one/@johns/... · Posted by u/_cowb

mandmandam · 4 years ago

Stallman lost his job for years, and apologised - what are you talking about?

And this is over - and I can't BELIEVE this still has to be said even here - his words being twisted COMPLETELY out of context.

Smh at this community for tolerating comments like yours.

gimboland · 4 years ago

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