Soon for me “human being” will be high enough of a bar to be nontrivial to enforce

I loved programming since I was 14. This was an acceptable passion to spend time on because it would allow me to be successful (read: make money).

My sister always loved visual art, and is now in art school. This is an unacceptable passion, and when she tells people that she’s in art school the first response is almost always “oh so what are you planning to do with that degree?”

We have been conditioned into a very narrow definition of success. It’s not surprising then that we start seeing art as “the next big problem to solve”, and you have all these tech bros frothing at the mouth to be the first to “solve” it and become the next startup billionaire.

Low-effort art and music has always been around. You don’t see anyone bumping those inoffensive cover albums and lounge remixes that you hear at the mall or the driving range in their cars though. Anyone who doesn’t already love listening to music isn’t in that position because of a lack of options in the (sigh) market. So I promise you won’t see “billions of new customers” dying to consume derivative slop music.

source on the 28 notch stick?

$2.5 a day per employee? not too bad I feel

also Sidebery is an option, that’s the one I use. very customizable

Elaborate on some examples of the YIMBYs?

Just noticed in euclidean geometry, for any two line segments touching at a point there is exactly one triangle you can draw, i.e. a triangle is uniquely described by any two of its legs. In spherical geometry, there are two choices for the third leg!

Did you make this? I would get it printed lol

Thanks a lot for the pointers! Hoping to explore this in the next few months

Could you tell me more about how you’ve used it with macOS? I was planning to explore using it to provision some macs that we use for building an iOS app (and ideally also the dev environment, which we currently use docker for mostly). I imagine Xcode doesn’t play nicely with nix though…

Nix being an expression based functional language, it doesn’t really make sense to have something like let x=y; since this looks to most people like a statement (i.e. a line of code that gets executed as part of a sequence). This doesn’t exist in nix—instead you have expressions that get lazily evaluated, possibly out of order compared to what you’d expect. let x=y in makes it more clear that the variable binding you’re doing is only in scope for the current expression, which reads something like “let x refer to y in x + 3”

The function definition syntax is unusual but definitely not unintuitive imo. It captures the simplicity of the function semantics of nix—a function is just a mapping/transformation from one value (or set of values) to another. I don’t think it’s too much overhead to learn that they use : to mean this instead of =>

In terms of why they picked this syntax, it follows the traditions of other functional languages such as the ML family, Haskell etc.

I’m pretty proud of my current setup (kinda similar to yours)

This is one of my favorite “music videos”

I used boba u4 silents on my custom keyboard. Absolutely love them. Wish they made a consumer-grade keyboard with them (or maybe they already do?) But I’ve been working on a MacBook recently and tbh the keyboard there is pretty good now. So next step for me is to build a low profile keyboard

On my colemak keyboard I put arrow keys on another layer under where hjkl are on qwerty. Beyond that, most of the keys are remembered by mnemonic rather than position imo

I love the idea of using multiple font faces at the same time while looking at code. I wonder if (hope?) terminals will one day soon support switching fonts with control sequences… Would be pretty awesome!

It looks like it’s not an actual height difference, but the smaller width makes the second i look significantly smaller than the first, also implying a lower height.

I’ve been using Sidebery with some userchrome to hide the top tabs, and it’s a workable solution, but far from ideal.

I also wish keybindings were configurable. For example, with the “/” search, ctrl-g/G to go to next/prev match is really weird

Why is the headline conflicting with the subtitle by a factor of 10?

A$AP Rocky’s Testing era had some great ones with very impressive editing

Kids Turned Out Fine

A$AP Forever

Sundress

These are some of my favorite animated music videos:

Stuck in the Sound - Let’s Go

Dan Deacon “When I Was Done Dying”

And finally, the mixtape visualizer from Hi This is Flume is really damn cool.

I have a playlist with some more.

Potential seizure warning for some or all of the posted links.