brianary

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This would be better with a more accurate projection, like Dymaxion. That black area is so much bigger than it looks here.

on centerDiv.js · c/programmer_humor · 1 pts · 1y

You get used to it sooner than you'd think. There are libraries to convert between regex and English. Maybe it deserves a Unicode code block like APL?

on Worst keyboard layouts? · c/linux · 1 pts · 1y

I use them fine with my left hand. There's no reason to stay on home row if you're doing a lot of copy and paste. Of course, if you're doing that much copy and paste, using an extension that allows VIM shortcuts would be much faster.

on Worst keyboard layouts? · c/linux · 3 pts · 1y

If you don't like BÉPO because you want familiar letter-based clipboard shortcuts, you've already made a better layout selection impossible. I learned to use the older clipboard shortcuts: ctrl+ins for copy, shift+ins for paste, and shift+del for cut. Those are still as universally supported.

on Shots fired · c/programmer_humor · 5 pts · 1y

If you want everything bundled instead of à la carte, that sounds more like eclipse to me. But then, I don't understand how anyone can program in Java.

I think that aphorism is about authority-respect rather than basic-human-decency-respect.

This thread makes me wonder how much contemporary American English is to blame for people being able to exploit ambiguities surreptitiously. Dog whistles have to start somewhere, they don't seem to be prearranged.

Calling well-earned criticism of economics anti-intellectualism is using the composition/division fallacy.

Most people's lives have been affected for decades by Chicago School of Economics voodoo nonsense, that's where much modern criticism is aimed.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Growth_in_a_Time_of_Debt

https://www.theguardian.com/news/2017/jul/11/how-economics-became-a-religion

https://pluralistic.net/tag/chicago-school/