@technomancy Maybe. They're mostly volunteer smallish communities, so they don't have attention or other resources to really do anything. I don't want to flounce dramatically (just whine on social media, uselessly).
I'm going to be really sad in a couple years when Google turns off email.
And Twitter's turning off some client APIs in August, so that account probably has three months to live.
@technomancy I think of this comic weekly.
Slack closed the IRC gateway and most of the Slacks I was in are at the free limit for apps or don't permit adding apps. Really frustrating to have been kicked out.
Me: If you want to make a 3D game, we'll get Unity or Unreal Engine. I think you might have to learn C++ for them.
11yo nephew: I've heard of that, it's a kind of JavaScript.
Me: ...not really.
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The ebook "Anki Essentials" is the nicest intro to SRS I've seen: https://foggymountainpass.com/anki-essentials/
Saves at least a few hours versus the manual + random blog posts.
I'll write a blog post at some point, but the short version is that suspending my use of https://apps.ankiweb.net/ was a serious error. It's so effective that studying without it is almost a waste of time. It flatly solves the problem where a year or two after deliberate studying you can barely remember anything.
This is also my State of Python, replacing Brew with Arch packaging, and I have basically given up hope: https://xkcd.com/1987/
For context, I've been programming professionally for 17 years and 4 of those were exclusively in Python.
@GeoffWozniak Regular waffle with cooked, diced bacon. I baked the bacon (~15m at 400 on wire rack above foil) so it would cook evenly.
My first attempt at a bacon waffle went nicely, and I think I see a few things to try to make it even better next time.
I admit it's yak shaving, but I'm really happy with recent vim tweaks like fugitive (for the diff in the left 2 windows) and low-key colors w italics (tweaked from jcs's w Operator Sans Mono):
Stunningly beautiful recursive subdivisions of regular hexagonal tiling. (From http://archive.bridgesmathart.org/2017/bridges2017-237.pdf)
Ruby regexp quirk, apparently undocumented: if you name a capture, you lose unnamed captures.
"ab".match(/(a)(b)/).captures => ["a", "b"]
"ab".match(/(a)(?<b>b)/).captures => ["b"]
Restarted my daily Anki study 11 days ago. Yesterday I did a big, 443 card review of all my overdue ASL cards. The next few days will be rough, but it's neat how much I remember. I'm adding cards for CS, probability, cog sci, and personal stuff.
Ruby nerd sniping attempt: with a MatchData, how would you remove a named capture? (Example swaps ; for . because autolinking)
"http://example;com:80/foo:80".match(/https?:\/\/([^\;]+\;)+[a-z]+(?<port>:\d+)?(\/|\z)/) -> 'https://t.co/66sO2kch12 <http://example.com/foo:80>
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