NateEag

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by NateEag 5y ago
Yes, exactly. Just because something isn't particularly useful doesn't mean it cannot exist.
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by NateEag 5y ago
It may be that psychic powers exist but that they are not powerful, general, or controllable enough to be reliably profitable. Also, if every profitable phenomenon in the world is already developed, then no business should ever invest in fu
723.
by NateEag 5y ago
When people ask me how to learn Emacs, I point them to your tutorial. It was hugely helpful to me in learning Emacs. Thank you so much for writing it!
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by NateEag 5y ago
...crap at the wall, sorry. I'm not great at typing on my smartphone.
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by NateEag 5y ago
Yes, that's a good point and I overstated. Microsoft needs a _few_ software engineers. Most of their developers won't be and shouldn't be, though. Conversely, NASA will have plenty of software systems that have nothing to do
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by NateEag 5y ago
That's a good question. To me, the difference is that when we're writing software and just trying semi-random UX ideas and implementation approaches out, we don't have any real constraints that we're genuinely bounded to
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by NateEag 5y ago
It is. It shows very clearly why most software devs are not engineers. I know I'm not. As a field, we don't "optimize within a solution space bounded by constraints". We throw crap at the wall to see what sticks, hacking
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by NateEag 5y ago
Thank you for explaining this so clearly. Like the other poster commented, this gives me a sense of closure.
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by NateEag 5y ago
Huh, thanks for the heads-up. IIRC, when I settled on the 25s, they were a slightly better price/GB than the 100s. Maybe that's no longer true (or possibly never was).
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by NateEag 5y ago
My memory is hazy but I think I remember running into an actual memory leak in lighttpd circa 2008. We were serving dynamic content via FastCGI, IIRC. This was a long time ago and I'm pretty hazy on the details, but I'm pretty sur
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by NateEag 5y ago
Yes. I don't visualize code because I can't visualize on demand, period. I think of it in terms of words and logical abstractions. Textual memory, reading comprehension, code intelligence tools, and search are how I understand and
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by NateEag 5y ago
I burn 25 GB M-DISCs every few months. If I were being properly rigorous I'd be burning three copies and putting two of them in different physical places. Printing out the occasional photo book of our favorites is also a part of the st
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by NateEag 5y ago
The C core is getting a feature to compile elisp to native code in the forthcoming Emacs 28. I've yet to try it, but I understand it offers a significant speed boost. It's certainly true that the core C codebase has some major par
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by NateEag 5y ago
The problem is that then you aren't verifying it yourself, and a flat earther can claim you're just using one of the propaganda sources created by the government.
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by NateEag 5y ago
Note the existence of kakoune.el, an emacs emulation of Kakoune's core: https://github.com/jmorag/kakoune.el I have no idea how well it reproduces the experience - I'll probably be using vim on servers and em
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by NateEag 5y ago
I really enjoyed playing this for a few minutes. Nice work!
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by NateEag 5y ago
Very neat. Thank you!
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by NateEag 5y ago
There's a good case to be made that modern evangelical views on the afterlife aren't even based on the NT. Annihilationism (cessation of existence, "the second death", "fear him who can destroy body and soul",
739.
by NateEag 5y ago
Not at all. That's fascinating. Do you have a link or reference I could learn more about it from?
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by NateEag 5y ago
You're welcome! Glad to hear you enjoyed it. I'm familiar with game engines embedding scripting languages, but using Lisp for that honestly hadn't occurred to me (despite being an Emacser that has written several small elisp
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by NateEag 5y ago
I think "intelligence" is a squishy, complex thing, and if I have a specific job to do, I'm going to look for more concrete, trustworthy signals than IQ to see who I want helping me do it.
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by NateEag 5y ago
Lilypond ( http://lilypond.org/index.html ) is music typesetting software that is not for everyone, but can be a joy to use if you have a software background. It makes extensive use of Scheme under the hood, because C++ prov
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by NateEag 5y ago
I think parents do this as a (subconscious?) way to help frame things from the child's perspective, knowing that the kid is terrible at taking on anyone else's perspective.
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by NateEag 5y ago
I would reject the false dichotomy and look for signals I trust.
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by NateEag 5y ago
I would look for a concrete test of their ability to perform the goal.
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by NateEag 5y ago
I've never taken a formal IQ test. I've taken informal ones on the net and came out in the 135 - 140 range, IIRC. I expect I'd do noticeably worse on a real test. I share that as context for the fact that I'm skeptical o
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by NateEag 5y ago
Wikipedia says that she was in a relationship with her business partner up until Theranos fell apart. She then married her current spouse. "Baby daddy" is often used to imply that the woman is not really attracted or attached to t
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by NateEag 5y ago
If the US military couldn't recover it with the legal right to be there and no concern about having to be clandestine, I doubt a terrorist group will successfully recover it. Probably the Air Force decided it would be cheaper to keep t
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by NateEag 5y ago
Read. This is just like the great of life - don't fear failure. Reading a book you wind up hating is way better then spending that time trying to optimize your process to avoid bad books. If you do want to look for more promising thing
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by NateEag 5y ago
I think he's saying that Newton should have chosen not to be an asshole. I don't know the history, so I won't speak to whether Newton was, in fact, a jerk. But it is possible to recognize the asshole inside yourself and chang

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