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by afandian 2y ago
Curious. What age do American children go to school on their own on public transport / foot / bike? In the UK (at least this corner of it) they’re allowed age 10.
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by afandian 2y ago
And are they representation-free too?
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by afandian 2y ago
It's heuristics, not grammar. You usually appreciate a noun or noun phrase in a transitive sentence (X appreciates Y). Case 1: If it's something useful (e.g. 'your help', 'what you did') then it's more lik
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by afandian 2y ago
Appreciate has at least three entirely different meanings that I can think of. 1. To be grateful for something. 2. To fully understand something. 3. To increase in value I’m sure there are more. I read this as option 2.
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by afandian 2y ago
I built something like this in CLIPS at university. Would easily suit Prolog too. When compared with the bookkeeping needed in this example, it’s a great demo of logic programming’s strengths. (If only I could find the code)
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by afandian 2y ago
I don't understand the question as it's written. But the shape of the question feels like you're asking about whether an interpreter (which the compiler is not) uses the GC of the host language?
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Falsehoods Programmers believe about DOIs(pardalotus.tech)
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by afandian 2y ago
Interesting decision to implement a DSL in a programming language when the output is a static data structure. Seems more complex than writing the structure directly as YML or JSON (or a custom language like Mermaid or DOT). I can see the po
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by afandian 2y ago
End you’re not allowed to reverse engineer the editor even though it builds from open source. I wonder how much legal reasoning went into that decision. It might be boilerplate, or it might be necessary for some other part of the contract.
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by afandian 2y ago
Why? Who is legitimately going to that address but the site admin?
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by afandian 2y ago
This seems like a good time to mention Zed. Recent discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40928893
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by afandian 2y ago
If Cloudflare offer a product, for a particular purpose, that breaks existing conventions of that purpose, then it’s Cloudflare.
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by afandian 2y ago
To save you a click, USD 399 for the keyboard, 249 for the trackpad. For comparison, the Apple keyboard is 199 and trackpad 149.
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by afandian 2y ago
CoolEdit Pro was bought by Adobe and became Audition. https://www.adobe.com/special/products/audition/syntrillium....
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by afandian 2y ago
I've had a ReMarkable 1 for a few years (including doing a bit of hacking [0]). My advice is don't rely on doing anything it wasn't designed for. It's fun to make it do novel things, but software updates can introduce br
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by afandian 2y ago
This is a great piece. > ... since you are confident that you understand how the code works, having written it yourself, you feel that you must be able to figure out what is going on. ... Suddenly you see it, and you're blinded by a
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by afandian 2y ago
I did this for my child and it worked well. Arduino compatible RFID module, ESP32 with and SD card and I2S. I ended up renaming the MP3s to match the card serial numbers, rather than program each one.
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by afandian 2y ago
You are making quite broad statements, and they don't seem to take into account the diversity of research and scholarly practice. A lot of what you suggest is happening already, but it's far from perfect. The existing solutions al
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by afandian 2y ago
I think the diversification is a strength, honestly. CERN and high-energy physics has _massive_ datasets. Making them all available on-line isn't practical. Other researchers may have one or two files that they want to cite as part of
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by afandian 2y ago
There is a perception that DOIs signify something being 'official', whatever that means. But in the publishing ecosystem (e.g. Crossref), it's whatever the publisher decides to publish. There's a wide range of publishers
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by afandian 2y ago
> Some will argue that we already have solutions for this DataCite is the DOI registration agency for datasets. https://datacite.org/ They work very closely with Crossref, the DOI registration agency for scholarly works.
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by afandian 2y ago
You can get vacuum fluorescent displays from old point of sales equipment. They are driven by RS232, with a USB adapter they work with python.
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by afandian 2y ago
The Dijkstra one is fun. https://rrt.sc3d.org/Design/Font/Dijkstra/
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by afandian 2y ago
I’ve never used DO, but I’m a happy Hetzner customer of over a decade. The cloud offering is solid, and I’ve had several VMs running for years. I had one project which was part AWS, part Hetzner, for cost reasons. Both driven from terraform
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by afandian 2y ago
That would be better, I’m sure. I’ve not looked at what’s available. I’d prefer to avoid using a Google account, so limiting myself to F-Droid.
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by afandian 2y ago
I planned to use the tablet to connect to a tmux session and mirror a shell session on my laptop. I could then type on the laptop but use the RLCD display. Not a crazy idea, but might look a little weird. I’ve had a reMarkable 1 for a few y
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by afandian 2y ago
I’m very close to getting a HannsNote 2. The battery life is disappointing, but it is very thin (maybe unnecessarily so). It’s no hardship to carry around a battery in a bag. I have a crazy idea about VNC or SSH in which case a host laptop
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by afandian 2y ago
I’m glad someone else noticed this. I never manage to unlock my iPhone first time.
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by afandian 2y ago
Looks like that only works if you’re a Google customer?
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by afandian 2y ago
+1. I find it bizarre that so many web designers values their site so low as to sacrifice a quarter of the screen on the off chance of a signup. Stop a minute and think of the UX for people who aren’t Google customers.

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