mkingston

11 か月前議論

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCR-DXc1voovS8nhAvccRZhg

Jeff Geerling. Also the owner/author of the site we're discussing in this thread.

mkingston

昨年議論

You can review a PR commit by commit. But it's not obvious how in the UI. Navigate to the commits tab on the PR page and you can navigate through the commits in the PR and review them one by one. Although it's possible this isn't what you mean.

mkingston

昨年議論

I was reading the git-bug documentation and found "bridges" to third-party platforms:

https://github.com/git-bug/git-bug/blob/master/doc/usage/thi...

I have not tried it.

mkingston

昨年議論

Don't be disappointed. That's cool! You've independently discovered something.

mkingston

2 年前議論

There's a cross-platform trash/recycling library you might be interested in: https://github.com/Byron/trash-rs

mkingston

3 年前議論

That's a brief statement which makes me think I'm missing something obvious, but it doesn't seem obvious to me. Would you please expand on that?

mkingston

3 年前議論

I mount the board on some nylon standoffs through a takeaway box lid. The rest of the takeaway box is the enclosure. I drill some holes through the takeaway box for wire ingress and egress.

I use a tupperware container if I'm feeling fancy.

mkingston

3 年前議論

> native speakers are excellent at understanding accents when compared to other nations where non-standard accents are not as common

Interesting to read this; I had developed exactly the same hypothesis about French speakers: that they're less accustomed to a variety of accents (with the obvious caveat that it's even more risky to generalise from an anecdote than from data!).

mkingston

3 年前議論

I need this for practice. Perhaps I ought to use text-to-speech and then transcribe the audio back to text and compare.

mkingston

3 年前議論

> did you ever internalize the importance of the verbs "to be/is/am/are/been/were" and "to have/has/had" growing up as a native English speaker?

Definitely not to the extent that I'm having to for French! At the moment I don't have a lot of spare time to think (eek) and reflect on this, but regarding those verbs, French definitely has some different usage of them when compared to English including sometimes using "have" where we'd use "be", and vice versa, which is a little jarring at first.

mkingston

3 年前議論

You and I know that, but it's not important or useful to a non-French speaker learning English. To those people, those are merely English words. And indeed, they are English, even if they're French imports. I think even a lot of English speakers don't realise the depth of this: "cul de sac" is a fun example that a lot of people I ask don't realise comes from French (or another language, for that matter).

mkingston

3 年前議論

As someone who is currently learning French and (amateur) teaching English I agree in general with your take on English. The frequency with which I say "yes, it doesn't really make sense to pronounce it that way" is high. English is full of crazy inconsistencies and I feel lucky to have learned it as a native speaker. Here's a nice illustration/example of what you've written: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghoti

I really appreciate that French is much more consistent with pronunciation but it's very challenging in some other ways. There are numerous conjugations that sound the same but are spelled differently, meaning you have to infer from context where possible. This is quite challenging as a learner.

Il / elle parle ("he/she speaks")

Ils / elles parlent ("they speak")

Both of the above are pronounced exactly the same. It's not such a problem when reading, but when listening and especially when transcribing this is quite challenging. Also, I haven't taken any time to think about it but so far I have the impression that there are far more conjugations of a given verb in French than in English. I've questioned a little lately whether conjugation gives more than it takes. Context, with the occasional "clue" word, seems like a pretty adequate mechanism. In English for example, we don't differentiate between you (singular) and you (plural). But when it's not clear from context we'll say e.g. "you all". This seems to me easier and more sensible (and I'm correspondingly enamoured with the French gerondif), but I do wonder if it's tricky when coming from languages where there would be a difference between the singular and plural.

Which is all to say: I'm very sympathetic to, and I agree with your reservations about English. And I'm also glad that French isn't the language in its place.

mkingston

3 年前議論

I've spent quite some time in France over the past few years and variously dealt with websites of French organisations during this time. I'm not sure what it is, but French websites seem typically to be frustratingly semi-functional. This story is completely unsurprising to me.

mkingston

3 年前議論

Thanks for the reply. Upon further inspection, it looks like it's `lines`. It might also be `filter` but I haven't quickly come up with a way to determine whether that's the case. I opened an issue:

https://github.com/nushell/nushell/issues/8016

I couldn't apply labels myself, I don't think.

mkingston

3 年前議論

Thank you! I've been using Nushell for a couple of weeks and at this point I don't see myself going back. Modern configuration. Great interactive usage (structured data, mostly!). I thought I'd like it, but more so than expected so far. The one shortcoming I've encountered so far is that some built-in functions seem to buffer all their input before producing any output, meaning I can't e.g. tail + filter logs. A fairly simple example:

    journalctl -xefu systemd-networkd-wait-online.service | lines | filter {|in| $in =~ 'start'}

only produces output when I interrupt (ctrl+c). Is this expected?

mkingston

4 年前議論

How would you achieve your example with macros? My inclination would be to do this with regex replace and I can't think how I'd do it with macros. I guess there's some functionality I'm missing? Jump-to-first-upper-case-character?

mkingston

4 年前議論

These are of course, good points; cement probably being more porous than many people perceive. Just a little (hopefully interesting) speculation: adhesion might be less important, or entirely unnecessary if the reinforcing material isn't arranged like rebar. I.e. if it were just a tangle in the concrete.

mkingston

4 年前議論

Could you be more explicit, perhaps with an example? Do you simply mean you prefer function/constructor parameters over DI?

mkingston

4 年前議論

Listening to a podcast[1] a while ago and the interviewee talked about the pervasiveness of the tobacco industry in our culture. At the risk of misrepresenting him: I think he would probably argue that the tobacco industry has manufactured peoples choice to use cigarettes, and should be reined in. One anecdote that stuck with me was something along the lines of "in the 50s everyone seemed to agree that if smoking caused cancer, it would be banned, and yet here we are now".

[1] https://lexfridman.com/robert-proctor/

mkingston

4 年前議論

That's a clever thought. Do you know whether connections could be established outside the tunnel after you disable airplane mode but before the tunnel is re-established?

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