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Re:In Defence of Half-Arsing on Wednesday September 23, 2020 @04:44PM (#24571786)
Reminds me of a quote by David Foster Wallace:

> If your fidelity to perfectionism is too high, you never do anything.

Re:My Favorite Shortcuts for JetBrains' IDEs on Monday April 20, 2020 @05:13PM (#22928640)
I use the vim plugin and various jetbrains commands in IntelliJ.

Multi-cursor select is taken care of by vim's visual block. Basic editing/macros/navigation within a single file also done with vim.

For more IDE/multi-file specific tasks I use IntelliJ's shortcuts:

* cmd+shift+f for global search

* 2xshift for symbol search

* cmd+b to jump to method declaration

* cmd+shift+left/right is also useful to jump to previously navigated cursors

refactoring:

* cmd+alt+v/c/m for extracting variable/constants/methods (good for refactoring after prototyping)

* shift+f6 for renaming variables

* alt+enter for suggestions

EDIT: formatting

I know back in the day there were talks of having Linux (or some other OS?) being re-written in Java, but it never panned out. At least that's what my professor told me, but I can't seem to find any info about it.

But there is an OS being written in Rust. https://www.redox-os.org/

Re:Chops – Make beats with your voice on Wednesday February 26, 2020 @08:22PM (#22429443)
Reminds me of Mike Gao's Vocal Beater [1]. Too bad it doesn't seem like he's been keeping it updated recently. He's able to beatbox and it'll automatically recognize the instruments too.

Here's a demo of him using it on YouTube: https://youtu.be/OS7LeMHImBM?t=232

[1] https://apps.apple.com/us/app/vocal-beater/id384844110

Re:Half-Life: Alyx on Thursday November 21, 2019 @01:57PM (#21597941)
This is the kind of the inverse, but apparently they are treating Veterans with PTSD with VR: https://www.nbcnews.com/mach/innovation/how-virtual-reality-...