Comments by "Lawrence D’Oliveiro" (@lawrencedoliveiro9104) on "Programmers are also human" channel.

  1. Regular expressions are useful, but every language has them now. Python is one that has them, and combines them nicely with its other features. E.g. re.finditer() to iterate over matches.
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  2. Now Emacs has graphical overlays, which let you totally customize the appearance of selected parts of your buffer.
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  3. Talk to me about Web2.71828 ... the e-conomy.
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  4. A lot of tools use FFmpeg behind the scenes, without you realizing it.
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  5. You use it on Windows!? Poor you.
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  6. Quitting Vim is like quitting smoking. It’s so easy, some people have done it hundreds of times.
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  7. The legendary Fabrice Bellard started the project, though I’m not sure he’s still involved with it.
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  8. If I want elaborate scalable graphics accurately laid out on a page, I would use SVG.
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  9. My first non-Apple machine was a Shuttle that came with a copy of Mandrake 9.1 “Discovery Edition” in the box. “Discovery Edition” meant it was missing the third CD with the developer tools on it. So my first exercise in Linux hacking was figuring out how to download and install the developer tools packages from the Mandrake repos.
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  10. I use Jupyter a lot for trying things, and also for presentations. I always test my notebooks before publishing them by using the “clear output and restart kernel” function, then running every cell again. Oh, and also clear all output before committing the notebook to version control.
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  11. ctypes FTW!
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  12. Regular expressions are useful, but every language has them now. Python is one that has them, and combines them nicely with its other features. E.g. re.finditer() to iterate over matches.
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  13. Using a language which needs backslashes in its identifiers? There’s your problem right there.
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  14. On Linux!
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  15. zstd is the new compression hawtness.
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  16. When you build it, you get man pages as well.
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  17.  @keith3761  It’s all described in the GoPro docs.
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  18. And here I thought pump-n-dump was just a gas station with integrated toilet facilities.
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  19.  @robertmazurowski5974  Sue for what, exactly?
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  20. Anybody who thinks that, go look up “Structure And Interpretation Of Computer Programs”. It’s an MIT undergrad course. If you manage to pass it, you might learn something about programming languages.
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  21. Fun fact: Python does actually include a module called “array” in its standard library. Guess what it does.
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  22.  @kim-hendrikmerk4163  Which is better? Why not compare some examples? The following is an Elisp command I wrote which, given a two-letter country code like “nz”, converts it to appropriate Unicode to show “🇳🇿”: (defun convert-to-region-codes (beg end) "converts alphabetic characters in the selection to “region indicator symbols”." (interactive "*r") (unless (use-region-p) (ding) (keyboard-quit) ) ; unless (let ( deactivate-mark (intext (delete-and-extract-region beg end)) c ) (dotimes (i (- end beg)) (setq c (elt intext i)) (cond ((and (>= c ?A) (<= c ?Z)) (setq c (+ (- c ?A) #x1F1E6)) ) ((and (>= c ?a) (<= c ?z)) (setq c (+ (- c ?a) #x1F1E6)) ) ) ; cond (insert-char c) ) ; dotimes ) ; let ) ; convert-to-region-codes
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  23. Emacs can work in the terminal or with its own GUI. You have the choice.
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  24. What’s alt-tab? I have my windows grouped into desktops, and switch between them with CTRL-F1, CTRL-F2 etc.
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  25. systemd lets you write short, concise tasklets that conform to the principle of “do one thing, and do it well”.
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  26. It’s all the complications to disguise ads to make it harder for adblockers to recognize them.
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  27. “Why is he wearing a false beard?” “Because he can’t afford a real one.” Brought to you by the “Give An Elderly Joke A Home” Foundation. Thank you for giggling.
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  28. In your country, 220 volts counts as some advanced technology.
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  29. I had to hunt around, but you get that info (and a lot more besides) with “ffmpeg -help full”.
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  30. They should create an IDE for it, called “Jimlad”.
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  31. Use Linux ... or stay on Microsoft and complain.
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  32. VS Code makes Emacs look petite and efficient.
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  33. Among those who still remember it ...
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