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impalallama commented on Postgres IDE in VS Code   techcommunity.microsoft.c... · Posted by u/Dowwie
impalallama · 7 months ago
Biggest thing that JetBrains has over VSCode for me was their very clean built in database tooling
impalallama commented on Man pages are great, man readers are the problem   whynothugo.nl/journal/202... · Posted by u/WhyNotHugo
tomxor · 8 months ago
Expanding on pjmlp's comment [0] buried in this thread:

    export MANPAGER="nvim +Man!"
Using Vim's built in ft-man-plugin [1] as the default man pager seems to go pretty far towards resolving what the author is complaining about.

Links work, and it respects the indentation when soft wrapping lines. It isn't doing full reflow or regenerating the page, but it maintains legibility while soft wrapping, and messing up indentation is my main annoyance with less... You can improve less by chopping lines -S by default, but then you have horizontal scrolling so neither is great.

[0] In Vim, you can use K to open a man page for the word under the cursor

[1] https://neovim.io/doc/user/filetype.html#ft-man-plugin

impalallama · 8 months ago
the crawlers are working hard today because I got lead here just by searching for a better man page on kagi

I liked the idea of using nvim but i rewrote it with bash function for easier argument handling

  nman () {
    if [ $# -ne 1 ]; then
      echo "Usage: nman <command>"
      return 1
    fi
    command nvim "+hide Man $1"
  }

impalallama commented on Brazil's government-run payments system has become dominant   economist.com/the-america... · Posted by u/jcartw
impalallama · 8 months ago
> Pix has spiced up Brazil’s fusty banking sector, but it gives the central bank a worrying amount of power

Economist what you think central bank does exactly that this is somehow too far?

impalallama commented on A look at Firefox forks   lwn.net/Articles/1012453/... · Posted by u/sohkamyung
impalallama · 9 months ago
Zen seems interesting but their website crashes when I try and visit which is a bit of deal breaker when it comes to a web browser
impalallama commented on Ross Ulbricht granted a full pardon   twitter.com/Free_Ross/sta... · Posted by u/Ozarkian
impalallama · a year ago
This is the same president that wants to give the death penalty to Drug Dealers but I guess that's fine so long as you use crypto.
impalallama commented on I Don't Have Spotify   github.com/sjdonado/idont... · Posted by u/sjdonado
impalallama · a year ago
no tidal support yet but looks very useful for one off uses
impalallama commented on Useful built-in macOS command-line utilities   weiyen.net/articles/usefu... · Posted by u/yen223
vbezhenar · a year ago
Few additions.

open -n file.pdf : opens new instance of Preview application which is useful if you want to open the same file twice (for example to look at different pages at once).

caffeinate -d : prevents display turning off, useful if you want to look at display without moving mouse.

impalallama · a year ago
caffeinate -d is incredibly useful for work... uh reasons
impalallama commented on Moments in Chromecast's history   blog.google/products/goog... · Posted by u/sibellavia
impalallama · a year ago
This is very annoying. Even with the prevalence of smart tvs some tvs just don't come with all streaming apps I want and Chromecast was a great inexpensive option. They are discontinuing it in favor of a product that appeals to a totally different market in mind at 2x-3x the price. Roku still mostly fills that niche but I don't see the logic in this move at all.
impalallama commented on FCC votes to limit prison telecom charges   worthrises.org/pressrelea... · Posted by u/Avshalom
pessimizer · a year ago
"People should just stop" is never the right answer. You might as well be commanding an engine to stop overheating.

> Yes I would like functional civil institutions that are able to protect me from the unethical behavior of others.

This is the opposite of claiming that people should become more moral. This is setting rules. They shouldn't be set around "morality," they should be set around established civil liberties.

impalallama · a year ago
> "People should just stop" is never the right answer. You might as well be commanding an engine to stop overheating.

1) I don't understand this argument. As if we don't absolutely do this all the time. Theft as a concept is impossible to completely prevent yet we still know it to be illegal. Same with Vandalism. The supreme court just made it legal to prosecute the homeless. Hell there are countries were suicide is illegal.

2) You say this as if a room temp superconductor is something that endless dollars aren't spent on trying to achieve.

> They shouldn't be set around "morality," they should be set around established civil liberties.

These are not whole distinct things. They are two overlapping circles. No one but the most unscrupulous of lawyers conceive of these a 2 wholly distinct entities.

Unethical or "uncivil" behavior is something that happens and to act like we have are hands are tied and shouldn't adapt to address this because our hands are tied because there are unintended consequences is asinine and impractical.

u/impalallama

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