DonbunEf7

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by DonbunEf7 9y ago
I fear that we do not understand patterns well enough to categorify them so easily.
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by DonbunEf7 9y ago
In the USA, people are used to 5% off the top. Relax already.
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by DonbunEf7 9y ago
Leprous, a Norwegian band, has an album "Tall Poppy Syndrome" with lyrics which reflect this law: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=36HuYPnx5oE
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by DonbunEf7 9y ago
This article mentions Zcash, which means that folks will be showing up shortly to talk about Monero.
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by DonbunEf7 9y ago
Compared to PyPy, Nuitka is slow, buggy, and doesn't handle as much of the Python language. Nuitka vomits and dies on about half the code I've tried it on.
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by DonbunEf7 9y ago
Alternatively, if you prefer sanity and readability, use cffi; it's pretty fast, especially on PyPy, and frees users from the CPython C API.
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by DonbunEf7 9y ago
Also, there is a CLA: https://gist.github.com/WallarooLabsTeam/e06d4fed709e0e7035f... Glad to see Pony adoption, disappointed in this "open source" project. Free Software or nothing, please.
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Solri Galaxy, Star and Planet Giveaway (Lojban Urbit)(zod.that.world)
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by DonbunEf7 9y ago
Actually! (Full disclosure: I sell access to a Tahoe-LAFS grid.) The Tahoe team has recently been working to merge the "cloud-backend" branch, which would open the door to storing shares on grids by interfacing directly with S3, G
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by DonbunEf7 9y ago
Or Tahoe-LAFS, although Tahoe's encoding doesn't leave any keys with the provider, but only with the uploader.
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by DonbunEf7 9y ago
The central question in philosophy of science is a meta-scientific question, as would be expected, and it's the Demarcation Problem. You know this, but I'm restating it for observers: What is the difference between science and pse
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Constant Flawless Vigilance(capability.party)
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by DonbunEf7 9y ago
"Deconstructionists, having discovered that such faith acts are necessary, then refuse to engage with any particular choice made by people who want to discuss pragmatic meaning." I'm perfectly happy to have such discussions,
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by DonbunEf7 9y ago
Deconstruction is a way of viewing reality which comes naturally equipped with a process for disassembling ideas (the "deconstructive process") as well as a process for viewing ideas as the synthesis of other ideas (the "cons
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by DonbunEf7 9y ago
I will believe as soon as you justify the correct answer to the demarcation problem. If you don't have an answer, then I'm free to interpret scientific results in my own way, including disbelief. C'mon, use logic and reason.
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Constant Flawless Vigilance(capability.party)
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by DonbunEf7 9y ago
"Guix...uses the Nix daemon" and "to extend the reach of Scheme to the daemon" are incompatible and I hope you see why. Patches aren't flowing from Guix to Nix, or if they are, nobody's talking about it and the
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by DonbunEf7 9y ago
In the Nix language, which Guix takes heavy inspiration from (to say the least), there are a small handful of primitive types, but no mechanism for building up bigger, more complex types. One of the primitive types is the derivation , whic
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by DonbunEf7 9y ago
You're not wrong, but you're not sufficiently right yet. You are saying that folks see only the forest, but you want to point out that there are lots of trees. Open your eyes: There are trees and forests. A corporation has a pow
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by DonbunEf7 9y ago
Sure, but there's a simpler and already-well-accepted convention for doing this. Say "interpreter" if it takes a program and causes its effects to happen, or "compiler" if it takes a program and emits an equivalent
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by DonbunEf7 9y ago
You didn't watch the video, or you watched but didn't listen, or you watched and listened but didn't think. I can't tell which. I'm letting you know your mistake so that you can avoid being downvoted next time. Norm
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Statistical Shortcomings in Standard Math Libraries (And How to Fix Them) (2014)(evanmiller.org)
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by DonbunEf7 9y ago
Hi! Lemme help you out here. "Detest" and "despise" are not synonyms. To detest is to speak out against; to despise is to look down upon. Their roots come directly from Latin/French. If you detest something, you are
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by DonbunEf7 9y ago
Um. Here's the first part of Clojure's docs [0]. Compare and contrast: "A pitch is a frequency. 440Hz is an A pitch. There are twelve pitches. Each pitch differs from the previous pitch by the multiplicative constant twelfth-
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by DonbunEf7 9y ago
Well, actually, let's explore the metaphor. Here's how I compose music. First, I use a highly-flexible prototyping instrument to quickly iterate on melodic ideas. Normally this is either humming or whistling. "Our first instr
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by DonbunEf7 9y ago
Oh, of course, people dislike JS because they're unhappy inside. It can't be that JS is a lame language.
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I bet you love pugs, bulldogs, and dalmatians too.
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by DonbunEf7 9y ago
Oh noes! But wait, people already hold multiple jobs. Wouldn't it be nice if holding two full-time jobs meant 40hrs/wk? Then, that irritating feeling instilled by a typical work week, that our salary is ultimately meaningless beyo
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by DonbunEf7 9y ago
If you haven't, check out LyX, as it dramatically improves the LaTeX experience.
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by DonbunEf7 9y ago
Since no other comment explicitly spelled it out fully: Why don't people work nine hours in the USA? The answer is very simple: Benefits, overtime, breaks, and other bits of labor law are written around an eight-hour day. This coerces

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