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by ajarmst 6y ago
NB: I'm an emacs/org-mode/pandoc toolchain devotee (aficionado? cultmember?), so I should disclose that I don't get the point of most editing tools.
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by ajarmst 6y ago
I think that House of Leaves can be left as an unaddressed edge-case for most novel-writing tools.
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by ajarmst 6y ago
I don't get it. Why "markdown-like". Do people writing novels have some need that is unmet by an existing flavour of markdown? Because I have to say that the last thing that ecosystem needs is yet another flavour. I thought
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by ajarmst 6y ago
Deleted a comment about how "not unreasonable" isn't equivalent to "unreasonable", because I think OP was actually making a different point: like Orwell pointed out in Politics and the English Language (and, yes,
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by ajarmst 6y ago
I don't accept the premise that you must choose between stylish and informative writing, but the argument fails at the outset. Complaining that Pinker (one assumes especially in his A Sense of Style , which I recommend without reserv
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by ajarmst 6y ago
Not that the US has a long history of caring a great deal about jurisdiction, but the US ratified the Outer Space Treaty which denies specific jurisdiction over parts of the moon to countries on earth. They can likely make laws concerning t
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by ajarmst 6y ago
Serious question if there's anyone with an appropriate background in the relevant law: how does this play with net neutrality and FCC regulation if the ISP is blocking Facebook and Twitter but not their competitors? It's not a fr
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by ajarmst 6y ago
Exactly. Or, for that matter, might make one think that those basic literacies might enhance each other. I clearly remember participating in an Honours Philosophy seminar where we did close studies of works by Russell and Leibniz, and I was
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by ajarmst 6y ago
Of course, an attack on Dunning Kruger demonstrating questionable competence to evaluate their work is delightfully meta.
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by ajarmst 6y ago
Wait a sec’. The author admits the effect has been confirmed by others, then claims it’s probably not real because of a pair of studies (both from the same team) that even the authors admit support at least part of the Dunning-Kruger hypoth
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by ajarmst 6y ago
It’s possible that the sample set of anecdotes I base this on is a bit skewed, as I teach undergraduate maths. In my limited experience I had to put a lot more effort into keeping basic differential calculus in the required freshman curricu
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by ajarmst 6y ago
As usual, the answer to the eternal question of “how much formal math training do you need for X” turns out to be “right around the amount the author of the argument has had.” Why is it that we always have to prove the instrumental value o
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by ajarmst 6y ago
A reasonable case can be made that (if we employ the "is evenly divisible by 2/has 2 as a factor" definition) zero is not composite, so has no factors and therefore can't be even. I happen to disagree, but it's not
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by ajarmst 6y ago
That makes sense. For me, including 1 breaks the fundamental theorem of arithmetic (for values of "breaks" that include requiring an ugly "except for one" in the definition).
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by ajarmst 6y ago
My guess is part of the issue is people remembering that 0 is neither positive nor negative and neither prime nor composite and naturally extending it to even vs. odd. But even here, one has to be careful about what definition of "even
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by ajarmst 6y ago
Another point I should make about the Bryant crash (now that i've looked it up): while the pilot was IFR rated and the helicopter theoretically had the required instruments, the owning company was not certified for IFR passenger servic
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by ajarmst 6y ago
I don't recall advocating not investigating this because the affected systems are emergency ones. I'm advocating against claiming there is danger without investigating ('abundance of caution' is usually shorthand for &#
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by ajarmst 6y ago
Not a single interview with someone who actually understands how the systems work, nor any reference to any studies that show any results, positive or negative. Not one single "hey, so we set up a terrain avoidance radar and blasted i
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by ajarmst 6y ago
I suddenly needed several reasonably good quality webcams (had to instrument my home lab for teaching electronics remotely, and wanted multiple views in some cases. NDI and OBS plus my pre-existing pile of old iPhones (a largish extended f
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by ajarmst 6y ago
Note that the author is reporting primarily on his own research, not all of which is uncontroversial. Cohen's assertions have mostly been anecdote-based, without a lot of support from formal studies, even to quantifying what this &quot
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by ajarmst 6y ago
And, of course, I wonder if recent behaviour by the PRC should encourage us to be confident that reports about the success of multi-billion dollar government initiatives should be considered entirely trustworthy.
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by ajarmst 6y ago
I am extremely dubious that they can properly control for other variables to so blithely offer up "Computer-Assisted Learning" as the cause of any changes, even for values of "Computer-Assisted Learning" limited to &quot
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by ajarmst 6y ago
Cool! Thanks.
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by ajarmst 6y ago
It goes back even further than that. My father, at the time an operator on a Honeywell 6000, demonstrated a program (loaded from paper tape!) that played "Daisy" if you held a transistor radio next to the CPU. The choice of song
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by ajarmst 6y ago
The immediate next step after "hello world" is GTK programming? This is only "getting started with C programming" if your idea of C programming is copying magic incantations into an editor. Which, sadly, is increasingly
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by ajarmst 6y ago
I've been using Magit for years, but I've never seen the use of "porcelain" as a jargon term to describe anything but Magit. Can you point me to a 'splaner on the use of that term? Googling hasn't gotten me an
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by ajarmst 6y ago
This pretty much begs a compare/contrast with Tufte's "The Cognitive Style of Powerpoint". Excerpted at https://www.edwardtufte.com/bboard/q-and-a-fetch-msg?msg_id=...
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by ajarmst 6y ago
That's possibly fair---I am by nature sometimes overly brusque. But I will say that debugging on Linux is hardly a neophyte's realm. Even properly using the debugger in purposefully less obtuse interfaces like Visual Studio is no
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by ajarmst 6y ago
"The State of Linux Debuggers". This is ... not that . Perhaps "One inexperienced user on an uncustomized system briefly trying several default-configuration front-ends (some of which are apparently malconfigured or missing
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by ajarmst 6y ago
Old person here. Why is "elderly" sufficiently germane to appear in the title?

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