Syzygies

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by Syzygies 7y ago
Yes, their symlink handling is absurd, and they have the usual sanctimonious defense when questioned about this. To be fair, most commercial cloud services overthink this, and also get it wrong. A symlink is just a file, like any other. It
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by Syzygies 7y ago
I'm an '82 PhD mathematician who has used TeX and LaTeX since near their beginnings, to typeset math papers. There was a long period when TeX was essentially instantaneous, while LaTeX was plodding. Also, if one pried into various
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by Syzygies 7y ago
The one piece of advice a professor might have been able to give their class in the 60's or 70's, but I could never say now: Have more sex.
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by Syzygies 7y ago
It's a Jeopardy! clue. [buzzer] What is .. Software as a Service?
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by Syzygies 7y ago
Being shown ads is a requirement for many web sites. Responding to them is not. The focus of ad blockers is all wrong; the priority should be to appear to see ads without actually seeing them, and to protect privacy. A browser of the future
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by Syzygies 7y ago
Bingo. Hyperthreading does not pay for itself, overclocking. Period. End of discussion. I turn it off, or buy chips without it.
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by Syzygies 7y ago
(require '[clojure.string :as str]) Infix, really? I love both Lisp and Haskell. Code like this makes me wonder why I ever strayed from Haskell.
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by Syzygies 8y ago
Be surprised. https://vimeo.com/333758769
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by Syzygies 8y ago
Chalk of Champions (CNN video, May 2, 2019) https://vimeo.com/333758769
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by Syzygies 8y ago
"Current recommendations suggest that everyone between the ages of 50 and 75 get a colonoscopy." Yes, unless Kaiser Permenente is your insurer. Oh, the almighty dollar.
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by Syzygies 8y ago
We'll see! From my experiences with reporters after being the math consultant for "A Beautiful Mind", I share your cynicism. This crew nevertheless impressed me. They'll certainly open with a closeup of my chalk attache
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by Syzygies 8y ago
I used to carry a bucket and sponge, then a squeegee, spray bottle, and paper towels. Now I just use a damp detailing towel (not wet enough to drip), and water from the nearest source down the hall. Sometimes one needs to clean the towel an
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by Syzygies 8y ago
Professional Korean 70/30 Super Plush 500gsm Microfiber Detailing Towels (16x16, Blue) https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00GXRG64I/ In Germany they outfit classrooms with sinks and squeegees. Over decad
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by Syzygies 8y ago
There are huge quality differences in both whiteboards and blackboards. It's not a lack of familiarity with melamine boards, it's acute familiarity with incompetent penny-pinching marker supplies. Most public whiteboard lectures i
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by Syzygies 8y ago
My Hagoromo chalk and eraser notes: https://www.math.columbia.edu/~bayer/LinearAlgebra/Video/Cha... CNN is doing a short web video on this chalk, and I was interviewed last week. They particularly liked my cu
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by Syzygies 8y ago
Conan O'Brien on Johnny Carson: Rule number one is just be yourself. And that's actually the first thing, when I got the Late Night Show -- I bring them up now because they just did this great documentary about Johnny Carson -- on
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by Syzygies 8y ago
Yes, I blended acrylic medium with the densest titanium white I could find in liquid form. I believed that I was delivering more titanium white to my walls than any commercial choice would have yielded. I avoided the related "designer&
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As needed, but once I got to bare concrete/whatever it was remarkably smooth. I chipped off the ceiling slowly over weeks, avoiding gouging.
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by Syzygies 8y ago
Labor has become more expensive than parts, for many aspects of home repair. We haven't adapted our habits to this. The last time I let my university landlord paint my apartment, it took days to clear the furniture, and I was instructe
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by Syzygies 8y ago
I'm baffled why they didn't just dredge the channel to make it a few feet deeper, keeping the foxes from crossing?
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by Syzygies 8y ago
One obstacle is credibility: Since the dawn of the internet there have been companies trying to recruit users by pretending that someone winked at you, or similar. That would be my working assumption, getting a message from you. How do you
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by Syzygies 8y ago
"a dizzying list of 80 policy positions" If I could relive my narrow miss for student council president (long before the Chicxulub crater), spraying positions everywhere like that would be the first thing I'd avoid repeating.
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by Syzygies 8y ago
Yes, back then I had a Power Computing Mac clone that no one could make stable. After hours of staring I realized that the steel chassis was faintly bent, flexing the motherboard and stressing the inferior Ram sockets of the day. A very thi
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by Syzygies 8y ago
https://www.humanreadablemag.com/morningcupofcoding
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by Syzygies 8y ago
I've been using Scheme as one of my languages for a decade. (Haskell, Python, Ruby, Bash are the main others.) I generally use a preprocessor for each language. The Haskell preprocessor treats indented as code, flush as comments, also
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by Syzygies 8y ago
Love that story. I helped found a Mathematics of Finance masters program at my university, teaching a numerical methods course before we could hire specialized staff. The students got stronger each year. My last year at it, three very stron
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by Syzygies 8y ago
Yes, but to some not yet seduced by Lisp, it reads like Bernie Saunders just texted "GET OFF MY LAWN!"
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by Syzygies 8y ago
I've been coding for years using a preprocessor that eliminates most parentheses: Indentation implies parentheses. A pipe "|" opens a parenthesis that auto-closes at the end of that line or at the next ")". A dollar
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by Syzygies 8y ago
Core: APPLY IF IFNOT LAMBDA PROG QUOTE SETQ Derived: LET LABELS COND AND OR QQUOTE LOOP I was curious how quickly I could change the source to lowercase symbols. It turns out that all Lisp symbols are already lowercase in the C source, a
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by Syzygies 8y ago
Auto insurance is a legal requirement. My insurance company asks me to state where my car is habitually parked, and would consider a misleading answer fraudulent.

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