WCSTombs

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by WCSTombs 1y ago
I used to be able to walk down to a local store and buy a Leuchtturm1917. Sadly, I believe they've all closed in the last few years. At least I can still order them online...
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by WCSTombs 1y ago
Along similar lines, sometimes I print out code on paper and make notes with a pen, sitting far away from my computer. Of course there's no, or very minimal, syntax highlighting then.
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by WCSTombs 1y ago
> Please tell me how to vectorize this Python code. Go on, I'm waiting. Here's a start: import numpy as np def sieve(limit): result = np.ones(limit + 2, dtype=bool) result[0] = False result[1]
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by WCSTombs 1y ago
If your arrays have more than two dimensions, please consider using Xarray [1], which adds dimension naming to NumPy arrays. Broadcasting and alignment then becomes automatic without needing to transpose, add dummy axes, or anything like th
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by WCSTombs 2y ago
Congratulations! That's a huge accomplishment, and not something I'd call "minor." When I think about game development, these are the skills and types of work that come to mind: - software development - game design - gra
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by WCSTombs 2y ago
I like the premise of writing docs in Markdown. Compared to more traditional documentation frameworks (Hugo, Jekyll, Sphinx, MkDocs, etc.), is it fair to say that the main distinction with this one is that it specifically targets PDF rather
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by WCSTombs 2y ago
This is very cool! To run this on a modern Linux, install Ghostscript and run it like this: gs -dNOSAFER tetris.ps In another terminal in the same working directory, run the command it gives in the source file: stty raw -echo
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by WCSTombs 2y ago
I have no idea what happened here, but this saddens me. Vihart was my first ever "favorite YouTuber," back around 10-15 years ago. (I don't have a specific favorite YouTuber now.) I remember the first video I watched on her c
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by WCSTombs 2y ago
(2022)
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by WCSTombs 2y ago
I know it's said a lot, but this seems like a good a time as any to show my appreciation of the performance of this very website, news.ycombinator.com! It's so good that I use it as my default sanity check of internet connectivity
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by WCSTombs 2y ago
I briefly clicked around and haven't read everything yet, but from a first impression, this looks pretty good. Sadly it looks like the "Process" heading is just a stub, which is a bummer because that's one of the things
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by WCSTombs 2y ago
It's explained elsewhere in the book: > Fame has a dark side. When Times New Roman appears in a book, document, or advertisement, it connotes apathy. It says, “I submitted to the font of least resistance.” Times New Roman is not a f
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by WCSTombs 2y ago
The Uni-ball Signo UM-151 (0.38mm) is my go-to, but lately I've also been warming to the Pentel Hybrid Technica (0.4mm). Compared to the Uni-Ball, it's slightly less consistent, but I prefer the color, it being among the blackes
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by WCSTombs 2y ago
Those are amazing, but I haven't seen all varieties of tea available that way. But I do think that all good teas can be found either loose-leaf or whole-leaf.
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by WCSTombs 2y ago
Sadly most tea bags do in fact contain plastic, and are not compostable. Compostable tea bags will almost definitely say they are compostable on the packaging. As a tea lover though, I recommend loose-leaf tea and using a metal infuser cage
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by WCSTombs 2y ago
Does this mean Juniper Networks is actually using XSLT? I guess my real question is...who is actually using XSLT?
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by WCSTombs 2y ago
I'm seeing a lot of commentary that basically complains that category theory isn't useful. Like most topics in programming, it's useful for some things and not others, so YMMV. The parts of the programming discipline that are
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by WCSTombs 2y ago
> The main problem is that category theorists keep writing stuff claiming that, if only you get through the math, you'll eventually be able to apply the category theory to typical everyday programming problems. There is no "typ
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by WCSTombs 2y ago
Not really, since you can take a standard square tiling and apply a random shear transformation to it. With probability 1, you get a tiling of parallelograms with irrational angles.
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by WCSTombs 2y ago
IMO Bartosz Milewski gave a pretty good answer to the "why" question in the preface to his book: > Second, there are many different kinds of math, and they appeal to different audiences. You might be allergic to calculus or al
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by WCSTombs 2y ago
That's really interesting. I don't remember it being particularly difficult to read compared to other "literary" novels. Have you tried any other Rushdie works? I have found though that often it takes me much longer to r
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by WCSTombs 2y ago
> Is it ever possible to give a completely compelling argument that two proofs are genuinely different? I think in some cases, we can. Sometimes one of the proofs generalizes better than the other because it uses strictly fewer assumpt
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by WCSTombs 2y ago
That's cool and all, but I still wish they could invest more in making a better search engine.
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by WCSTombs 2y ago
For some reason his name is in the page's <head> but not in the article's title.
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by WCSTombs 2y ago
Thanks for sharing. This is really well done! A lot of SCP content is disturbing on some level, but I think this one is especially so because underneath it's really a human story that's unfortunately pretty commonplace.
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by WCSTombs 2y ago
IMO, the pages can be compiled statically on a static website, so the HTML doesn't need to be manually edited for each page. But yeah, I guess there are degrees of staticness. My (brand new) personal website is literally all written fr
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by WCSTombs 2y ago
While I'm less than enthusiastic about Mozilla's recent entrance into the ad-tech industry, it's worth noting that uBlock Origin is not just still available on Firefox and by far its most popular browser extension, but it&#x2
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by WCSTombs 2y ago
Slightly tangential, but here's my own Sierpinski triangle program from a couple of decades ago, which IMO is considerably simpler than what they show: %! /threshold 4 def /Sierpinski { dup threshold ge {
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by WCSTombs 2y ago
> You can't advertise effectively and profitably without personal information. There are plenty of successful creators (e.g., on YouTube) that do exactly that, by getting advertisers to sponsor them. From what I understand, it seems
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by WCSTombs 2y ago
Who is Firefox's target user, anyway? Because it seems a lot of what they've been doing mainly drives people away. > We know that not everyone in our community will embrace our entrance into this market. Oh, really? Come on.

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