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by ajarmst 12y ago
"Access to a huge panoply of books that are either in public domain or for which we're pretty sure most of you wouldn't pay for anyway!"
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by ajarmst 12y ago
I think you folks are overestimating my interest in troubleshooting a site's uninformative error message on an otherwise working system just so I can view a trailer on a site I don't otherwise use. I just found it a little funny
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by ajarmst 12y ago
Fair point. I hack LaTeX because I like to, but it's a perishable skill and requires fairly regular use. But that's not really the way (in my opinion) you should be using it. When I designed the layout for my lecture notes, tha
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by ajarmst 12y ago
Video cannot play with your current setup. On my Linux box. Aaaaand we're done.
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by ajarmst 12y ago
Folks, stop trying to solve problems that have already been solved. Especially if it was Don Knuth who solved it. When that guy solves something, it stays solved. In this case, you're up against something Don Knuth solved and then
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by ajarmst 12y ago
Hmmmm. When teaching basic physics, I sometimes have trouble illustrating the difference between energy and work for my students. But this solves it! Post something with a title of "The best x for programmers is y", and you can
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by ajarmst 12y ago
Came here to make a similar comment. This isn't really a competitor to SpaceX, as they're target a market that SpaceX abandoned. Frankly, while I'm a supporter of everything space, I'm a little underwhelmed by a plan t
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by ajarmst 12y ago
Neal Stephenson's Cryptonomicon frequently references "Finix" ("Finux"? something like that), an obvious stand-in for Linux. IIRC, Stephenson chose the pseudonym to avoid geek rage if he mis-reported some tiny de
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by ajarmst 12y ago
+1 for Papers. It's got a lot of amazing features. I particularly like that I can set it up to use my University Library proxy and use it to search various databases and download, index, and make biblio entries for papers automatical
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by ajarmst 12y ago
It's fairly impressive that HN lasted this long without creeping featurism and an iteration of "I'll refactor this in my favourite language"(tm) by a new maintainer who (as is normal for humans) confuses "my persona
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by ajarmst 12y ago
Finally! A book on the special English grammar and magic writing tools used by creators! Does anyone know where I can get "Grammar and Writing for Circus Clowns" or the companion volume for the homeless?
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by ajarmst 12y ago
I, having been burned many times, have developed an allergy to the latest new shiny thing, especially if heavily promoted. The number of such things that have been successful are lost in the mass of those that have not. For every C#, ther
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The Shannon-Hartley Theorem on the maximum rate of information transfer(en.wikipedia.org)
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by ajarmst 12y ago
I've always felt that what we used to call the Shannon Limit (more accurately, the Shannon-Hartley Theorem: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shannon%E2%80%93Hartley_theore... ) was more useful in conversations like th
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by ajarmst 12y ago
As long as you keep putting ice in it, it stays cool? What will they think of next? :-) Seriously, it's actually a fairly elegant way to keep vaccines stable over a long period in an environment with no (or unstable) power.
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by ajarmst 12y ago
In this house we obey the laws of thermodynamics! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6vxHkAQRQUQ
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by ajarmst 13y ago
(1) The NHS still has to buy the drugs, so there is still significant incentive to market them. (2) While British doctors are not paid by their patients, they can be(and are) paid by pharmaceutical manufacturers to run trials, speak at conf
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by ajarmst 13y ago
Unfortunately (and especially because of the evidence of the cycle that begins with "the doctor increased has dose" and "added another medication"), Wil has a pretty good chance of having a poor outcome. Especially beca
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by ajarmst 13y ago
Thought experiment: Are pulling down a server and eradicating a source repository actions we can imagine a developer performing after receiving a visit/message from a lawyer and/or FBI agents? I find that at least as likely as n
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by ajarmst 13y ago
I said I was jut going to ignore this downthread, but I just can't help myself. Feel free to dismiss it as "another emacs dweeb pointing out they've been using alien technology since the 1970s". http://orgmod
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by ajarmst 13y ago
Yep. I use org-mode every day. I think it's because most emacs users have gotten tired of typing "Yeah, emacs does that. Has done for a few decades now. And if it isn't precisely what you're looking for, here are a d
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by ajarmst 13y ago
A valid criticism. I was basing my response on the originally linked article from Science Daily, not on the cited study. Notably, the original article also doesn't make the egregious causation claim that irritated me so in the linked
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by ajarmst 13y ago
What "people like me" do you mean? Those who don't forgive you for doing bad science just because good science is hard? Yeah, those guys will totally fuck up a neighbourhood.
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by ajarmst 13y ago
Sigh. Correlation. Causation. No mechanism is offered, and all they studied was respondent's reported diet. Nothing to see here, other than the fact that there is evidence that eating lots of fresh produce correlates well with long
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by ajarmst 13y ago
Absorb it? It can make it DISAPPEAR COMPLETELY!
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by ajarmst 13y ago
Radar can detect mental states like "deliberately" now? That's mighty good radar. Further, any story with the phrase "sources familiar with" should be immediately discounted, and its author told to feel shame.
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by ajarmst 13y ago
Shit. An ESR ego dump. Head for the shelters.
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What? Agile's not magic?
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Reflections on Trusting Trust - Ken Thompson(cm.bell-labs.com)
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Wow. Even for The Guardian, that's an amazingly misleading lede (can I trademark 'mislede'?) What he did was propose a way that he could comply with the legal order that he was given in a way that would minimize the exposur

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