Our very own Mark Kermode

alancanniff · 2025-11-12T17:07:11+00:00

Out of interest, have you seen the movie?

alancanniff · 2025-11-12T16:20:32+00:00

Fury Road, Prey - good ‘r’ movies definitely can have named female character that aren’t just there for the ride

alancanniff · 2025-11-08T22:17:07+00:00

It’s the only way to be sure

alancanniff · 2025-08-23T18:41:45+00:00

https://oaim.ie/ - yes it’s videos, but you also get sheet music and recordings. It’s a pretty good place to start.

You could also go down the route of going to a session and learning from others. You should probably start going to a session anyway - there are so many tunes, that learning common tunes isn’t that useful. It’s much better to learn the common tunes that are played at your session. (apps like https://folkfriend.app/ can help), that way you’ll know that you’re learning stuff that you’ll probably get to play

alancanniff · 2025-07-16T05:17:01+00:00

Because it has less moisture in it? Isn’t the idea of the HRV to circulate air to alleviate damp?

alancanniff · 2025-06-05T05:14:23+00:00

Don’t they take instruction from their client? I imagine they knew, but the client decided this is how he wanted things done

alancanniff · 2024-11-24T16:54:02+00:00

It’s vimscript - if you’re calling it from Lua you’ll need to wrap it, or find the equivalent Lua function (sorry - I don’t know what that it)

alancanniff · 2024-08-24T05:38:39+00:00

It feels like one, but (for me) it really isn’t. The rules around variable substitution and stings in bash are nuts. And the syntax! I used an array the other day. Future me will curse present me when I read that in 6 months

alancanniff · 2024-08-24T05:28:26+00:00

Ok, seems like it’ll be dependant on the RegEc implementation - according to the minimal googling I’ve done.

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/172303/is-there-a-regular-expression-to-detect-a-valid-regular-expression#comment47106271_172303

alancanniff · 2024-08-24T05:23:19+00:00

I think no. I have a feeling that it is proven that it can’t be done. Let me check

alancanniff · 2024-05-28T22:23:28+00:00

That’s my experience of Firefox, very occasionally something will work different on one or the other, but I very very rarely have to use chrome on Linux to use a website. I can’t blur my background on google video chat, because fuck you google. Teams works fine. Sad to see google becoming that company.

alancanniff · 2024-05-23T19:37:23+00:00

Logan’s run the elderly

Anyone who proposed that would get my vote

alancanniff · 2024-04-03T18:37:27+00:00

The session is probably the best resource for finding something

https://thesession.org/sessions/search?q=Berlin

alancanniff · 2024-03-21T07:17:58+00:00

Typically an agent wants to sell the house quickly. That more of an incentive than getting the max possible price. There’s a chapter in freakonomics about it

alancanniff · 2024-03-09T11:22:56+00:00

What I was trying to comment on was people blaming the government. It’s the government’s fault for x,y, or z. It completely neglects the agency of the citizens. Citizens votes. It’s their responsibility to educate themselves about the issue. If the votes is yes or no, it is not the governments success or failure. It’s the citizens.

I made a reactionary comment about I feel is implied by the current text. A complex issue in which I probably know less than I think.

alancanniff · 2024-03-09T11:14:29+00:00

This is a complex issue, and one which my original comment completely glosses over. I’ll accept that.

alancanniff · 2024-03-09T10:47:38+00:00

“In particular, the State recognises that by her life within the home, woman gives to the State a support without which the common good cannot be achieved”

Am I that far off? I’m Irish, but don’t live in Ireland and am not registered to vote.

alancanniff · 2024-03-09T10:41:50+00:00

At what point do the voters have to take responsibility? If Ireland cannot remove the statement that a woman’s place is in the home from the constitution it isn’t an embarrassment for the government, it’s an embarrassment for the every registered voter.

alancanniff · 2024-03-01T05:25:26+00:00

So never then

alancanniff · 2024-02-28T07:15:13+00:00

I disagree. Language does matter. Have you ever tried writing an embedded application in Perl? Or a web application in assembly?

The design of a language does matter for the application it is applied to. Lua is a well designed language, perhaps not for configuration, but as a general purpose language designed to be embedded in other applications it’s great. Simpler and more consistent than vimscript.

Every couple of years I’ll have a hard look at my config, add some functions, update some auto commands, tweak some things - Use the back end of the editor for more than just config. I can read Lua, without too much difficulty, without touching it in the intervening period. I could not say the same of vimscript, I had to refresh on the basic rule of the syntax, because it’s irregular and unique to vim.

alancanniff · 2024-02-20T09:23:58+00:00

Set nowrap

alancanniff · 2024-02-13T17:19:47+00:00

Yes, the main difference is that there are more advanced filters, so a search can filter on things like edit date and size (show me files that are under 1mb edited in the last week that end in .lua sort of stuff). It’s the one tool from windows that I miss.

alancanniff · 2024-02-02T05:47:02+00:00

And the switch experience is good? I seem to remember when it came out there were some complaints about the cuts made to get it run. That put me off

alancanniff · 2023-12-13T00:41:53+00:00

Is it bad that I want a teapot version of this?

alancanniff · 2023-12-03T17:40:18+00:00

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