Dewie

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by Dewie 12y ago
I notice your use of scare quotes. Is the state of the art advanced enough to make a judgement on whether or not a person is better at the genetic level than another person? I'm not just talking about some specific category or skill,
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by Dewie 12y ago
It isn't voluntary for the offspring that are created through such efforts. Sure, that's not the case for procreation to begin with... but the difference is that these people would effectively be bred for a specific purpose. Then,
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by Dewie 12y ago
Gnome screenshot (available on for example Ubuntu) lets you take a screenshot of a portion of the screen that you choose yourself (so, like taking a full screenshot and then cropping). In unity, you can press Dash, start typing screenshot a
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by Dewie 12y ago
> But if you wouldn’t watch a movie or play a video game while you’re trying to get something done, why would you keep an app as distracting as email sitting within your field of view? Because... I wouldn't? I use a window manager a
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by Dewie 12y ago
If the IDE would just let me plug in whatever editor I like the most, that would be great. I guess there could be conflicts with things like hotkeys, but some tweaking should get rid of such incompatibilities.
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by Dewie 12y ago
Well, does it fucking not have dynamic types? Make an argument instead of just downvoting. http://hackage.haskell.org/package/base-4.7.0.1/docs/Data-Dy...
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by Dewie 12y ago
I don't know what the purpose of such a post is. Well, I have a suspicion, which that it's just an attempt at discrediting these people by dismissing their stance as being born from whatever emotions that are considered petty. No,
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by Dewie 12y ago
> I mean like "Curry-Howard isomorphism" and "state space" and "monad" and such. What's the problem with those?
609.
by Dewie 12y ago
> Using emacs in a terminal is for newbies? Yes, if they do it by mistake and don't know that there is an alternative.
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by Dewie 12y ago
Even Haskell has some kind of dynamic types.
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by Dewie 12y ago
> This stuff often ends up explained in very academic language, What, that software should be correct according to the specification (either a formal one or an informal and implicit one)? Because that's the academic motivation I&#
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by Dewie 12y ago
It seems you didn't read the post..
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by Dewie 12y ago
> I find it fascinating that despite not having the house+back yard that many Americans strive for, Frames it as if the Spanish have failed (therefore also actively tried) to achieve this American ideal. Overall, despite not having wh
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by Dewie 12y ago
Who'd have thought that women could be nerds, too.
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by Dewie 12y ago
> I find it fascinating that despite not having the house+back yard that many Americans strive for, the Spanish are happier with their housing situations than we are. Why would American standards matter to how satisfied Spaniards are? Th
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by Dewie 12y ago
English spelling is just horrible bearuacracy (no, I didn't bother looking that word up).
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by Dewie 12y ago
> As a little experiment, I've deliberately avoided learning Rust to see if I can understand its idioms without reading any docs. As an experiment of what? Whether rust code makes somewhat sense to you depends to an extent on what l
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by Dewie 12y ago
I've had the same experience, only with prose (an old forum post of mine).
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by Dewie 12y ago
Yeah... the following (which I assume that you're referring to) > > Re #19, we understand that this was an undesirable decision for some users, but we sometimes need to make a product decision like this. Chrome and Chrome OS stri
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by Dewie 12y ago
I guess that chromebook laptops are cheap (?). Chrome OS seemed appealing to me initially, because of the short start up time. But then, reasonably sized SSDs became affordable[1], and any faster boot times than what Linux + SSD can give me
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by Dewie 12y ago
Honestly Arc should get another flagship/notable thing that it has been used to create...
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by Dewie 12y ago
I guess because then you can view it in any editor later. Or view it in a simple terminal.
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by Dewie 12y ago
> Plain text has been around for decades and it's here to stay. Monodraw allows you to easily create text-based art – like diagrams, layouts, flow charts and visually represent algorithms, data structures, binary formats and more. B
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by Dewie 12y ago
> which can cost you your hero if the death is untimely. I meant to say: which can cost you your game of the death is untimely.
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by Dewie 12y ago
Half of the posts in this thread are about the author's English. I know that clear communication and constructive feedback on one's command of a language is good, but... come on.
626.
by Dewie 12y ago
How about using Nix on Debian/Ubuntu?
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by Dewie 12y ago
This is what I found by looking at its Wikipedia article: https://bitbucket.org/satyr/ubiquity/downloads
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by Dewie 12y ago
It's steep if you can consider a tall cliff steep . Warcraft 3 has a steep learning curve, like RTS games do in general. One mistake can cost you your hero, which can cost you your hero if the death is untimely. (I guess DotA derivati
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by Dewie 12y ago
> like: "you interrupt women more often than you do men" Nice enlightened example.
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by Dewie 12y ago
America uses a measuring system that is not normal compared to almost the whole rest of the world, is maybe what is being meant.

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