ajarmst

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   by ajarmst 6y ago

   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jason_Kenney . Unfortunately, Trump is a symptom of a worldwide phenomena, at least amongst western democracies. Vote wisely.
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   by ajarmst 6y ago

   You're begging the question. My core point was that "correlation does not imply causation" doesn't "refute" anything but logical postulates---the problem with something that can be so dismissed isn't that
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   by ajarmst 6y ago

   Another issue is that evaluating memory disorders like AD is really hard if your subjects don't have language and can't discuss their subjective experience. A mouse that can still find its way around a maze that it learned is har
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   by ajarmst 6y ago

   I often get irritated when people treat "correlation does not imply causation" as a slam-dunk refutation of a complex argument, although you do rescue yourself from this by shifting to the use of the word "proof". In th
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   by ajarmst 6y ago

   Another possibility is that someone's tenure committee is meeting soon. :-). I don't want to deride what looks like good primary research, but this release smells of ulterior motives. (˜˜NB: I happen to live in the same provinc
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   by ajarmst 6y ago

   Thanks very much for the caution (reports where the quote about revolutionary results comes from the lead author tend to trigger my skepticism reflex). Looking at the paper, a lot of the results are based on cell studies, in addition to the
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   by ajarmst 6y ago

   I'm old enough to remember the 'Look and Feel' and Microsoft vs. Netscape suits. By the time the antitrust actions against Microsoft and the whole SCO/Linux fiasco worked their ways through the system, the judgements wer
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   by ajarmst 6y ago

   I've only played with it after finally giving up on using org files for source that others will read and ending up with markdown/pandoc/laTeX workflows, so I may be commenting from ignorance of its use cases. However, AsciiDo
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   by ajarmst 6y ago

   Well, if we're allowed to just redefine the terms, you can make and prove whatever claim you wish, but its unsatisfying and ultimately pointless. I'm not sure why you think the above (which, I'm sorry, parses as gibberish for
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    by ajarmst 6y ago

    How is your example different from claiming that the statements "Aaron and Elizabeth" and "My friends whose names begin with vowels" are statements in different languages? I also note that with the exception of the symb
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    by ajarmst 6y ago

    I'd clarify that when people talk about "a different language", they're usually describing the notation used in formal mathematics. But that's a comparatively recent phenomena (most of it from the last century). F
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    by ajarmst 6y ago

    Of course, the whole platonist/realist/phenomenologist (sometimes characterized as the 'discovered' vs 'invented' argument) is hardly new, nor likely to be resolved (if that were even possible). I certainly rec
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    by ajarmst 6y ago

    "The worker who'd placed the unapproved fan on the production floor was finally identified. They were counselled and sent to three days of mandatory retraining to ensure they understood that no further incidents of changing proce
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    by ajarmst 6y ago

    I'm not sure that I would recommend Prelude for someone who's already got a memory stick with their emacs config files in their pocket. On the other hand, I do recommend it for people who are new to Emacs, especially those who wa
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    by ajarmst 6y ago

    This is a great example of a generational shift in what UX/User Experience/Interface means. A person who's grown up with GUIs and post Web 2.0 interfaces wants to see your screenshots when you talk about UX. Most emacs user
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    by ajarmst 6y ago

    https://xkcd.com/2347/
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    by ajarmst 6y ago

    Part of the problem with “cold fusion” was the claim that it was fusion, which it pretty clearly wasn’t. If the claim was merely that they’d observed apparently unexplained release of energy, or even that they believed they’d detected fissi
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    by ajarmst 6y ago

    Red flags: Author has already claimed to be "bold" by the third word of the abstract. Author includes an abstract on a two page self-published paper where they further propose their own name to decorate a newly discovered economi
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    by ajarmst 6y ago

    I'm pretty used to this sort of inverted 'No True Scotsman' (you know, if you believe <innocuous thing> then you're really a <follower of a definitely non-innocuous set of complex and frequently inconsistent and
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    by ajarmst 6y ago

    Thanks for the taking the trouble to make such a detailed response. Very good points.
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    by ajarmst 6y ago

    Another part of her point is that self-administering Vitamin D is far more dangerous than people, including many MDs, often think. In an era where people are apparently seriously contemplating megadoses of hydroxychloroquine or I.V. bleach
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    by ajarmst 6y ago

    Came here to link to the follow-up article. Thanks. https://www.devaboone.com/post/vitamin-d-part-2-shannon-s-st...
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    by ajarmst 6y ago

    *Cohen (or כֹּהֵן if you're feeling particularly pedantic.) :-)
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    by ajarmst 6y ago

    One problem with plain writing using simple sentence structure, common words and conversational grammar is that it's boring . It has its place: technical writing where facts need to be presented completely and unambiguously as well a
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    by ajarmst 6y ago

    This is good advice, but we should be wary of assuming that writing well is easy or a matter of following rules. Like most things worth doing, good writing requires that we practice it regularly and over a period of years, that we are expos
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    by ajarmst 6y ago

    And, of course, ed is the default editor. :-) I exert geek dominance over introduction to C students by demoing using ed to modify a source file. After which I amuse myself for the remainder of the term: "Source Control? Syntax highl
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    by ajarmst 6y ago

    Yeah, I see it. I just don't get it. There's an awful lot of UX work being done to preserve an illusion that you have a bunch of fixed-size consoles that are arbitrarily arranged in a 2d space. Which, I guess, is the defining m
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    by ajarmst 6y ago

    Same as any other WM (although I don't actually use exwm). Enable ssh for troubleshooting or use boot flags to boot to console.
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    by ajarmst 6y ago

    Stumpwm would probably be attractive as well, because Lisp. http://stumpwm.github.io/
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    by ajarmst 6y ago

    Agreed. But using an entire character-width for that purpose is extravagant in this example (use of background colour would be better. Right now, some of those windows are !0% border). In a larger area, you can use unicode or even the dra